ARC-AGI-2 · Early edition · October 28, 2026

Kaz breaks into ARC-2’s top 50 as the leaders hold

A rise of 24 places supplies the overnight breakthrough; the provisional gold cutoff stays at 69.72.

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Published October 28, 2026. Board date October 28, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

A new top-50 foothold

Kaz climbed from 74th to 50th overnight, adding 11.53 points to reach 51.67. That advance takes the entry into the top 50 while the leading ten hold their scores and positions. The gain shows how much movement remains possible below a settled leading group.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history

The gold line holds

Tufa Labs leads at 88.06, followed by Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model at 84.72 and Domdolus Tolus at 82.08. この遥かなる旅路に祝福を, whose observed roster includes Keith Tyser, holds 16th at 69.72. The wire’s earlier report of its move into the final gold place predates the overnight comparison: the cutoff has held since that baseline. Public medal positions remain provisional.

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Earlier moves, different windows

The evening and overnight wire also reported megsub reaching 39th, mtg advancing to 18th and redblackbst entering the top 100. Those reports use their own rolling windows; they are not fresh overnight gains in this edition. Kaz supplies the new closing-board story.

megsub adds 15 points to reach 39th on ARC-2 · mtg advances to 18th as ARC-2 gold cutoff reaches 69.72 · redblackbst jumps from 1,553rd to 81st on ARC-2

What the archive can establish

The saved October 27 discussion review records Kaggle staff saying that pre-deadline runs can finish scoring afterward, but a pending run must be selected among the two final submissions before the deadline. Social and discussion research was not refreshed for this edition. The entrants-methods follow-up remains open: the saved archive does not establish the methods behind Thanh Hau Nguyen’s or Arshjot Khehra’s results. No shared recipe can be inferred from their scores.

Darren Amadeus Martin — Question on Grand Prize and Private Leaderboard

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
Ravi Teja Chilakala	6	76.94	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	7	76.81	Unchanged	0
ALbert RUehlman	8	75.56	Unchanged	0
Dawid Kopiczko	9	75.14	Unchanged	0
ｶﾎｳｼｭｳｾｲ	10	73.47	Unchanged	0
この遥かなる旅路に祝福を	16	69.72	Unchanged	0
ảc	19	69.17	Unchanged	0
Arshjot Khehra	48	52.5	Down 1	0
Kaz	50	51.67	Up 24	+11.53
ARC Mutants	68	41.81	Down 1	0
tf	106	35.97	Down 1	+0.41
Mithil A Vakde	130	33.89	Down 2	0
Jan Disselhoff	2261	21.67	Down 16	0

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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