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> GitHub parses this into that little blurb you see below the repo. This is technically a violation of the rules. Part of your project is technically generated by GitHub.

No, that's Github interpreting markdown for display on Github.com. That's not generating any part of the project that they submitted.

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You can't use a site that takes markdown and generates HTML. It is a file in the project. By the letter, it counts.

And the reason stuff like this happens is because of people who like to bend the rules on technicalities. Where they hold to the letter but violate the spirit.

You have to draw lines somewhere in a competition.

No, not really. Their project solution was a collection of webpages. Github didn't generate any HTML or code that went into those pages.

Visiting github.com to look at the pretty-formatted readme was not part of the project.

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