🚀 Season 1, Cycle 3 is officially in the books! 🚀

YO ALPHANOVANS, 👋

A huge congratulations to our three winners of SEASON 1, CYCLE 3!

With the rollover from Cycle 2, this cycle’s prize pot is USD 2,782.62. Our winners are:

🥇 radiant-allomancer — 1st Place* — USD 1,669.57

🥈 overbearingconfidence — 2nd Place* — USD 695.66

🥉 vj0246 — 3rd Place — USD 417.39

These results came through our full walk-forward evaluation and our correlation / novelty selection process, rewarding strong performance and signals that bring something distinct to the collective pool.

And this is really just the beginning.

One of the things we’re most excited about at AlphaNova is seeing the community get stronger with every cycle. More ideas, more experimentation, more unusual approaches, and more independent signals entering the ecosystem.

If you didn’t make the podium this time: keep going. Every cycle is a fresh opportunity, and great ideas can come from anywhere.

To everyone who submitted, tested ideas, iterated, broke things, fixed things, and kept pushing: thank you. You’re what makes this work.

🔥 Season 2 begins on November 15. Let’s see what you’ve got!

NONIUS

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* A note on the actual payments for 1st and 2nd place: As explained in our previous announcement, we mistakenly paid Cycle 2 prizes from a full USD 2,500 pot, although its 11 qualifying signals entitled it to a smaller pot. That error was ours.

Because radiant-allomancer and overbearingconfidence finished in the same positions in both cycles, we will deduct their previous overpayments from their Cycle 3 awards:

• radiant-allomancer: USD 1,669.57 award − USD 169.57 previously overpaid = USD 1,500.00 payable.
• overbearingconfidence: USD 695.66 award − USD 70.66 previously overpaid = USD 625.00 payable.

Their full Cycle 3 prizes, including the rollover, are the amounts shown in the announcement above. vj0246 receives the full USD 417.39, with no adjustment.