A team will consist of 6 students from the same school. You can have fewer students, but you will be at a disadvantage on the team portion.
No notes or calculators may be used.
The first half of the competition will consist of 4, 10 minute individual rounds. Each individual round will have 4 questions (the 1st being worth one point, the 2nd and 3rd worth 3 points each, and the 4th question worth 5 points) for a total of 12 possible points per round. The highest scoring student after the 4 rounds will receive 1st place 2nd highest, 2nd place, etc. Ties will not be broken.
The second half of the competition will consist of 4, 10 minute team rounds where all 6 team members will collaborate on the questions. Each round will have 4 questions and each question will be worth 5 points. The team score will be a combination of the individual round scores (minus the lowest individual score from each round) and the total team score. Ties will be broken using the highest individual round scores for the team.