It's funny how the big names are often very clueless. Google Startup Weekend picked a bill splitting app as the winner, of which there are hundreds of similar ones on the market already. Could be these people offering such huge prizes have never done a hackathon before and will similarly just award the same thing that shows up every time, or has been done a hundred times but that the judges are just ignorant about.
Curious to see if such a big prize is going to make the result worst or better, what you think?