Rules

1. ID and Sole Account

1.1) All participants need to register on biendata.com only in one account. Any breach of the rule means being forbidden to join any competition on the platform.
1.2) A participant can only join one team. In the case that a participant joins multiple teams via registering more than one account, the team of which the participant is a member will be disqualified.
1.3) During competition, sharing of models or codes can only proceed on the “Models” and “Discussion” sections on biendata website. The codes muse be open-source and free. Within the three weeks after the competition, sharing codes or prediction result files (including private sharing) outside biendata platform will be regarded as breach of rule.

Teaming

2.1) Each team cannot exceed 5 players, and the team name cannot exceed 15 characters;
2.2) Before the team deadline, each team can invite the new members or merge with other teams, but the new team cannot exceed 5 players.
2.3) Each team is not allowed to split and disband, and it is not allowed to remove any players. Please consider the team carefully.
2.4) If one team merges with others, the sum of the historical submissions of the new team at that day cannot exceed the total submission limit, all historical submissions of all the members at that day will be counted.
2.5) Teams can upload the verification set results at any time during the competition. The management system will update the latest ranking of each team in real time. The final result in the board is the best result in all submission. In the final competition, we also will choose the best submission as the final result.
2.6) At the end of the two sections, we will also need the top team to submit the code which can reproduce the result. We only accept the team whose result can be reproduced.

Intellectual property and external data:

3.1) The competition allows the use of free open source code or tools, but does not allow the use of any unpublished code or tools that require authorization.
3.2) This competition can use public external data, but it is not allowed to submit the real results for verification.
3.3) The winning team has the copyright of their models. But the model descriptions and code must comply with the GPL v3 open source agreement and be published on the website designated by the organizer within 2 weeks after the end of the competition.