Weehaaahh, I’m proceeding to the next round in the Imagine Cup 2007 as 3 ranked team. Only 30 Teams with 1-2 persons had the chance to proceed to the next round. This 30 teams were elected by community voting. Community voting meens, that registered competitors vote for the other teams and no judges.
The ImagingeCup consists of 7 categories and over 100′000 students from all arround the world joined to compete:
- embedded development
- web development
- project hoshimi programming battler
- information technology
- algorithm
- short film
- interface design
I’m competing in the category Interface Design. With the community voting I reached rank 3 as you can see on the leaderboard in interface design. My team is IfIface.
For the next round I have to hand in a working prototype until 07:00 AM GMT on May 19, 2007. This prototype is evaluated by a judges. The criterias are:
- 50% How innovative is the interface/interaction concept?
- 50% Quality of the overall user experience (works well, looks good, high production quality
The 1st placed idea is a 3D file explorer. The 2nd placed team is intoi that submitted the idea of a presentation board. I mentioned team intoi in an other blog entry already.
Well, we’ll see how it’s valued. The best 6 teams will be the finalist and go to the ImagineCup finals in Seoul (Korea).
Community voting
The community voting was as fair as possible. Only competing teams with a valid submission could vote. No fake teams could be made to vote for the original team because you would have submitted at least another idea. The other restriction was that teams couldn’t vote for the own teams or teams from the same country. And finally to motivate competitors to vote realy for the best teams you have as many chances to win a XBox 360 as you voted for the teams that is going to be finalist at the end.
I think the organisators realy thought about the risk of community voting and initiated the right voting setting in order to provide a realy fair voting. Congratulation to the interface design captain Unni Ravindranathan for this voting setting.