SYSTEM COLLAPSE
WINNERS

31 Teams · $2,300 Prize Pool

Technical Execution 40%
System Design 30%
Creativity & Expression 30%

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

🥇 1st Place — $1,000 ⚙️ Best Technical Execution Total: $1,100

Blast Radius

Team: beTheNOOB  |  Score: 4.230 / 5.00

A browser-based chaos engineering simulator that turns distributed system failure — cascading latency, service dependencies, and blast radius — into a visceral, visual, and educational experience. Built with TypeScript, featuring clean component separation, sophisticated state management, real-time metrics tracking revenue loss and user frustration, and a smooth 60fps animation loop.

TypeScript 60fps Animation Chaos Engineering Real-time Metrics Educational
“Impressive work! The architecture is well-thought-out with clean component separation and sophisticated state management. The concept of turning distributed system failures into an educational tool is brilliant. The visualization with real-time metrics like revenue loss and user frustration makes complex concepts tangible.” — Ishu Anand Jaiswal
“The critical distinction between a catastrophic outage and seamless resilience lies in thoroughly understanding the blast radius — clearly presented and technical code written with standards.” — Harsha Vardhan Redddy Yeddula
🥈 2nd Place — $300 🎨 Best Creativity Total: $400

After the Stroke

Team: Gladiators  |  Score: 4.211 / 5.00

An evolutionary drawing web app where strokes persist, decay, and mutate over time — creating emergent glitch art through autonomous system collapse. Built with a React/Go stack, the project turns the act of drawing into a conversation with entropy: your art degrades, transforms, and becomes something entirely new without your control.

React + Go Evolutionary Art Glitch Aesthetics Self-Degrading
“Good idea, interesting solution to the hackathon requirements. The codebase is solid in architectural alignment between React/Go stack and its self-degrading art vision. I like it!” — Andrei Dzeikalo
“Great work, presented very well. Demo worked very well. System designed very well.” — Amirthalakshmi Karuppaiah Saminathan
🥉 3rd Place — $200

System Sketch

Team: System Architects  |  Score: 4.080 / 5.00

An interactive, browser-based System Design & Chaos Engineering Simulator. Unlike traditional diagramming tools that produce static images, System Sketch creates living architectures that simulate traffic loads and collapse under stress, with self-healing capabilities using auto-scaling and caching strategies.

Chaos Engineering Living Architectures Self-Healing Traffic Simulation
“This is my top pick for utility. As someone who has spent years staring at static Draw.io diagrams, the ability to create ‘living architectures’ that simulate traffic loads and collapse under stress is brilliant. This solves a real industry problem: predicting bottlenecks before deployment.” — Amal Mammadov

CATEGORY EXCELLENCE

$100 per category · Teams can win in multiple categories

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Best Technical Execution — $100

Blast Radius

beTheNOOB  |  4.20 / 5.00

🥇 Also 1st Place Grand Prize

🏗️

Best System Design — $100

keystone

keystone  |  4.33 / 5.00

A game where progress is decay — every action destabilizes the world. Built with Next.js/TypeScript and a custom Canvas 2D engine, with clean architectural separation.

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Best Creativity & Expression — $100

After the Stroke

Gladiators  |  4.44 / 5.00

🥈 Also 2nd Place Grand Prize

TOP CONTENDERS

Ranks 4–10

#4

keystone

keystone  |  4.044

A game where breaking something is more interesting than building it. Every action destabilizes the world — your goal is to experience the most beautiful destruction possible before the system gives in.

#5

Solo Debugger

Abhinav Shukla  |  4.027

Gamifying the collapse of software systems. Inspired by Solo Leveling, it reconceptualizes debugging as an immersive power fantasy with Boids-based particle flocking, Zustand state management, and an evolving shadow army.

#6

Fracture

The Broken Being  |  4.027

An AI-driven particle physics sandbox where destruction triggers evolution. Draw structures, watch them fracture, and see GPT-4 generate new physics rules in real-time as the system evolves.

#7

System Entropy Visualizer

Sanjay Sah  |  3.873

A controlled chaos simulator with a Tron-style UI, entropy-driven visuals, Tone.js audio design, and chatbot phrase adoption. Designed to cultivate errors, not prevent them.

#8

Universal Simulator

Team Baman  |  3.827

A real-time geopolitical cascade simulator. Trigger sanctions, dissolve alliances, and master collapse across a 3D globe with 25+ countries and AI-driven cascade mechanics.

#9

Garden of Glitch

Nikhil Mallik  |  3.827

A recursive physics platformer where the environment degrades based on your actions. Every move generates entropy, and ghost platforms haunt your path through a garden of decaying data.

#10

The Atomic Simulator

TheExperimentalists  |  3.822

Breaks complex systems down to their atomic fundamentals. Define rules — attraction, repulsion, chaos — then watch small interactions create large-scale emergent patterns.

ALL COMPETITORS

Ranks 11–31

#11 State Craft Girly Pop
3.791 GitHub
#12 The AZ-5 Protocol Critical Operators
3.790 GitHub
#13 Residual State Glitch Permanence
3.740 GitHub
#14 Conway’s Game of Life Variant lawless
3.722 GitHub
#15 Chaos Garden Bit Brains
3.610 GitHub
#16 Gravity Drift Playground HANUMAN FORCE
3.590 GitHub
#17 Mirror Mind MirrorMind
3.555 GitHub
#18 Gravity Shift Nomrelol_
3.544 GitHub
#19 System Drift Commit & Conquer
3.510 GitHub
#20 Life Simulator VrajC0Dee
3.478 GitHub
#21 Flick AI Kaizen
3.473 GitHub
#22 Imperfect Drift Berlin
3.450 GitHub
#23 Lumen Zero
3.410 GitHub
#24 Word Collapse Tm-AzhanAarifUrijit
3.410 GitHub
#25 POLYGON Elemental
3.280 GitHub
#26 Raptor Editor Bisht
3.267 GitHub
#27 Unstable Flappy Sableye
3.230 GitHub
#28 system-calm 473
3.140 GitHub
#29 Emergent Behavior Lab emergent
2.964 GitHub
#30 Unstable-To-DO System collapse
2.670 GitHub
#31 Fading Ink Error 404
2.422 GitHub

🌟 Community Award — $500

Projects ranked 4th–8th are eligible. LinkedIn poll coming soon — vote for the project that impressed you most!

💰 PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

Team Awards Prize
beTheNOOB 1st Place + Best Technical Execution $1,100
Gladiators 2nd Place + Best Creativity & Expression $400
System Architects 3rd Place $200
keystone Best System Design $100
Community Choice (TBD) Community Award $500
Total Prize Pool $2,300
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