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<p>The second placed team (as determined by our celebrity judges) will take home $500.
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<h5>$200 - Best Newcomers</h5>
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IIRC, this should be "Best Neophytes".

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Image link still points to last year's site.

<p>
If you aren’t familiar with how the UQCS Hackathon works, it’s pretty simple:
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<ol><li>Form your team <br></li><li>Build something cool <br></li><li>Eat free food</li><li>Present what you have made <br></li><li>Win prizes<br></li></ol>
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Adding emoji would be nice:

  1. Form your team 👭👬
  2. Build something cool 💻
  3. Eat free food 🍕
  4. Present what you have made 🎤
  5. Win prizes 🏆


<h3>Projects</h3>
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In the past people have built websites, desktop apps, games, hardware, and even robots.
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This "In the past..." sentence is duplicated above (reword or replace one of them, I'd say).


<h5>$200 - Best Newcomers</h5>
<p>The best team consisting entirely of students in their first or second semester of university (in any
discipline) will find themselves the proud owners of $200 to distribute between from themselves.
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"between from themselves"

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<li>Teams must use some form of version control, in a new repository.</li>
<li>Projects cannot be started early.</li>
<li>Prize winners must be uploaded to the UQCS Showcase before payout.</li>
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Must be all students?


<h5>$1000 - Best Overall</h5>
<p>The creators of the best project (as determined by our celebrity judges) will take home a whopping $1000
dollars (not to mention bragging rights)!
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Sponsored by Technology One?

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The much awaited UQCS Hackathon is back & better than ever! Taking place from the 20th to 22nd of August, this is a great time to learn a new framework, develop your programming and/or design skills, and win some money. Use the link above to buy tickets - make sure to buy them before <date> to get a LIMITED EDITION Hackathon 2021 t-shirt for ONLY $5 and early bird tickets for only $10!
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<date> is now 6th August.

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I have now fixed 3 different times on 3 different platforms rip

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Tickets to the Hackathon are $15 for students
and $20 for non-students (non-students are not eligible for prizes); for those that can't attend in
person, tickets are $2. As usual, we
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Remove online tickets and mention early bird tickets?

@TomCranitch TomCranitch requested a review from katrinafyi July 25, 2021 08:00
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content/competitions/_index.html will also need updating to add the Hackathon 2021 link.

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<a class="button" href="/showcase/">UQCS Showcase</a>
<a class="button" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IWN7TsKN0psV9NZ7ss2g7-1qDeCXd58WMzZvUGcIsu0/edit#">Hackathon Project Ideas</a>
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Not sure if this might need changing? This is last year's doc with the old logo, dates, and projects that may have already been done.

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We should create a new doc with new ideas. In the meantime, just remove the link and change the text above as well.

Co-authored-by: Joshua Todd Cowper <j.cowper@uq.net.au>
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<a class="button" href="/showcase/">UQCS Showcase</a>
<a class="button" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IWN7TsKN0psV9NZ7ss2g7-1qDeCXd58WMzZvUGcIsu0/edit#">Hackathon Project Ideas</a>
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We should create a new doc with new ideas. In the meantime, just remove the link and change the text above as well.

@TomCranitch TomCranitch merged commit e167925 into master Aug 2, 2021
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