:-) It all goes back to what the point of the hackathon is really. For hackathons that are about people actually starting a project and continuing it afterwar

:-) It all goes back to what the point of the hackathon is really. For hackathons that are about people actually starting a project and continuing it afterwards (and certainly the Startup Weekend organisers I've talked to locally say this) I think this is the massive blind spot of hackathons - in reality very few projects will continue afterwards. I've seen many things tried to help improve this, and I don't know what the answer is - but I haven't seen anything about the judging helping. (Edit: congrats on winning tho ... um, after what I've just said!)