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The Machine Learning Contest final results are listed below.

Rank	Who	Group	Country	Provisional	Final Score
1	Milan Peelman	University	Belgium	6  258  633	6  556  977
2	Andrew Didenko	Professional	Ukraine	6  112  747	6  363  611
3	Volodymyr Lyubinets	Professional	Ukraine	5  960  307	6  112  809
4	Dmytro Balaban	Professional	Ukraine	5  810  773	6  104  209
5	Pavlo Semchyshyn	University	Ukraine	5  539  070	5  750  901
6	Aymen Waheb	Professional	Tunisia	5  482  325	5  712  999
7	Julien Faixo	Professional	France	5  205  898	5  424  609
8	Alex Ermolaev	Professional	Ukraine	5  105  887	5  313  804
9	Sinan Ulu	University	Turkey	4  861  908	5  080  401
10	Laszlo Kovacs	Professional	Hungary	4  921  556	4  906  748
11	Yoann Coudert--Osmont	University	France	4  372  090	4  421  326
12	Kateryna Zakharova	University	Canada	3  963  689	4  162  233
13	Makysm Veremchuk	University	Canada	3  938  831	4  127  591
14	Ido Ikar	Professional	Israel	3  934  683	4  107  337
15	Phuc Tran	Professional	Vietnam	3  831  913	4  051  401
16	Hamza Ait Mohamed	Professional	Morocco	3  771  468	3  919  663
17	Петро Мудрієвський	Professional	Ukraine	3  811  463	3  883  098
18	Nisim Machluf	Professional	Israel	3  363  276	3  598  066
19	X X	Professional	Ukraine	1  866  020	1  999  185
20	Davide Bartoli	University	Italy	894  007	1  047  140
21	Максим Щербань	Professional	Czech Republic	885  729	1  038  623
22	Богдан Пастущак	Professional	Ukraine	801  624	961  815
23	Vladyslav Denysiuk	University	Ukraine	245  763	345  011
24	Erik Kvanli	Professional	Norway	0	4  947
25-34	Dima Mayor	University	Ukraine	0	0
25-34	so sugiyama	Professional	Japan	0	0
25-34	Oleksii Sadovnikov	Professional	Ukraine	0	0
25-34	Тарас Паничок	Professional	Rest of the World	0	0
25-34	Василь Проців	Professional	Ukraine	0	0
25-34	Azimjon Urinov	University	South Korea	0	0
25-34	Rishabh Singhal	Professional	India	0	0
25-34	Furkan BAGCI	Professional	Turkey	0	0
25-34	Анастасія Лисенко	School	Ukraine	0	0
25-34	z yd	University	China	0	0

1. Your agreement to these terms and conditions
   • 1.1 By registering for the competition, you accept these terms and conditions.
   • 1.2 In these terms and conditions, where we refer to “Participant”, we mean either an individual that has registered to enter the competition on its behalf.
2. The Competition
   • 2.1 The competition aims to motivate research of Algorithmic Programming. It is run by Algotester (the “Organizer”), and the competition is sponsored by Huawei (the “Sponsor”).
3. Eligibility
   • 3.1 To be eligible to enter the competition, all Participants must
     • 3.1.1 have an email address through which the Organizer can communicate with the Participant in connection with the competition;
     • 3.1.2 be solely responsible for creating the competition submission;
     • 3.1.3 not be a citizen or resident of the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus.
   • 3.2 Other than the requirements set out in clause 3.1 above, there is no restriction on the nationality or residence status of any such Participants.
   • 3.3 The Organizer’s employees, the employees of any company who are or were involved in creating or implementing the competition and their respective immediate family members, are excluded from participating in the competition.
   • 3.4 In entering the competition, Participants confirm that they are eligible to do so and acknowledge that they may be required to provide proof of their eligibility to enter. The Organizer reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all Participants and to disqualify anyone who it determines (at its sole discretion) are not eligible. The Organizer also reserves the right to disqualify Participants if their conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the competition, or they are in breach of any of these conditions.
   • 3.5 Participation in the competition is free of charge and does not require the purchase of goods or services.
4. How to enter
   • 4.1 The competition registration opens on 15-th May 2024. The Competition itself commences on May 15-th 2024 and ends at midnight on 9-th June 2024 (the “Deadline”). Any competition submission after the Deadline will be automatically rejected.
