Getting psyched!

Or I’m going Psycho, I don’t know. I still haven’t set up my build environment, which I really wanted to have prepared in advance.

Language: C++
Graphics/game engine: Whatever the latest Irrlicht is.
Sound/Network: SDL
Editor: Vim
Build system: CMake

My question to all of you: Is it okay to take a “project framework/template” and build from that? I’m talking No Code, only pre-prepared make-files, etc. On another note: who will know/check it? That is actually another question: Even though I wouldn’t dream of it + it kind-of goes against the whole idea of the competition, but HOW could anybody check that I’m actually not using stuff that I’ve had lying around from before? Do I HAVE to have a live-feed of my desktop, or what?

I’d really appreciate some answers to these two questions =)