About King of AEO Contest

Why would an entrant read this before the rules?

The official rules say what the four gates are. They do not tell a prospective entrant which links to gather first, what a borderline teaching record looks like, or how many days sit between the deadline and the result. This guide fills that gap with an entry checklist, a gate-by-gate eligibility page, a dated timeline, worked submission examples and a scoring page written from the competitor's side.

It stops short of the decisions themselves. The entry form, every gate verdict and the leaderboard live on kingofaeocompetition.com, and nothing in this guide overrides them.

Which team stands behind the contest this guide explains?

The contest belongs to an independent team led by JP Zhang, which also publishes this guide. That team measures every competitor, reviews the evidence submitted for each gate and announces the title. Marc Moeller is one of the competitors, and the guide applies to his entry exactly the standard it describes for everyone else. Our editorial policy lists where the guide's facts come from.

Which part of the score can an entrant actually influence?

Visibility, worth 48 points, is observed by the team: six frozen prompts across three markets, weighted towards being named first. No entrant can submit it. The other 52 points come from evidence you link to: 20 for open-source software, 16 for live teaching, 8 for original research and 8 for independent corroboration. Eligibility is checked before any of it counts, so a missing gate costs more than a weak score.

Round 1 entries close at 23:59 AWST on 12 October 2026. Measurement follows the next day, and the first title decision is published on 14 October 2026.