ARC-AGI-2 · Late edition · October 27, 2026

mtg closes on ARC2 gold as Tufa Labs holds the lead

A late rise to seventeenth leaves mtg just short of the gold score; the leading five entries hold their ground.

AI editorial illustration: mtg’s cyan bridge machine stops just short of a golden threshold while Tufa’s spiders hold a higher stronghold. — AI-generated editorial illustration. Score panel: Oct 27, 2026 · 5:46 PM EDT; provisional public standings. Characters and props are metaphors.

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Published October 27, 2026. Board date October 27, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

One place short of the gold places

mtg rises from twenty-second to seventeenth against the previous evening comparison, adding 3.48 points to reach 69.31. The provisional gold score is 69.44: the gap is less than a fifth of a point. It is a consequential late advance in the medal chase, even though it leaves mtg outside the gold places at this cutoff.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history

Tufa holds the summit

Tufa Labs remains first on 88.06, followed by Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model on 84.72 and Domdolus Tolus on 82.08. nvbanana holds fourth on 81.39 and rabbithole fifth on 80.83. None of these five has a score gain in the edition’s comparison. Chen’s separate ARC3 lead does not change this contest’s order.

Public professional account profile · ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history

Pressure spreads below the leaders

Enes Kulak adds 2.78 points to reach nineteenth on 68.89; ARC Raiders falls from eighteenth to twentieth with its score unchanged at 68.75. Yanming (Owen) Dong gains nearly ten points to reach 61.53 and thirty-first, while Nguyen reaches thirtieth on 61.94. The latter is team 16600664, a separate entry from the Thanh Hau Nguyen roster account named in the desk’s outstanding research assignment. Scores establish progress, not the methods behind it. The closing snapshot also records megsub jumping from 41.25 to 56.25 and from 67th to 39th in that individual score event; that event is not a separately established full-day comparison.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · Nguyen reaches 30th on ARC-2

Read the wire windows carefully

The morning wire recorded kibuna reaching twentieth on 67.22. Its Kaz report described a rise from 169th to 73rd over that report’s rolling window; the edition comparison instead has Kaz moving from 79th to 73rd, adding 2.64 to reach the same 40.14. The afternoon wire recorded poge0593 moving from 1,531st to 89th on 36.94. Those reports document the broader field’s movement without turning an earlier observation into a fresh evening gain.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · kibuna climbs to 20th on ARC-2 · Kaz surges from 169th to 73rd on ARC-2 · poge0593 surges from 1,531st to 89th on ARC-2

Final selections still need attention

In the public discussion saved by the desk on October 27, Kaggle staff María Cruz says runs submitted before the November 2 deadline can continue scoring afterward, but a pending run must be selected among the two final submissions before that deadline. The same saved discussion says the grand-prize criterion uses the private board. This is dated staff guidance, not a fresh announcement or a promise based on today’s public scores. Social and discussion research was not refreshed for this edition. All public medal positions remain provisional.

Darren Amadeus Martin — Question on Grand Prize and Private Leaderboard · ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Tufa Labs	1	88.06	Unchanged	0
Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model	2	84.72	Unchanged	0
Domdolus Tolus	3	82.08	Unchanged	0
nvbanana	4	81.39	Unchanged	0
rabbithole	5	80.83	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	6	76.81	Unchanged	0
ALbert RUehlman	7	75.56	Unchanged	0
Dawid Kopiczko	8	75.14	Unchanged	0
Ravi Teja Chilakala	9	74.17	Unchanged	0
ｶﾎｳｼｭｳｾｲ	10	73.47	Unchanged	0
mtg	17	69.31	Up 5	+3.48
ảc	18	69.17	Down 1	0
Enes Kulak	19	68.89	Up 2	+2.78
ARC Raiders	20	68.75	Down 2	0
S & M & N & S & Y	23	67.08	Up 1	+1.52
Nguyen	30	61.94	Up 4	+3.75
Yanming (Owen) Dong	31	61.53	Up 15	+9.86
nvnn	40	55.97	Down 1	+0.97
Arshjot Khehra	47	52.5	Down 2	0
ARC Mutants	66	41.81	Down 2	0
Tatu Helander	68	41.25	Up 9	+3.61
Kaz	73	40.14	Up 6	+2.64
thisray	80	37.78	Up 10	+1.39
Thi Vĩnh Huy	124	34.03	Up 109	+1.67
Mithil A Vakde	127	33.89	Down 4	0
Jan Disselhoff	2242	21.67	Not available	Not available

Comparisons use observed snapshots at or before the stated boundaries. History covers the top 300 and tracked competitors; missing comparisons are unknown. Score-event entries are context, not net daily gains. Unfamiliar names are not necessarily new entrants.

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