I appreciate you outlining the circumstances. I recognize the difficulties and value your openness. Future jams should be able to better balance fairness for both on-site and remote participants, I hope.
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The amount of work required to host a jam like this is truly appreciated. However, there was no prior mention of the specifics regarding priority rankings for participants who were present on-site. As a result, developers who thought they were competing fairly eventually felt demoralized.
A separate category for in-person and online participants would have been preferable, but it would have been much better if this had been part of the jam's criteria section on the main page.
I live in Haryana, so I can't make the trip to Guwahati for a showcase alone. It feels unfair to outside developers who participated in good faith because this system essentially only indirectly promotes the projects of your own institute.