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>> In 2016 the organizers of a hackathon threatened to disqualify our team after 24+ hours of coding for being "too old to compete" even though the only age requirements at the event were that the participants be 18+.

Wow. Would be great to hear further details around what happened there.

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We won the hackathon after talking to the judges

Too old to compete? How the hell did they justify that one? Because you were too old, you'd have an unfair advantage? What was their reasoning behind that one?

too much knowledge.

Maybe the rules should have stated a maximum about of experience for the chosen tech/programming language.

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