Scored on real hotel-market data

The only student competition scored on real hotel data

Forecast like a revenue analyst. Prove it before you graduate.

Every week, three live hotel markets release their actuals, and your forecast either holds or it doesn't. Compete across seven scored rounds, ranked by accuracy against teams from eight countries, and graduate with a track record that speaks before your resume does.

50+ Active Teams
12 Universities
8 Countries
revme.org/season/round-3
Live

Round 3 · Forecast window

Occupancy & ADR · 3 live markets

Closes

Sat 11:59 PM ET

Team MAPE trajectory

14.2% → 8.0%

Round 3 leaderboard

72 / 78 scored
1Revenue Wizards8.1%
2Forecast Masters8.4%
3Hotel Analytics9.0%

Teams compete from programs across 8 countries

Cornell UniversityEHL LausanneUniversity of HoustonUNLVNYUCornell UniversityEHL LausanneUniversity of HoustonUNLVNYU
$1,000

Prize pool for the top forecasting team

50+ Teams

Competing across 8 countries

12% → 8%

Average accuracy gain over 7 rounds

7 Rounds

Weekly scored forecasts with live results

How it works

A real forecasting competition, not a classroom exercise.

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

01

Register

Build your team, get your supervisor's approval, and you're in. It takes under a minute.

02

Forecast

Submit your occupancy and ADR forecast for each market before the window closes. Once it does, your numbers lock. No edits after actuals go into review.

03

Score

When actuals drop, your accuracy is scored automatically. No black boxes, no manual grading.

04

Compete

Watch your rank move across seven rounds. The leaderboard refreshes after every scored release.

Platform preview

What the platform looks like mid-season.

Forecast windows, reviewed actuals, and live rankings all move through one governed workflow, round after round.

Current round

Round 3 forecast window

Teams forecast occupancy and ADR across three active hotel markets against 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

Occupancy MAPE vs. STR actuals

8.4%

ADR MAPE

8.9%

Accuracy trajectory

The sharper the reasoning, the better the score.

One team tracked across seven rounds against the season baseline. Forecasting discipline compounds fast.

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 are never handed to you. Reasoning through them is exactly the skill being scored.

Your score is the average absolute percentage error across every scored forecast point.

Lower is better. Scores update after each round so you can see exactly where you improved.

Zero-actual edge cases follow published rules, applied the same way for every team. No surprises.

Governance

Built for credible competition operations.

Submissions lock automatically at the round deadline.

Audit history stays visible for every scoring and admin decision.

Role controls keep students, supervisors, and admins in their own lane.

Leaderboard preview

See exactly where you stand after every scored round.

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

2

Forecast Masters

EHL Lausanne

MAPE8.4%

Revenue Wizards

Cornell University

MAPE8.1%
3

Hotel Analytics

University of Houston

MAPE9.0%

Round 5 snapshot

Standings 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 only question is whether you're the one making it.

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

Active markets

Three markets. Three demand stories. One weekly deadline.

Every market has its own demand signature. Learning to read all three is the whole challenge.

Nashville

United States

Compression events & pickup spikes

Event-driven demand with price-sensitive shoulder weeks.

Why it matters

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

BUR Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Demand cliffs, Ramadan sensitivity

Tourism cycles and global events drive sharp seasonal peaks.

Why it matters

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

Hamburg Center

Germany

Corporate transient base, MICE pickup

Business and port-driven demand on a stable baseline.

Why it matters

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

Industry context

Same discipline. Same metrics. Real stakes.

Revenue managers at full-service hotels forecast occupancy and ADR every week. Same metrics, same vocabulary, same consequences when they get it wrong. RevME puts students in that chair before they graduate.

Teams from 12+ universities
Scored weekly on published MAPE
Live leaderboard after every round
Audit-ready for academic programs
What participants say

What a single season actually changes.

By Round 3, my occupancy accuracy jumped from 14.2% error down to 9.1%. I stopped guessing and built a real reasoning process. It came up in every hotel interview I had that year.

Hospitality analytics student

Final-year undergraduate

I ran two cohorts back to back, fall and spring, without changing a thing in my workflow. My students had a leaderboard conversation at the end of every class. Spreadsheet assignments never did that.

Faculty lead

Revenue management course

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

Hospitality strategy student

Graduate program

For universities

Built for faculty who want credibility without the overhead.

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

Competition Control Center

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

Audit-Ready Operations

Every submission, score, and change is logged and fully transparent.

Governance Built In

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

Repeatable Every Year

Run new seasons without rebuilding the platform or the workflow.

Program outcomes

What this does for your program

Industry Alignment

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

A Teachable Performance Signal

Every team's accuracy trajectory is visible round by round. Use it in course debriefs, placement conversations, and program reviews.

No 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.
Every season reruns 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 feeds your team accuracy across the active markets and metrics. Lower error is better, and zero-actual cases follow the published scoring rules, applied the same way for everyone.

Ready to start

Most revenue analysts wish they had started forecasting before they graduated. You still can. Round 1 closes in 3 days.

Enter now and your team can still make this week's leaderboard release.