The fine print, plainly

Competition rules

Version 1.0 · These are the rules the registration consent refers to. Questions: arc@dairaedtech.in

Eligibility

Open to students and early founders resident in India. Every member competes as an individual with their own account: one person, one account.
A person may compete in only one team per event. Being invited doesn't count as being on a team; accepting does.
All information provided must be your own and accurate. Entering someone else's details, or competing under someone else's identity, is grounds for disqualification.

Entry is paid per person. Every participant pays their own entry fee to take part in the competition stages; a teammate's payment does not cover anyone else.
Forming or joining a team is free. A team can have up to four members, and a participant may compete in a team of one.
An entry fee cannot be refunded once a competition stage has been entered.
Teams that bought a team plan before individual entry began keep the plan they bought, and its members are entered.
Team leadership can be transferred with the consent of both people. The leader manages membership and finalisation on the team's behalf.

Each stage closes at its published deadline. Drafts autosave, but only a finalised submission is judged: an unfinalised draft at the deadline is not entered.
Finalising locks the submission and stamps who finalised it, when, and from where. What is judged is exactly what was locked.
Work must be the team's own. AI tools may be used as tools; presenting generated work as analysis you did not do, plagiarism, or fabricated evidence are grounds for disqualification.

Recruitment through the platform must stay respectful. Invitations and join requests can be declined without reason, and declining has no effect on scoring.
Harassment of other entrants, jury members or organisers, on or off the platform, is grounds for removal without refund.
Attempting to access another team's submissions, manipulate scoring, or probe the platform's security ends the team's participation.

Every submission in a stage is scored against the same published rubric, through a mandatory sustainability lens.
Shortlists and results are published per stage. Jury deliberations are confidential and individual scores are not disclosed.
The organisers' decisions on eligibility, scoring disputes and disqualification are final.

How your data is handled lives in its own document: data usage & privacy policy.