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The final hours
Bell times in your city, how the finals are decided, what’s at stake and what to watch on Monday night.
Monday, 11:59 pm UTCthe final bell
Bell times in your city, how the finals are decided, what’s at stake and what to watch on Monday night.
Rules and dates from Kaggle’s contest pagesBoards read Sat 4:29 pm ET
That is the Final Submission Deadline for both contests. Kaggle’s overview pages say every deadline is at 11:59 PM UTC unless noted. Here is the bell around the world:
| UTC | Mon 11:59 pm (the official time) |
| New York | Mon 6:59 pm (UTC-5) |
| Los Angeles | Mon 3:59 pm (UTC-8) |
| London | Mon 11:59 pm (UTC+0) |
| Paris and Berlin | Tue 12:59 am (UTC+1) |
| Kolkata | Tue 5:29 am (UTC+5.5) |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Tue 6:59 am (UTC+7) |
| Tokyo | Tue 8:59 am (UTC+9) |
US clocks go back an hour on Sunday, November 1, so by Monday evening New York is on standard time, five hours behind UTC.
Each team can select up to two final submissions. If a team doesn’t pick, Kaggle picks for it.
The private leaderboard decides the final standings. The public board everyone watches is scored on a sample of the test data, so places can move when the private scores arrive.
The entry and team-merger deadlines passed on October 26. The teams on the board now are the teams that finish.
Kaggle lists the winners announcement for December 4.
ARC-2: eight progress prizes, from $75,000 for first down to $15,000 for eighth, a $275,000 Grand Prize for the best open-source solution writeup (the artifacts are due within seven days of the deadline), and a $150,000 bonus prize with its own conditions.
ARC-3: five final-leaderboard prizes, from $40,000 for first to $5,000 for fifth, and a $700,000 bonus that unlocks only if a team reaches 100% accuracy. Anyone eligible for a prize has to open-source their solution.
ARC-2: 3,567 teams, so gold would run to place 17, silver to 178 and bronze to 356; ARC-3: 5,011 teams, so gold would run to place 20, silver to 250 and bronze to 501. Medals follow Kaggle’s standard bands for the final team count and are decided on the private board, not today’s public one.
Does a run sent before the bell but scored after it count? Kaggle staff first said a run sent before the bell would keep scoring afterwards, then corrected that guidance on October 29. The safe plan, and ARC Prize’s advice too, is to plan for delays and have final runs finished well before the bell.
Which two submissions each top team chooses, and whether the choice holds up on the private board.
How far the private board moves the public order. CPMP says the swings will tell us how much the platform’s speed differences mattered.
Kaggle says any change to the timeline will be announced on the competition website. If that happens, a red bar goes up at the top of every page.
The paper’s editions land at 6 am and 6 pm Eastern, with news bulletins through the day. This page’s scoreboard re-reads the boards as they move, and if something big breaks, a red bar goes up across the top of every page. Back to the cover.