HMMT Online Tournament

General Information

The Harvard-MIT Mathematics Online Tournament is a remote version of the contest organized for teams and individuals that could not attend the Cambridge tournament due to space or distance limitations. For general information about the tests, see here.

Registration

Starting with November 2018, the HMMT Online Tournament will be completely automated using the HMMT Hydrogen system, and advance registration will no longer be necessary. Moreover, the administration of the contest will no longer require any involvement from a coach. However, each student/team will need a computer with an Internet connection.

To join the HMMT Online Tournament, a student should log in and enter the online contest system at the designated time.

Contest rules, submissions, and scoring

For the Online Tournament, all answers will be integers, and instructions will be provided for participants on how to input the answers.

The scoring of HMMT Online is different from the on-site contests. Problems are all assigned pre-determined weights. Students can submit as many times as they would like within the exam's duration and will receive feedback after the time period has elapsed.

The HMMT February Team Round (which is proof-based) is not part of the Online Tournament. However, these problems are posted on the problems archive, and so you are more than welcome to try the problems yourself later on. If you are a coach who wants to run the February Team Round for your students on the day of the tournament, please contact request@hmmt.org, and we can provide you with the problems and solutions files.

In order to simulate the conditions of the contest, all competitors are asked to adhere to the rules set out for the on-site Tournament, which can be found here. In short, students may not use any construction or computational aids including graph paper, calculators, compasses, rulers, etc. or consult any outside or online sources while participating in the contest.

Proctoring and Administration

Participants in the Online Tournament can work from anywhere and do not need a proctor. The contest server will manage all timing and grading. (That said, teams competing may be located in the same physical location; it's probably more fun this way.)

Schedule

Each exam will be released upon the conclusion of the on-site round. Please check the contest schedule for the anticipated end times.

Results

As the online tournament is unofficial, results are not announced. Students will receive feedback on their answers, including the guts estimation round, by reviewing the exam once time has elapsed. Accordingly, prizes are not awarded for the online tournament.