Practise the standard verbs for pitching a hackathon project clearly.
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Fill in: 'We ___ the idea in one clear sentence before the team starts building anything, so thirty-six hours of work isn't spent chasing a concept nobody can actually explain.'
We 'pitch an idea' — the standard, simple collocation for presenting a concept concisely. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'Building something genuinely impressive but forgetting to rehearse the closing pitch can ___ a strong project scoring poorly purely because judges never understood what it did.'
We say a weak pitch will 'leave' a strong project scoring poorly — the standard, natural collocation for the resulting mismatch. The other options aren't idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ a working prototype during the pitch, even a rough one, since judges consistently trust something they actually saw run over a description of what it would do.'
We 'demo a prototype' — the standard, simple collocation for showing a live working example. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ the pitch to the judging panel's actual time limit exactly, since running over tends to lose more goodwill than any single missing feature would.'
We 'time a pitch' — the standard, simple collocation for fitting a presentation into an allotted slot. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ judge feedback carefully at the end, since the questions a panel asks usually reveal exactly which part of the pitch didn't land as intended.'
We 'note feedback' — the standard, simple collocation for recording comments given after a presentation. The other options aren't idiomatic here.