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Tournament Overview

Each team of 5 students will compete against the other teams in their division in a 45-minute team competition. At the end of this session, the team with the highest score wins their division.

Scoring

Each problem will have a separate point value ranging between 100-500 points. So, in addition to correctly answering as many problems as possible, teams must consider how many hard/easy problems to take on.

Teams receive a set of math problems of varying difficulty. Teams earn points by answering the problems correctly. The highest score at the end of 45 minutes wins.

Rules

  • Problem must be answered completely (including units) with work shown to get credit.
  • One student at a time runs a problem up to their assigned judge.
  • One problem at a time gets run up. At no time will a team have more than one student up or more than one problem being checked.
  • Problems must be checked by the team’s assigned judge.
  • Team’s division and school name must be filled out on the problem for credit.
  • If a solution is correct,
    • the judge marks the paper with a seal,
    • the student runs the paper to the official scorers’ table,
    • the team receives the indicated number of points.
    • the scorer keeps the problem for scoring records.
  • If a solution is incorrect, the student returns with the problem and the team may try again for the correct solution. There is no penalty for re-attempting problems!
  • Highest score at the end of 45 minutes wins.
  • Each team may complete problems in any order.
  • Each team may work on more than one problem at a time, but remember that only one problem may be scored at a time.
  • No pushing, shoving, or interfering with other teams’ progress.