is sketching UI, and deciding theme and listing features to add allowed before hand

[SamsDevForge]

My team is actively researching, and we want to lay out roughly what we want to build during the announced time frame, I had a doubt regarding that, The official Documentations are not clear around this topic, So I did not want to make the call in the grey zone,

we are working on: Interplanetary Survival Guide: Martian Map

we have gathered info on frameworks and architecture, but;

We wanted to decide:

Theme
Features
Rough UI sketch

For our end product, Is this allowed or considered out of the terms of the competition?

Also since it is a map, are we allowed to save the data from available sources into one place for convenience during the hackathon?

[Nick-GO-Team]

Before the hackathon starts, you may select a challenge to work on, review the resources, research the topic, and form your team based on the skills you think are needed. I would hold off on discussing features or sketching out UI as working ahead of the hackathon can lead to disqualification and the removal of any awards your project wins.

We encourage participants to use the exciting 2-day ideation period to start and finish projects, as this is one of the benefits of working together in rapid ideation and prototyping! Also, judges understand that your project will not be at a certain level due to the time restrictions, and have been trained to evaluate projects that have been constructed within 2 days.