Host: The NCAA and Google Cloud
- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA®) is a non-profit organization which regulates most of the United State’s college athletic programs, now supporting nearly half a million student athletes. They officially run the US Men’s and Women’s Division I college basketball tournament, March Madness®.
- Google Cloud offers a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, like Google Search and YouTube. Google Cloud is now the official cloud of the NCAA®.
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Competition Detail:
- Kagglers who participate in this competition will use their computing power along with the NCAA®’s data to join the millions of fans who attempt to predict the outcomes of this year’s tournament.
- The competition is split into 2 stages. In the first stage, Kagglers will rely on results of past tournaments to build and test models. In the second stage, competitors will forecast outcomes of all possible match-ups in the 2018 tournament. You don’t need to participate in the first stage to enter the second – the real competition is forecasting the 2018 results.