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The Ensemble Surpasses 10%

By admin - Posted on 24 July 2009

We are happy today to have made a submission which surpasses Netflix's 10% Grand Prize target. The Ensemble is the second team to do this in less than a month. We are very proud of our achievements, and those of our top competitor, Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos.

The Ensemble was created by a merger between the two teams that appear on the leaderboard as "Grand Prize Team" and "Opera Solutions and Vandelay United".

Submitted by A.McAlpin (not verified) on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 18:39.

Congratulations! The finish must have been fun.

Submitted by Uri Schonfeld (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 22:27.

After everything is said and done, it would be super interesting to see how well you can do if you combine together the techniques of "the ensemble" with the techniques of "Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos.".

Submitted by Netflix Participant (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 22:07.

Congratulations on surpassing "BellKor We Already Won"... Good to see someone else take the prize. I'm rooting for you guys to win.

Submitted by Acquisto Kamagra (not verified) on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 05:06.

Good to see someone else take the prize. I'm rooting for you guys to win.

Submitted by Andreas (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 18:55.

Congratulations!

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 18:54.

Its over -- did you guys win? I see you are at top on the leaderboard but are the hidden results out????

Submitted by Kevin Andrews (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 17:57.

This is great! About a week ago I blended the probe files from Vandelay Industries and Grand Prize Team and figured you could probably beat BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos if you combined. I secretly hoped since then that you would since I'm much more comfortable with 20-30 laypersons winning some money than some "researchers" from AT&T averaging numbers in a fairly clever way (blending). Congratulations!

Submitted by Petar Kalinkov (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 17:14.

I have watched World Championship Finals, I have watched Olympic Games, I have watched SuperBalls, but the experience of this Grand Finale is unique.

Submitted by Kempton (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 15:06.

Congrats for your achievements. It is only a few more exciting hours to go. Good luck and may the best team wins!

Submitted by Karl Foxley (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 11:10.

Congrats guys! You certainly should be proud of your achievements...

Submitted by Paul Pajo (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 06:20.

wow. congrats! you just passed Pragmatic Chaos! it's a race to the finish line!

Submitted by emsemblette (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 02:33.

This is what international collaboration is all about! Your diverse team is fascinating and together you did what seemed impossible!

Get some sleep, spend time with your families, they must miss you.

Hope to hear The Ensemble on the news soon as official winner!

Submitted by Hassan (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 00:17.

Congratulations!

The competition will obviously end when BPC teams up with the Ensemble. But I hope that does not happen for at-least a few months and we could see more innovation :)

Submitted by Anon (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 15:31.

It would be a nice ending for the competition if you invite BPC to the ensemble for the last submission. The difference is tiny and both teams deserve to win.

Submitted by grayce (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 00:01.

Congratulations. I was utterly surprised and delighted to see y'all's leap.

Submitted by Boyder (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 14:13.

Craigs' Theory must have worked?

Submitted by Craig C (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 17:15.

Ha ha ;)

(insert long story)

To reach this point, no, it was an intense collaborative effort moving at light speed. Every theory in this contest seems to only be partially right. The only one that works for sure is "you will stumble along the way".

-CC