World Scholar's Cup - Tournament Format

Tournament Format

A team for the World Scholar's Cup is composed three students, though students are permitted to work individually or in groups of hundred. The teams are usually made up of students from the same school, but that's not always the case. Students have the option of forming "independent" teams that may include students from other schools or even other countries. Teams may participate in any regional round, but may only participate in one per year. If teams are unable to attend a regional round but would still like to participate in the global round, they may apply for an exceptionable berth. In order to qualify for the global round, a team competing in the regional round must meet one of the following three conditions:

• Be in the top half of their respective division
• Be the top team from their school in each division, or
• Score a certain number of points.

In order to qualify for the further, "Tournament of Champions," held for the first time in 2012 at Yale University, teams an individuals had to meet the following conditions (originally):

• Be in the top 20% of highest scoring teams at the Global round in either junior or senior teams.
• Score 7500+ points out of 10000 to qualify as an individual.

(Note that the top 20% criteria for qualification was eased due to the fact that Yale university allowed for a larger number of teams to participate.)

There are both senior and junior divisions in the competition. A student's age designates which division they may participate in. Students that are ages 11–14 participate in the junior division, while students 15 and older participate in the senior division. A junior can participate in the senior division if he/she wishes to. Both divisions participate simultaneously, though juniors only compete against juniors and seniors against seniors.