Round 1 Closed — Season Continues

The Only Student Competition Scored on Real Hotel Data

Prove you can forecast like a revenue analyst — before you graduate.

Every week, three live hotel markets release actuals. Your forecast either holds or it doesn't. Compete across 7 scored rounds — MAPE-ranked against teams from programs in 8 countries — and graduate with a forecasting track record that speaks before your resume does.

50+ Active Teams
12 Universities
8 Countries
$1,000

Prize Pool — Top Forecasting Team

50+ Teams

Competing Across 8 Countries

~12% → 8%

Avg. MAPE Improvement, Rounds 1–7

7 Rounds

Weekly Scored Forecasts, Live Results

Teams from 12+ universities
Scored weekly on published MAPE
Live leaderboard after every round
Audit-ready for academic programs
How it works

A real forecasting competition, not a classroom toy.

Four steps. One week. Real stakes. Every round follows the same cycle.

01

Register

Pick your team, get your supervisor's approval, and you're in. Takes under a minute.

02

Forecast

Submit your occupancy and ADR forecast for each market before the window closes. Your predictions are locked — no amendments once actuals enter review.

03

Score

Once actuals drop, your MAPE is computed automatically. No black boxes, no manual grading.

04

Compete

Watch your rank shift across 7 rounds. The leaderboard updates after every scored release.

Platform preview

What the platform looks like mid-season.

Forecast windows, reviewed actuals, and live rankings move inside one governed workflow every round.

Current round

Round 3 Forecast Window

Teams are forecasting occupancy and ADR across three active hotel markets with a single weekly deadline.

Deadline

Sat, Mar 21, 11:59 PM ET

Forecast coverage

72 / 78

Scored points published this week

Ready to release

Team snapshot

Forecast Masters

Rank

#4

Occ. MAPE (forecast vs. STR actuals)

8.4%

ADR MAPE

8.9%

MAPE trajectory

Performance improves when the reasoning gets sharper.

A seven-round view of one team against the season baseline shows how forecasting discipline compounds over time.

Trend lines load in the interactive preview once the page is ready.
Scoring method

Transparent scoring that still rewards real reasoning.

Booking pace, demand compression, and displacement effects aren't given to you — reasoning about them is the skill being scored.

Your MAPE is the average of absolute percentage errors across all scored forecast points.

Lower MAPE = better accuracy. Scores update after every round so you can track improvement.

Zero-actual edge cases are handled consistently under published rules. No surprises.

Governance

Built for credible competition operations.

Submissions lock automatically at the round deadline.

Audit history stays visible for scoring and admin decisions.

Role controls keep students, supervisors, and admins in the right lane.

Leaderboard preview

See where you stand after every scored round.

Rankings update after actuals are released. Clear scope, clear scoring, clear movement.

1

Revenue Wizards

Cornell University

MAPE

8.1%

2

Forecast Masters

EHL Lausanne

MAPE

8.4%

3

Hotel Analytics

University of Houston

MAPE

9.0%

Round 5 snapshot

Standings shown after Round 5 actuals review — 72 of 78 forecast points scored, zero unresolved anomalies.

72 / 78 scored
Illustrative release
Rank
Team
University
Trend / MAPE
4
Demand Drivers
UNLV
down9.7%
5
Data Pioneers
NYU
up10.2%
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Rank ? — Your team's forecast is already being made. The question is whether you're the one making it.

The leaderboard updates after every scored release. First-round entrants enter the standings by the end of this week.

Active markets

Three markets. Three demand stories. One weekly deadline.

Each market has a different demand signature. The challenge is learning to reason through all of them.

Nashville

United States

Compression events & pickup spikes

Event-driven demand and price-sensitive shoulder weeks.

Why it matters

Learn to read event calendars and price around demand spikes that shift week to week.

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Demand cliff patterns, Ramadan sensitivity

Tourism cycles and global events create sharp seasonal peaks.

Why it matters

Master the art of forecasting in a tourism-heavy market shaped by global events and extreme seasonality.

Hamburg

Germany

Corporate transient baseline, MICE-driven pickup

Business and port-driven demand with stable baselines.

Why it matters

Build confidence forecasting steady corporate demand with port-driven and trade-show patterns.

Industry context

The same discipline. The same metrics. The real stakes.

Revenue management analysts at full-service hotels forecast occupancy and ADR every week. They use the same metrics — the same vocabulary — the same consequences when they're wrong. RevME puts students in that chair before graduation.

What participants say

Trusted by students and faculty at top hospitality programs.

By Round 3 my MAPE dropped from 14.2% to 9.1%. I stopped guessing and started building a real reasoning process. I referenced this competition in every hotel interview I had.

Ariana Patel

Hospitality Analytics Student, Cornell

Cornell University

I ran two cohorts back to back — fall and spring — without changing a single workflow. My students had a leaderboard conversation at the end of every class. That doesn't happen with spreadsheet assignments.

Professor Daniel Brooks

Faculty Lead, Revenue Management

University of Houston

Competing against teams from other countries changed the way we prepared. Once the leaderboard went live, every round felt like professional accountability, not classroom participation.

Sofia Rahman

Hospitality Strategy Student, EHL

EHL Lausanne

For universities

Built for faculty who want credibility without complexity.

RevME is designed to feel credible to faculty, engaging to students, and maintainable for programs that want to run forecasting cohorts year after year.

Competition Control Center

Configure seasons, deadlines, markets, and access levels in minutes.

Audit-Ready Operations

Submissions, scoring, and changes are logged and fully transparent.

Governance Built In

Warnings, approvals, and team constraints are enforced by default.

Repeatable Every Year

Run new seasons without rebuilding the platform or workflow each time.

Program outcomes

What this does for your program

Industry Alignment

Students graduate having forecasted real hotel markets, a credential that maps directly to revenue management analyst roles at full-service brands.

Teachable Performance Signal

Every team's MAPE trajectory is visible round-by-round. You can use this in course debrief, placement conversations, and program reviews.

Zero Rebuild Every Year

Archive the season. Open a new one. The workflow, scoring rules, and leaderboard reset without touching a single config file.

Competition principles

Academic, global, and built to last.

Designed for cohorts, teams, supervisors, and institutional oversight.
Submission windows, role controls, and audit history stay explicit.
Each season can be rerun without rebuilding the workflow from scratch.
FAQ

Everything you need to know before Round 1.

Clear rules, transparent scoring, and no surprises once the season starts.

Each scored forecast contributes to your team MAPE across the active markets and metrics. Lower MAPE is better, and zero-actual cases are handled consistently under the published scoring rules.

Ready to start

Most revenue management analysts will tell you they wish they'd started forecasting before they graduated. You still can. Round 1 closes in 3 days.

Teams that enter now can still make this week's leaderboard release.