No. We hope that each participant will make as professional an attempt as possible to generate good results. This quite likely may include using parameters specific to the problem at hand. We only ask that participants document both their previous knowledge of the problems and the methods they use in generating their predictions. On the other hand, we hope that no one will look too hard into the literature, patent literature or private corporate databases in order to divine the "correct" answers and thus partially unblind the experiment.