Absolutely. Which is why the hackathon was conceived: to serve as an escape from the real world.
All good things must come to an end, I suppose.
When I first read about the hackathon concept, it was a bunch of OpenBSD developers getting together to work on stuff like cryptography or drivers. I think it was from Facebook where I first heard it as some bullshit corporate event. The idea of a "winner" seems to misunderstand what should be a goal. It's not a competition. It's collaboration.
I’ve always heard of hackathons as being a competition with judges and a winner.
Sounds like you only know the corporate or post-commercialized version, and not the original concept. The entire point of my comment.
And it drives the mini-MENSAs of the world insane.