Congratulations to the winners of the EY Biodiversity Challenge:

🥇 @CelestineC - $2,000

🥈 @Johannes_G - $1,500

Both teams submitted strong, methodologically sound solutions that met the challenge requirements and passed final code review. As part of the review process, we assessed the leading submissions for rule compliance, reproducibility, completeness, and whether the approach could generalise beyond the competition test set.

Unfortunately some participants were disqualified for not submitting their code within the required review period, while others were removed from prize eligibility due to compliance or reproducibility concerns. As only two solutions met the full requirements to be confirmed as viable winners, the prize structure was adjusted accordingly.

A high leaderboard score is only one part of a winning solution. Final prize eligibility also depends on submitting complete, runnable code and following the challenge rules throughout.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this challenge, and congratulations again to our winners 🎉

📜 Challenge certificates are now available to download