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Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge

Helping South Africa
$8 800 USD
Challenge completed ~4 years ago
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Earth Observation
347 joined
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Jul 05, 21
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Oct 03, 21
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Oct 03, 21
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ZINDI
If you are participating in both competitions
28 Sep 2021, 13:27 · edited ~1 hour later · 13

Updated message: You can only win prize money in one of the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop challenges. Winners in Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge will be awarded first.

Please disregard the below message.

You can only win prize money in one of the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop challenges. If you have participated in both competitions your place in Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge will be kept and you will be removed from the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop Challenge.

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Lone_Wolf
University of ghana

Hi @ZINDI

on the prize tab its says 'You can only win prize money in one of the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop challenges.'

please shouldnt this new rule you've rule added rather apply to any individual who places the top 3 for both competitions?

28 Sep 2021, 13:51
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Lone_Wolf
University of ghana

Also does this rule apply to individuals who've teamed up in maybe XL and are going solo in the other competition??

28 Sep 2021, 14:00
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Hi, @ZINDI

What should I do if I am in 2nd place in both competitions, but I want to choose Radiant Earth Spot the Crop Challenge?

And how should I choose the best? Because in fact, in one of the competitions, I can get to 1st place

means that if you got the fourth place in the "Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge" and one of the top three places in the "Radiant Earth Spot the Crop" challenge, you won't get any prize!, I think this rule should be more detailed.

28 Sep 2021, 14:14
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@ZINDI,

With all my respect but a similair decision cannot be taken 5 days before the end of this competition, Why it's not the reverse? The position in the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop Challenge will be kept and the other one will be removed? If I didn't raise the issue probably no one know how prizes will be splitted. Again no one knows whether he should participate in one of the competitions or not. The unique information that we have is that "You can only win prize money in one of the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop challenges" and it don't indicate anything about this decision. Models take a long time to run and if we already knew this rule we would focus on one of the competitions rather than wasting time on both of them.

I would suggest start by the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge and take the top3 positions and then move to Radiant Earth Spot the Crop Challenge and If a competitor won in the Radiant Earth Spot the Crop XL Challenge he will not win anything and we pass to the next competitior in the private leaderboard.

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skaak
Ferra Solutions

This seems a funny application of the rule that you can only win in one competition.

My interpretation was that your best score would be used, no matter where you got it, and then you get rewarded for that one and nothing else which seems logical - shouldn't this be the way to resolve this one?

28 Sep 2021, 14:27
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ZINDI

Hello all,

Sorry for the confusing rule. After an internal discussion, we have allowed you to participate in both competitions but winners in the XL challenge will be selected first as this is the more difficult challenge.

Thank you for your patience while we figured this out.

28 Sep 2021, 14:38
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Lone_Wolf
University of ghana

Thank you @ZINDI .. as per my other remark

is it allowed for individuals who've teamed up in maybe XL to go solo in the other competition knowing full how closely related the competitions are?...

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ZINDI

It is not recommended in the spirit of Zindi.

Thanks but I think it should be clearer.

sweetlhare wrote "What should I do if I am in 2nd place in both competitions" => I think he should got the 1st prize in the non-XL one if the 1st place in both competitions belongs to a single team.

In my opinion, we could do

1) First select 1st team in XL, named team A1. Team A1 gets the 1st prize and is removed from the candiates pool.

2) Select 1st team in non-XL, named team B1. Team B1 gets the 1st prize and is removed from the pool.

3) Select 2nd team in XL, named A2. Both team A1 and B1 are not in the pool. A2 got the 2nd prize.

And so on ...

Of course it is fuzzy in case teams are mixed :-)

Agree with you, this is the most logical scheme

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Lone_Wolf
University of ghana

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It is now interesting to see what happens to https://zindi.africa/competitions/radiant-earth-spot-the-crop-xl-challenge/leaderboard/teams/ensemble and https://zindi.africa/users/Brainiac. Should Brainiac got 2 prizes ? :-)

4 Oct 2021, 15:16
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