[bobbles]

So the winning team:

1) Had a member previously employed by the selection team.

2) Had built their project prior to the hackathon.

3) Was actively helped by the Salesforce team during the hackathon.

4) Was ensured a place by other teams not even having their submissions seen by the judges.

What a fair and balanced outcome! I fully expect everyone to take this event seriously in the future. /s

[U2EF1]

The only real surprise is that Salesforce wasn't better able to obscure it. Still, they weren't giving out a million dollars for a days work.

[colabi]

i wish it was a days work. they opened the competition oct 25th. so people were developing since then. and they might not have even gotten run.

[sswaner]

In addition, Turian is a showman. His finalist presentation was more flamboyant than Benioff's keynote. I felt bad for the guys who presented after Upshot (they had skipped class at UCLA and Purdue to build a cool job candidate app). Watching the show, I felt that it likely that the judges would be swayed by Turian's command of the stage.