The competition ended 17 days ago, and we are still waiting for the winners to be announced. If there are any issues or delays, I think 17 days is not normal.
", "messages": [ { "id": 3267620, "postDate": "2025-08-11T15:07:36.070Z", "content": "After reading this post, Kaggle Community competitions have been a truly disappointing experience for me.
\nI recently won a $3K Kaglle community competition, but the host kept delaying payment and still hasn’t transferred the prize money, even though it’s been three months since the competition ended. This has made me lose trust in joining future Kaggle’s Community competitions.
\nOne more example, about two months ago, I entered another Community competition with a decent prize pool. Several Kagglers raised concerns about the host and the organization in the discussion forum, and the details indeed seemed suspicious. Just a few days later (about 3–5 days after it launched), the host deleted the competition altogether.
\nI think Kaggle should consider stricter requirements for Community competition hosts, such as verifying their identity, confirming prize fund availability in advance, and enforcing clear payout deadlines to protect participants and maintain trust in the platform.
\nBy the way, hi @inversion @addisonhoward
\nI understand that Community competitions are Competitions created by other Kagglers using our no-cost, self-service platform. However, I’d like to ask if Kaggle could take any action regarding a Community competition prize that still hasn’t been paid.
Hi there,
\nThe Kaggle team is not involved in Community Competition hosting or prize fulfillment. Before creating a Community Competition, a host agrees to the following (via UI), among others:
\n\n\nI understand it is my sole responsibility to ensure that the Competition-specific rules, participant eligibility, and prize fulfillment, comply with applicable law including but not limited to denied party and country regulations, embargoes, trade controls, anti-corruption laws, anti-discrimination laws, tax laws, data privacy laws, and all other applicable laws.
\nI understand participants in this competition have a direct relationship between Host and Participant. Kaggle has no liability for any actions or content of a Host or Participant.
\nI understand that I, not Kaggle, am solely responsible for providing and distributing all prizes, fulfilling all promises and commitments I make, including the full amount of the prizes committed at competition launch, and for complying with all applicable tax rules related to competition winners. (Max prize allowed: $10,000 per competition). I am solely responsible for facilitating delivery of all prizes to the winner, including tax matters and all data privacy considerations and regulations related to receiving taxpayer information or otherwise associated with my receipt of information from the winner.
\n
In limited situations, Kaggle may choose to require the host to sign a separate contract and permit more than $10,000 in prizes, similar to this competition, which strengthens the obligation to pay by the hosts as a contractual agreement with Google/Kaggle.
\nIn addition to the Competition rules, Community Competition participants agree to the following prior to joining:
\n\n\nI understand joining this Competition creates a direct relationship between the Host and me. Kaggle has no liability for any promised prizes, commitments, content, or actions of a Host or Participant.
\n
Community Competitions don't have all the same features as Featured Competitions (those prepared by Kaggle), including limited methods of contacting users, and no Kaggle team oversight/guidance when creating the competition (e.g. Kaggle team doesn't help review/prepare the dataset, guidance on evaluation metric, etc). While 17 days is longer than one might expect for results, that isn't out of the ordinary in our opinion. Even for Featured Kaggle Competitions, we typically ask that winners upload their winning materials and documentation within 2 weeks of the competition closing, and then we ask the hosts to validate those solutions within the next two weeks.
