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• POWER QUESTION: This is a multi-part, proof-oriented question that will test the students' higher-level mathematical reasoning skills. The power question is a team event in which groups of up to six (or three for small schools) work for one hour to produce a single multi-page answer. There will be different power questions administered to large and small schools. Scores for this event will be out of 100. Please note: due to time constraints the power question will not be offered as an event at local contests. However, one power question will be made available to member schools as part of the first qualifying round that coaches may administer in their own schools. Calculators are allowed on this event.
• TEAM TEST: This is a ten question, twenty minute test which a team of up to six works on together (or three for small schools). There will be different team tests administered to large and small schools. Each question will be worth ten points, and the top team test score from each school will contribute to that school's overall point total. Calculators are allowed on this event.
• SPRINT ROUND: In this individual test, students will have sixty minutes to complete 30 multiple choice questions. Four points will be awarded for each correct answer, with one point deducted for each incorrect answer; no penalty will be assessed for skipping. The top six scores from each school (or three for small schools) will be averaged to calculate that school's sprint round score. If fewer than six (or three) students take the test, zeros will be assessed for the leftover slots. This is to encourage schools to bring more students and not limit participation to only the one or two top math students in the school. Calculators are allowed on this event.
• TARGET ROUND: This is an individual event consisting of eight questions, each worth 10 points. Questions will be given out in pairs, and students will have ten minutes to complete each pair. Team scoring procedure is the same as for the sprint round. Calculators are NOT allowed on this event.
• RELAYS: For this event students will arrange themselves into teams of up to three. A relay question consists of three parts, and each student will receive only one of these parts. The first student completes part 1 and passes it to the second person, who must use that answer to solve part 2. This answer is then passed back to the third person, who uses that answer to solve part 3. The third person is the only one to turn in an answer. More detailed information is available here. The third person has a chance to turn in an answer at three minutes, when a correct answer nets 10 points, and at six minutes, when a correct answer receives 5 points. There will be five relay rounds, and the top two teams (or one team for small schools) from a school count toward the school's total. The relay score of small schools is doubled before being added to the school total, so the relay round is worth 100 points in the overall rankings for both large and small schools. Calculators are NOT allowed on this event.
• SWEEPSTAKES: A school's sweepstakes total is computed by adding its scores for each event. There are a maximum of 100 points available in the team test (the score of the highest scoring team from the school), 120 in the sprint round (average of the top six (or three) highest scores), 80 in the target round (average of the top six (or three) highest scores), and 100 in the relays (sum of the two (or one, doubled) highest scoring relay teams from the school), for a total of 400. At the state meet, the power question will be a competition event, so the maximum sweepstakes total will be 500. Any school scoring at least 200 at a given qualifying meet will be allowed to bring to the state meet all team members who contributed to the school's sweepstakes point total at that meet.

  Please note: mathleague.org does not monitor sweepstakes scores when compiling its list of state meet qualifiers, so any coach wishing to take advantage of this rule must request to do so in an email to mathleague@mathleague.org during the two-week window following the conclusion of the qualifying meet at which the school attained the sweepstakes total. This email must identify the Set of students the coach claims contributed to the school's sweepstakes total. A Set of students will be deemed to have contributed to the school's sweepstakes total if the sweepstakes score earned by that Set in conjunction with all students who otherwise qualified for state is greater than the sweepstakes score earned by any smaller Set of students from that school who had otherwise not qualified for state in conjunction with all students who otherwise qualified for state. A coach may submit only one Set of names for each qualifying round. mathleague.org's determination of which students contributed to a sweepstakes total is final.