Pitch Days and Hackathons, Without the Scramble
A competition lives or dies on the day: fast rounds, a leaderboard teams trust and a board the room can see.A competition or a hackathon lives or dies on the day: a projector board the room can watch, a leaderboard teams trust, fast rounds that fit a weekend, and an intake that can take hundreds of entries without an organiser drowning in email.
Who Works in It
Competition or hackathon organiser
Jury member
Contestant or hackathon team
A Competition or Hackathon From Registration to a Public Leaderboard
The rhythm competitions and hackathons already run, sized for volume and a tight turnaround.
Registration opens
Bulk screening
Preliminary rounds
Weekend sprint
Live pitch day
Public leaderboard
An intake built to take volume without buckling
A registration window with a capacity limit, direct file upload for a pitch deck, and a form that stays simple even at hundreds of entries — the intake stage most competitions underestimate until the deadline hits.
A leaderboard the room can watch reorder
As jurors score, the leaderboard updates live — human, AI and blended views side by side — so a public standing reflects the latest scores the moment they land, not an end-of-day recalculation.
Pitch day, live, on a board the whole room trusts
A timer, a projector board and standings that move as scores are submitted — then a final export the moment the last team finishes pitching.
What Competition and Hackathon Organisers Use Most
Registration windows and capacity limits
Bulk actions
Auto-assign by expertise
Live pitch-day session control
Public leaderboard, human, AI or blended
Resubmission and duplicate detection
Committee Excel export
Applicant portal
Questions Organisers Ask
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A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, from registration to the leaderboard on the day.
Who Works in It
Competition or hackathon organiser
Handles a high-volume intake with bulk actions, then keeps a live pitch day or a weekend sprint running to schedule.
Jury member
Scores fast, on the day or ahead of it, and watches the leaderboard reorder as scores land.
Contestant or hackathon team
Registers before the window closes, submits at the buzzer, and watches the board update as teams file in.
A Competition or Hackathon From Registration to a Public Leaderboard
Registration opens
A capacity-limited window collects entries fast, with bulk actions ready for the volume.
Bulk screening
Duplicate and incomplete entries are triaged in batches, not one at a time.
Preliminary rounds
A first rubric narrows a large field to a stage-worthy shortlist.
Weekend sprint
A hackathon runs the same rounds in two days: short scoring windows, a board that moves as teams submit.
Live pitch day
A projector board and timer carry the room through every pitch.
Public leaderboard
Standings publish as scores land, in human, AI or blended view.
How IdeaScore Runs It
An intake built to take volume without buckling
A registration window with a capacity limit, direct file upload for a pitch deck, and a form that stays simple even at hundreds of entries — the intake stage most competitions underestimate until the deadline hits.
Explore applicationsA leaderboard the room can watch reorder
As jurors score, the leaderboard updates live — human, AI and blended views side by side — so a public standing reflects the latest scores the moment they land, not an end-of-day recalculation.
Explore evaluationPitch day, live, on a board the whole room trusts
A timer, a projector board and standings that move as scores are submitted — then a final export the moment the last team finishes pitching.
Explore pitch day and reports