\nFor every few competitions Kaggle hosts on the Featured side, there are nearly 1,000 (as of now) Community Competitions each month. We're continuing to look into ways to improve the Community Competition offerings while also allowing for as many people as possible to host competitions for their audiences in the ways that most make sense for them. Thanks for raising! These anecdotes are important to us as we consider what changes may be helpful moving forward.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi there,\n\nThe Kaggle team is not involved in Community Competition hosting or prize fulfillment. Before creating a Community Competition, a host agrees to the following (via UI), among others:\n\n>I understand it is my sole responsibility to ensure that the Competition-specific rules, participant eligibility, and prize fulfillment, comply with applicable law including but not limited to denied party and country regulations, embargoes, trade controls, anti-corruption laws, anti-discrimination laws, tax laws, data privacy laws, and all other applicable laws.\n\n>I understand participants in this competition have a direct relationship between Host and Participant. Kaggle has no liability for any actions or content of a Host or Participant.\n\n>I understand that I, not Kaggle, am solely responsible for providing and distributing all prizes, fulfilling all promises and commitments I make, including the full amount of the prizes committed at competition launch, and for complying with all applicable tax rules related to competition winners. (Max prize allowed: $10,000 per competition). I am solely responsible for facilitating delivery of all prizes to the winner, including tax matters and all data privacy considerations and regulations related to receiving taxpayer information or otherwise associated with my receipt of information from the winner.\n\nIn limited situations, Kaggle may choose to require the host to sign a separate contract and permit more than $10,000 in prizes, similar to this competition, which strengthens the obligation to pay by the hosts as a contractual agreement with Google/Kaggle.\n\nIn addition to the Competition rules, Community Competition participants agree to the following prior to joining:\n>I understand joining this Competition creates a direct relationship between the Host and me. Kaggle has no liability for any promised prizes, commitments, content, or actions of a Host or Participant.\n\nCommunity Competitions don't have all the same features as Featured Competitions (those prepared by Kaggle), including limited methods of contacting users, and no Kaggle team oversight/guidance when creating the competition (e.g. Kaggle team doesn't help review/prepare the dataset, guidance on evaluation metric, etc). While 17 days is longer than one might expect for results, that isn't out of the ordinary in our opinion. Even for Featured Kaggle Competitions, we typically ask that winners upload their winning materials and documentation within 2 weeks of the competition closing, and then we ask the hosts to validate those solutions within the next two weeks.\n\nFor every few competitions Kaggle hosts on the Featured side, there are nearly 1,000 (as of now) Community Competitions each month. We're continuing to look into ways to improve the Community Competition offerings while also allowing for as many people as possible to host competitions for their audiences in the ways that most make sense for them. Thanks for raising! These anecdotes are important to us as we consider what changes may be helpful moving forward.\n", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 3267638, "postDate": "2025-08-11T15:36:55.287Z", "content": "Thanks @addisonhoward for the clarification. I understand prize fulfillment is solely the host’s responsibility, and I appreciate you considering my feedback for future improvements.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @addisonhoward for the clarification. I understand prize fulfillment is solely the host’s responsibility, and I appreciate you considering my feedback for future improvements." }, { "id": 3267640, "postDate": "2025-08-11T15:42:26.910Z", "content": "As we had DRW sign an additional contract for this specific competition, we'd step in should we feel the payments were not made in a reasonable, timely manner, but the current schedule isn't beyond reason in our eyes.
", "rawMarkdown": "As we had DRW sign an additional contract for this specific competition, we'd step in should we feel the payments were not made in a reasonable, timely manner, but the current schedule isn't beyond reason in our eyes. ", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 3288608, "postDate": "2025-09-14T12:24:07.563Z", "content": "@ducnh279
\nFinally, you are absolutely right — all hosted competitions are a scam, and I will never join them again.
\nIt has been more than two months, and they still haven’t announced the winners. They removed my submission (which was in 2nd place) and gave me reasons that don’t even apply to the notebook they removed. I kept quiet, waiting for the winners to be announced — but that never happened. Just one big scam.
@drwtrading Hi, what's happened with my position in leaderboard??? I’ve sent the solution and you didn’t ask anything
", "rawMarkdown": "@drwtrading Hi, what's happened with my position in leaderboard??? I’ve sent the solution and you didn’t ask anything", "replies": [ { "id": 3268566, "postDate": "2025-08-13T06:21:10.290Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true, "replies": [ { "id": 3268572, "postDate": "2025-08-13T06:33:34.550Z", "content": "Actually, winning submission is the same as 5th place @chiragmc https://www.kaggle.com/code/chiragmc/drw-crypto-market-prediction-chiragmc because we both copied public notebook from @arunrajarao . The only difference that I used 0.3 configuration while he used 0.32
\nWith some ablation study my simplified approach is https://www.kaggle.com/code/gleb270/drw-crypto-prediction
", "rawMarkdown": "Actually, winning submission is the same as 5th place @chiragmc https://www.kaggle.com/code/chiragmc/drw-crypto-market-prediction-chiragmc because we both copied public notebook from @arunrajarao . The only difference that I used 0.3 configuration while he used 0.32 \n\nWith some ablation study my simplified approach is https://www.kaggle.com/code/gleb270/drw-crypto-prediction", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 3268575, "postDate": "2025-08-13T06:41:02.023Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ] } ] }, { "id": 3267410, "postDate": "2025-08-11T06:28:53.627Z", "content": "Top teams were asked to provide solution \"by 00:00 on August 9, 2025 (CST)\", so only 2 [non-working] days have been passed🤷♂️
", "rawMarkdown": "Top teams were asked to provide solution \"by 00:00 on August 9, 2025 (CST)\", so only 2 [non-working] days have been passed🤷♂️ ", "replies": [ { "id": 3267521, "postDate": "2025-08-11T11:59:15.180Z", "content": "That time was the deadline for submitting the code — meaning it should have been sent before that time.
