MUNICH — While U.S. sports have embraced the hackathon, with the NBA hosting its own hack, European sports and their teams by contrast have been much slower to jump into this space. While English soccer team Manchester City held a hackathon for the past two years, compared to the NBA’s and others in the U.S., […]
MUNICH — A team called “Beat Adidas” became the first to win the grand prize at FC Bayern Munich’s inaugural HackDays event which ran from Jan 19-22. The hackathon event was divided up into seven predetermined challenges, with this team taking part in the Adidas stream. In order to win the grand prize, it first needed […]
In conjunction with the ongoing Australian Open, that country’s tennis governing body is, for the first time, publicly releasing a large batch of raw optical tracking data in hopes of crowdsourcing an automated solution for scoring matches. Tennis Australia is offering $8,500 (USD) in prize money to the top three entrants of this unique hackathon […]
For Germany’s FC Bayern Munich, there are very few firsts that the club has to check off thanks to its illustrious history. But from Jan. 19-22, for the first time the club will host what it is calling the FC Bayern HackDays to help to create new, innovative fan experiences based around the current German Bundesliga […]
Towards the end of September, students from undergraduates to PhDs will fill up a room in New York City, log onto their computers, and spend 24 hours creating potential solutions to the NBA’s most pressing analytics problems in the league’s second annual NBA Hackathon. The first hackathon in September 2016 was much smaller in scale. […]
