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.
• Mixed teams will score bonus points according to the proportion of boys from each company in the team, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
• 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	co B: 4 co C: 2	3 boys from company B, 2 boys from company C, team size 5; so company B scores 7*(3/5) = 4.2 rounded down to 4 points company C scores 7*(2/5) = 2.8 rounded down to 2 points
3rd =	D	6
3rd=	E	6
5th	F	4
6th	A ii	None	Company A 2nd team does not prevent next placed team from scoring 3 points
7th	G	3

Mixed Teams

In some circumstances, in order to allow as many boys as possible to take part in a competition, it may be appropriate for a boy or boys from one company to join with another company and form a mixed team. In this case, each company scores bonus points according to the proportion of boys from that company required to make a legal team, so, for example, if a competition requires teams of 5 boys, company A has 4 boys and company B has 2 boys, then company A would score 4/5 of the bonus points available, and company B would score 2/5 of the bonus points available. Points are always rounded down to the nearest whole number.

This also permits a legal team to accommodate an extra boy without forfeiting their bonus points. The extra boy's company will score bonus points as if for a mixed team.

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 2007/8, the scores will be counted as follows:

• Anchor Boys: 4 from 6 competitions (including attendance at Battalion events)
• Juniors: 7 from 9 competitions
• Company: 6 from 8 competitions
• Senior: 3 from 4 competitions

For example, if an Junior Section enters eight competitions and scores 14, 17, 13, 16, 18, 12, 15 and 16 points respectively, the 14, 17, 13, 16, 18, 15 and 16 will count towards the Champions' Cup, giving them a total of 107 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.

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