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  "id": 511481,
  "title": "Recap of Competition - Congratulations to the Winners!",
  "url": "/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024/discussion/511481",
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  "post_date": "2024-06-10T22:13:20.380473600Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi Kagglers,</p>\n<p>We’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!</p>\n<p>This competition ended with 5939 registrations and 1157 participants on 927 teams. We had 17619 submissions from 68 countries. For 263 users (including 50 in the top 100!), this was their first competition. Thank you all for your hard work in this competition and congratulations to our winners and to those who gained a new ranking!  </p>\n<p>The top potential winning teams will be contacted via email for the next steps. We look forward to learning more about their winning solutions.</p>\n<p>We've cleaned the leaderboard and disqualified some teams that have violated the rules. If you think you were removed by mistake, or believe you have evidence that suggests another team cheated, please contact <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/compliance\" target=\"_blank\">compliance</a>. Please fill in all the fields honestly.</p>\n<p>We highly encourage you to post a solution write-up about your approach and solution in the forums (see <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153\" target=\"_blank\">instructions</a>). You may also refer to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation\" target=\"_blank\">Kaggle Solution Write-Up Documentation</a> for guidance. You are  also encouraged to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/docs/models#publishing-a-model\" target=\"_blank\">publish your models on Kaggle Models</a>!</p>\n<p>Thanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!</p>\n<p>Happy Modeling!<br>\nKaggle Team</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/10/2024 22:13:20",
      "content": "<p>Hi Kagglers,</p>\n<p>We’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!</p>\n<p>This competition ended with 5939 registrations and 1157 participants on 927 teams. We had 17619 submissions from 68 countries. For 263 users (including 50 in the top 100!), this was their first competition. Thank you all for your hard work in this competition and congratulations to our winners and to those who gained a new ranking!  </p>\n<p>The top potential winning teams will be contacted via email for the next steps. We look forward to learning more about their winning solutions.</p>\n<p>We've cleaned the leaderboard and disqualified some teams that have violated the rules. If you think you were removed by mistake, or believe you have evidence that suggests another team cheated, please contact <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/compliance\" target=\"_blank\">compliance</a>. Please fill in all the fields honestly.</p>\n<p>We highly encourage you to post a solution write-up about your approach and solution in the forums (see <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153\" target=\"_blank\">instructions</a>). You may also refer to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation\" target=\"_blank\">Kaggle Solution Write-Up Documentation</a> for guidance. You are  also encouraged to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/docs/models#publishing-a-model\" target=\"_blank\">publish your models on Kaggle Models</a>!</p>\n<p>Thanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!</p>\n<p>Happy Modeling!<br>\nKaggle Team</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Kagglers,\n\nWe’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!\n\nThis competition ended with 5939 registrations and 1157 participants on 927 teams. We had 17619 submissions from 68 countries. For 263 users (including 50 in the top 100!), this was their first competition. Thank you all for your hard work in this competition and congratulations to our winners and to those who gained a new ranking!  \n\nThe top potential winning teams will be contacted via email for the next steps. We look forward to learning more about their winning solutions.\n\nWe've cleaned the leaderboard and disqualified some teams that have violated the rules. If you think you were removed by mistake, or believe you have evidence that suggests another team cheated, please contact [compliance](https://www.kaggle.com/compliance). Please fill in all the fields honestly.\n\nWe highly encourage you to post a solution write-up about your approach and solution in the forums (see [instructions](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153)). You may also refer to [Kaggle Solution Write-Up Documentation](https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation) for guidance. You are  also encouraged to [publish your models on Kaggle Models](https://www.kaggle.com/docs/models#publishing-a-model)!\n\nThanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!\n\nHappy Modeling!\nKaggle Team",
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      "id": "2865667",
      "postDate": "06/10/2024 22:32:45",
      "content": "<p>Will you release and extra highlight the top 5 prize winners and their solution, when the license control is done? In past IMC the leaderboard doesn’t always reflect the true prize leaderboard, so it would be great with a separated announcement for further learning and development of such great open sourced solutions and the extra highlight on the winners.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Will you release and extra highlight the top 5 prize winners and their solution, when the license control is done? In past IMC the leaderboard doesn’t always reflect the true prize leaderboard, so it would be great with a separated announcement for further learning and development of such great open sourced solutions and the extra highlight on the winners.",
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      "id": "2865796",
