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The 2022/23 flu season has come to an end, and so has this year’s FluSight Challenge. 

**Congratulations to [Sergio](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/115725/), whose impressive performance earned the top spot and the entire $5,000 prize pool!**

Thank you to all of our participants—both members of the Metaculus community who predicted in the public tournament, as well as the epidemiology experts and biostatisticians who participated in a private FluSight initiative. Your forecasts were delivered to the [CDC to support more effective public health responses](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/flusight/how-flu-forecasting.htm) and contributed to valuable research on the use of human judgment for influenza prediction conducted by our collaborators [Thomas McAndrew](https://thomasmcandrew.com/) at Lehigh University, [Evan Ray](https://www.umass.edu/sphhs/person/evan-l-ray) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and [Todd Fernandez](https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/faculty/Todd-Fernandez) at Georgia Tech. 

Forecasting data will be used to explore how computational models can integrate surveillance data and human judgment predictions to generate more accurate and better calibrated forecasts for future influenza seasons. (See ‘[Chimeric Forecasting: leveraging human judgment to improve forecasts of infectious disease](https://osf.io/x5p3b/)’ for an example of similar research by Thomas McAndrew harnessing Metaculus community forecasts.) 

You can find more information about the tournament and the complete leaderboard on the [FluSight Challenge 2022/23 Tournament page](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/flusight-challenge22-23/).