Competition Levels
The competition is divided into four stages: school, chapter, state, and national. In general, the problems become harder as one progresses towards nationals. Each school is allowed to register one team of four students, six individual students and some alternates.
High-ranking students and teams from each chapter competition progress to the state-level competition. At the chapter-level all students are eligible to advance based on their individual score, but members of a team are also eligible to advance based on their team score. The exact number of qualifiers varies from chapter to chapter. At the state level, the top four individuals, which, from state to state, varies between using solely the written results or including the Countdown round results, progress to nationals as a single team representing the state. When a school wins the best team award, the coach of that school is named the coach of the state team. As a result, a state team is typically made up of students from different schools.
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