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COMPETITION RULES

Real revenue needs clear rules.

These are the currently published competition principles. Final payment, exchange-rate, tie-breaking, refund, filming, safety, and prize-transfer documents will be issued before participation.

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01

Eligibility and teams

  • Every participant must be at least 18 years old.
  • Teams consist of exactly two members.
  • Five teams are selected through applications and one is an organizer wildcard.
  • All teams, including the wildcard, follow the same competition rules.
02

Products

  • Teams may build or monetize legitimate software and digital products.
  • A new build, prototype, working MVP, or deployed product that has never generated revenue is eligible.
  • Only new eligible sales completed during the official competition window count.
  • Products must comply with applicable law and payment-provider rules.
03

Revenue verification

  • Only genuine customer payments for a legitimate product sale qualify.
  • Team members may not pay themselves.
  • Fake, circular, manipulated, fraudulent, refunded, or reversed payments do not count.
  • Organizers may request supporting evidence and apply the same published verification standard to every team.
  • Temporary Razorpay links are intended but remain subject to provider approval and final settlement terms.
04

Winner and prize

  • The first team to accumulate $100 in verified eligible revenue becomes the provisional winner.
  • The prize is one GPU for the winning team, stated by organizers at ₹80,000—not one GPU per participant.
  • If nobody reaches $100, there is no winner and the GPU remains with the organizers.
  • The exact GPU model, condition, ownership transfer, valuation basis, and tax treatment will be disclosed in the final prize terms.
05

Required submission

  • A deployed working product.
  • A validated approved payment flow.
  • A self-recorded product demonstration.
  • A final submission with product and demo links.
  • A qualifying-revenue and customer-acquisition summary.
06

Conduct and broadcast

  • Participants must act professionally and respect people, equipment, and the venue.
  • Credentials, payment information, personal customer information, and private spaces must not be broadcast.
  • Participants may take rest breaks and are not required to remain awake or on camera continuously.
  • Material violations may result in disqualification under fair and consistent enforcement.