Competition Rules

Competition Rules

  • Participants can choose to form teams. Each team much consist of no more than 10 members.
  • Each team appoints a leader and the leader must register in the competition platform.
  • Each participant can join only one team. Multiple accounts will lead to disqualification of all teams joined by the participant.
  • Participants are allowed to use open-source codes or tools but are not permitted to use any code or tools that have not been publicly released or authorized.
  • External data is allowed to use for this competition. However, using external data has to satisfy the following criteria: The external data has to be publicly accessible. You have to post in the competition forum before the final stage on how to access the external data and provide sample codes in Python. During the second stage, no new external data can be used.
  • Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not allowed.
  • Teams can submit their prediction results anytime during the completion up to five times a day.
  • The competition organizers reserve the right to update the competition timeline and rules if they deem it necessary.
  • Important note: Participants who have trouble receiving notification mails from the competition organizer are strongly recommended to check their spam folders.