Bring your team. Bring your integrity.

• Participation is open strictly to students currently enrolled in a recognized college or university in India.
• Every registered team member must upload a valid college/university ID card during registration for eligibility verification. Submitting an ID for only the Team Leader is not acceptable.
• Participation in Cyber Hackathon 2026 is completely free of charge; there are no registration, entry, or evaluation fees.
• Providing false or misleading information will result in disqualification.

• Each team must consist of 3–4 members, including one designated Team Leader.
• Teams are encouraged to include at least one female team member.
• The team leader must register on the official portal, add all team members, verify their email IDs, complete their profiles, and submit their GitHub handles and college IDs. Once verified, members can reset their passwords and log in with read-only access.
• Strict Single-Team Rule: A participant may only join one team, and each team can only select one problem statement. Once locked, team rosters and problem statement selections cannot be altered.
• Registration opens on 12 October 2026 and closes on 26 October 2026. Late registrations will not be entertained.

• Teams must select their problem statement directly from the official portal before initiating development. The development window runs from 12 October to 26 October 2026.
• Technology Stack: No fixed stack is mandated. Teams may use any programming language, framework, database, or tool that best solves the problem statement, subject to any explicit challenge constraints noted on the portal.
• Repository Management: The Team Leader must create a private GitHub repository named after the team and add all members as collaborators.
• Iterative Commit Rule: Teams must commit code iteratively throughout the development window. A single final code dump or uploading code only at the last minute is strictly prohibited and serves as direct grounds for disqualification.
• Strict Submission Deadline: All source code commits must be finalized by 26 October 2026. Any commit pushed after this deadline will result in the immediate disqualification of the entire team.

• Every team must submit an explanation and demo video of 8–10 minutes (10 minutes maximum).
• The video must cover:

  • The selected problem statement.
  • Proposed architecture, key features, and technology stack.
  • A demonstration of the working solution.
• A screen recording with a clear voice-over is completely acceptable; showing faces is optional.
• Drive Link & Permissions: Upload the video to your team’s Google Drive, grant Viewer access to hackathonccsubihar[at]gmail[dot]com, and submit the URL on the Hackathon portal before the 26 October 2026 deadline. Inaccessible or restricted links may lead to disqualification.

• An expert panel will evaluate video submissions based on problem relevance, innovation, technical architecture, functionality, and demonstration quality.
• A total of 25 teams will be shortlisted for the Grand Final.
• The official shortlist will be published on the Hackathon portal on 20 November 2026.

• Date: 27 November 2026
• The final round will be conducted online. The schedule and joining instructions will be communicated to shortlisted teams.

• Repository Ownership Transfer: Prior to the Grand Final, all shortlisted teams must transfer repository ownership to the organizers for in-depth code inspection, commit history auditing, and verification. Detailed transfer instructions will be sent to the qualified teams.
• Evaluation Scope: The Grand Final evaluation is based strictly on the codebase submitted before the 26 October deadline. Post-deadline code additions are prohibited.
• Team Defense: Teams must be ready to run their live solution, defend technical decisions, answer judges' questions, and test their application against alternate datasets provided on the spot.
• Member Participation: All team members must attend and be prepared to explain their individual contributions to the project.
• Hardware & Environment: Participants must have their own computer capable of running their software stack, a working webcam, a microphone, and a stable internet connection.

• Any code commit made after 26 October 2026.
• Pushing code as a single last-minute dump rather than iterative commits.
• Ineligible participants, multiple team registrations, or fake IDs.
• Unacknowledged plagiarism or non-original work.
• The decisions of the organizing committee and evaluation panel are final and binding.

Before submitting on 26 October 2026, verify that:

• Your team consists of 3–4 registered students with valid College IDs and GitHub handles.
• No member is registered on more than one team.
• Your solution is hosted in a private GitHub repository named after your team, with iterative commit history.
• All code commits are finalized before 26 October 2026.
• Your solution video is between 8 and 10 minutes in duration.
• The video is uploaded to Google Drive with Viewer permissions granted to hackathonccsubihar[at]gmail[dot]com.
• The video URL and repository details are submitted on the portal dashboard before the deadline.