{
  "id": 54672,
  "title": "Medals",
  "url": "/competitions/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/54672",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-04-16T16:31:46.932695300Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi everyone,\nin stage 1, with around 3.500 teams competing, the 'medal area' in the leaderboard was quite large (with silver reaching beyond rank 100).\nNow, in stage 2, the number of teams has, of course, shrunk, and the 'medal area' with it. Wouldn't it be fairer to keep the extended one? After all it should be correlated to the number of teams for the whole competition, not just stage 2.\nHave a great day!!!\nAndrea</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "315014",
      "postDate": "04/16/2018 16:31:46",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone,\nin stage 1, with around 3.500 teams competing, the 'medal area' in the leaderboard was quite large (with silver reaching beyond rank 100).\nNow, in stage 2, the number of teams has, of course, shrunk, and the 'medal area' with it. Wouldn't it be fairer to keep the extended one? After all it should be correlated to the number of teams for the whole competition, not just stage 2.\nHave a great day!!!\nAndrea</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone,\nin stage 1, with around 3.500 teams competing, the 'medal area' in the leaderboard was quite large (with silver reaching beyond rank 100).\nNow, in stage 2, the number of teams has, of course, shrunk, and the 'medal area' with it. Wouldn't it be fairer to keep the extended one? After all it should be correlated to the number of teams for the whole competition, not just stage 2.\nHave a great day!!!\nAndrea",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "315068",
      "postDate": "04/16/2018 17:55:26",
      "content": "<p>From Kaggle two stage faq:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Will the number of participants change in the second stage? Will I get a medal? Will I get points?</p>\n  \n  <p>Yes, the number of participants will be smaller since some people\n  won't submit in the second stage. For the purposes of medals and\n  points calculations, we will use the number of participants in the\n  first stage to calculate points and medals.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From Kaggle two stage faq:\n\n&gt; Will the number of participants change in the second stage? Will I get a medal? Will I get points?\n&gt; \n&gt; Yes, the number of participants will be smaller since some people\n&gt; won't submit in the second stage. For the purposes of medals and\n&gt; points calculations, we will use the number of participants in the\n&gt; first stage to calculate points and medals.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "315079",
      "postDate": "04/16/2018 18:09:08",
      "content": "<p>Thanks Shai!!!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks Shai!!!",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 315068,
      "author_name": "sgalib",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2018 17:55:26",
      "content": "<p>From Kaggle two stage faq:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Will the number of participants change in the second stage? Will I get a medal? Will I get points?</p>\n  \n  <p>Yes, the number of participants will be smaller since some people\n  won't submit in the second stage. For the purposes of medals and\n  points calculations, we will use the number of participants in the\n  first stage to calculate points and medals.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 315079,
      "author_name": "andrearapuzzi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2018 18:09:08",
      "content": "<p>Thanks Shai!!!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "315014": "Hi everyone,\nin stage 1, with around 3.500 teams competing, the 'medal area' in the leaderboard was quite large (with silver reaching beyond rank 100).\nNow, in stage 2, the number of teams has, of course, shrunk, and the 'medal area' with it. Wouldn't it be fairer to keep the extended one? After all it should be correlated to the number of teams for the whole competition, not just stage 2.\nHave a great day!!!\nAndrea",
    "315068": "From Kaggle two stage faq:\n\n&gt; Will the number of participants change in the second stage? Will I get a medal? Will I get points?\n&gt; \n&gt; Yes, the number of participants will be smaller since some people\n&gt; won't submit in the second stage. For the purposes of medals and\n&gt; points calculations, we will use the number of participants in the\n&gt; first stage to calculate points and medals.",
    "315079": "Thanks Shai!!!"
  },
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}