What makes up an afternoon team?
A team competing for an award consists of a maximum of four eligible students from the same college. A college can elect to have a team with fewer than four members. The number of teams a college may have is determined by the following formula.
# of teams = Greatest Integer [(n -1)/4 + 1] where n is the number of students from a college.
Mixed teams comprised of a maximum of four eligible students from different colleges may participate, but their scores will not count in the overall scores for the colleges.
How are scores determined?
Individual scores are determined by the number of correct answers an individual gets in the morning competition. Students are not penalized for incorrect answers.
Team scores are composed of the scores of the team rounds. The morning individual scores are not included in the afternoon total team scores. At the beginning of each round the time clock is set at 11 minutes. The number of whole minutes remaining when the solution is submitted is the score given for a correct answer. A team may submit an answer only once. No partial credit is given.
The overall scores for the colleges are determined in the following manner. The morning session and the afternoon session will be weighted equally. The top three individual morning scores from each college will be averaged. This averaged score is out 40 so the percentage correct out of 40 will be used instead and this will count as 50% of the overall score. The highest score of a team from each college in the afternoon competition will also count as 50% of the overall score. In the afternoon session the score is the same as the percentage of points received out of the total possible. The maximum possible score in the afternoon is 100.
In the event that a college only has one student participating, then their score alone will determine the morning portion, and in the event a college only has two students participating, the average of their scores will determine the morning portion.
What if there is a protest?
If there is a protest concerning the morning competition, it must be presented to the arbitrators before the afternoon competition begins. Arbitrators will be identified to the sponsors at the sponsor's meeting which takes place during the morning competition. If there is a protest concerning the afternoon competition, it must be presented to the arbitrators before the awards ceremony begins. If there is a protest concerning the tie breaker competition, it must be presented to the arbitrators before the awards ceremony begins.