This long time demo scener has seen so many demos he's the perfect jury member. His personal website is full of demos and tutorials on various mathematical tricks you can use in your own submissions.

The guy behind 140 bytes seems a perfect fit to be a judge on js1k. I expect he'll appreciate all the tricks you pull to golf your code down. As a bonus, I'm sure he will appreciate the ♥ kawaii ♥ submissions the most.

Hakim is known for his creative JavaScript demos and games such as Sinuous , Sketch and reveal.js . He’s currently working as lead front end developer at Qwiki .

Dion has many faces in the hall of fame. Maybe his best success was once Ajaxian , which he co-founded.

Together the hand picked jury will pick the top 10. They are a mix of JavaScripters and demo sceners.

Prizes A competition has to have prizes. Below you see an overview of the prizes and who offered them.

500 USD Nodejitsu — provides a family of server side javascript products that simplify and manage application deployments for the node.js platform. This is a cash prize for the winner. @nodejitsu

150 EUR Thinkgeek Uxebu — known far and wide for their crazy work. Currently they're working on this project called bikeshed, but nobody really knows what it is. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit. @uxebu

1024+512+256 NOK Opera — Opera makes a browser, maybe you've heard of it. 1024 NOK for #1, 512 NOK for #2 and 256 NOK for #3. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit. @opera

50 EUR ThinkGeek — a website with toys and other stuff for geeks. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit. @thinkgeek

50 EUR Flattr — a service that allows others to flatter you with micro donations. The winner receives an account with 50 eur. @flattr

HTML5 Games Jacob Seidelin — just published a new book about html5 gaming. He will give away a copy of "HTML5 Games" to each the top five entries! @jseidelin

Arduino board Pusher — a company that tries to push the real time streaming web. They're giving away an Arduino board (with ethernet) and a Pusher Startup account (for one year) so you can continue hacking "an army of web socket powered robots" :D @pusher