## Rules

By participating in this competition, you agree to abide by the following rules and guidelines:

### 1. Team Participation

- You may participate individually or as part of a team.
- Each team can have up to **3 members**.
- Teams must be formed before the final submission deadline. Team merging is not allowed after the deadline.

### 2. Code and Models

- You are encouraged to build your own models and write your own code.
- Publicly available libraries and pre-trained models may be used, but your final solution must be **your own work**.
- Do not copy-paste solutions from public notebooks or external sources without proper adaptation and understanding.

### 3. Submission Limits

- You may make up to **5 submissions per day**.
- Only your **best score** on the **private leaderboard** will count toward the final ranking.

### 4. Dataset Use

- You may use only the provided `train.csv` and `test.csv` files for training and prediction.
- Use of external datasets is **not allowed**, unless explicitly stated in the competition description.

### 5. Private vs Public Leaderboard

- The **public leaderboard** is based on a portion of the test set.
- The **private leaderboard** is based on the remaining test data and will determine the final rankings.
- Overfitting to the public leaderboard may lead to poor private scores, so generalizable models are preferred.

### 6. Submission Format

- Your submission must be a CSV file with two columns: `id` and `label`.
- Any malformed or incorrect submission formats will result in a score of 0 for that submission.

### 7. Fair Play

- You must not attempt to reverse-engineer the test labels or manipulate the platform.
- Manual labeling of the test set is strictly prohibited.
- Sharing predictions or private results with other participants or teams is not allowed.

### 8. Respect and Conduct

- Be respectful to other participants and the organizing team.
- Any form of cheating, plagiarism, or bad faith activity may result in disqualification.