* **October 15, 2025** - Start Date. 
* **January 26, 2026** - Entry Deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete. 
* **January 26, 2026** - Team Merger Deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams. 
* **February 2, 2026** - Final Submission Deadline. 
* **June 1, 2026** - Final Evaluation Date. 

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary. 

Note that following the final submission deadline (February 1, 2026), there will be periodic updates to the leaderboard to reflect future data updates that will be evaluated against selected submissions. We anticipate 2-3 interim updates before the final evaluation. June 1, 2026 will be the competition end date and the final evaluation date.