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What do you get when you combine six early-stage startup founders with a panel of top VCs and savvy TechCrunch editors? It’s Pitchers Pitches, a rapid-fire pitch competition with a hefty side of advice to turn your 60-second pitch into a key that unlocks opportunity.

Grab a snack, bring your questions and tune-in to our pre-Disrupt 2020 masterclass tomorrow, September 2, at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT. You can

. We randomly chose six startups — all exhibitors in Digital Startup Alley

— to throw their best pitch. Our esteemed judges (we’ll name all the names in a moment) will critique each one and offer tips to sharpen what is arguably an entrepreneur’s most essential tool.

Get ready to take copious notes. Free advice from experts — the kind who hear pitches for a living — doesn’t come along every day, and chances are you can apply much of what you hear to your own pitch. Plus, the viewing audience decides which startup delivered the best pitch.

You can’t have a competition without a prize, and this one’s pretty nifty. The winning startup scores a consulting session with

cela

, a company that connects early-stage startups to accelerators and incubators that can help scale their businesses.

Hannah Webb, CEO of Findster Technologies, winner of the first Pitchers Pitches session, dishes on the result of her PP experience.

“Disrupt and Digital Startup Alley haven’t even officially started yet, and we’ve already seen great benefits. cela introduced us to multiple accelerators in the NYC area and one is a perfect fit for our company’s situation.”

Now without further ado, the panel of judges waiting to be impressed includes two top VCs —

Konstantine Buhler, Partner at Sequoia Capital

and Anne Gifford, Investor at Tusk Ventures

and two pitch-savvy TechCrunch editors — Anthony Ha

and Darrell Etherington.

As for the early-stage startups taking the mound, they are: