🔥 The part nobody rehearses
Roast My Pick
Tell us your problem statement. We will hand you every red flag on it, every score taken apart, and how badly the whole thing burns — before a panel does it for you in front of your entire team.
Why red flags, and not green ones
Every team already knows why their statement is good. That is why they picked it. They can talk for ten minutes about the opportunity, the impact and the beautiful thing they are going to build, and most of them do.
Almost nobody has said the weaknesses out loud even once.
Which is a problem, because that is the entire content of the Q&A. Judges do not award marks for the parts that work — they watched those work, in the demo, thirty seconds ago. They spend their questions on the parts that do not. The room is decided after the demo ends, and it is decided on the four things you were hoping they would not notice.
A red flag you have rehearsed is a strength. The same red flag, heard for the first time from a judge, is the end of your afternoon.
So this page is deliberately one-sided. The green flags are on the statement’s own page and they are not what loses you the round. Read this one before you commit, and again the night before you present — the second read is the one that pays.
What you actually get
- A heat rating. How hard this statement bites, scored from its feasibility, effort, demo difficulty and how crowded it is forecast to be. Mild through Incinerated.
- The receipts. All four red flags, in full. Not softened, not summarised.
- The damage report. Every score this statement earned — feasibility, innovation, clarity, effort, demo-ability, data — and what each one actually costs you, with the reasoning that produced it.
- The demo they have already seen. How many teams are heading here, and why the obvious build is the one thing you cannot afford to deliver.
- What survives. The genuinely strong parts, so you know which ground to stand on when the questions start.
The jokes are in the framing. The findings are the same analysis that sits on every statement page — nothing here is invented to be mean, and every line is attached to a score or a fact in the record. It is still one opinion, so cross-check it before you bet a month on it.
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