Epic Sports is a verifiable, established e-commerce retailer with significant scale (~720K monthly visits, ~$5M-$28M annual revenue, 77 employees). The project demonstrates high real-world utility and strong audience reach, significantly outperforming the 'small project' baseline. However, the PoU score is constrained by two factors: 1) Minimal technical innovation (standard retail model), and 2) Extremely low-quality submission evidence (vague claims like 'everyone' and 'most people', invalid revenue data). While the business itself is strong, the submission failed to provide credible proof, relying on external verification by the evaluator to salvage the score.
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