What problem does it solve? Hackathon organizers must decide what winners actually receive - cash, gear, credits, opportunities, or recognition - while staying inside a fixed budget line and avoiding legal exposure around minors, cross-border winners, and sponsor employees. This Skill turns those decisions into a structured, publishable prize plan without ever stating jurisdiction-specific thresholds or tax forms. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Prize Medium Selection: Presents a five-rung menu (cash, gear, credits, opportunity, recognition only) with value, effort, compliance, and efficiency orderings, defaulting to gear and deleting cash when minors or cross-border winners are possible. - Pool Sizing and Split Shape: Sizes the pool inside the event budget's Prizes line, separates organizer funds from sponsor-funded tracks, and chooses among winner-take-most, graduated podium, track-only, and flat splits. - Eligibility and Payout Rigor: Distinguishes eligibility to compete from eligibility to receive, supplies publishable wording, and routes contest-law, tax, cross-border, and minor-payout exposure categories to counsel or a fiscal host. - Use Case: An organizer with a 3,000 EUR Prizes line, two signed sponsor tracks, and a 17-year-old registrant gets a complete prize structure - medium, pool, split, eligibility text, and payout mechanic - validated section by section before publication. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to design the prize structure for your hackathon given your budget's Prizes line, sponsor tracks, team size cap, and whether any winner could be a minor or abroad.
