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2026 · BYBuildicyBUILDICY

READY FOR THE UNKNOWN?

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SURPRISE CHALLENGE★NO SPOILERS★NO BRIEF★NO HINTS★JUST BUILD★NOV 28★
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01 // about

No brief.
No hints.
Just build.

BLACKOUT is a surprise-challenge hackathon byBuildicyBuildicy — made for creative thinkers, developers, designers and builders who love solving problems and creating something unexpected.

Teams take on a problem statement nobody has seen — revealed only at the event — then showcase their solutions to the jury and compete for the win.

> You don't know the challenge.
> You know you came to build.

02 // the mystery

YOU WON'T KNOW


UNTIL YOU SHOW UP.

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

> Sealed. Encrypted. Unopened until zero hour.

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THE RULES

> Classified. Some things only make sense in the dark.

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THE TWIST

> There's always one. We're not telling.

03 // who should join

Anyone who builds.

[STU]

Students

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[DEV]

Developers

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[DSN]

Designers

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[FRL]

Freelancers

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[PRO]

Professionals

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[FND]

Founders

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

[ANY]

Anyone who builds

STATUS: READYIDLE_ACTIVE ●

04 // registration passes

Pick your pass.

TIER_01

EARLY BIRD

₹499

  • + 12-Hour Secret Hackathon Entry
  • + Meals, Energy Drinks & Snacks
  • + Official BLACKOUT Hacker Kit
  • + Mentorship & Venture Access

⚡ First 20 Members Only

CLAIM PASS ▶

TIER_02.ENC

SEALED

BUILDER PASS

₹███

> Standard Entry Slots — Unlocks post Early Bird.

OPENS POST EARLY BIRD

TIER_03.ENC

SEALED

FINAL CALL

₹███

> Late Registration Slots — Unlocks post Early Bird.

OPENS POST EARLY BIRD

05 // prizes & recognition

What's at stake.

BOUNTY

₿

The Bounty

> Compete for high-value cash rewards.

REWARD_CONFIRMED ▶

LAUNCHPAD

↑

The Launchpad

> Secure elite internship opportunities.

REWARD_CONFIRMED ▶

ALLIANCE

◈

The Alliance

> Direct venture partnership with Buildicy.

REWARD_CONFIRMED ▶

UNKNOWN

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The Unknown

REWARD_CONFIRMED ▶
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06 // meet the team

THE PEOPLE
BEHIND BLACKOUT.

ID_001●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mayur P

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mayur P

> Tech Mentors

CTO & Co-Founder at Buildicy. Architecting resilient distributed backends, microservices, and high-throughput systems. Mentoring builders on scalable architecture, cloud infra, and rock-solid production engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_002●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Prajwal N

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Prajwal N

> Tech Mentors

CEO & Founder at Buildicy. Full-stack architect specializing in ultra-fast modern web applications, reactive state pipelines, and system scalability. Guiding hackathon teams through zero-to-one product engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_003●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Tamil TM

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Tamil TM

> Organizers

Specializes in productionizing generative intelligence pipelines and edge model fine-tuning. Optimizing neural weights to evaluate autonomous hacker agents during the blackout.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_004●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Nivethitha Ramesh

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Nivethitha Ramesh

> Organizers

Architecting multimodal reasoning systems and latency-critical inference pipelines. Deploys resilient AI agents designed to operate in low-bandwidth, high-entropy challenge environments.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_005●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Jamuna Rani

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Jamuna Rani

> Organizers

Engineering high-performance fullstack interfaces and reactive services. Building tactile attendee interfaces, live submission trackers, and real-time event telemetry.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_006●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Rajeshwari M

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Rajeshwari M

> Organizers

Focused on robust backend services, secure transaction validation, and database reliability. Ensuring high-availability data channels during peak hacker traffic spikes.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_007●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Bhuvana Sree S

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Bhuvana Sree S

> Organizers

Crafting responsive user interfaces, real-time portal interactions, and edge client features. Translating complex evaluation metrics into seamless digital experiences.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_008●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mohammed Parish Khan K

