🏆 Final Results & Next Steps

[aicrowd_team]

Dear Participants,

Thank you to every team that took part in the Flextrack Challenge. The task was to build models that detect demand response events and estimate their impact by separating normal energy use from intentional shifts. This is a practical problem with real value for flexible power grids. Your contributions move us closer to practical, scalable energy sustainability.

This edition saw 6,458 submissions from 606 participants and 92 teams.

Private leaderboards for the Competition Phase and the Final Round are now live. See them here

Final rankings are based on the average team rank across both phases. We will share the Top 10 below.

Rank	Team/Participant
1	flex_king (@Bob575, @ErenYeager)
2	zch (@kzchhk)
3	WollongongOrBust (@jack_vandyke, @ryan_sharp)
4	DTU (@AREYA, @hbz, @Remok)
5	@ningjia
6	@pluto
7	@liberifatali
8	@Andoni
9	@danglchris
10	UPA (@giacomo_buscemi, @rocco_giudice)

Next steps
Winners will undergo due diligence. Submitted code must reproduce predictions consistent with each team’s best leaderboard submissions. We will contact the top teams directly for this review.

Share your work
We invite all teams to submit a short solution paper. Tell us what you tried, what worked, and what you learned so others can build on it. Please submit via Google Form link. We will share selected papers with the community.

Thank you again to all participants and to our organisers at the University of Wollongong.

Best regards,
AIcrowd

[Remok]

First off, thanks to the organizers for curating this competition, we learned a lot and enjoyed the process. However, there are some points we would like to express, to be considered in future for a more fair competition.

• Submission limits in the Phase 2 felt uneven across time zones. Some teams including us had 20 attempts while others had 30. In this phase where the errors were so little between the groups, each attempt mattered.

• We received the final-round email only one day before the deadline. Of course we checked the website frequently, but communication could be better.

• The email said Final Ranking is the average rank across both phases, but current final rankings doesn’t seem to be the average rankings. Is it based on NMAE or only the ranking?

Once again, thanks to the organizers and congrats to the winners!