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Middle School National Championship (US)
In order to qualify for our National Championship in the United States, a student must attend the State Championship and do any one of the following:
- Place among the top 3 overall individuals in the student's grade level at the State Championship if there are fewer than 100 students at the State Championship.
- Place among the top 6 overall individuals in the student's grade level at the State Championship if there are 100 or more students but fewer than 200 students at the State Championship.
- Place among the top 10 overall individuals in the student's grade level at the State Championship if there are 200 or more students at the State Championship.
- Be a team member of one of the top 3 overall schools at the State Championship, based on the "sweepstakes" score, and contribute to the school's sweepstakes score by either having one of the 4 highest individual point totals from the school or being a member of the school's top-scoring team on the team round. If two teams from the school have identical team test and borda scores, the tie will be broken by adding the individual scores of the team members.
- Students who do not qualify under one of the above rules may qualify as a "wild card" by placing among the top 15 overall individuals in the student's grade level across all states or by being a sweepstakes contributor of one of the top 6 schools across all states as described above. These students are not eligible to collect a prize for their performance at the State Championship and will not show up in our results as a National Championship qualifier but will nevertheless be allowed to compete at the National Championship the same as all other qualifiers.
In certain states, mathleague.org may elect not to hold a State Championship. In those states, any student who qualified for the State Championship will be invited directly to the National Championship.
Additional Policies:
- Any student who is invited to attend the National Championship will be eligible to compete in all events.
- Only students who have qualified for the National Championship as an individual or part of a sweepstakes team, or who have been invited off a waiting list to replace a student who cannot attend, may compete at that meet.
- Teams at the National Championship do not need to consist of the same individuals who competed together when qualifying for the National Championship; the school's coach may choose how to arrange the qualifying students from a given school into teams.
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