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mohammed Parish Khan K

> Organizers

Researching autonomous agent workflows and neural model inference. Crafting production-grade machine learning pipelines and fine-tuned evaluators.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_009●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
ShivaSakthivel L

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

ShivaSakthivel L

> Organizers

Implementing computer vision solutions and real-time AI reasoning systems. Optimizing generative pipelines for low latency and high accuracy.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_001●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mayur P

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mayur P

> Tech Mentors

CTO & Co-Founder at Buildicy. Architecting resilient distributed backends, microservices, and high-throughput systems. Mentoring builders on scalable architecture, cloud infra, and rock-solid production engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_002●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Prajwal N

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Prajwal N

> Tech Mentors

CEO & Founder at Buildicy. Full-stack architect specializing in ultra-fast modern web applications, reactive state pipelines, and system scalability. Guiding hackathon teams through zero-to-one product engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_003●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Tamil TM

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Tamil TM

> Organizers

Specializes in productionizing generative intelligence pipelines and edge model fine-tuning. Optimizing neural weights to evaluate autonomous hacker agents during the blackout.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_004●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Nivethitha Ramesh

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Nivethitha Ramesh

> Organizers

Architecting multimodal reasoning systems and latency-critical inference pipelines. Deploys resilient AI agents designed to operate in low-bandwidth, high-entropy challenge environments.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_005●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Jamuna Rani

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Jamuna Rani

> Organizers

Engineering high-performance fullstack interfaces and reactive services. Building tactile attendee interfaces, live submission trackers, and real-time event telemetry.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_006●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Rajeshwari M

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Rajeshwari M

> Organizers

Focused on robust backend services, secure transaction validation, and database reliability. Ensuring high-availability data channels during peak hacker traffic spikes.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_007●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Bhuvana Sree S

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Bhuvana Sree S

> Organizers

Crafting responsive user interfaces, real-time portal interactions, and edge client features. Translating complex evaluation metrics into seamless digital experiences.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_008●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mohammed Parish Khan K

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mohammed Parish Khan K

> Organizers

Researching autonomous agent workflows and neural model inference. Crafting production-grade machine learning pipelines and fine-tuned evaluators.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_009●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
ShivaSakthivel L

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

ShivaSakthivel L

> Organizers

Implementing computer vision solutions and real-time AI reasoning systems. Optimizing generative pipelines for low latency and high accuracy.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_001●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mayur P

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mayur P

> Tech Mentors

CTO & Co-Founder at Buildicy. Architecting resilient distributed backends, microservices, and high-throughput systems. Mentoring builders on scalable architecture, cloud infra, and rock-solid production engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_002●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Prajwal N

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Prajwal N

> Tech Mentors

CEO & Founder at Buildicy. Full-stack architect specializing in ultra-fast modern web applications, reactive state pipelines, and system scalability. Guiding hackathon teams through zero-to-one product engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_003●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Tamil TM

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Tamil TM

> Organizers

Specializes in productionizing generative intelligence pipelines and edge model fine-tuning. Optimizing neural weights to evaluate autonomous hacker agents during the blackout.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_004●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Nivethitha Ramesh

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Nivethitha Ramesh

> Organizers

Architecting multimodal reasoning systems and latency-critical inference pipelines. Deploys resilient AI agents designed to operate in low-bandwidth, high-entropy challenge environments.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_005●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Jamuna Rani

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Jamuna Rani

> Organizers

Engineering high-performance fullstack interfaces and reactive services. Building tactile attendee interfaces, live submission trackers, and real-time event telemetry.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_006●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Rajeshwari M

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Rajeshwari M

> Organizers

Focused on robust backend services, secure transaction validation, and database reliability. Ensuring high-availability data channels during peak hacker traffic spikes.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_007●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Bhuvana Sree S

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Bhuvana Sree S

> Organizers

Crafting responsive user interfaces, real-time portal interactions, and edge client features. Translating complex evaluation metrics into seamless digital experiences.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_008●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mohammed Parish Khan K

