Hello, Zindians! Well, finally after 5 weeks of a competition we got to know that our team is disqualified :) To say that I'm shocked by the explanation of Zindi is to say nothing :)

To cut long short - below you can see the explanation why we got disqualified:

"We have reviewed your submission and your code, and we, unfortunately, will be disqualifying your team. The review committee has come to this decision because the use of flood_100 violates the rule that does not permit the use of 2019 data. The ban of 2019 data is as much about the ground-truth nature of such data as it is about the ability for the government of Malawi to use these models to predict flooding in the future."

And finally, why we are shocked by that: flood_100 layer is basically a theoretical estimate of previous floods in the region. This layer is listed here (http://www.masdap.mw/layers/geonode:q100_atkins_flood_outline) again, this is the officially allowed data source. The layer is posted to MASDAP in 2013, and it is a flood Probabilistic Flood Frequency up to the year 2012. So, @ZINDI disqualifies our team for the violation of the "rule that does not permit the use of 2019 data" that we haven't used! Haha, this is really ridiculous.

From the discussion, I know that a lot of teams used floor frequency data, and this is even more frustrating! Please feel free to comment below, it would be nice to hear your opinion on this topic. Remember, next time it can be you :)