 Competitors in the Adult Literacy X Prize community's competition may elect to collaborate with other organizations in order to expand their reach and add capabilities. This is a welcome strategy. In this video, we'll cover some of the considerations teams should take into account when collaborating, partnering, or merging. We do not make recommendations or offer advice on how such collaborations or partnerships can be made more effective, but rather cover those aspects of partnering that have bearing on the competition rules and distribution of the prize purse. All competitors in the community's competition are legal entities and are therefore free to enter into agreements with any other competitor or other organization. X Prize is not a party to any such agreements and should not be made to appear to be a party to any such agreements. Competitors who entered the competition as separate entities and even completed their phase one proposal separately are permitted to merge at any point in the competition. However, competitors cannot merge their referral codes. This means that competitors who elect to join forces in recruiting participants must use a single referral code so that their participants can be counted under one group. This effectively means that if two competitors decide to merge in the middle of phase two, one competitor will have to forfeit the participants that that competitor has recruited using its original referral code. We have chosen to do this to reduce the likelihood of unsportsmanlike behavior such as last-minute mergers between two competitors to surpass a clear leader. X Prize will only pay prizes out to the legal entity that has duly registered for the competition. Collaborators, partners, merged organizations, and other entities working together with one another in this competition are encouraged to have separate agreements in place stipulating how they intend to split the winnings. Competitors hereby agree to indemnify the X Prize Foundation and the prize sponsors of any dispute are rising among collaborators. X Prize is not party to agreements between competing teams. Competitors may also bring on sponsors and other partners to help their recruitment efforts. Such partners may provide in-kind donations, pro bono services, and other support. No agreement is made between X Prize and such partners. We encourage competitors to clearly spell out to sponsors and partner organizations what their participation in prize winnings will be, if any. To compete, you must register your team by December 8, 2018, and submit an application by December 21, 2018. You can learn more about the Adult Literacy X Prize Communities Competition by visiting communities.xprice.org. You can also view other explainer videos about the competition on our YouTube channel. In the resources section of the team page on the Prize Operations Platform, or POP, you can view important competition documents such as the competition guidelines, scoring rubric, and an explanation of how judges scores are normalized to ensure fairness, as well as a PDF of the application. To compete at communities.xprice.org, if you have more questions, email adult.literacy.xprice.org. Together, we can transform lives through literacy.