Hey @Lloyd_Hightower , I’m starting this post to ask for any updates on the judging process. We’re basically in November now, almost three months since the competition deadline soon, and it’s been pretty quiet on what’s happening next. The original announcement date was set for September 4th, then got moved to late September or early October, and now here we are with no clear timeline for the results.
I get that there are a lot of submissions to go through, but the lack of communication is really frustrating, especially since we haven’t heard anything since the public voting wrapped up. Could we please get an update on where things stand and when we might expect the final results?
It’s ok to delay things, it’s understandable but why not communicate with the participants just like everything was communicated back in July, August, and September, why a sudden silence?
If anyone’s reading this, you can comment anything below so this post gets some attention so we can get some clear answers concerning the timeline.
I’d suppose they’re trying to isolate themselves to avoid bias in the judging process. I am honestly burning up and concerned, especially since there’s no testing traffic/movement even on my application’s video, and I feel what I worked on so far may not fit. yet I understand that from their perspective, especially with the influx, there would be some isolation/separation to ensure the integrity.
That doesn’t make sense, there are multiple judges, and the score is averaged, so it’s not affected by one host communicating with people, even if there are delays. Sure, tiny delays might not require announcements, but significant ones do need to be communicated. Bias isn’t an issue here since the score is averaged, and it’s just one host who needs to handle the communication.
They did update the page to be late 2024, which may be around the end of November/early December.
I agree with you, and I am with you in the same boat, this competition has a huge impact on my initiative. Yet, while you may be right, there may be variables we may have failed to consider. But again, that’s for Google’s Team to communicate. I hope things will work out for both sides.
With that many submissions there’s just simply no other way than ‘divide and conquer’ technique with multiple judge groups. Judging will be always subjective to some extent. I’ve seen that even for much smaller hackathons. If there are 4000 submissions, and simply just skimming each one (does it really use Gemini API?) takes 5 minutes then that’s a lot of time.
The thing is, you can look at YouTube or Test Traffic on your applications. For me unfortunately I got neither, probably got filtered out for one reason or another.