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+title = "BMT 2024 Online"
+date = 2024-12-07
+aliases = ["/bmt-2024-online"]
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+
+The online, synchronous version of our flagship high school tournament! For
+those who are unable to travel long-distance to California, or weren't able to
+register for BMT 2024 due to capacity limitations, we're offering an online
+experience as well.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+The online tournament will consist of an asynchronous Power Round on **November
+30–December 1, 2024**, as well as the live event, including the Guts and
+Focus/General rounds on **December 7, 2024**.
+
+BMT is intended for high school students, but is open to all students **12th grade
+and below**, including advanced students at younger grade levels. You may register
+**up to 6 students per team**. There are no restrictions on how many teams/students
+can participate.
+
+{% button_link(href="https://contestdojo.com/") %}
+Registration Portal {% end %}
+
+# Registration Information
+
+## Registration, Waivers, and Pricing
+
+You may register for BMT 2024 Online on ContestDojo any time until November 28,
+2024 at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time.
+
+Registration is performed on ContestDojo. Coaches may register up to 6 people
+per team, and ContestDojo will allow them to assign and modify teams up until
+tournament day. In addition, for BMT Online, students may also register and form
+teams with other students without a coach.
+
+The fee for the online tournament is **$8 per student**.
+
+**All contestants are required to have their parent/guardian sign UC Berkeley’s
+consent waivers through this portal. Contestants will NOT be allowed to take the
+contest without having a signed liability waiver.**
+
+Any questions about the ContestDojo portal should be directed to us at
+<team@berkeley.mt>.
+
+\*For students facing financial hardship, please contact
+<finance@berkeley.mt> for a fee waiver. We will not honor refunds during
+late registration.
+
+## Student Eligibility
+
+- Students must be in **grade 12 or below** to be eligible for BMT.
+- Students do not have to be from the same school.
+- Students **must not have competed in a prior iteration of BMT 2024**,
+  including the California version or any of our satellites.
+- Coaches may register as few or as many teams as they wish.
+
+## Teammate Finder
+
+Students may register as a team of 1. However, it is beneficial to compete on a
+team of at least 4 due to our scoring guidelines. For students who do not have a
+full team, we have organized a [Teammate Finder] spreadsheet. Follow all
+outlined steps in the spreadsheet.
+
+# Online Tournament Logistics
+
+BMT 2024 Online will take place in two parts:
+
+- **Asynchronous Power Round**: November 30–December 1, 2024
+- **Live Event**: December 7, 2024
+
+The asynchronous Power Round will take place on November 30–December 1, 2024.
+Tests will be released on November 30, 2024 at 9:00 AM US Pacific Time, and
+submissions will be due on December 1, 2024 at 8:59 PM US Pacific Time. The
+Power Round will be a proof-based team round, and will be graded by our staff.
+
+| Time (US Pacific Time) | Event                 |
+| ---------------------- | --------------------- |
+| November 30, 9:00 AM   | Power Round Released  |
+| December 1, 8:59 PM    | Power Submissions Due |
+
+The live event will take place on December 7, 2024. A **preliminary** schedule is
+provided below:
+
+| Time (US Pacific Time) | Event                    |
+| ---------------------- | ------------------------ |
+| 10:00 – 10:30 AM       | Opening Ceremony         |
+| 10:30 AM – 12:45 PM    | General and Focus Rounds |
+| 12:45 – 1:45 PM        | Lunch                    |
+| 1:45 – 3:30 PM         | Guts Round               |
+| 3:30 – 4:30 PM         | Activities               |
+| 4:30 – 5:00 PM         | Closing Ceremony         |
+
+## Contest Format
+
+### Power Round (90 mins)
+
+The Power Round is a **proof-based team round.** Contestants will answer a
+series of questions centered around a single topic not typically seen in
+competitive mathematics, culminating in incredible results in the field of that
+chosen topic. For all questions (unless stated otherwise), teams will need to
+provide a rigorous mathematical justification for their assertions in full
+sentences.
+
+The topic for the Power Round will likely be at an undergraduate level, but no
+substantial previous mathematical background is expected.
+
+### Individual Round
+
+For the Individual Round, students may choose to take either the General Test or
+two Focus Tests.
+
+#### General Test (90 mins)
+
+The General Test is an individual test consisting of questions across the
+various subjects that comprise the Focus Tests. This test is intended to be
+easier than the Focus Tests and is highly recommended for students with less
+prior contest experience.
+
+#### Focus Tests (60 mins)
+
+There are four Focus Tests of 10 questions across four subjects — Algebra,
+Geometry, Discrete (Combinatorics and Number Theory), and Calculus. Each student
+can participate in two Focus Tests.
+
+### Guts Round (75 mins)
+
+The Guts Round consists of **9 sets of 3 problems** across various subjects in
+math. The key feature of this round is that each set must be turned in before
+the next set is given. All teams can see a live scoreboard with their standings.
+
+## Scoring
+
+Individuals are only ranked within the tests they choose to take. Individual
+Round scores are determined by the number of correct answers. Each correct
+answer is worth 1 point, i.e. there is no weighting among the problems.
+
+Team scores are determined based on a combination of teams' scores on the Guts
+and Power Rounds, as well as the Individual Round scores of their team members.
+The weights are displayed in the table in summary table below.
