No more than one team from any school will be allowed to enter the Championship Round. This rule does not apply to the Preliminary contests. Scoring of the Contest 1. Solutions to problems submitted for judging are called runs. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected, and the team is notified of the results.
Placement is based first on number of problems solved.
If more than one team correctly solves the same number of problems, placement will be determined by the total time taken to complete them. Unlike the International Contest, no time consumption penalty for rejected runs is assessed. In the event that the judges shall judge a program solution to be incorrect, and at a later point in time, review such decision and deem said submission to be correct, the time of solution to be noted and utilized for scoring purposes will be that of the original submission that was originally judged to be incorrect but subsequently found to be correct. In the event that the judges shall judge a program solution to be correct, and at a later point in time, review such decision and deem said submission to be incorrect, any later correct solution to said program shall receive a time of solution that is determined by calculating the amount of time elapsed between the notification of the team by the judges of the solution being incorrect and the original, erroneous notification of it being a correct solution, and subtracting that amount of time from the actual submission time of a subsequent correct solution. Additional languages may depend on the contest site.