Competition Rules
Teams
- Teams must consist of no less than two members and no more than six members.
- Competitors may not participate on multiple teams
- Middle school teams must consist of all middle school members.
- High school teams may contain any mixture of high school and middle school.
- Adult teams may contain any mixture of adult, high school, and middle school.
Competition
- Team members shall not seek, search for, request, copy, or use answers to competition challenges that were not created by one of their team members.
- Teams shall not share information about the competition images or challenges with anyone outside of their team.
- The competition period begins when a team successfully opens their first image within a round’s competition window and lasts for three consecutive hours, regardless of the image or team running time indicated on the image Scoring Report page.
- A team shall have only one competition period (3 hours) to complete ALL challenges and tasks during a round
- Teams are not allowed to open an image or competition challenge for any reason before they are ready to compete in the competition round. No “sneak peeks,” or tests of the competition software are allowed.
- A team may open only one instance of each image or competition software at a time during a competition round.
- Teams shall not use scripts or software created by members of other teams, coaches, mentors, or team assistants.
- Use of the debug/debriefing solution before the competition round is completed for all teams will be a disqualification event for that team for the remainder of the season.