I thought I'd post a short update given what we've recently learned
about the judging process.  Apparently, if there was some kind of
critical error while judging Duo, this would've been caught by the
judging process (either by eliminating one judge as an outlier, or by
assigning a new judge if there were two judges who experienced
problems).

We know from our server logs that two judges created Duo accounts
(along with a certain Google employee who isn't a judge).  This means
that at least one, and probably two judges scored us based only on our
documentation.  This doesn't surprise me because lots of other people
reported this as well.

Even if the two judges who created accounts scored us perfectly, the
other judges who weren't impressed enough by our documentation to
actually launch the app would've given us average scores at best,
which would be enough to eliminate us after the first cut.

So, to reiterate one of my post-mortem notes, we should've spent more
time on our documentation (which was good, but not great), and we
should've created our video before submitting, and provided a link to
it at the top of the document.

Thanks again to everyone for your encouragement.  Our team really
appreciates it.

On May 10, 1:28 am, Alex Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quite surprised that Duo didn't win too...
> May be there was a problem with Duo's presentation to judges?
>
> On 10 май, 09:53, Shooter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Really awesome demo. The hardwork shows. I think either the app
> > crashed or something during the demo or it was too complicated for the
> > judge to try out all the features on their own.
> > Keep up the hardwork and do market this thing.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Shooter.

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