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CMT Association

Conquest Tech Olympiad 2026 · Finance track

Rules

Rules of fair play

Do

  • Work on your own. This is an individual challenge.
  • Use any free AI tool, book or website if it helps you think. No paid tool is needed, and paid tools earn no extra credit.
  • Keep your access code private.
  • Seal your fund when you are ready. The platform's timestamp decides the seal time.
  • Understand every rule in your fund. Finalists must be able to explain each one.

Don't

  • Share answers, access codes or rulebooks with anyone during a round.
  • Let anyone else complete any part of the challenge for you.
  • Submit a fund copied from someone else. Identical or near-identical submissions are reviewed and may be disqualified.
  • Expect to change a sealed fund. A sealed fund is final.

Rules for students

  • Individual work.
  • Any free AI tool, book or website may be used; no paid tool is needed or rewarded.
  • No sharing answers, codes or rulebooks during a round.
  • No one else may complete any part for a student.
  • A sealed fund is final; the platform's timestamp decides.
  • Finalists must be able to explain every rule.
  • Identical or near-identical submissions are reviewed and may be disqualified.

If something goes wrong

  • Your work saves automatically. You do not need to press save.
  • If you lose your connection, log in again with the same email and access code and continue where you left off. The round clock keeps running, so reconnect quickly.
  • Everything locks at 1:00 PM IST. Time lost to a dropped connection is not added back, except under the outage rule below. Any rulebook not sealed by 12:40 PM IST seals automatically.
  • Outage rule. If the platform fails for more than five minutes, CMT Association and Edept's event controller may switch affected students to a fallback form. It has the same parts and the same rulebook menus. Affected students get a 20-minute extension. The decision and the list of affected students are recorded.
  • For any problem you cannot fix, contact the Edept helpdesk: [Edept helpdesk contact].

Appeals

  • Appeals against elimination close at 6:00 PM IST on 23 November 2026 (24 hours after the shortlist). Finalists are confirmed by 8:00 PM IST that day.
  • Appeals against the final results close 48 hours after the results.
  • Appeals are decided jointly by Joel Pannikot and Kirtiga Iyer.
  • To appeal, contact the Edept helpdesk: [Edept helpdesk contact].