+
+When weighting team scores, scores for a given test will be normalized by either
+the average of the top 10 scores or the top 10% of scores, whichever represents
+more students/teams. Additionally, if a student takes the General Test instead
+of the two Focus Tests, their score will only count for half as many points as
+the Focus Test combinations would.
+
+The asynchronous Power Round will not be counted towards the overall team score;
+we will have a separate ranking category for the Power Round.
+
+### Tiebreakers
+
+A tiebreaking procedure is employed for top awards for each test. Ties are not
+broken for honorable mentions or calculating overall team scores.
+
+To streamline the event, we have a new automatic tiebreaker policy this year,
+which works as follows:
+
+1. First, problems are ordered from **hardest** to **easiest**, based on the
+   number of correct submissions.
+1. The _n_-th hardest problem is assigned a **tiebreaking value** of
+   2<sup>−*n*</sup>. For example, the hardest problem will have a tiebreaking
+   value of ½, the second hardest problem will have a tiebreaking value of ¼, et
+   cetera.
+1. Each student's **tiebreaking index** is calculated as the sum of their
+   original score and the tiebreaker values of the problems that they correctly
+   answered.
+1. Students are ordered by their tiebreaking index, determining their tiebroken
+   rank.
+
+In simpler terms, among those tied for the same score, whoever solved the
+hardest problem is placed the highest, followed by the one who solved the next
+hardest, and so on.
+
+### Additional Tiebreaker Procedure
+
+If a tie remains on the Individual Round after the preceding automatic
+tiebreaking procedure -- i.e., if two students correctly answered precisely the
+same set of problems, then those students will participate in an additional
+Tiebreaker Round. Ties that remain on the Guts Round or Power Round will be
+tiebroken.
+
+This 15-minute test will consist of either three (for the Focus Tests) or five
+(for the General Test) questions, and be scored primarily on correctness and
+secondarily on submission time; i.e. an earlier submission will be worth more
+than a later one with the same number of correct answers, but less than a later
+one with more correct answers.
+
+Students may submit multiple times within the duration of the test, but only the
+last submission will be considered.
+
+### Round & Scoring Summary
+
+<table>
+  <colgroup>
+    <col span="1" style="width: 20%;">
+    <col span="1" style="width: 12%;">
+    <col span="1" style="width: 24%;">
+    <col span="1" style="width: 24%;">
+    <col span="1" style="width: 20%;">
+  </colgroup>
+
+  <thead>
+    <tr>
+      <th></th>
+      <th>Power</th>
+      <th>General</th>
+      <th>Focus</th>
+      <th>Guts</th>
+    </tr>
+  </thead>
+
+  <tbody>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Important Details</td>
+      <td>Proof-based</td>
+      <td colspan="2" class="text-center">
+        Students may choose to participate in <strong>either</strong> the General Test or <strong>two</strong> separate Focus Tests, but not both.
+      </td>
+      <td>Submitted and scored live in sets of 3</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Location</td>
+      <td colspan="4" class="text-center">
+        Assigned Classrooms — See Tournament Guide
+      </td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th># of Questions</td>
+      <td>TBA</td>
+      <td>25</td>
+      <td>10</td>
+      <td>27</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Duration</td>
+      <td>90 mins</td>
+      <td>90 mins</td>
+      <td>60 mins</td>
+      <td>75 mins</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>% of Score</td>
+      <td>Separate Ranking</td>
+      <td colspan="2">60%</td>
+      <td>40%</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Important Scoring Notes</td>
+      <td>N/A</td>
+      <td colspan="2">
+        If a team has less than 4 members, scores of 0 will be added until the team has 4 Individual Round scores. The General Test will only count for half as many points as the Focus Test combinations.
+      </td>
+      <td>Teams are scored live, and a scoreboard will be displayed.</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>Collaboration?</td>
+      <td>Yes</td>
+      <td>No</td>
+      <td>No</td>
+      <td>Yes</td>
+    </tr>
+  </tbody>
+</table>
+
+### Acceptable Answers
+
+Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the [acceptable
+answer formats document](/assets/answer-formats.pdf) and [common notions
+document](/assets/common-notions.pdf) for details on how their answers should be
+submitted. Answers not submitted in the listed formats will be graded as
+incorrect, even if equivalent.
+
+## Frequently Asked Questions
+
+### Are calculators or other reference material allowed?
+
+Graph paper and calculators are prohibited, but protractors, rulers, and
+compasses are permitted. Blank white scratch paper will be provided for all
+participants. All answers must be exact, reduced, and simplified. Illegible
+answers will not be graded. Cheating in any form will not be tolerated, and
+failure to comply with all rules may result in immediate and irreversible
+disqualification.
+
+### Can middle school students compete? What if I don't have a team?
+
+Yes! BMT is open to any student in 12th grade or below, including those who
+haven't entered high school. While students are allowed to compete as
+individuals, we highly recommend that students compete on a team of at least 4
+due to our scoring guidelines.
+
+### Will there be awards?
+
+Although we will provide an official ranking as well as certificates for
+top-scoring teams, there will not be physical awards for the online tournament.
+
+[Teammate Finder]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mY4kX2pINp2-4qBjuHhf_3gyhyZVl_dsg5D_iBrMNQw/edit?usp=sharing