🏀 Magic Hour Hackathon: Remix the Future of Sports
About
Join us at Magic Hour HQ for the first-ever Magic Hour Hackathon, a two-day event focused on video manipulation and sports. Come build with the team, hang out, and push what’s possible with AI + video. Bring your laptop, ideas, and curiosity.
Free food & drinks provided.
🎯 Theme: Remixing Sports with AI
In 5 years, we’ll be able to:
Watch an NBA game and turn LeBron into Kratos.
Watch a soccer game from Messi’s perspective.
Watch a touchdown highlight of you and your friends being chased by stormtroopers.
Instead of consuming video passively, we'll be interacting with it in real-time, like a video game.
In this hackathon, we're building that future.
🛠 Objective
Build a tool, script, or workflow that combines sports and video manipulation.
It should be creative, shippable, and have viral potential.
💡 Inspiration
🗓 Agenda
Monday, July 28 (Hack Day)
9:00 AM — Doors open
9:15 AM — Kickoff + Theme
9:30 AM — Hacking begins
12:30 PM — Lunch
6:30 PM — Submissions due
Tuesday, July 29 (Judging + Celebration Day)
9:00 AM — Doors open
10:00 AM — Demos + Judging
12:00 PM — KBBQ at Ohgane 🍖
2:00 PM — Return to HQ
🏆 Prizes
🥇 1st Place: Meta Quest 3
🥈 2nd Place: AirPods Pro 2
🥉 3rd Place: $50 In-N-Out gift card
📤 Submission Requirements
Each submission must include:
A tool/web app, Colab script, or ComfyUI workflow
A 60-second demo video explaining your project
A <30s vertical video made with your project
Additional rules:
At least one solo submission per person
Deadline: Monday, 6:30 PM PDT
🧠 Judging Criteria
Virality — Would fans and creators go wild for this?
Shippability — Could a sports team or creator use this now?
Creativity — Is this novel, fun, or technically bold?
Scoring Breakdown:
🧠 Judges — 6 experts in AI, sports, and creative (90%)
Jered Thorp - Managing Editor North America at Adidas
Aaron Miller - VC at Will Ventures
Ishaan Sutaria - Co-founder, former CEO @ Wave Sports + Entertainment
Jared Kleinstein - Founder/CEO at Gondola / Fresh Tape Media
Avi Shah - Founder at Effxcts
Akshay Ram Sports Creative Influencer
📲 (Bonus) Post to @magichourai socials — Most views gets bonus (10%)
Winners announced on Tuesday at KBBQ!