Competition Scoring

The rules for working out the Champions' Cup scores are as follows:

• Each company that attends a competition receives 10 points for attendance, whether or not they have a full team.
• Bonus points are available for the top 8 placed companies, the winning company receiving 8 points, the 2nd placed one 7 and so on.
• However, mixed teams cannot score bonus points, but they do prevent other teams from receiving those points.
• Where a company enters more than one team, only the highest placed team will score bonus points. Lower placed teams are ignored when allocating bonus points to other companies.
• Equally placed teams will receive the bonus points for the higher placing.

The following example may help to clarify things:

Position	Team	Bonus points	Comments
1st	A i	8	Company A 1st team
2nd	Mixed team	None	Denies other teams from scoring 7 points
3rd =	B	6
3rd=	C	6
5th	D	4
6th	A ii	None	Company A 2nd team does not prevent next placed team from scoring 3 points
7th	E	3

Champions' Cup

For the Champions' Cup, to accommodate the fact that companies cannot always attend every competition, only the scores from a proportion of the competitions are counted. For each company, their best scores will be counted.

For 2004/5, the scores will be counted as follows:

• Anchor Boys: 4 from 4 competitions
• Juniors: 6 from 8 competitions
• Company: 6 from 8 competitions
• Senior: 3 from 4 competitions

Note that the Anchor Boy and Junior Section Art competitions will count towards the Champions' Cup for this year.

For example, if an Junior Section enters seven competitions and scores 14, 17, 13, 18, 12, 15 and 16 points respectively, the 14, 17, 13, 18, 15 and 16 will count towards the Champions' Cup, giving them a total of 93 points.

If this results in a tie between two or more companies, then the scores achieved in discarded competitions will be taken into account, so in the example above the 12 points would be compared with discarded scores for the other companies.

If there is still a tie after all discarded points have been taken into account, then the number of "first places" will be compared, then the number of "second places" and so on.

If this still fails to give a result then the Champions' Cup will be awarded jointly for the year.