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Each contestant bring their own laptop to the event, but it is recommended that you provide them with an external monitor each. These monitor should be turned facing away from the contestant and towards the audience, so that they can follow along during the competition. Depending on the number of contestants you might want to split the competition up into multiple rounds, with 10 contestants in each group and a grand final match consisting of the top placers from the previous rounds. Website screenshots and assets should be prepared beforehand for each group (use different websites in each round) and are included with the editor bundle that each contestant receives. It's recommended to have the bundles available on USB sticks that the contestants can copy the contents from. Read more in the editor repo on how to prepare the assets and set up the editor. Before the round starts, help the contestants with setting up the editor and make sure they put their browser in presentation mode with screen mirroring enabled on the external screen. Make sure they don't begin coding before the timer starts. Since the audience will be the judge, let them clearly know what the rules are so that they can easily spot anyone who is cheating and disqualify them from the competition. When you are ready to start the round, count everyone down and set a 15 minute timer that the audience can clearly see. Once the 15 minutes are over tell everyone to stop coding, save their file and open it up in their favorite browser for everyone to vote on. Use a voting service like https://www.mentimeter.com/ to make it easy for everyone to vote.