CBA Math Team performs well at Shore League competition
On Monday, October 21st, the CBA Math Team competed in round two of the Shore Math League.
The Shore League competitions are divided into three rounds: the individual round, the relay round, and the logic puzzle.
In the individual round, every student is given 30 minutes to solve five questions. Participants cannot receive any help from teammates or coaches. They get one point for every question they answer correctly, but there is no penalty for answering a question incorrectly. The top seven individual scores from each school count towards the scoring of that school.
In the relay round, each school gets to form two teams of three players and designate each person as either the A, the B, or the C person. Each member of the relay receives a problem, however the B and C persons have a portion of their problem missing. Once A person finishes his problem, he hands it to person B and he uses the answer given to him to finish his problem. Once person B finishes his problem, he hands it to person C to repeat the process.
If at the end of four minutes a team thinks that they have all three answers correct, person C hands in the answers to try to get double the points fo
r a total of six points. But if one answer is incorrect, every other answer is only worth one point instead of two. If a team is not ready to hand in their answers after four minutes, they can work for an additional three minutes to finish their answers for one point per answer.
For the logic puzzle, each school selects seven people to work on a long and tedious problem that can be solved by using deductive reasoning. Each school gets 10 minutes to complete this problem before they turn it in. It is worth five points, but it is all or nothing, so you can either get the answer completely right and get all five points, or not get the answer completely right and get zero points.
CBA did well in all portions of the competition. In the individual round, senior Kirk Yap got a perfect score of five, while five other students would get a four, and senior Brendan Clark’ recorded a three.
The two CBA relay teams, one composed of Matt Ruzich, John Incantalupo, and Andy Manatos, and the other composed of seniors Spencer Goss, Kirk Yap, and freshman Thibaut Fabricant each got all three answers correct within the initial four-minute period to double their points. CBA got all 12 possible points from that round before moving on to the logic puzzle.
Led by captains Goss and Ruzich, CBA was able to fly through the logic puzzle well before the 10 minutes expired. The problem was answered correctly and CBA received five points as finished off the round two events.
Out of a possible 52points, CBA received 45 points: 28 from the individual round, 12 from the relay round, and five from the logic puzzle. The next round will be at the end of November, where CBA will look to repeat their standout performances.
