midVenturesLAUNCH 2010 Hackathon

Thank you and goodnight, Chicago.

1st Place goes to Team Firesnake!!!!

Runner Up is Missing Link!

And now we have a Best Overall and a Runner Up... both getting a MvLaunch Demo table.

Best use of Mongo DB goes to Mikoomi.  Congrats!

Best Idea goes to Analytical Artists.  an awesome Parrot Drone!  Score!

No more best-design category.  Now it's the "best idea" category.

Another category was added now... 4 prizes total. 

The judges have finished their discussion and re-defined the prize categories slightly.  Pete will be announcing the results and prizes in a couple minutes.

Judges are discussing.... results should be announced shortly.

I hope Scrappy gets a chance to watch the recorded stream of these presentations.

The Dreamers are up next, and then the judges will deliberizzle.

Montage Magic is missing in action... so Missing Link is up.

Analytical Artists is up next.

Team Firesnake is up next.

Team Mikoomi taking the floor.

Presentations are beginning.  Pete Morano is laying out the ground rules and introducing the event.

Projector resolution is finnicky.

Judges are all here, conference room should start filling up now.

Presentations are delayed for a few minutes more, while we await the arrival of a celebrity judge.  Or just a judge.

Farewell, Scrappy The Brave.  Shame you couldn't have stayed for the presentations.

Scrappy has flown away (we think)... we can't see him on the pavement below us.  God speed, Scrappy.  You've touched us all.

Scrappy is still on the ledge and able to balance himself against the wind.  That's a good sign.

Less than an hour to presentations.

A small bird flew into the Sync Tech Center in the middle of the night and has been hanging out.  A few minutes ago it slammed into a pane of glass and was stunned.  We've put him outside the window (3rd floor) on a ledge.  He's starting to recover, we think.  He is nicknamed "Scrappy".

2 Hours to presentation deadline.

Just over 4 hours until presentations. Crunch time. Then Crunk time.

Just woke up on a conference room couch to find coders coding and Hackathonia's own Chris Schnyder talking about his love-hate relationship with gyros

More Red Bull por favor...Teams are STILL at it here at the Sync Tech Center.

While those guys are busy being productive, I'll start my morning off with some StarCraft 2 Multiplayer.

Midnight, and two teams are still on-site.  These folks are hard-core.

Whiteboard space is at a premium here. DO NOT ERASE.
 

Mmmm, dinner at Manny's

Looking forward to the arrival of the team from St. Petersburg, Russia. Приветствуйте Товарищей!

Thanks to our sponsors for making this weekend possible! 10gen, Washing Pond Ventures, and Sync Tech Center.

UStream feed is live.

We'll be setting up our UStream video stream shortly.  Stay tuned!

Someone needs to build an app that measures Red Bull toxicity levels in the blood.

More Red Bull por favor!

The first batch of Red Bull is gone. That was fast.

Very cool energy at the Sync Tech Center...thanks Mike Rhodes and team!

Developers are heads-down. It's very quiet.

Geoff Domoracki from midVentures got everyone excited about conference and prize package.

midVenturesLAUNCH 2010 Hackathon is officially underway!