Scope

Scope is the bounded space of work a hackathon will accept as in-bounds, established by the event's frame and operationalized through problem statements, rules, and submission requirements. Themelessness produces gameable scope — work whose connection to the event is tenuous can still be admitted because no boundary exists to exclude it — which the 2013 Salesforce $1M Hackathon illustrated when a two-person team named Upshot won with a project that had been in development for over a year. See the-frame and frame.