{
  "id": 256599,
  "title": "Why are there so few teams?",
  "url": "/competitions/seti-breakthrough-listen/discussion/256599",
  "author_name": "Aristarkh_BFG",
  "post_date": "2021-08-02T13:29:49.601000",
  "votes": 13,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>It seems to me that this competition is very interesting. Even despite the leak. But why are only ~450 teams participating?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1408494,
      "postDate": "2021-08-02T13:29:49.603Z",
      "content": "<p>It seems to me that this competition is very interesting. Even despite the leak. But why are only ~450 teams participating?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It seems to me that this competition is very interesting. Even despite the leak. But why are only ~450 teams participating?",
      "votes": 12
    },
    {
      "id": 1408517,
      "postDate": "2021-08-02T13:38:18.013Z",
      "content": "<p>The competition had a major reset halfway through. Teams, as a result, were reset, and some did not join back.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The competition had a major reset halfway through. Teams, as a result, were reset, and some did not join back.",
      "votes": 7
    },
    {
      "id": 1421823,
      "postDate": "2021-08-03T04:24:15.603Z",
      "content": "<p>If someone posted a high scoring notebook on the new data think the number of teams would increase dramatically. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If someone posted a high scoring notebook on the new data think the number of teams would increase dramatically. \n",
      "votes": 5
    },
    {
      "id": 1411188,
      "postDate": "2021-08-02T18:30:51.370Z",
      "content": "<p>As <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> correctly mentioned, the reset which took a few weeks made people switch to other competitions, and for people with limited time and GPU's is hard to be involved in multiple competitions in the same time.<br>\nAlso, currently there are a lot of active competitions (around 7) and SETI Breakthrough Listen has one of the lowest prizes, this is why researchers can be more tempted to participate in higher rewarding ones.<br>\nLastly, I think the vacation season (June, July, August) also has an impact over the number of people involved in the competitions.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As @reighns correctly mentioned, the reset which took a few weeks made people switch to other competitions, and for people with limited time and GPU's is hard to be involved in multiple competitions in the same time.\nAlso, currently there are a lot of active competitions (around 7) and SETI Breakthrough Listen has one of the lowest prizes, this is why researchers can be more tempted to participate in higher rewarding ones.\nLastly, I think the vacation season (June, July, August) also has an impact over the number of people involved in the competitions.",
      "votes": 5
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1408517,
      "author_name": "gao-hongnan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-08-02T13:38:18.013000",
      "content": "<p>The competition had a major reset halfway through. Teams, as a result, were reset, and some did not join back.</p>",
      "votes": 7,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1421823,
      "author_name": "something4kag",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-08-03T04:24:15.603000",
      "content": "<p>If someone posted a high scoring notebook on the new data think the number of teams would increase dramatically. </p>",
      "votes": 5,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1411188,
      "author_name": "Vlad Vaduva",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-08-02T18:30:51.370000",
      "content": "<p>As <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> correctly mentioned, the reset which took a few weeks made people switch to other competitions, and for people with limited time and GPU's is hard to be involved in multiple competitions in the same time.<br>\nAlso, currently there are a lot of active competitions (around 7) and SETI Breakthrough Listen has one of the lowest prizes, this is why researchers can be more tempted to participate in higher rewarding ones.<br>\nLastly, I think the vacation season (June, July, August) also has an impact over the number of people involved in the competitions.</p>",
      "votes": 5,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1408494": "It seems to me that this competition is very interesting. Even despite the leak. But why are only ~450 teams participating?",
    "1408517": "The competition had a major reset halfway through. Teams, as a result, were reset, and some did not join back.",
    "1421823": "If someone posted a high scoring notebook on the new data think the number of teams would increase dramatically. \n",
    "1411188": "As @reighns correctly mentioned, the reset which took a few weeks made people switch to other competitions, and for people with limited time and GPU's is hard to be involved in multiple competitions in the same time.\nAlso, currently there are a lot of active competitions (around 7) and SETI Breakthrough Listen has one of the lowest prizes, this is why researchers can be more tempted to participate in higher rewarding ones.\nLastly, I think the vacation season (June, July, August) also has an impact over the number of people involved in the competitions."
  }
}