General provisions
1.1 The International Artificial Intelligence Team Contest (“IAITC” or “the Contest”) is an annual competition in artificial intelligence for teams of secondary school students.
1.2 The Contest is held once each season, as the International Final, on the dates published on the official website, iaitc-official.org.
1.3 IAITC Open is a separate set of rounds before the International Final, under the IAITC Open Regulations. It is open to any team.
1.4 The Contest is held entirely in English. Task statements, communication and all official documents are in English only.
Organiser and committees
2.1 The Contest is a private competition organised and owned by Bucharest Cram School S.R.L. (“the Organiser”). The Organiser coordinates the season, accredits national representatives, runs the International Final and holds final authority over the Contest and these Regulations.
2.2 The Scientific Committee, appointed by the Organiser, elaborates the Syllabus and sets all tasks, datasets and evaluation procedures and validates the results.
2.3 The Technical Committee operates the judging platform.
Eligibility and teams
3.1 A team consists of exactly three contestants. Each team may register one adult coach, who may accompany it to the International Final but has no contact with the contestants during a round.
3.2 Contestants must be enrolled in secondary education (high school) during the season.
3.3 A team takes part in the International Final as a territory team under Art. 4 or as an open team under Art. 5. Members need not attend the same school.
3.4 All three members of a territory team represent the same territory. A contestant may represent a territory only as a national of that territory or as a student of a school there. A contestant represents one territory per season.
3.5 Once a team is registered for the International Final, its members cannot change.
3.6 A contestant may be a member of only one team per season.
Member territories and territory teams
4.1 A territory becomes a member when one organisation of that territory is accredited by the Organiser as its national representative. The official website calls a member territory a “country”.
4.2 Accreditation may be granted for one or three seasons. Failure to take part in a season is grounds for revocation.
4.3 Each member territory has at least one and at most two territory teams at the International Final. Only a member territory has territory teams.
4.4 The national representative chooses its territory teams by any method. It may use IAITC Open, its own contest or another procedure. The Organiser does not review the choice.
4.5 A member territory may not break up a team that has already qualified for the International Final. Its national representative may not choose a member of such a team for another team.
4.6 The national representative registers its territory teams and pays their participation fees.
4.7 An organisation may apply for accreditation at any time. For its territory to have territory teams in a season, it must be accredited by the accreditation deadline of that season, published on the official website.
4.8 The Organiser may suspend or revoke an accreditation in case of serious breaches, after hearing the representative.
Open teams
5.1 A team that is not a territory team may qualify for the International Final as an open team, by the general ranking of the IAITC Qualifier under Art. 6 of the IAITC Open Regulations.
5.2 The Organiser publishes the number of places for open teams for each season. The number is at least one.
5.3 The places go to the best teams in the general ranking that are not territory teams. A team that its national representative chooses as a territory team takes part as a territory team, and its place as an open team goes to the next team in the general ranking. If a team does not register by the deadline, its place goes to the next team in the general ranking.
5.4 An open team does not represent a territory. It registers directly with the Organiser and names the organisation or the adult that receives the invoice for any fees under Art. 5.5.
5.5 An open team pays no participation fee for its three contestants and one coach. It pays the published fee for each additional member of its delegation.
International final
6.1 The International Final takes place in Bucharest, Romania, over three to four days including arrival and departure. The dates are published on iaitc-official.org.
6.2 Territory teams are registered by the national representative, and open teams register directly with the Organiser, by the deadline published with the final dates.
6.3 Teams that compete in Bucharest use equipment provided by the Organiser, under the same conditions.
6.4 A member territory takes part on site or remotely, as a whole. The national representative chooses when it registers its delegation. The teams of a remote territory compete at the same time as the teams in Bucharest, from a Contest Center in their territory, under Art. 3 of the IAITC Open Regulations. They send the recordings of that article to the Organiser.
6.5 An open team cannot take part remotely. It competes in Bucharest.
Tasks and evaluation
7.1 Tasks are set by the Scientific Committee under Art. 2.2, follow the Syllabus and require teams to process data, train models and produce predictions or programs.
7.2 The International Final is held on the official judging platform, judge.nitro-ai.org. Submissions are scored automatically against hidden test data, according to each task's scoring formula.
7.3 Pretrained models and external datasets are not allowed unless a task explicitly permits them.
7.4 The allowed packages may vary between tasks. The list is posted on the competition page on judge.nitro-ai.org at least 7 days before the International Final. A task statement may restrict the list further for that task.
Conduct and integrity
8.1 During the contest, team members may communicate only with each other.
8.2 Internet access is limited to the judging platform and resources allowed in the task statement. AI assistants and code‑generation tools are not allowed.
8.3 Questions about tasks are submitted only through the judging platform.
8.4 Plagiarism, collusion between teams or interference with the judging system leads to disqualification for the season.
Ranking and awards
9.1 At the International Final, all teams are ranked together by total score. Ties are broken by the time of the last submission that improved the score. Teams that compete remotely under Art. 6.4 are marked in the ranking.
9.2 Medals are awarded according to the final ranking. If N teams compete in Bucharest, gold medals go to the top ⌈N / 12⌉ teams, silver medals to the next ⌈2N / 12⌉ teams and bronze medals to the next ⌈3N / 12⌉ teams. Only these teams set the medal boundaries.
Each number is rounded up to the next whole number if it is not an integer. For example, with 10 teams: 1 gold (0.83 → 1), 2 silver (1.67 → 2) and 3 bronze (2.5 → 3).
9.3 Teams that compete remotely take part as guest teams. They do not count toward N or the medal boundaries. A remote team whose score reaches a boundary receives that distinction, for example “Gold Medal – Remote Participation”, as a digital certificate. Remote teams receive no physical medals and no diplomas.
Appeals
10.1 Appeals on scoring may be filed within 24 hours of the publication of provisional results.
10.2 Appeals are decided by the Scientific Committee. Its decision is final.
Data protection
11.1 Personal data are processed by the Organiser under the GDPR and the Privacy Policy. Registration of minors requires parental consent.
11.2 Names and results of contestants, and the territories of territory teams, are published in the official rankings.
Final provisions
12.1 The Organiser may amend these Regulations. Amendments are published on the official website and take effect no earlier than 14 days after publication, except for urgent corrections.
12.2 Situations not covered by these Regulations are decided by the Organiser.