Prizes will be awarded based on leaderboard performance on the final evaluation set as follows
1st Prize
$100,000
2nd Prize
$50,000
3rd Prize
$40,000
4th Prize
$30,000
Milestone Prize
$30,000
Total Prize Pool
$250,000
The Milestone Prize will be awarded based on the private leaderboard standings on 11:59:59 p.m. UTC September 25, 2013. To claim the prize, the winner will publish the ideas (not code), methodology, and documentation for their agent on the competition forum within one week of the Prize announcement. The winner of the Milestone Prize will be announced on October 9, 2013 at the GE Minds and Machines conference.
Eligibility for all prizes is determined by the private leaderboard standings and compliance with the Rules. To claim a prize, Entrants must provide the final model (agent) code, documentation, and also complete, sign and return a Declaration of Eligibility and an Intellectual Property Assignment of Rights, as described in the
[Rules](../../flight2-main/details/rules)
.
Once your Entry has been verified by Kaggle as a potential winning Entry, GE shall have the right to have that Entry and the underlying code scanned and/or reviewed by Black Duck Software Inc., 8 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803 or a third party of GE’s choosing to determine whether the Entry and underlying code are consistent with these Competition Rules. If the results of the scan show that the Entry contains intellectual property risk and/or security vulnerability issues that need to be remediated, GE may at its discretion take either of the following actions: i. disqualify your Entry; or ii. require that you remediate within one (1) week all issues discovered in your Entry (including, without limitation, the resolution of license conflicts, the fulfillment of all obligations required by software licenses, and the removal of any software that violates the software restrictions.)