## ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES. See Section 3.18 for defined terms The Competition named below is a skills-based competition to promote and further the field of data science. You must register via the Competition Website to enter. To enter the Competition, you must agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules herein (collectively, the "Rules"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that Submission in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition. Your competition Submissions must conform to the requirements stated on the Competition Website. Your Submissions will be scored based on the evaluation metric described on the Competition Website. Subject to compliance with the Competition Rules, Prizes, if any, will be awarded to Participants with the best scores, based on the merits of the data science models submitted. See below for the complete Competition Rules. You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot enter or submit from multiple accounts. ### 1. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC TERMS #### 1. COMPETITION TITLE Geology Forecast Challenge #### 2. COMPETITION SPONSOR NORCE Norwegian Research Centre #### 3. COMPETITION SPONSOR ADDRESSES **Compatiotion organiser is NORCE:** https://www.norceresearch.no/ **Monetary prizes are sponsored by ROGII Inc.:** https://www.rogii.com/ #### 4. COMPETITION WEBSITE https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/geology-forecast-challenge-open #### 5. TOTAL PRIZES AVAILABLE: $1000 provided externally (see details) The top scoring participants would be offered to co-author a journal publication describing the challenge and the effective methodologies. **Monetary prizes are sponsored by ROGII Inc.** NORCE will **not** deliver the prizes. The organisers will recommend the top 3 participating teams for the prizes from ROGII Inc. who has allocated a fund of 1000$. The top 3 will be solely determined based on the described competition metric and eligibility criteria. The prizes will be delivered as digital gift cards from ROGII Inc or equivalent upon agreement. * 1st place: $500 Gift Card or equivalent * 2nd place: $270 Gift Card or equivalent * 3rd place: $230 Gift Card or equivalent #### 6. WINNER LICENSE TYPE BSD 2-Clause #### 7. DATA ACCESS AND USE Following CC BY 4.0 License ### 2. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC RULES In addition to the provisions of the General Competition Rules below, you understand and agree to these Competition-Specific Rules required by the Competition Sponsor: To claim a prize (see 1.5), submissions must include: * An Eval submission CSV file, with the prediction results over the Evaluation Dataset. * A GitHub or FAIR repository link to your **implementation and trained model** with **README explanation** of how to reproduce the results. If you want to keep your repository private to protect against competition state when it will become available. It needs to be available latest 5 days after the competition finishes. * Participants will be disqualified if one or more of the above items are not included or the link is not accessible during evaluation. Use of external datasets or pre-trained models is permitted but must be disclosed in the README. Users can leverage any architecture or model they want Submissions must include the required files (eval cvs file and model link) or be disqualified. The top three positions on the leaderboard may be subject to audit by the challenge organizers. You will receive more information about the process if you are among the top three. **Disclaimer:** Participants acknowledge that they shall have no right to claim compensation or seek any form of remuneration from Competition Sponsor concerning any prize money or monetary awards (see 1.5). Additionally, participants waive any right to bring any claims or actions against Competition Sponsor for damages or any other form of compensation in relation to prize payments. #### 1. TEAM LIMITS a. The maximum Team size is three (3). b. Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the Team leader. In order to merge, the combined Team must have a total Submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the Team Merger Deadline. The maximum allowed is the number of Submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running. #### 2. SUBMISSION LIMITS a. You may submit a maximum of five (10) Submissions per day. b. You may select up to two (2) Final Submissions for judging. #### 3. COMPETITION TIMELINE a. Competition Timeline dates (including Entry Deadline, Final Submission Deadline, Start Date, and Team Merger Deadline, as applicable) are reflected on the competition’s Overview > Timeline page. #### 4. COMPETITION DATA a. Data Access and Use. See 1.7. b. Data Security. You agree to use reasonable and suitable measures to prevent persons who have not formally agreed to these Rules from gaining access to the Competition Data. You agree not to transmit, duplicate, publish, redistribute, or otherwise provide or make available the Competition Data to any party not participating in the Competition. You agree to notify Kaggle immediately upon learning of any possible unauthorized transmission of or unauthorized access to the Competition Data and agree to work with Kaggle to rectify any unauthorized transmission or access. #### 5. WINNER LICENSE a. Under Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations) of the General