American competition paper requirements

The 1: 222 MCM/ICM competition will be held on February 17th, 222 at 5: pm, Thursday (6: am on February 18th) and Monday, February 21st, 222 (9: am on February 22nd).

2: each team can be composed of at most three full-time or part-time undergraduate (or below) students studying in the same school/institution at the time of the competition. Teams can consist of 1, 2 or 3 students, and each student can only participate in one team.

3: each team must have a consultant, who is a staff member, faculty member or student of the organization where the team members work. Consultants can serve multiple teams. The consultant must register the team before 3 pm. Thursday, February 17, 222 (February 18, 4: a.m. EDT).

4: The team must obtain and use the control number and password assigned to them when registering to participate in MCM/ICM.

5: No later than the opening of the competition window, the consultant must assign team members to specific teams, and cannot add or change student assignments during the competition. However, if a team member decides not to participate, the team can remove it.

6: once the competition window is opened (Thursday, February 17th, 222, at 5: p.m. (6: a.m. on February 18th)), team members must be set up, and the team must not use anyone other than its own team members to discuss or obtain work and ideas. Solve their problems. Teams can use any "lifeless" resources they find, such as web pages, books, articles, research reports, databases, etc. Anyone outside the team, including their consultants, other teachers, other students and/or experts or professionals in the field related to the problem. This restriction includes personal or telephone contact, and the use of electronic social media, such as but not limited to: e-mail, SMS, chat room, question and answer system, interactive blog, Twitter, Weibo, online help or support website, etc. In addition, it is strictly forbidden to post or share any part or all of the problem statement, your team's solution process, or any part or complete work in any form or media during the competition. COMAP will disqualify any team that violates this rule or consider it unsuccessful. Related questions are an intention: each student team should develop all its substantive analysis and solutions without the help of others.

7: the team must use footnotes, endnotes or embedded documents to record any external information sources, and include appropriate quotations in the reference list or bibliography of these sources.

8: The team chooses to solve a problem (MCM: A, B or C or ICM: D, E or F) and submits a solution for the problem they choose.

9: the names of students, consultants and/or institutions must not appear on any page of the solution. The solution must not contain any identification information other than the team control number.