Run a hackathon

Purpose

Configure a hackathon on top of one of your events: tracks, judging criteria, judges, mentors, teams, and publishing results.

This is not available yet for every organizer — it switches on for your account only when Sotillion turns it on.
Your event must be created in the "hackathon" category (see Create an event); the Hackathon destination only appears in the sidebar once that's true.
hackathon.manage to configure it (EVENT_OWNER, EVENT_ADMIN, EVENT_MANAGER). Judges and mentors are separate people, assigned per hackathon — they hold no organization role and see only Judging or Mentoring in their own sidebar.

Open your hackathon event, then Hackathon (/hackathon). The screen has five tabs: Settings, Teams, Judges & mentors, Announcements, Results.
On Settings, configure the hackathon itself, then add tracks (categories teams submit into) and judging criteria (what each submission is scored against).
On Judges & mentors, add people by username as a judge or a mentor. A judge reads and scores submissions; a mentor reads submissions and posts in a team's thread — mentors never score, by design (a mentor holding submission.score would be a product bug, not a feature).
Teams register and submit their work themselves; Teams is where you see the roster. Submissions are read on Judging (/judging) by anyone holding a judge assignment.
On Announcements, post updates to ticket holders and/or the whole event — this is also the one place a regular (non-hackathon) event's announcements happen to live today, even though the feature works for any published or completed event.
When judging is done, go to Results and publish. This is a one-way action — publishing makes the leaderboard and standings visible to participants.

Situation	Do
Need someone to score submissions	Add them as a judge, not a mentor.
Need someone to help teams without scoring them	Add them as a mentor.
A person needs to both mentor and judge	Add them as both — mentoring and judging are independent grants, but a mentor never automatically becomes a judge.
Want to message all registered teams	Use Announcements on the hackathon's event.
Hackathon feature isn't visible in your sidebar at all	It isn't switched on for your account yet — see Escalate.

The Hackathon module isn't available for your organization and you need it — this is switched on by Sotillion, not something you can turn on yourself.
You published results by mistake — there is no undo from this screen.

There is no in-app support case system for organizers yet; use the contact channel Sotillion gave you directly.

Configuring the hackathon or its tracks/criteria: audit label hackathon.update.
Granting or revoking a judge or mentor: module.role.grant / module.role.revoke.
Publishing results: audit label hackathon.results.publish.
Posting an announcement is fanned out as a notification to the audience you chose; it is audited as event.announcement.create and the audience itself is never shown back to readers.