We would like to congratulate the preliminary prize winners for this competition! Additionally we would like to recognize teams Measurement Inc, Educational Testing Servces, and Stefan Henß & SirGuessALot, who came in 1st, 5th, and 6th on the leaderboard. These teams elected not to open source their models and methodologies, so the monetary rewards will go to the subsequent teams on the leaderboard.
1st Place Prize Winner:
[Luis Tandalla](https://www.kaggle.com/users/23759/luis-tandalla)
of New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
[Released Code](https://github.com/luistp001/LT-Autograder)
[Final Model Submission](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/LuisTandellaFinalModel.zip)
[Methodology Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/TechnicalMethodsPaper.pdf)
2nd Place
Prize Winner
:
[Jure Zbontar](https://www.kaggle.com/users/835/jure-zbontar)
of Ljubljana, Slovenia
[Released Code](https://bitbucket.org/jzbontar/asap)
[Final Model Submission](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/JureZbontarFinalModel.gz)
[Methodology Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/jzbontar.pdf)
3rd Place
Prize Winner
:
[Xavier Conort](https://www.kaggle.com/users/17379/gxav-xavier-conort)
of Singapore
[Released Code](https://github.com/Gxav73/Gxav_Sol_ASAP_round2)
[Final Model Submission](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/XavierConortFinalModel.zip)
[Methodology Paper](https://github.com/Gxav73/Gxav_Sol_ASAP_round2/blob/master/Gxav%20Description.docx?raw=true)
4th Place
Prize Winner
:
[James Jesensky](https://www.kaggle.com/users/9350/jjj)
of Bethel Park, PA, USA
[Released Code](https://github.com/jesensky/jjj-asap-sas/tree/master/jjj-asap-sas-release)
[Final Model Submission](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/wizard/JamesJejenskyFinalModel.zip)
[Methodology Paper](https://github.com/jesensky/jjj-asap-sas/blob/master/jjj-asap-sas-methods.pdf)
5th Place
Prize Winner
:
[Jonathan Peters](https://www.kaggle.com/users/8533/jontix)
of Preston, United Kingdom and
[Paweł Jankiewicz](https://www.kaggle.com/users/26782/pawe)
of Warsaw, Poland
[Released Code](https://github.com/pjankiewicz/asap-sas)
[Final Model Submission](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/AsHighAsHonorFnalModel.zip)
[Methodology Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/2959/media/MethodWriteupASAP.pdf)