\nDid they reply to you when you sent your code? Also, when exactly did you send it?
I sent on July 31. No, they haven't responded yet.
", "rawMarkdown": "I sent on July 31. No, they haven't responded yet.", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 3267747, "postDate": "2025-08-11T19:37:59.020Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ] }, { "id": 3267305, "postDate": "2025-08-10T21:52:59.237Z", "content": "The competition ended 17 days ago, and we are still waiting for the winners to be announced. If there are any issues or delays, I think 17 days is not normal.
", "rawMarkdown": "The competition ended 17 days ago, and we are still waiting for the winners to be announced. If there are any issues or delays, I think 17 days is not normal." } ], "comments": [ { "id": 3267620, "author_name": "ducnh279", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T15:07:36.070000", "content": "After reading this post, Kaggle Community competitions have been a truly disappointing experience for me.
\nI recently won a $3K Kaglle community competition, but the host kept delaying payment and still hasn’t transferred the prize money, even though it’s been three months since the competition ended. This has made me lose trust in joining future Kaggle’s Community competitions.
\nOne more example, about two months ago, I entered another Community competition with a decent prize pool. Several Kagglers raised concerns about the host and the organization in the discussion forum, and the details indeed seemed suspicious. Just a few days later (about 3–5 days after it launched), the host deleted the competition altogether.
\nI think Kaggle should consider stricter requirements for Community competition hosts, such as verifying their identity, confirming prize fund availability in advance, and enforcing clear payout deadlines to protect participants and maintain trust in the platform.
\nBy the way, hi @inversion @addisonhoward
\nI understand that Community competitions are Competitions created by other Kagglers using our no-cost, self-service platform. However, I’d like to ask if Kaggle could take any action regarding a Community competition prize that still hasn’t been paid.
Hi there,
\nThe Kaggle team is not involved in Community Competition hosting or prize fulfillment. Before creating a Community Competition, a host agrees to the following (via UI), among others:
\n\n\nI understand it is my sole responsibility to ensure that the Competition-specific rules, participant eligibility, and prize fulfillment, comply with applicable law including but not limited to denied party and country regulations, embargoes, trade controls, anti-corruption laws, anti-discrimination laws, tax laws, data privacy laws, and all other applicable laws.
\nI understand participants in this competition have a direct relationship between Host and Participant. Kaggle has no liability for any actions or content of a Host or Participant.
\nI understand that I, not Kaggle, am solely responsible for providing and distributing all prizes, fulfilling all promises and commitments I make, including the full amount of the prizes committed at competition launch, and for complying with all applicable tax rules related to competition winners. (Max prize allowed: $10,000 per competition). I am solely responsible for facilitating delivery of all prizes to the winner, including tax matters and all data privacy considerations and regulations related to receiving taxpayer information or otherwise associated with my receipt of information from the winner.
\n
In limited situations, Kaggle may choose to require the host to sign a separate contract and permit more than $10,000 in prizes, similar to this competition, which strengthens the obligation to pay by the hosts as a contractual agreement with Google/Kaggle.
\nIn addition to the Competition rules, Community Competition participants agree to the following prior to joining:
\n\n\nI understand joining this Competition creates a direct relationship between the Host and me. Kaggle has no liability for any promised prizes, commitments, content, or actions of a Host or Participant.
\n
Community Competitions don't have all the same features as Featured Competitions (those prepared by Kaggle), including limited methods of contacting users, and no Kaggle team oversight/guidance when creating the competition (e.g. Kaggle team doesn't help review/prepare the dataset, guidance on evaluation metric, etc). While 17 days is longer than one might expect for results, that isn't out of the ordinary in our opinion. Even for Featured Kaggle Competitions, we typically ask that winners upload their winning materials and documentation within 2 weeks of the competition closing, and then we ask the hosts to validate those solutions within the next two weeks.
