**OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES**

**Kaggle Competition: Battle of the Brains**  
**Organized by TCET ACM SIGAI**

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### 1. COMPETITION OVERVIEW

- **Event Title:** Kaggle Competition: Battle of the Brains
- **Organizer:** TCET ACM SIGAI (Students’ Chapter)
- **Theme:** System Threat Prediction
- **Dates:** 10th – 12th April 2025, from 12 PM onwards daily
- **Platform:** Kaggle (Online)
- **Tools Allowed:** Python, Jupyter Notebooks, ML Libraries of your choice
- **Participation Mode:** Individual or in teams of up to 5 members

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### 2. ELIGIBILITY

- Open to all currently enrolled students of TCET.
- Participants must have a Kaggle account.
- Each participant can be part of only one team.
- No prior competition experience required. Beginners welcome!

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### 3. DATA AND PROBLEM STATEMENT

- Dataset will be provided through the Kaggle competition page.
- Publicly available or synthetic datasets will be used for educational and non-commercial purposes.
- Primary problem statement: **System Threat Prediction**
- Additional optional tasks may include: **Predicting Student Performance**, **Sentiment Analysis**, etc.
- External data allowed only if:
  - Freely available to all participants
  - Cited in final submission notebook
  - Aligned with educational purpose

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### 4. SUBMISSIONS

- Daily limit: **5 submissions per team**
- Final leaderboard based on **private test set evaluation**
- Final selected **2 submissions per team** will be evaluated
- Submissions must be original. Plagiarism or use of unauthorized code will result in disqualification.

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### 5. JUDGING CRITERIA

- Evaluation will be conducted based on Kaggle’s scoring metrics (defined in the competition notebook)
- Final leaderboard score determines winning positions
- Tie-breakers (if needed) will be based on model reproducibility and clarity of code

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### 6. PERKS & RECOGNITION

- 🎉 Certificate of Participation for all eligible participants
- 📈 Real-world experience solving data science problems
- 📰 Top performers will be featured on TCET ACM SIGAI's Instagram and other social handles

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### 7. CODE & DOCUMENTATION

- Finalists must submit:
  - Kaggle Notebook link with model code
  - Brief report or README (max 1 page) describing approach and results
- Participants are encouraged to make their solutions public after the competition ends

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### 8. CONDUCT & FAIRNESS

- All participants must uphold academic integrity
- Team collaboration is allowed within teams only
- Sharing of code or results between teams is not allowed
- Any attempt to manipulate leaderboard scores may result in disqualification

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### 9. CONTACT FOR QUERIES

- 👨‍💼 Diya Manapetty (Chairperson): [WhatsApp](http://wa.me/+918108777667)
- 👨‍💼 Satish Gupta (Vice Chairperson): [WhatsApp](http://wa.me/+919967142376)
- ✉️ Email: acmsigai10@gmail.com
- 📲 Instagram: [@tcet_acm_sigai](https://instagram.com/tcet_acm_sigai)

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### 10. REGISTRATION

- Register Now: [Google Form](https://forms.gle/FAdwZVv4Emxcm3ZGA)
- Registration is free and open till 9th April 2025

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### 11. FINAL NOTE

- Have fun, collaborate ethically, and explore the field of ML!
- This event is aimed to help students learn and grow through real-world ML applications.

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**Let the battle of the brains begin! 🧠📊**