MathsJam 2022 - Weekend of November 19/20
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Competition Competition
Tradition now dictates that we have a "Competition Competition" at the MathsJam weekend. Attendees are invited to submit a competition, which the other attendees can enter, and then the competitions are judged as to which is the best.
Entries to the Competition Competition must be in the form of an A5 PDF file in black and white. If you're not sure how to generate such a file, send through whatever you can and we'll create a PDF for you. You can often use the 'Print' function to output PDFs to a file. Please email your competition to competitions@mathsjam.com ahead of the deadline below.
Other rules include:
- Minimum font size for all text on the page must be 18pt
- The sheet must contain all information needed to enter the competition.
- It must be possible to enter your competition by entering some text in a box on a website - this could be some text, a number, or even e.g. a link to a video they've made. We will set up a page where people can view and enter the competitions, and forward you the entries once competitions close.
- Any type of competition is permitted as long as it can be judged by you (or a winner randomly chosen from the correct entries).
- Each competition must provide a prize, but that prize must be something you can send to the winner by email, and not of large monetary value (e.g. a link to an excellent video or photo of someone's pet/robot, a poem you wrote, a blog post you think they'd enjoy reading).
- Competitions must be received by the deadline of 5pm on Friday 19th November, and will be available for people to enter from 7pm that evening until the Sunday morning coffee break, when the submissions will be sent to the competition setters for judging, and the winners notified during the day.
There will be three prizes for the competition competition:
- best competition, as chosen by a panel of judges;
- popular vote winner ('people's choice'): awarded to the competition which receives the most (genuine) entries; and
- best attempt at circumvention of the rules while still strictly sticking to the rules.
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