Neno sadly won't be able to continue (but fought very valiantly), so @Arham Aftab will advance to semifinals. I know this competition has gotten a bit scrappy the past few days, but let's finish out the last 2 rounds (Semifinals and Finals) in epic fashion. Here are the people in the Semifinals: @C Delaney @Deleted @Jason Parton @Arham Aftab For those four people, just comment below what day works over the next few days to do the rounds. If possible, it would be great if we could just do Semifinals April 15 and Finals April 16, but I know it may not be that simple. Sadly, if there are no days that work over the next week, you may just have to concede, as I really don't want to continue this for more than another week. I will get the Quarterfinals prizes sent out AFTER the Semifinals finish!

@John Hoegerl @Habiba Basir @Alan P @Sadiqah Hossin @Jason Parton @Arham Aftab @Neno N We tried to warn multiple times that cheating or any kind of "strategies" will not be allowed during the challenge. Yet, some students just continue to look for ways to trick their way to some quick cash. This will not fly. It's unfair to the other students and it's just silly - we have full visibility over your activity during the challenge. We can see when you cheat. During this quarterfinal Sadiqah and Jason came up with the latest "strategy": 1. Start multiple study sessions at the same time. 2. Use some AI tool to get the correct answers. 3. Submit the answers when each individual clock is past 25 seconds to try to trick the analytics interface. Yet, during these 25 seconds, answers to multiple sessions are submitted. Attaching two data snapshots that show this pattern clearly. The result: Sadiqah - 12s median per question, over 2000+ HARD questions. Jason - 17s median per question, over 2000+ HARD questions. For reference, 1500+ scorers average 69 seconds on these questions. Anyone that knows how difficult the questions on Aniko can be doesn't need convincing that 12 and 17s per hard question is just ridiculous. Obviously the results of this match are nullified and the competitors are given a second chance just because of John's good heart. Yet, if we see any kind of cheating attempt again, disqualification is imminent. What constitutes cheating: Anything that goes beyond just solving Reading or Math study sessions, without any kind of outside help, tool or "strategy", like anyone would do during their prep. If the timing per answer, behavior or any kind of other data patterns deviate from the usual activity - it is considered cheating and leads to disqualification.

So...yet again some weird stuff in the Quarterfinals Round between @Jason Parton and @Sadiqah Hossin. It appears that both competitors basically had multiple study sessions going at once and were likely using AI to answer the questions. This is practically confirmed, as I do not think there is even enough hours in the day to do the amount of questions that each supposedly did, according to the time limits. As a result of this, I am going to give both competitors another day to compete in the challenge normally. I thought this was implied by the original rules, but: - You CANNOT use AI in this challenge. Yes, we can tell if you are, guys! Aniko has really good data. - You CANNOT have multiple study sessions going on at once. This results in the average times APPEARING greater than 25s but in actuality being less for the amount of time you actually took. Jason and Sadiqah can comment below another day that would work for them. The match between @Shubho Mehedi and @Zai will occur today as normal. I am sorry that we cannot get a more clear winner yet! I also apologize to them for having done all these questions just to not win, but these are things that they should have ASKED me about before trying, as they are clearly weird strategies.

I Am so scared to go Aganist Jason..... I might now win is not the thing im scared he gonna do MORE QUESTONS than me and I get a fever before my LOTF Test

so i looked over all of the march madness brackets and they're actually all busted. no perfect brackets left, mostly because of the upset of sadiqah beating triv, but yeah. kinda interesting to look at.