Hacking events, I always go then gather the team in the event place with team-less people.
Making new friends, having some fun, and solving some challenges.
By the way, I couldn't get a girlfriend using my coding skills, it is not working.

If you want to make new friends, I would even recommend going there without a team. This way you will learn to know new people.
If you go there with a team, you will get to know less people. Then you are mostly just in there, for the fun of it and for the prices.

But it's possible to win with new build teams as well, without any preparation.

@plusgut whoa, even I thought you needed a team of minimum members like 2-3; I'm gonna go to next hackathon alone

@justasithlord do that! Hackathons are amazing!
I was at 6 hackathons, and I always went there alone with no team at start. But I always found great people to work with.

Some hackathons ago I found some people, I might even start a company with.

@plusgut whoa, that's awesome

@justasithlord you will have lots of fun at a hackathon ;)
But what I would recommend doing, is having an open mind about the presented projects. In my opinion it's more about the actual doing things with other people, than the topic of the thing you do.

@plusgut yeah, I'll keep that in mind :)

Trust me, it is a great chance.
I won two Hakathon in different countries by the same way...