Thanks for all the great recommendations so far. We will be sure to take note and discuss it with the TRON DAO team on how we can improve subsequent hackathons!
A short answer for vote buying/vote exchange, it is not allowed and the hackathon admin team will state it again clearly during the hackathon voting period. Ultimately, we want to have a project that is useful and liked by the community, not a project that can make most friends and have them vote for them. There will be a series of vote authenticity checks during and after the poll to ensure that votes are from legit users.
Now, since “projects with repeated entries” were brought up here, let’s discuss this topic in-depth.
Q. For S4, how should we deal with projects that have entered a past TRON hackathon? How do we define an extension of an existing project (e.g. If a project participated in an existing NFT track in S3 and they utilized the NFT and created a game in S4, does it count as a new or existing project)? It’s hard to draw boundaries so let’s see what you all can come up with!
Q. For those who are not following our HackaTRON S3 closely, we actually do have a mini-hackathon that was done on-site (offline) in the U.S. Let’s say for S4, teams that met certain qualifications will have to present to judges on-site, will this make the hackathon more exciting and legit? Please share your thoughts on having on-site hackathon events as part of our ongoing online hackathon.