DevHacks 2026: Ohio State's 24-hour hackathon, run by OSU DEV
DevHacks is a free, overnight hackathon at Ohio State. Build anything in 24 hours with a team of up to 4, eat for free, learn from sponsors, and compete for prizes in three tracks. First hackathon? Good. There's a team formation session right after the opening ceremony.
📍 Fontana Labs, Ohio State. Check-in and the opening ceremony are in room 1000. For hacking, use any available room in Fontana Labs or the connected Engineering Building.
📅 November 14–15, 2026. Hacking runs from 11 AM Saturday to 11 AM Sunday.
Register at https://hack.osu.dev
Prizes
- Riot Games track 1: Valorant Points + Legends of Runeterra currency (3 winners)
- Riot Games track 2: League of Legends + Wild Rift currency (3 winners)
- Open track: Attack Shark X3 gaming mice (1 winner)
The track prompts are revealed at the opening ceremony.
Schedule (Eastern Time)
Saturday, Nov 14
- 9:00 AM: Check-in opens (Fontana Labs 1000)
- 10:00 AM: Opening ceremony and track reveal (Fontana Labs 1000)
- 10:30 AM: Team formation
- 11:00 AM: Hacking begins
- 1:00 PM: Lunch
- 6:00–7:00 PM: Workshop with AI Consensus (AIC). Limited to 15 people, first come, first served.
- 1:00–7:00 AM: Quiet hours
Sunday, Nov 15
- 9:00 AM: Free Red Bull
- 10:00 AM: Breakfast. One hour left!
- 11:00 AM: Hacking ends and submissions close on Devpost. No extensions.
- 1:00 PM: Online judging begins
- 2:00 PM: Live judging on Zoom for the top 5 teams in each track
- 4:00 PM: Closing ceremony and winners announced
Requirements
Submit your project on Devpost by 11:00 AM ET on Sunday, November 15. Late submissions aren't accepted.
Your submission must include:
- Your track: one of the two Riot Games tracks, or the Open track. Projects that aren't for a Riot Games track go in the Open track.
- A description: what it does, how you built it, and the challenges you ran into.
- The tools you used: list any open-source libraries, public APIs or other outside resources.
- ⚠️ A link to your code, such as a GitHub repo.
- ⚠️ A demo video of 3 minutes or less (YouTube or Vimeo). Judging is fully online, so this is how judges first see your project.
- Your whole team: every member (up to 4) added to the submission.
How judging works: from 1 PM Sunday, judges review every submission on Devpost. At 2 PM, the top 5 teams in each track are invited to live judging with Q&A on Zoom. Winners are announced at 4 PM.
Prizes
Valorant Points + Legends of Runeterra coins
Top 3 teams win prizes
League of Legends RP + Wild Rift Cores
Top 3 teams win prizes
Gaming Mice
Top Team wins Attack Shark X3
Judges
Krish Deshmukh
Judging Criteria
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Use case
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Originality
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Working demo
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Evidence
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Pitch
Questions? Email the hackathon manager