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  "id": 434624,
  "title": "Recap of Competition - Congratulations to the Winners!",
  "url": "/competitions/asl-fingerspelling/discussion/434624",
  "author_name": "Ashley Chow",
  "post_date": "2023-08-25T20:59:13.735000",
  "votes": 9,
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  "content": "<p>Hi Kagglers,</p>\n<p>We’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Google - American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!</p>\n<p>This competition ended with 14420 registrations and 1530 participants on 1315 teams. We had 19596 submissions from 91 countries. For 257 users (including 11 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. We’re awarding swag to the 50 teams with the most upvotes on their solution write-ups two weeks after the competition’s final submission deadline.</p>\n<p>To be eligible, the solution write-ups must be linked as an official writeup (see <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153\" target=\"_blank\">instructions</a>) and the write-up should meet the criteria outlined in our <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation\" target=\"_blank\">new quality rubric</a>. We’re using upvotes as a measure of quality and helpfulness, please be sure you keep this in mind when upvoting others' work. Evidence of upvote gaming will result in disqualification and/or account banning. Details can be found <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/427114\" target=\"_blank\">here</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": "2023-08-25T20:59:13.737Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi Kagglers,</p>\n<p>We’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Google - American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!</p>\n<p>This competition ended with 14420 registrations and 1530 participants on 1315 teams. We had 19596 submissions from 91 countries. For 257 users (including 11 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. We’re awarding swag to the 50 teams with the most upvotes on their solution write-ups two weeks after the competition’s final submission deadline.</p>\n<p>To be eligible, the solution write-ups must be linked as an official writeup (see <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153\" target=\"_blank\">instructions</a>) and the write-up should meet the criteria outlined in our <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation\" target=\"_blank\">new quality rubric</a>. We’re using upvotes as a measure of quality and helpfulness, please be sure you keep this in mind when upvoting others' work. Evidence of upvote gaming will result in disqualification and/or account banning. Details can be found <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/427114\" target=\"_blank\">here</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 Google - American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!\n\nThis competition ended with 14420 registrations and 1530 participants on 1315 teams. We had 19596 submissions from 91 countries. For 257 users (including 11 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. We’re awarding swag to the 50 teams with the most upvotes on their solution write-ups two weeks after the competition’s final submission deadline.\n\nTo be eligible, the solution write-ups must be linked as an official writeup (see [instructions](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153)) and the write-up should meet the criteria outlined in our [new quality rubric](https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation). We’re using upvotes as a measure of quality and helpfulness, please be sure you keep this in mind when upvoting others' work. Evidence of upvote gaming will result in disqualification and/or account banning. Details can be found [here](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/427114).\n\nThanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!\n\nHappy Modeling!\nKaggle Team\n",
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      "id": 2409073,
      "postDate": "2023-08-26T03:56:58.333Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for hosting this competition. It was very interesting and learning experience indeed.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for hosting this competition. It was very interesting and learning experience indeed.  ",
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      "postDate": "2023-08-25T23:32:08.733Z",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for hosting this competition.</p>\n<p>It was enjoyable and I gained a lot of knowledge from it.<br>\n(and now, thanks to everyone who has been sharing their fantastic solutions, I'm learning even more)</p>\n<p>I am grateful for the opportunity you and everyone have provided.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for hosting this competition.\n\nIt was enjoyable and I gained a lot of knowledge from it.\n(and now, thanks to everyone who has been sharing their fantastic solutions, I'm learning even more)\n\nI am grateful for the opportunity you and everyone have provided.",
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      "id": 2512828,
      "postDate": "2023-11-04T22:12:24.520Z",
      "content": "<p><strong>American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition</strong></p>\n<p>I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/husnainahmad\" target=\"_blank\">@husnainahmad</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "**American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition**\n\n I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game.\n\n@husnainahmad \n"
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      "postDate": "2023-08-28T18:34:58.517Z",
      "content": "<p>Great learning experience!  Appreciate all the folks doing the hard work of setting up &amp; managing the competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Great learning experience!  Appreciate all the folks doing the hard work of setting up & managing the competition."
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      "id": 2409569,
      "postDate": "2023-08-26T10:12:11.463Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for hoding this competition, I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for hoding this competition, I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game."
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      "id": 2408874,
      "postDate": "2023-08-25T21:36:35.023Z",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for hosting the competition. We had a lot of fun working on this problem. I think it was well organized and the data and metric were accurately capturing the underlying real world problem</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for hosting the competition. We had a lot of fun working on this problem. I think it was well organized and the data and metric were accurately capturing the underlying real world problem"
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      "author_name": "C R Suthikshn Kumar",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-26T03:56:58.333000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for hosting this competition. It was very interesting and learning experience indeed.  </p>",
      "votes": 1,
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    {
      "id": 2408928,
      "author_name": "neilus",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-25T23:32:08.733000",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for hosting this competition.</p>\n<p>It was enjoyable and I gained a lot of knowledge from it.<br>\n(and now, thanks to everyone who has been sharing their fantastic solutions, I'm learning even more)</p>\n<p>I am grateful for the opportunity you and everyone have provided.</p>",
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      "id": 2512828,
      "author_name": "Husnain Ahmad",
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      "post_date": "2023-11-04T22:12:24.520000",
      "content": "<p><strong>American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition</strong></p>\n<p>I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/husnainahmad\" target=\"_blank\">@husnainahmad</a> </p>",
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      "author_name": "matucker",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-28T18:34:58.517000",
      "content": "<p>Great learning experience!  Appreciate all the folks doing the hard work of setting up &amp; managing the competition.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Thanks for hoding this competition, I learned a lot from the discusssion and notebook sharing during and after the game.</p>",
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      "id": 2408874,
      "author_name": "Dieter",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-25T21:36:35.023000",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for hosting the competition. We had a lot of fun working on this problem. I think it was well organized and the data and metric were accurately capturing the underlying real world problem</p>",
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    "2408850": "Hi Kagglers,\n\nWe’re happy to announce the conclusion of the Google - American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition competition. Thank you everyone for your participation!\n\nThis competition ended with 14420 registrations and 1530 participants on 1315 teams. We had 19596 submissions from 91 countries. For 257 users (including 11 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. We’re awarding swag to the 50 teams with the most upvotes on their solution write-ups two weeks after the competition’s final submission deadline.\n\nTo be eligible, the solution write-ups must be linked as an official writeup (see [instructions](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/373153)) and the write-up should meet the criteria outlined in our [new quality rubric](https://www.kaggle.com/solution-write-up-documentation). We’re using upvotes as a measure of quality and helpfulness, please be sure you keep this in mind when upvoting others' work. Evidence of upvote gaming will result in disqualification and/or account banning. Details can be found [here](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/427114).\n\nThanks for continuing to make Kaggle a great place to learn, practice, and test data science techniques!\n\nHappy Modeling!\nKaggle Team\n",
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    "2408928": "Thank you for hosting this competition.\n\nIt was enjoyable and I gained a lot of knowledge from it.\n(and now, thanks to everyone who has been sharing their fantastic solutions, I'm learning even more)\n\nI am grateful for the opportunity you and everyone have provided.",
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