Octen Hacksprint SG - Scoop Wars

​Tonight's news broke a few hours ago. Your agent has 45 seconds to find it, and a plain Codex-plus-Octen house agent is racing too.

​Scoop Wars is the first Octen Hacksprint in Singapore: a hands-on night where teams build news-hunting agents on Octen News Search, then race them hands-off against each other and against the house agent. Beating that baseline is the game.

​What every attendee gets

​Show up approved and you walk out with:

• ​USD 10 in Octen credits on the spot (scan the table QR; works for new and existing accounts)

• ​1 month of ChatGPT Premium

• ​USD 50 in OpenAI API credits

• ​Pizza, drinks, the starter kit, and a seat in the race

​About Octen

​Octen is search infrastructure for AI: a real-time, LLM-native web search API. If you need live web and news context, it's the search layer underneath.

​Octen News Search

​Octen News Search searches live news and returns ranked articles with highlights, images, and optional full content. Breaking stories are searchable within minutes, and related coverage groups into one event with a summary and sub-events, so an agent can follow a story as it develops without drowning in duplicate headlines.

​What You'll Do

• ​Scan in for your door pack (Octen credits + ChatGPT Premium + OpenAI credits) and clone the starter kit

• ​Form teams of 2-4 (or get matched if you come solo)

• ​Warm up with Fake or Fresh, then build your news-hunting agent

• ​Go hands off for Scoop Clock and race the house agent on a live scoreboard

• ​Compete for the Golden Chope and Octen credit prizes

​Bring a laptop. Basic Python is enough. Scored rounds run on Octen News Search.

​Agenda

• ​6:30 PM: Arrive, pizza, door pack + starter kit setup

• ​7:00 PM: Welcome and team formation

• ​7:05 PM: Fake or Fresh

• ​7:20 PM: Build

• ​8:30 PM: Scoop Clock

• ​8:50 PM: Awards + Golden Chope

• ​9:00-10:00 PM: Mingle and close

​Prizes

• ​Golden Chope: top team keeps the trophy (a gold tissue packet, Singapore "chope") until the next event

• ​USD 100 / 50 / 30 in Octen credits for the top 3 teams

• ​USD 30 for the top Fake or Fresh score

• ​USD 10 each if the room beats our agent at Fake or Fresh

​Door pack above is for everyone. Prize credits land by noon the next day.

​How Scoring Works

• ​Right when the house agent is also right → +1

• ​Right when the house agent is wrong → +4

• ​First to report the story → +2

• ​Wrong → −2

• ​No answer in 45s, or no News Search call from your team's key → 0

​Who Should Join

​Developers, AI engineers, founders, and students who want to go beyond tutorials and race a real agent on tonight's news. Whether you're calling an API for the first time or shipping agents in production, there's a seat for you.

​Team formation happens after welcome. Come solo or with teammates; we'll match you if you need a crew.

​Only 10 spots. Registration closes Mon 17 Nov, 12:00 PM SGT.