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Stanford vs. Berkeley: The Big Hack Game before the Big Game. Win for your school!
Eligibility: Stanford & Berkeley students & alumni, as well as industry experts from enterprise AI teams (e.g., NVIDIA, Tesla, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Dell, Tiktok...) who can bring real-world problems to solve. We'll match industry experts with student & alumni teams.
Please use your school or work email if available. Otherwise, a personal email is fine.
The Big Hack Game is a campus showdown: build, launch, & grow great AI products for good. Hackers own what they build.
HarnessRouter is a unified interface for agent harnesses that turns them into building blocks for your AI products. It helps you build production-ready AI features in hours & can reduce your product's token costs by over 90% by helping you choose the best harness model combination for each user task. Past hackathon participants have built products in hours & received their first check within a week.
With HarnessRouter, there's no harness engineering, no deployment hassle, & no complex integration work across models, harnesses, & sandboxes.
Prize pool: $5,000 guaranteed, with up to $10,000 in total cash prizes.
For every 100 attendees, we'll add $1,000 to the prize pool, up to $10,000 in total cash prizes. Invite your friends to apply & help grow the prize pool!
Awards are allocated as percentages of the final prize pool:
Grand Champion: 30% ($1,500-$3,000)
Real Customer Award: 20% ($1,000-$2,000), plus introductions to relevant investors for teams showing strong potential
Distribution & Impact: 20% ($1,000-$2,000)
Best Build Log: 10% total ($500-$1,000 shared among the top five)
School Cup: 20% ($1,000-$2,000 shared among the winning school's winning teams & its school ambassador)
Extras for winners
One-on-one YC application coaching, application review, & potential referrals, subject to mentor confirmation
Timeline (provisional)
Team formation: Now through November 15, 2026
Kickoff: November 14, 2026. You'll receive further details once your application is approved.
Demo Day: November 20, 2026. Location TBD; the event may be livestreamed globally.
Final dates, venue, eligibility requirements, judging criteria, & prize payment rules will be published before registration closes.
How to submit (via the portal)
Submit either an open-source repository or a deployed product.
Include a video of up to three minutes explaining the problem & demonstrating your product. Technical details are optional.
Rules snapshot
Best Build Log & School Cup awards can be combined with the Grand Champion award.
Real Customer Award: Only genuine payments from non-affiliated customers qualify. Paid or artificial engagement is not permitted.
School Cup: A school must have at least 10 eligible teams to qualify.
The Real Customer Award & School Cup may go unawarded if eligibility requirements are not met.
Organized by HarnessRouter Labs (YC-backed).
Additional sponsors may be announced, & the prize pool may increase.
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