We’d like to extend our congratulations to the top 3 [White Hat Cyber Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/white-hat/) forecasters for their excellent performance!

- [Sune](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/124841/) – $1,386
- [Vang](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/111881/) – $125
- [mag00](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/115948/) – $98

The White Hat Cyber Tournament delivered forecasts focusing on trends in geopolitics, cybersecurity incidents, and ransomware, with the goal of helping practitioners and policymakers make more informed decisions. 

The largely decentralized cybersecurity industry relies on many types of expertise, and the Metaculus community’s performance on key questions like the below demonstrates topics where unclassified crowd-forecasting communities can generate accurate forecasts to support more effective decision making: 

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/10122/
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https://www.metaculus.com/questions/10109/

As always, thank you to the Metaculus community for your insights and predictions! And thank you to tournament sponsors [R Street Institute](https://www.rstreet.org/) and [Red Branch Consulting](https://redbranchconsulting.com/who-we-are/), as well as the project co-leads: national security researcher [Mary Brooks](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-b-7978497b/), and security consultant [Paul Rosenzweig](https://twitter.com/RosenzweigP). 

Find more information about the White Hat Cyber Tournament, including the complete leaderboard, [here](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/white-hat/).

We will be in touch with prize winners to arrange payments. We are also happy to facilitate donations to the organizations listed [here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11556/donating-tournament-prizes/).

**Congratulations again to Sune, Vang, and mag00!**