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48 hours, one hard deadline. All times in ET by default — switch zones below. Live items stream (kickoff); async items are deadlines + judging; optional items are explicitly opt-in. Winners + awards land in July.

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Thursday · 18 Jun 2026
Kickoff · clock starts · 48-hour sprint
  1. 16:30Live
    Pre-show
    Discord opens. Coffee opens. The stream waiting room is the lobby track.
  2. 17:00Live
    Kickoff stream
    OnlyWorks × Orbis read the manifesto. An Orbis demo. One (1) accidental swear word.
  3. 17:00Async
    Build window begins
    48-hour clock starts (17:00 ET). Commit hashes after this point count. Previous ones do not.
  4. 17:00Async
    Submissions open
    Publish early to lock in (17:00 ET). You may keep building right up to the close.
  5. 17:30Live
    Theme reveal
    This year there is no theme. You are the theme. It has been verified.
  6. 18:00Live
    Judge introductions
    The FAANG-engineer guest judges + the OnlyWorks panel, unmasked at last. Each reveals their personal weird north star.
  7. 18:30Optional
    Team formation
    Discord channels by track. Solos welcome. Matchmaking bot deployed.
  8. 19:30Sponsor
    Office hours · OnlyWorks API
    How to wire your build to OnlyWorks for verification. Demo + Q&A.
  9. 21:00Sponsor
    Craft talk · 30 min
    Guest TBA — we're courting an engineer who builds joke games that ship to real app stores.
  10. 22:00Sponsor
    Office hours · design crit
    Screenshare your UI. Receive opinions. The opinions are correct.
  11. 00:00Optional
    Overnight IRC · night one
    A real (text-only) IRC channel opens for the all-nighter people.
02
Friday · 19 Jun 2026
Deep build · the long middle
  1. 09:00Sponsor
    Office hours · open
    Drop into the stream with a question, a bug, or proof that you are still awake.
  2. 12:00Sponsor
    Office hours · OnlyWorks API
    Second pass for the late starters. Wire your build to OnlyWorks for verification.
  3. 15:00Optional
    Craft talk · 30 min
    A short talk to break the grind. Topic dropped in Discord that morning.
  4. 23:00Optional
    Overnight IRC · night two
    The text-only channel reopens for the final all-nighter.
03
Saturday · 20 Jun 2026
Submissions close · pitch videos in · async judging
◆ Hard Close
  1. 16:30Async
    Submissions soft close
    Judges begin watching. You may keep editing your README. Nobody else may.
  2. 17:00Async
    Submissions close (HARD)
    Build window closes (17:00 ET). Repo + your ≤3-min pitch video must be in. Anything pushed after this is for posterity, not points.
  3. 17:00Async
    Pitch video is the demo
    No live demo night — your ≤3-min pitch video is what the judges score. Make it count.
  4. 17:30Async
    Async judging begins
    Judges work through the repos + pitch videos over the days that follow. Go outside. Touch grass. You earned it.
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