It was suggested to have something special to recognize our team by.

Because we don't want to allocate too many ressources here and make it a distraction, we quickly settled on a carrot that symbolizes incentivization.

Going from that we derived two things:
- Carroty stuff to wear (orange security vest ;-) and green wool hat)
- A pre-selection of logos for you to vote on.

Pre-selection: https://i.imgur.com/VJePaJB.png

I propose we "socialize" the winnings and pay for some of the expenses from whatever money we win.

I think this will help us work together as a team and make sure we are incentivized to help each other at the hackathon :-D, In short, we are one big team, so let's make that real!

What expenses? Well I suggest:

1/2 the cost of plane/train/bridge tickets + €100 + the cost of the boat (minus any teams that opt out), this includes the costs for the 3 Jedis, Jeff, Kris and Josh.

Entire teams would opt-in or opt out. Not individuals.

I say 1/2 the cost of the round trip plane/train/bridge ticket, and not the full cost because we want to still incentivize people to find cheap tickets.

I say €100 because there are lots of random travel costs that will be incurred, including the other 1/2 of that ticket. And if you live close and don't have an expensive travel cost, good for you you should get a bonus!

And I can't wait to party on the boat ;-) but also don't really want to have to go collect the money from each one of you... that's real annoying. ;-)

Example:

If teams 1-4 opt in, but team 5 doesn't, the results are:

Team 1 wins €6k
Team 2 wins €2k
Team 3 wins €6k
Team 4 wins €4k

and the total cost of expenses is €4500

4500/18000 = 25%

Team 1 would pay €1500 to the group keeping €4500
Team 2 would pay €500 to the group keeping €1500
Team 3 would pay €1500 to the group keeping €4500
Team 4 would pay €1000 to the group keeping €3000
Team 5 and the judge would pay for their part of the boat.

Another less exciting example:

Team 1 wins €0.5k
Team 2 wins €0.5k
Team 3 wins €6k
Team 4 wins €1k

and the total cost of expenses is €6000

6000/8000 = 75%

Team 1 would pay €375 to the group keeping €125
Team 2 would pay €375 to the group keeping €125
Team 3 would pay €4500 to the group keeping €1500
Team 4 would pay €750 to the group keeping €250
Team 5 and the judge would pay for their part of the boat.

If god forbid our winnings don't cover the cost, we take off the €100 and do the math again. If it still doesn't cover the costs, we take off the plane tickets. If we don't even cover the boat... then i don't know what to say... i might cry.

Important to note: We have been told by Abe and the other organizers that every track does their own split for winnings but in every track, last place gets something.

What does each vote choice mean

Agree: I think its good and want my team to join under this circumstance, i might have an idea on how it can be better, and will suggest it in my comment (or not).

Disagree: I think the split needs to change and will comment how, I hope my team doesn't agree to this).

Abstain: Sounds like an ok split, but my preference is that my team does NOT opt in.

Block: This is a horrible idea, i think very strongly that it should be every team for itself.