[samb1729]

What unfair advantage is gained by using GitHub to store the code? A privately hosted Gitea instance would have accomplished exactly the same thing without technically breaking a rule.

I would understand this point if they were leveraging Actions or something, but that isn’t mentioned so I’ll assume that is not the case. Their usage of GitHub does not appear to have been anything more than a convenient repository host.

[lelanthran]

> What unfair advantage is gained by using GitHub to store the code? A privately hosted Gitea instance would have accomplished exactly the same thing without technically breaking a rule.

If there was no advantage, then the students looked at the rules and said "Yup, those don't apply to us" and proceeded to break them?

It's a competition!

ALL the rules in competition are more or less artificial; that doesn't mean that competitors should expect to break them with no penalty.

> I would understand this point if they were leveraging Actions or something, but that isn’t mentioned so I’ll assume that is not the case. Their usage of GitHub does not appear to have been anything more than a convenient repository host.

If it gave them no advantage then they shouldn't have risked their entry being disqualified by using github.

It was a pointless risk for no gain, from the way you say it.