First and foremost, a huge congratulations to our top three teams. All podium solutions successfully passed code review, and their leaderboard scores were fully checked and replicated by our team - demonstrating robustness and reproducibility.

Without further ado, here are the winners:

🥇 1st Place: Team AfricaRais

🥈 2nd Place: Team Mohamed3

🥉 3rd Place: snazon

Your hard work, technical depth, and persistence throughout this challenge have been exceptional. Each of these teams delivered strong, well-structured solutions.

🌟 Special Mention – 3rd Place (snazon) Special recognition goes to snazon for an especially innovative. Their grid-based approach was thoughtfully designed with practical deployment in mind, resulting in a more lightweight and efficient model suitable for offline mobile inference.

To everyone who participated: thank you. The quality of submissions across the leaderboard reflects the strength and growth of this community. If you didn’t place this time, remember - every Zindi challenge is an opportunity to refine your skills, test new ideas, and build your portfolio. We encourage you to share insights, notebooks, and reflections in the Chat forum so we can continue learning together.

Your challenge certificates are now available for download and sharing.

Thank you for making this challenge such a success. We look forward to seeing you in the next challenge!