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# 🧠 OpenEnv Hackathon β€” Judging & Expectations Guide

## 🚨 TL;DR (What You Actually Need to Do)
Build an environment where an LLM can **train and measurably improve at something meaningful**, then:
- Show **actual training**
- Provide **evidence (metrics, reward curves, comparisons)**
- Tell a **clear, compelling story**

A messy but ambitious project with real training evidence beats a polished but shallow one.

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# βš–οΈ Judging Criteria (Core Evaluation)

## 1. 🌟 Environment Innovation β€” 40%
- Is your environment **novel, creative, or challenging**?
- Does it **meaningfully test agent behavior**?
- Avoid overused ideas (grid worlds, chess clones, etc.)

## 2. 🎀 Storytelling & Presentation β€” 30%
- Clearly explain:
  - The problem
  - The environment
  - What the agent learned
- Demo should be engaging and easy to follow

## 3. πŸ“ˆ Showing Improvement in Rewards β€” 20%
- Must prove learning happened
- Evidence:
  - Reward curves
  - Before vs after behavior
  - Baseline comparisons

## 4. βš™οΈ Reward & Training Pipeline β€” 10%
- Reward logic should be coherent and hard to exploit
- Training should improve agent behavior

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# πŸ“¦ Minimum Submission Requirements

- Use **OpenEnv (latest release)**
- Provide a **working training script** (Unsloth or HuggingFace TRL)
- Show **training evidence** (loss + reward plots)
- Submit:
  - Mini-blog OR
  - <2 min video OR
  - Slides
- Host on **Hugging Face Spaces**
- Provide a **README with problem, environment, results, links**

### Rules:
- One submission per team
- Submit environment URL
- No changes after deadline

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# πŸ§ͺ What Judges Look For

## πŸ”¬ Real Training
- Training must run against your environment
- Show learning with plots, metrics, comparisons

## 🧠 Reward Design
- Dense and informative rewards
- Hard to game
- Avoid simple binary rewards

## πŸš€ Ambitious Problems
- Solve something LLMs struggle with
- Prefer underexplored domains

## πŸ“Š Clear Results
- Label axes properly
- Save plots as images
- Show comparisons clearly

## πŸ“– Tell a Story
Your README should answer:
1. Problem
2. Environment
3. Results
4. Why it matters

## 🧹 Clean Engineering
- Use OpenEnv properly
- Follow Gym API (reset, step, state)
- Maintain clean architecture

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# 🧭 Problem Selection Guidelines
- Reuse Round 1 idea only if it fits themes
- Build environment + reward model early
- Ensure alignment with judging criteria

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# 🏁 Final Advice
- Be ambitious
- Show real learning
- Communicate clearly

Judges want projects that push the frontier of LLM training.