> 1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons. It's even more basic than that - What is hacking? Take a look at the MIT Gallery of Hacks for one

> 1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons. It's even more basic than that - What is hacking? Take a look at the MIT Gallery of Hacks for one perspective: http://hacks.mit.edu/ http://hacks.mit.edu/ To me it means building something awesome, and it sounds entirely possible this team did that without writing a line of code.