We’re excited to announce the third and final round of the Keep Virginia Safe Tournament, developed in partnership with the [Virginia Department of Health](https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/), is set to go live with questions released for forecasting each Wednesday: November 24th, December 1st, and December 8th. Your forecasts on these questions will help to inform public health professionals and public policy experts as they navigate critical decisions about COVID-19 interventions in Virginia and communities around the world.

**The Virginia Department of Health has also generously increased the prize pool to $2,500 for this tournament.**

There is still plenty of time for new forecasters to join! Winners will be announced in May of 2022.

*Note that this round is one of the first to use the new [Metaculus Tournament Scoring System](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/8506/new-metaculus-tournament-scoring-system-pt-1/). This means that forecasters will not be able to see the community median when a question opens. This hidden period will last for 20% of a question’s duration and participation during this time will completely determine a forecaster’s coverage. (We have set c_weight = 100%. See the tournament scoring link above for details.) Because of this front-weighted coverage, we will stagger when forecasting begins over 3 weeks to spread out forecasting more evenly.*

We greatly appreciate the contributions of all the forecasters who have made predictions so far. And, we’re interested to hear from you — leave your ideas, concerns, questions, or anything else you’d like to share that’s related to the tournament in the comments section below.

Happy Forecasting!