FinSurvival Challenge

Eligibility

You are eligible to enter this competition if you meet the following requirements:

• (a) You are an individual or a team of people desiring to contribute to the tasks of the challenge and accepting to follow its rules; and
• (b) You are NOT a resident of any country constrained by US export regulations included in the OFAC sanction page. Therefore residents of these countries/regions are not eligible to participate; and
• (c) You are not involved in any part of the administration and execution of this competition; and you are not an immediate family (parent, sibling, spouse, or child) or household member of a person involved in any part of the administration and execution of this competition.

If you choose to submit an entry, but are not qualified to enter the competition, this entry is voluntary, and any entry you submit is governed by the remainder of these competition rules; the organizers reserve the right to evaluate it for scientific purposes. If you are not qualified to submit a competition entry and still choose to submit one, under no circumstances will such entries qualify for sponsored prizes.

Entry Requirements

To be eligible for judging, an entry must meet the following content/technical requirements:

• (a) Entry contents: Participants are required to submit entries following the instructions provided on the competition website. To be part of the final ranking and win prizes, participants must submit a 2-page write-up of their implementation and submit open-source code by the specified deadline. Submission information for the 2-page write-up and open-source code will be provided on the competition website, and announced on our Discord server.
• (b) Pre-requisite: Unless specified on the website of the challenge, there is no pre-requisite to participate, including no requirement to have participated in previous challenges.
• (c) Use of data provided: All data provided by the organizers are freely available to the participants from the website of the challenge under license terms provided with the data.
• (d) Submission: The entries of the participants will be submitted on-line via the Codabench platform. During the development phase, the participants will receive immediate feedback on a validation data released for practice purposes. For the final evaluation, the results will be computed on the holdout test dataset.
• (e) Original work, permissions: By submitting your entry into this competition you confirm that, to the best of your knowledge, your entry is your own original work and only includes material that you own, or that you have permission from the copyright/trademark owner to use.

Potential Use of Entry

Other than what is set forth below, we are not claiming any ownership rights to your entry. However, by submitting your entry, you are granting us an irrevocable, worldwide right and license, in exchange for your opportunity to participate in the competition and potential prize awards, for the duration of the protection of the copyrights to:

• Use, review, assess, test and otherwise analyze results submitted or produced by your code and other material submitted by you in connection with this competition and any future research or competitions sponsored by the organizing institutions and other challenge sponsors; and
• Feature your entry and all its content in connection with the promotion of this competition in all media (now known or later developed);

This license does not extend to methods, algorithms, source code used to generate your entry.

Judging the Entries

The decisions of the challenge organizers are final and binding. The distribution of prizes will be made within three (3) months after completion of the last round of the competition. If we do not receive a sufficient number of entries meeting the entry requirements, we may, at our discretion based on the above criteria, not award any or all of the competition prizes below. In the event of a tie between any eligible entries, the tie will be broken by giving preference to the earliest submission, using the time stamp of the submission platform.

Prizes

• (a) Prizes: Prizes as described on the website of the challenge will be awarded as incentive prizes to boost competition participation. To be eligible for prizes, participants must submit their code and a 2-page report by the specified deadline.
• (b) Prize Distribution: If the prizes described are unavailable due to an unforeseen reason, we reserve the right to substitute a prize(s) of equal or greater value.
• (c) Team Prizes: We will only award one prize per team. It is up to the team to figure out how to distribute the prize among team members.

Unforeseen Events

If an unforeseen or unexpected event (including, but not limited to: someone cheating; a virus, bug, or catastrophic event corrupting data or the submission platform; someone discovering a flaw in the data or modalities of the challenge; very low participation in the challenge) that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled, (also referred to as force majeure) affects the fairness and/or integrity of this competition, we reserve the right to cancel, change or suspend this competition. This right is reserved whether the event is due to human or technical error.

Computer "hacking" is unlawful. If you attempt to compromise the integrity or the legitimate operation of this competition by hacking or by cheating or committing fraud in any way, we may seek damages from you to the fullest extent permitted by law. Further, we may ban you from participating in any of our future competitions, so please play fairly.

Privacy

During the development phase of the competition and when they submit their final entries, competition participants do not need to disclose their real identity, but must provide a valid email address where we can deliver notifications to them regarding the competition. To be eligible for prizes, however, competition participants will need to disclose their real identity to competition organizers, informing them by email of their name, professional affiliation, and address.

To enter the competition, the participants will need to become users of the Codabench submission platform. Any profile information stored on this platform can be viewed and edited by the users. After the competition, the participants may cancel their account with the submission platform and cease to be users of that platform. All personal information will then be destroyed.

Conditions

By entering this competition you agree:

• (a) To abide by these official rules;
• (b) To the extent allowable under applicable law, to release and hold harmless the organizing institutions, and other sponsors, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees and agents from any and all liability or any injury, loss, damage, right, claim or action of any kind arising from or in connection with this competition or any prize won;
• (c) That the organizers' decisions will be final and binding on all matters related to this competition; and
• (d) That by accepting a prize, the organizing institutions and other sponsors may use your team name, your name, and your place of residence online and in print, or in any other media, in connection with this competition, without payment or compensation to you.