\nFor every few competitions Kaggle hosts on the Featured side, there are nearly 1,000 (as of now) Community Competitions each month. We're continuing to look into ways to improve the Community Competition offerings while also allowing for as many people as possible to host competitions for their audiences in the ways that most make sense for them. Thanks for raising! These anecdotes are important to us as we consider what changes may be helpful moving forward.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 3267638, "author_name": "ducnh279", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T15:36:55.287000", "content": "Thanks @addisonhoward for the clarification. I understand prize fulfillment is solely the host’s responsibility, and I appreciate you considering my feedback for future improvements.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 3267640, "author_name": "Addison Howard", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T15:42:26.910000", "content": "As we had DRW sign an additional contract for this specific competition, we'd step in should we feel the payments were not made in a reasonable, timely manner, but the current schedule isn't beyond reason in our eyes.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 3288608, "author_name": "EL Younes", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-09-14T12:24:07.563000", "content": "@ducnh279
\nFinally, you are absolutely right — all hosted competitions are a scam, and I will never join them again.
\nIt has been more than two months, and they still haven’t announced the winners. They removed my submission (which was in 2nd place) and gave me reasons that don’t even apply to the notebook they removed. I kept quiet, waiting for the winners to be announced — but that never happened. Just one big scam.
@drwtrading Hi, what's happened with my position in leaderboard??? I’ve sent the solution and you didn’t ask anything
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 3268566, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-13T06:21:10.290000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 3268572, "author_name": "Gleb Shanshin", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-13T06:33:34.550000", "content": "Actually, winning submission is the same as 5th place @chiragmc https://www.kaggle.com/code/chiragmc/drw-crypto-market-prediction-chiragmc because we both copied public notebook from @arunrajarao . The only difference that I used 0.3 configuration while he used 0.32
\nWith some ablation study my simplified approach is https://www.kaggle.com/code/gleb270/drw-crypto-prediction
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 3268575, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-13T06:41:02.023000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] } ] }, { "id": 3267410, "author_name": "Gleb Shanshin", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T06:28:53.627000", "content": "Top teams were asked to provide solution \"by 00:00 on August 9, 2025 (CST)\", so only 2 [non-working] days have been passed🤷♂️
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 3267521, "author_name": "EL Younes", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T11:59:15.180000", "content": "That time was the deadline for submitting the code — meaning it should have been sent before that time.
\nDid they reply to you when you sent your code? Also, when exactly did you send it?
I sent on July 31. No, they haven't responded yet.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 3267747, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2025-08-11T19:37:59.020000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "3267620": "After reading this post, Kaggle Community competitions have been a truly disappointing experience for me.\n\nI recently won a $3K Kaglle community competition, but the host kept delaying payment and still hasn’t transferred the prize money, even though it’s been three months since the competition ended. This has made me lose trust in joining future Kaggle’s Community competitions.\n\nOne more example, about two months ago, I entered another Community competition with a decent prize pool. Several Kagglers raised concerns about the host and the organization in the discussion forum, and the details indeed seemed suspicious. Just a few days later (about 3–5 days after it launched), the host deleted the competition altogether.\n\nI think Kaggle should consider stricter requirements for Community competition hosts, such as verifying their identity, confirming prize fund availability in advance, and enforcing clear payout deadlines to protect participants and maintain trust in the platform.\n\nBy the way, hi @inversion @addisonhoward \nI understand that Community competitions are `Competitions created by other Kagglers using our no-cost, self-service platform.` However, I’d like to ask if Kaggle could take any action regarding a Community competition prize that still hasn’t been paid.", "3268507": "@drwtrading Hi, what's happened with my position in leaderboard??? I’ve sent the solution and you didn’t ask anything", "3267410": "Top teams were asked to provide solution \"by 00:00 on August 9, 2025 (CST)\", so only 2 [non-working] days have been passed🤷♂️ ", "3267305": "The competition ended 17 days ago, and we are still waiting for the winners to be announced. If there are any issues or delays, I think 17 days is not normal." } }