Dear Zindians,

Thank you for your patience while we resolved multiple issues associated with this challenge.

As some of you have observed, the task for this challenge is to forecast traffic_DLThpVol for 5w-6w and 10w-11w. However, the reference file we provided included four targets, namely traffic_DLThpTim, traffic_MR_number, traffic_DLPRB, and traffic_DLThpVol. This was incorrect and since been rectified, so that the reference file now includes only traffic_DLThpVol.

To address the problem fully, Zindi has implemented the following steps:

• Update the reference file and started re-scoring the existing leaderboard submissions. There are ~100 submission to score, we will let you know when re-scoring is complete and the leaderboard updated.
• Update the sample submission file.
• Increase the number of submissions for all participants, to allow for you to compete fully in this challenge.

In addition, we are aware of the long lag times on submission scoring. Longer scoring times are inevitable with a submission file of this size, but we have spun up additional compute on the backend in order to improve submission scoring times. We expect scoring times of approximately 50 minutes for the remainder of the competition, and we appreciate your understanding in this matter.

Please accept our sincere apologies for these issues, and we wish you happy coding for the remainder of the challenge.

The Zindi team