   • 4.2 Participants can use any of the competition programming languages they wish. However, any cheating is not permitted and any such entries will be disqualified.
   • 4.3 Participants are permitted to submit a maximum of one entry per 6 hours only to the competition.
   • 4.4 The Organizer and Sponsor accept no responsibility for incomplete, incorrect, lost, or delayed entries to the competition regardless of cause, including, for example, any malfunctions or failures in the Evaluation System, any equipment failure, technical malfunction or systems, network, server, computer hardware or software failure of any kind.
5. Determination and notification of winners
   • 5.1 The final ranking and the competition winners will be announced until midnight on 16-th June 2024.
6. The Prizes
   • 6.1 The competition prizes are as listed below:
     • First prize: $3000.
     • Second prize: $2000.
     • Third prize: $1000.
     • Fourth prize: $800.
     • Fifth prize: $500.
     • 6th-10th prize: $200.
   • 6.2 The winners will be responsible for any taxes or charges incurred in claiming their respective prizes.
   • 6.3 The Organizer or Sponsor shall not be responsible or accept any liability in respect of the inability of a winner to take up a prize.
   • 6.4 Prizes are subject to availability, and the Organizer reserves the right to replace the prize with an alternative prize of equal or higher value if circumstances beyond the Organizer’s control make it necessary to do so.
   • 6.5 The prize is not negotiable. Exchange of a prize or their transfer to other persons is excluded.
7. Rights of Use
   • 7.1 The Participant acknowledges that the Organizer and Sponsor’s Material is owned by the Organizer and Sponsor and that the Participant is only permitted to use, for the duration of the Competition only, the Organizer and Sponsor’s Material to test and submit entries to the competition.
   • 7.2 The Participants agree to keep the Organizer and Sponsor’s Material confidential and shall not disclose them to any other individual or entity.
   • 7.3 The Organizer acknowledges that the code created and used by the Participants submitted as a competition entry (the “Code”) is owned by the submitting Participants.
   • 7.4 The Participants warrant that the Code will not infringe any third party rights, including copyright and other intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, trademarks, design rights, know-how, etc.) and that the Participants have the right to grant a license to the Organizer and Sponsor under clause 7.5.
   • 7.5 The Participants hereby grant the Organizer and Sponsor a non-exclusive limited right to access and create copies of the Code, to evaluate that the submission to enter the competition is valid and that it otherwise complies with these conditions.
   • 7.6 The Participants hereby agree to give the Sponsor, for 1 year from the date submitted its Code by the Participants on the Evaluation System, the exclusive right of first refusal to exploit the Code, on such terms as the Sponsor and the Participants may agree separately in writing.
   • 7.7 If the Sponsor and the Participants cannot agree on terms in connection with the Code within 3 months of the Sponsor first notifying the Participant that it would like to exploit the Code, then the Participants will be entitled to enter into negotiations and conclude an agreement with any third party with a view to such third party acquiring those rights provided that the Participants will not agree on terms with any third party that is less favorable to the Participants than those which were proposed by the Sponsor.
8. Limitation of Liability
   • 8.1 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Organizer and the Sponsor, and its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate a winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury, or death occurring as a result of taking up a prize except where it is caused by the intentional behavior of the Organizer or Sponsor, and its agents or distributors or that of their employees. A winner’s statutory rights are not affected.
   • 8.2 Participants acknowledge that the Organizer accepts no responsibility for any communications exchanged between Participants.
9. Data Protection and publicity
   • 9.1 By entering into this competition, the Participants agree to provide their personal information, which will be used and disclosed by the Organizer and its authorized agents for competition administration and prize fulfillment.
   • 9.2 Winners agree that the Organizer can use their name and photograph in promotional material in all formats worldwide, to publicize the winners of the competition, without any need or obligation to recompenses the Participants accordingly.
10. Miscellaneous
    • 10.1 In the event of circumstances outside the reasonable control of the Organizer or otherwise where fraud, abuse, and/or an error (human or technical) affects or could affect the proper operation of this competition or the awarding of prizes, the Organizer reserves the right to cancel or amend these conditions at any stage of this competition but will endeavor to minimize the effect to Participants to avoid undue disappointment.
    • 10.2 If there is any conflict between the terms of these conditions and the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of the Evaluation System, these conditions will prevail.
    • 10.3 These terms and conditions shall be governed by Ukrainian law, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ukraine.