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mohammed Parish Khan K

> Organizers

Researching autonomous agent workflows and neural model inference. Crafting production-grade machine learning pipelines and fine-tuned evaluators.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_009●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
ShivaSakthivel L

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

ShivaSakthivel L

> Organizers

Implementing computer vision solutions and real-time AI reasoning systems. Optimizing generative pipelines for low latency and high accuracy.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_001●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mayur P

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mayur P

> Tech Mentors

CTO & Co-Founder at Buildicy. Architecting resilient distributed backends, microservices, and high-throughput systems. Mentoring builders on scalable architecture, cloud infra, and rock-solid production engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_002●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Prajwal N

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Prajwal N

> Tech Mentors

CEO & Founder at Buildicy. Full-stack architect specializing in ultra-fast modern web applications, reactive state pipelines, and system scalability. Guiding hackathon teams through zero-to-one product engineering.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_003●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Tamil TM

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Tamil TM

> Organizers

Specializes in productionizing generative intelligence pipelines and edge model fine-tuning. Optimizing neural weights to evaluate autonomous hacker agents during the blackout.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_004●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Nivethitha Ramesh

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Nivethitha Ramesh

> Organizers

Architecting multimodal reasoning systems and latency-critical inference pipelines. Deploys resilient AI agents designed to operate in low-bandwidth, high-entropy challenge environments.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_005●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Jamuna Rani

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Jamuna Rani

> Organizers

Engineering high-performance fullstack interfaces and reactive services. Building tactile attendee interfaces, live submission trackers, and real-time event telemetry.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_006●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Rajeshwari M

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Rajeshwari M

> Organizers

Focused on robust backend services, secure transaction validation, and database reliability. Ensuring high-availability data channels during peak hacker traffic spikes.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_007●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Bhuvana Sree S

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Bhuvana Sree S

> Organizers

Crafting responsive user interfaces, real-time portal interactions, and edge client features. Translating complex evaluation metrics into seamless digital experiences.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_008●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
Mohammed Parish Khan K

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

Mohammed Parish Khan K

> Organizers

Researching autonomous agent workflows and neural model inference. Crafting production-grade machine learning pipelines and fine-tuned evaluators.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶
ID_009●
?IDENTITY_LOCKED
ShivaSakthivel L

CLASSIFIED

> role: revealing soon

Profile drops before the lights go out.

ShivaSakthivel L

> Organizers

Implementing computer vision solutions and real-time AI reasoning systems. Optimizing generative pipelines for low latency and high accuracy.

INGH
DOSSIER ▶

07 // event information

The coordinates.

DATE

November 28, 2026

LOCATION

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

VENUE

To be announced

ORGANIZER

BuildicyBuildicy

REGISTRATION

Passes from ₹499

CHALLENGE

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08 // faq

Questions?

What is BLACKOUT?+

A surprise-challenge hackathon by Buildicy. The problem statement stays sealed until the event begins — you discover it when you arrive.

Who can participate?+

Students, developers, designers, freelancers, professionals, founders — anyone passionate about building and innovation.

How do I register?+

Pick a pass in the Registration Passes section and hit Claim Your Pass. Registration details will be shared here as they go live.

How much does it cost?+

Early Bird is ₹499 (for the first 20 members only), Builder Pass is ₹699, and Final Call is ₹799. All passes include the 12-hour hackathon experience.

Can I join as a team?+

Yes! You can register solo or as a team squad of 2 to 4 members. Pricing is calculated per member.

Where is the venue?+

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The exact venue will be announced soon.

What should I bring?+

Your laptop, charger, and an open mind. Any further instructions will be sent to registered participants.

Is there a refund policy?+

The refund policy will be published before registration opens.

Can you tell us the challenge?+

Nope. That's the whole point. You won't know until you show up.

> ready_to_go_dark?

YOU CAN'T PREDICT IT.
YOU CAN SHOW UP.

CLAIM YOUR PASS ▶