[veemjeem]

Background check? They don't need to do background checks on a coworker. I'm sure the judges knew exactly which team members worked at Salesforce. One of the team members worked at Salesforce for 9 years, which is probably a longer tenure than all the judges combined.

[jasondemeuse]

I don't think he meant background checks on the people, rather on the project itself. The biggest issue with the submission wasn't the fact that there was an ex-employee, but that the project itself (Upshot) was demoed at a meetup a month ago. If they would have done their homework they would have known that Upshot was an old project and obviously not created for, or at, the hackathon.