The finish line is in the contract.

Manage a fictional 2 MWdc commercial rooftop solar project from October 15, 2026. Achieve substantial completion by December 31 with no more than $100,000 of recovery contingency.

This contract requires safe installation, structural approval, the completed tie-in, issued AHJ approvals, written utility permission for the specific testing, documented passing acceptance tests, required instructions and training, and owner acceptance. Minor cosmetics may remain on an agreed, dated punch list.

Substantial completion is separate from routine-operation PTO, commercial operation, tax placed-in-service, final completion and financial close. The fictional calendar-year owner wants placed-in-service by December 31, 2026, before January 1, 2027, to pursue tax-credit recognition for 2026. Substantial completion is the contract milestone scored here and does not by itself establish placed-in-service or credit eligibility.

Calendar-day effects are a simplified critical-path model, not a real construction schedule. Approvals and work are modeled as completed before their dependent milestones; reserved slots alone do not satisfy a gate. Recovery branches add no score. All ten core decisions are worth up to ten points each. Qualified runs require the proper final acceptance choice, every gate, the deadline and budget. Unsafe actions, falsified evidence and premature certification cannot qualify.

The optional prize is a $100 Amazon gift card and a custom-branded YETI Rambler. Prize entry is separate from playing. Entries close October 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Only your first submitted entry counts toward the prize; later submissions are practice and cannot replace it. Your run is saved only in this browser. Copyable results are self-reported practice results. Only a confirmed submission is recorded in the private tracker; scores are recalculated from your decisions. Only the first prize submission per participant counts. The main prize is awarded by a random drawing among the highest eligible first-entry scores after TEA review. Budget and completion date do not break score ties. You must submit your own valid first entry before closing to qualify for the referral prize. The referral prize counts unique valid first prize entries before closing; ties use a random draw. TEA reviews identity and referral legitimacy before awarding prizes.