Dear Zindians,

Well done to all who participated in this challenge!

At Zindi, we pride ourselves on providing clients with solutions that are useful and will provide impact. This means that we review your submitted code to make sure that solutions comply with the competition rules and resource restrictions.

For this particular competition, an additional requirement was made in the middle of the competition: specifically, we required participants not to use the damage feature in their solution. This requirement is in line with Zindi's aim to provide solutions of value to the client.

Zindi is a place for competitive data science, but more so, it is a place to develop real life business and impact skills. We expect our participants to their skill and understanding to provide competition hosts with a valuable solution.

Based on the above requirements and through code review, users who did not submit code for review or users who used the damage feature in their solution were disqualified from this competition.

This is inline with the competition rules:

• Zindi is committed to providing solutions of value to our clients and partners. To this end, we reserve the right to disqualify your submission on the grounds of usability or value. This includes but is not limited to the use of data leaks or any other practices that we deem to compromise the inherent value of your solution.
• If you are in the top 10 at the time the leaderboard closes, we will email you to request your code. On receipt of email, you will have 48 hours to respond and submit your code following the Reproducibility of submitted code guidelines detailed below. Failure to respond will result in disqualification.

The leaderboard is now sealed, and you can download your participation certificate next to your username on the leaderboard link for the competition.

Regards,

Amy