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First of all register your team on this website.Team registrationThen login and fill in the details required and apply for Phase-1 .Rulebook can be found below.Important information

Hack in the North (Website: Hack In The North 2.0)Hack in the North a.k.a HINT (Not HITN since it’s a legacy bug) is the largest student organized hackathon in India. Launched in 2016, Hack in the North recently concluded its second edition in 2017. Around 250–300 students from numerous reputable universities, colleges and high schools gather for a 36 hour tech marathon to build projects they are passionate about.The hackathon is fully managed by the student fraternity of IIIT Allahabad. Though it is no impediment, most team members are a part of IIIT Allahabad’s Tech Society, Geekhaven. Participants apply in teams and individually too.The hackathon is open to both software and hardware hacks and carried a unique theme this year - “The common man”. Participants have to pay zero sum to participate. Hack In The North is free for everyone. The organizing committee doesn’t charge the participants anything.This year the hackathon was funded by 22 sponsors from across the world and invited applications from as far as Canada, thus setting new benchmarks for hackathons all across the country. The principle sponsors this year were - GitHub (Title); hackster.io, Nasscom 10,000startups (Platinum); RestDB (Silver); Zulip (Chat Partner); Radix (Domain partner); Startup Village (Digital Incubation partner); Digital Ocean (Cloud Partner) and Tensor Flow (Machine Learning partner).Applications for the hackathon are invited in the first week of January and the shortlisting begins in mid Jan . Students can apply individually or in teams of 2,3 and 4. Applicants are then selected based on the profiles they have submitted. Their work on GitHub, projects etc are all taken into account while making a decision. Selected students and teams are apprised of the selection committees decision about two weeks prior to the hackathon.In the applications, the team usually looks for, above anything else -- passion . Applicants are expected to tell the team, what they care about and what excites them. The team wants to know what'll drive a participant to start and continue hacking. It does not matter if it’s someones first time, if there's something about an applicant that stands out from a "typical" hacker they are certainly in the run. A team is selected if atleast 50% of the members of the team would have qualified for the hackathon had they applied individually.Though travel remunerations are rare, they are provided in exceptional cases when the organizing committee decides that it is impossible for a participant to pay his/her travel expenses. Participants are only expected to carry their Laptop, Charger and Change of clothes.The hackthon starts with an opening cermony with talks by various speakers. This year we had speakers from GitHub, Fedora and Startup Village addressing the participants.The title sponsor for 2017 - GitHub, one of world’s leading development platformAfter the talks and organizing teams presentations explaining various rules pertaining to the hackathon, the participants take part in team formation rounds where students who have applied individually can form teams right before the team registrations based on the the mutually beneficial skills they think can help them build an agreeable software/ hardware project.Participants walking into the registration areaRegistration desk - the HINT team’s picture from 2016 in the backgroundPost registrations the teams proceed to the hacking arena. The hacking arena comprises of two fully air conditioned labs with suitable arrangements (Beds, pillows ) so that participants may take power naps to recharge themselves and don’t really have to leave for the entire duration of the hackathon. Drinking water and other amenities are easily available on the college premises. All teams are also allotted numbered tables in order to avoid any confusion (just in case).High speed internet access is provided during the entire 36 hours through IIITA’s LAN network. Proxy restrictions are removed in order to facilitate students from outside of IIIT Allahabad (this also helps remove various development hassles).The Hacking arenaThe next 36 hours mainly comprise of students working on their team projects be it hardware or software. Participating teams can make anything they like. Most of the hacks revolve around web or phone apps, or working with hardware. Teams who want to hack on Arduino, Raspberry PI, Oculus Rift or any other hardware are expected to carry the required kits/equipment.Software HacksHardware HacksThe hackathon also provides mentors to help teams if they are stuck. HINT team members, mentors and participants can talk to each other and keep track of various announcements or developments at the HINT chatbox: Zulip - HINT. Teams are expected to start submitting their project’s GitHub repository by the end of the first 10 hours. Subsequent updates can be submitted every 10 hours for review.Mentors can be seen helping teams throughout the hackathonFood is provided to all participants to keep them charged and ready to work. We have Biryani and Chicago Pizza along with other refreshments (Drinks, Maggi) provided at regular intervals during the hackathon. Queries regarding the same can be made on the food and snacks thread of the hackathon’s chat box. A card punching system is used to distribute food and refreshments.We have Biryani and Chicago Pizza along with other refreshments (Drinks, Maggi)All Participants are also provided HINT T-Shirts and numerous goodies from the generous HINT sponsors.After the conclusion of the hackathon the teams submit final changes to their repositories. The judges then visit every teams table for a product demo and use Gavel, a project expo judging system (anishathalye/gavel) to score the projects. Gavel is a specialized judging system which tries to remove the human element from judging as far as possible in order to minimize any chances of misjudgment thus being more fair to the participating teams.The top 10 teams (as per Gavel) are then required to pitch their projects on stage and are manually scored by the judges this time.Judges scoring the final presentationsThe top 7 teams are then presented with various cash prices amounting to a total of INR 1,00,000 (1 Lac). A best hardware hack prize of INR 5,000 was also presented this year (sponsored by hackster.io). Also a prize of INR 7,000 was awarded to the best website (sponsored by RADIX).The event wraps up with a picture of the participants along with the organizing team and the judges._________________________________________________________________________________All images are provided by Thunderbolt, the Acoustics and Media Society IIIT Allahabad : https://ams.iiita.ac.in/.

While top marathons could be defined based on the number of attendees, number of registrations, number of finishers etc., our team at Townscript analysed the finishers’ data of the half marathon category of India’s leading running events for 2017-18. You can find the full report here.The key observations with regard to the top half marathons based on finishers’ data in 2017–18 from various timing and results platforms were:Tata Mumbai Marathon: Taking place in Mumbai, Tata Mumbai Marathon recorded 24.6% of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons with 12,233 finishers.Airtel Delhi Half Marathon: Taking place in New Delhi, Airtel Delhi Half Marathon recorded total of 9464 finishers equivalent to 19.0% of total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon: Taking place in a surprisingly smaller city – Satara, as compared to other cities in top 10 half marathons category, PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon recorded 5360 finishers. This forms 10.8% of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.Wipro Chennai Marathon: Organised in Chennai, Wipro Chennai Marathon witnessed 4409 finishers. A total of 8.1% out of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.Shriram Properties Bengaluru Marathon: Organised in Bengaluru, Shriram Properties Bengaluru Marathon witnessed 3669 finishers. A total of 7.4% out of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.AU Bank Jaipur Marathon: Organised in Jaipur, AU Bank Jaipur Marathon witnessed 3298 finishers. A total of 6.6% out of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.IDBI Federal New Delhi Marathon: Organised in New Delhi, IDBI Federal New Delhi witnessed 3151 finishers.IDBI Federal Mumbai Half Marathon: Taking place in Mumbai, IDBI Federal Mumbai Half Marathon recorded 5.7% of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons with 2,827 finishers.WNC Navy Half Marathon: Taking place in Mumbai, WNC Navy Half Marathon recorded 5.6% of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons with 2,780 finishers.Airtel Hyderabad Marathon: Organised in Hyderabad, Airtel Hyderabad Marathon witnessed 2621 half marathon finishers. A total of 5.3% out of the total finishers in the top 10 half marathons in India.You can find further interesting facts about these marathons in our entire report, including unique observations.