I Built VERDICT: A Hackathon Portal That Shows Its Work

说明与用途

VERDICT 是一个让评审过程完全透明的黑客松平台，通过后端规则、评审者评分校准和可审计的结果追踪实现可验证的结果。

问题

Hackathon portals often publish results without transparency, making it hard for participants to understand how scores were derived or verify that data hasn’t changed after judging.

结果

VERDICT demonstrates that a hackathon judging system can be designed to be auditable, with backend‑enforced rules, judge score calibration, and transparent result generation, enabling participants to understand and verify outcomes.

工作流

• Create event with dates, tracks, prizes, and custom questions
• Participants form teams via invite links and submit projects before deadline
• Organizers invite judges, assign projects considering workload, track scope, conflicts of interest, and optional anchor projects
• Judges review assigned projects using weighted rubrics
• System records reviews, applies judge offset calibration to adjust for scoring style, and calculates final scores
• Results are published with a leaderboard that includes audit information
• Stakeholders can verify results by inspecting the audit trail and confirming no post‑judging data changes

证据

We wanted to build a portal where the entire judging process is inspectable.

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The system keeps the relevant judging information available as part of the result-generation pipeline, so the published outcome can be traced back to the reviews that produced it.

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Submission deadlines, judge visibility, track boundaries, and permissions all need server‑side enforcement because those are business rules, not presentation rules.

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