Who Can Compete

In a word, anyone. The HiBots Challenge is aimed largely at students, as well as industry related businesses. People belonging to government, organizations they control or are contracted with, cannot participate unless they do so autonomously and independently (meaning, any agreement they have with us is not superceded by any prior contract they have entered into with their government; nor can funding or support come from that source with any conditions whatsoever, presently or in the future. It is highly inappropriate for government to be in business competing against or directly controlling the very people they, as servants, aim to serve and regulate.)

Our technology challenge is open to ALL nations. Restrictions placed on some countries for political reasons may not be lifted any time soon. We do not control that, nor do we exclude or discriminate against the residency of competitors or it could exclude more than 305 million potentially inspired people, people trapped behind political boundaries deemed as enemy lines by some; more people than live in the USA.

International businesses taking payments are restricted from operating in many of the following countries. For whatever reasons you do not have or cannot use an international credit card in Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, North Korea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Serbia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire and  Zimbabwe, you may want to consider (non bank) companies which transfer funds. If entering a team from any of the nations in red you may already know that Money Gram doesn't have representatives in them. Western Union doesn't operate in Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Somalia or Zaire at this time. So the cheapest option then is to transfer or deposit money into a bank account linked to CPrize Foundation. Let us know and we can provide account information. (The monies may not even be transferred out of the country.)