      "postDate": "06/11/2024 01:57:32",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ashleychow\" target=\"_blank\">@ashleychow</a> Hello, how long can I expect to receive a reply</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ashleychow Hello, how long can I expect to receive a reply",
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      "id": "2867546",
      "postDate": "06/11/2024 22:36:11",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/wamiottowang\" target=\"_blank\">@wamiottowang</a> for your reply! Are you referring to a reply from Compliance report or something else? Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @wamiottowang for your reply! Are you referring to a reply from Compliance report or something else? Thanks!",
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      "id": "2867548",
      "postDate": "06/11/2024 22:41:44",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kirderf\" target=\"_blank\">@kirderf</a> for your reply and feedback! Let me share with the host to see if they can provide a recap of the learnings from these winner solutions. In the meantime, please feel free to take a look of the solution writeup under the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaderboard</a> page (under \"Solution\"). Thanks! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @kirderf for your reply and feedback! Let me share with the host to see if they can provide a recap of the learnings from these winner solutions. In the meantime, please feel free to take a look of the solution writeup under the [Leaderboard](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024/leaderboard) page (under \"Solution\"). Thanks!",
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      "post_date": "06/10/2024 22:32:45",
      "content": "<p>Will you release and extra highlight the top 5 prize winners and their solution, when the license control is done? In past IMC the leaderboard doesn’t always reflect the true prize leaderboard, so it would be great with a separated announcement for further learning and development of such great open sourced solutions and the extra highlight on the winners.</p>",
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          "id": 2867548,
          "author_name": "ashleychow",
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          "post_date": "06/11/2024 22:41:44",
          "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kirderf\" target=\"_blank\">@kirderf</a> for your reply and feedback! Let me share with the host to see if they can provide a recap of the learnings from these winner solutions. In the meantime, please feel free to take a look of the solution writeup under the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaderboard</a> page (under \"Solution\"). Thanks! </p>",
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      "author_name": "wamiottowang",
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      "post_date": "06/11/2024 01:57:32",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ashleychow\" target=\"_blank\">@ashleychow</a> Hello, how long can I expect to receive a reply</p>",
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          "id": 2867546,
          "author_name": "ashleychow",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/11/2024 22:36:11",
          "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/wamiottowang\" target=\"_blank\">@wamiottowang</a> for your reply! Are you referring to a reply from Compliance report or something else? Thanks!</p>",
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    "2865652": "Hi Kagglers,\n\nWe’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!\n\nThis competition ended with 5939 registrations and 1157 participants on 927 teams. We had 17619 submissions from 68 countries. For 263 users (including 50 in the top 100!), this was their first competition. Thank you all for your hard work in this competition and congratulations to our winners and to those who gained a new ranking!  \n\nThe top potential winning teams will be contacted via email for the next steps. We look forward to learning more about their winning solutions.\n\nWe've cleaned the leaderboard and disqualified some teams that have violated the rules. If you think you were removed by mistake, or believe you have evidence that suggests another team cheated, please contact [compliance](https://www.kaggle.com/compliance). Please fill in all the fields honestly.\n\nWe highly encourage you to post a solution write-up about your approach and solution in the forums (see [instructions](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153)). You may also refer to [Kaggle Solution Write-Up Documentation](https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation) for guidance. You are  also encouraged to [publish your models on Kaggle Models](https://www.kaggle.com/docs/models#publishing-a-model)!\n\nThanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!\n\nHappy Modeling!\nKaggle Team",
    "2865667": "Will you release and extra highlight the top 5 prize winners and their solution, when the license control is done? In past IMC the leaderboard doesn’t always reflect the true prize leaderboard, so it would be great with a separated announcement for further learning and development of such great open sourced solutions and the extra highlight on the winners.",
    "2865796": "ashleychow Hello, how long can I expect to receive a reply",
    "2867546": "Thanks @wamiottowang for your reply! Are you referring to a reply from Compliance report or something else? Thanks!",
    "2867548": "Thanks @kirderf for your reply and feedback! Let me share with the host to see if they can provide a recap of the learnings from these winner solutions. In the meantime, please feel free to take a look of the solution writeup under the [Leaderboard](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2024/leaderboard) page (under \"Solution\"). Thanks!"
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