Dear Participants,
We took your feedback to the FlexTrack organizing team and carefully reviewed all previous communications regarding the determination of the final winners for the challenge.
We acknowledge that the intention to take the mean of ranks across the Competition Phase and the Final Round was not clearly communicated, even though it had been the intention internally.
In light of this, we collectively agreed that the fairest approach is to treat the Final Round Private Leaderboard as the sole criterion for determining the final rankings of the competition.
The top three positions remain consistent across both methodologies. However, Team @DTU and Team @ningjia swap ranks depending on which approach is used. We want to commend the outstanding performance of both teams. To ensure fairness and recognize their efforts, we will extend an additional AUD $1,000 prize so that both teams are officially acknowledged as winners of the competition.
We have updated the original announcement post to reflect this change.
We sincerely appreciate your constructive feedback and commend the swift action taken by the FlexTrack organizing team to resolve the matter transparently and fairly.
Warm regards,
The FlexTrack 2025 Organizing Team