IYPT Australia

Schedule of the IYPT Australia 2010

IYPT Australia is organised by AuScience.

When: March 5th (8.00am to 4.30pm) and 6th (9am to 2pm) 2010

The competition will be held over two days. The first day, Friday, will be a full day involving a three preliminary rounds, and a second day with the Final for the top three competing teams after day one.

If there is an unexpected absence of a team from day one the IYPT Australia Organising Committee reserves the right to alter the structure of the day to allow ALL teams present to compete.

Friday March 5th: Arrival, draw and information

At 8.20am the LOC will either conduct a draw or announce a pre-drawn order of competition (if an unexpected late withdrawal occurs).

The draw will ensure that no two teams meet twice or meet the same jury twice during selective fights but occasionally jurors may have to swap juries or might not be available for the whole day.

Three selective physics fights

In normal circumstances, a selective fight will consist of two teams who will report one problem and oppose one problem. There is no reviewer role.

A jury of respected physicists, teachers and previous members of the Australian IYPT Team will form a jury of between two and six persons.

Each team is scored using a ten point system by each juror. Their average score for each Team are then scaled. Scaling factors are shown below:
Role Scaling Factor
Reporter x3
Opponent x2

Therefore, with scaling, the Reporter can score a maximum of 30 points and the Opponent a maximum of 20 points. The maximum total for each team in a Physics Fight is 50 points.

After a normal three rounds, all teams have a score out of 150. All points from each round being simply summed.

The three highest scoring teams will progress to the final.

Rounds 1 and 2 will include challenges. In round 3 the reporting teams can choose their problems.

The finalists, once announced, have 20 minutes to choose the problems that are to be presented in the final.

The highest scoring team chooses first (Team 1), then the second highest scoring (Team 2 )and finally the third highest scoring team (Team 3). All problems must be different in any one Physics Fight.

Saturday March 6th: Final and Lunch

The Final will include the additional role of the Reviewer. Refreshments will be available outside the venue all morning.

Each team is still scored using a ten point system and the Team scores are then scaled. Scaling factors for the final are shown below:

Role Scaling Factor
Reporter x3
Opponent x2
Reviewer x1

The team to be declared the winner of IYPT Australia for that year will have the highest total of points from all the preliminary rounds and the final. It is the total of their qualifying score and their score for the Final.

IYPT Australia 2010

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