Invigorate your 'gamer spirit' and register your team to take part in our first ever global esports & gaming hackathon.
If it wasn’t apparent before the COVID-19 pandemic, few can now deny what a juggernaut the gaming industry is – which is set to exceed $200bn in revenue in 2023*. Over the years, esports (professional competitive gaming) has evolved into an established form of entertainment in its own right. Revenues are predicted to reach almost $1.8bn by 2023 and total esports viewership is expected to reach 646 million by the same year.
*Source: The Gaming Playbook by GWI
Are you a technology innovator? A maker of value? Then this Hackathon is for you.
With a focus on technology innovation and design thinking, this fun event will pit like-minded colleagues against each other, solving real-world problems targeting esports and gaming.
It doesn't matter if your code is messy, or not well commented, or uses inefficient algorithms. Our global esports/gaming Hackathon is about playing around, encouraging you to fail fast, fail cheap, and learn new things. If your code isn't production ready, we're not going to penalize you.
Choose one of the following three challenges to develop and turn into a concept with genuine value-making potential. You'll see that they are 'problem statements/use cases' for the esports and gaming sector– which one will you resolve?
Don't worry about how well you pitch. Hacking is about building and learning, not about selling so just go for it!
At its core, professional esports is the pinnacle of competitive video gaming competition, with over $700m of prize money awarded over the past five years. As such, players and teams are striving for any possible methods to gain an edge. Projects in the 'Player & Performance' theme should aim to utilise technology to improve player performance at any level of play; from grassroots to professional.
Guiding Questions:
TECHNOLOGY
Value / weight: 20%
How technically impressive is the solution? Does it use a particularly innovative technique, or many different components? Does the technology involve a partner's collaboration and if so which features of the partner's ready solutions does it use?
DESIGN
Value / weight: 20%
Has the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? (e.g. is it easy to use, or does it use a cool interface?). Did the team use 'Design Thinking' for developing the concept?
WOW FACTOR
Value / weight: 20%
Overall wow factor of the solution.
COMPLETION
Value / weight: 20%
How ready is the solution and to what extent does it work? Has the team achieved everything as per the acceptance criteria?
LEARNING & PASSION
Value / weight: 20%
Did the team attempt to use new technologies or leverage our partner ecosystem, and was there learning involved? How passionate is the team in terms of believing in its solution?
INTEL BONUS
Value / weight: 20%
Bonus points if developers complete Intel certification course on how to optimize code for Intel platforms.
Register your team on or before October 27 to compete in the hackathon.
Have you got some great ideas for resolving more than one of the chosen topics? That's no problem. Teams can opt to turn any number of the topics into a winning concept.
You've made your selection, so what's next? It's a team effort. Once your team (maximum of 4 people) has chosen its preferred problem statement(s), you must work together to develop a working solution. This will then be demoed via video upload, or through an executable on the code repository provided.
The judges will be marking your concept on its ability to make value. But they'll also want to see a 'wow' factor.
There's also a complete entry guide setting out the Hackathon Rules and application process at the end of this document, along with a set of FAQs answering possible queries.
To encourage innovation and have fun! We also want to Ideate, Incubate and Innovate. Come up with cool technical solutions for the problem statements provided.
The Global esports & gaming Hackathon 2021 is open to Sogeti, Capgemini and Intel employees and clients (as long as there is at least one Sogeti, Capgemini or Intel employee in the team).
Participants need to form a team with a minimum size of 2 members and a maximum of 4.
Registrations for the hackathon will close on October 27. The deadline for submission of prototypes is November 18 and the Finale will be held on November 30 / December 1.
Each team must select a leader, a team name, and Register on this site by submitting their details in the registration form. The team leader needs to provide a “Unique Team name” when registering. Please enter all the names of the team members in the team details. Please enter the Team Leader's name as the first member in the registration form.
Each team can have more than one entry (a new registration will be required for each entry), but if they get through to the semi-finals they will have to choose a single entry to move further.
Zip it up! For submissions that include PPTs, videos, documents and images, the participant needs to zip everything and upload a single zip file to the upload box in the location provided. The maximum file size limit for the upload is 200 MB (executable files are not allowed).
For queries/support on this event, please contact us.
Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects.
All entries must be original through a self-declaration. No Plagiarism.