He mentions that biting off more than you can chew is bad, but all the times I've done well at hackathons, we've always felt like we were doing exactly that up

He mentions that biting off more than you can chew is bad, but all the times I've done well at hackathons, we've always felt like we were doing exactly that up until the last hour or two. Then we figured out the hard technological stuff and everything came together. Crowd pleasers (movement, participation, vision, sound, lights) seem to do really well, generally. There seem to be two directions you can take: solving a problem or being creative. E.g a scheduling app vs an online game. Sometimes being creative is easier to be flashy with. And as long as it's demonstrably technologically difficult, it can win.