"This year, we have merged the Multimodal and Interaction tracks into the Strict and Strict-small tracks. This is for two primary reasons: Firstly, there were insufficient submissions to warrant standalone tracks. Secondly, none of the submissions in the Interaction track outperformed models submitted to the Strict track, and *none of the submissions from Multimodal outperformed our baselines*. We will still allow participants to use multimodal data or interactive training procedures if they choose, but such data or learning procedures must conform to the rules of the Strict or Strict-small tracks.

Emphasis mine.

The multimodal baselines are _lower_ than the text only baselines. See Table 3. In fact, 10M of text outperforms 100M of text + images.