Rules below, you hereby grant and will grant the Competition Sponsor the following license(s) with respect to your Submission if you are a Competition winner: *Open Source: You hereby license and will license your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see www.opensource.org) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. For generally commercially available software that you used to generate your Submission that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not need to grant the license in the preceding Section for that software. b. You may be required by the Sponsor to provide a detailed description of how the winning Submission was generated, to the Competition Sponsor’s specifications, as outlined in Section 2.8, Winner’s Obligations. This may include a detailed description of methodology, where one must be able to reproduce the approach by reading the description, and includes a detailed explanation of the architecture, preprocessing, loss function, training details, hyper-parameters, etc. The description should also include a link to a code repository with complete and detailed instructions so that the results obtained can be reproduced. #### 6. EXTERNAL DATA AND TOOLS a. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is either publicly available and equally accessible to use by all Participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other Participants, or satisfies the Reasonableness criteria as outlined in Section 2.6.b below. The ability to use External Data under this Section does not limit your other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations). b. The use of external data and models is acceptable unless specifically prohibited by the Host. Because of the potential costs or restrictions (e.g., “geo restrictions”) associated with obtaining rights to use external data or certain software and associated tools, their use must be “reasonably accessible to all” and of “minimal cost”. c. Automated Machine Learning Tools (“AMLT”) Individual Participants and Teams may use automated machine learning tool(s) (“AMLT”) (e.g., Google toML, H2O Driverless AI, etc.) to create a Submission, provided that the Participant or Team ensures that they have an appropriate license to the AMLT such that they are able to comply with the Competition Rules. #### 7. ELIGIBILITY a. Unless otherwise stated in the Competition-Specific Rules above or prohibited by internal policies of the Competition Entities, employees, interns, contractors, officers and directors of Competition Entities may enter and participate in the Competition, but are not eligible to win any Prizes. "Competition Entities" means the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. If you are such a Participant from a Competition Entity, you are subject to all applicable internal policies of your employer with respect to your participation. b. The winner's region should be supported by the prize delivery method specified in 1.5. #### 8. WINNER’S OBLIGATIONS a. As a condition to being awarded a Prize, a Prize winner must fulfill the following obligations: Deliver to the Competition Sponsor the final model's software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation. The delivered software code: * should be posted online with the Open-Source license, * must be capable of generating the winning Submission (make sure the random seeds are fixed and reproducible), and * contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully. * for avoidance of doubt, delivered software code should include training code, inference code, and a description of the required computational environment. b. To the extent that the final model’s software code includes generally commercially available software that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, then instead of delivering the code for that software to the Competition Sponsor, you must identify that software, method for procuring it, and any parameters or other information necessary to replicate the winning Submission; Individual Participants and Teams who create a Submission using an AMLT may win a Prize. However, for clarity, the potential winner’s Submission must still meet the requirements of these Rules, including but not limited to Section 2.5 (Winners License), Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations), and Section 3.14 (Warranty, Indemnity, and Release).” c. Individual Participants and Teams who create a Submission using an AMLT may win a Prize. However, for clarity, the potential winner’s Submission must still meet the requirements of these Rules, * Grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license; * Sign and return all Prize acceptance documents as may be required by Competition Sponsor or Rogii Inc. (prize sponsor) or Kaggle, including without limitation: (a) eligibility certifications; (b) licenses, releases and other agreements required under the Rules; and (c) relevant tax forms depending on the region. #### 9. GOVERNING LAW a. Unless otherwise provided in the Competition Specific Rules above, all claims arising out of or relating to these Rules will be governed by Norwegian law, excluding its conflict of laws rules, and will be litigated exclusively in the court of Bergen, Norway. The parties consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. If any provision of these Rules is held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions of the Rules will remain in full force and effect.