State Competition Information

> Accommodations
> Alternates
> Substitutions
> Register your team or individual and team coach
> Competition schedule
> Letter for parents of students coming to State meet
> Media waiver form

Top teams and individuals from each of the 12 chapter meets proceed to the State Competition, held in March in the Twin Cities.

Teams arrive Friday afternoon and the tests are administered Saturday morning.

Coaches accommodations

MATHCOUNTS pays for room and meal for one coach per team. Accommodations are made on a two-coach per room basis.

If a school sends two coaches, MATHCOUNTS will bill the school for the second coach's room cost and for the meals at the competition for the second coach.

Coaches who wish to have a room to themselves or bring their families will be billed $50 for their share of the room rate.

> Click here for information on the conference center where the State meet is held.

> Click here to view maps of the conference center location.

Student accommodations

MATHCOUNTS pays for the rooms and all of the meals for four team members per school or for an individual competitor. Students are usually assigned three or four to a room if all three or four are on the same team and the same sex. Two team members may be assigned to room with two team members from another school. One individual from a school will be assigned to a room with only one other student.

Room assignments become very difficult if students change their mind (decide to stay with their parents or not stay at the hotel overnight) after the registration deadline, so please ask students to plan carefully and make their decisions before the deadline. Room assignments cannot be changed after the deadline.

Alternates

Alternates are not permitted to attend the State competition as students earn the right to attend based on winning their chapter meets. While we know that alternates are important to coaches and their teams, we cannot treat alternates the same as the competitors in terms of room, meals or participant certificates.

Students are not allowed to bring friends along to the meet.

Substitutions

Students: If a team member is not available for the State Meet, another student may substitute. The request for substitution must be made in writing and sent to or given to Katie Jamieson (email: kjamieson@mnspe.org) or to another State Committee member the day of the Competition. The student and the student’s parents must sign the letter stating the student is voluntarily giving up his or her spot on the team. Coaches may not make substitutions for students progressing to the state competition as individual participants.

The students who competed as a team at the Chapter Meet form your team that is going to State. You cannot substitute other students unless one of the team members is not available on the dates of the State competition. In that case, the following policy applies.

Coaches: In the case of a substitute-teacher coach, guidelines regarding room and meal reimbursement are the same.

Parent-coach substitutes: If a parent substitutes for a coach, he or she will be treated as a substitute coach.

Competition schedule

Check in at the Crown Plaza Conference Center is between 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday. Testing begins Saturday at 9 a.m. The event concludes Saturday afternoon about 3 p.m.

> Click here to view the agenda for the 2012 meet.

How to register for the State Competition

Teachers of students eligible to advance to the State Meet will be contacted by MATHCOUNTS after their Chapter Competition. There are online forms for you to use to register your team or individual student for the State Competition.

Please note that the meals are open only to coaches and student participants. There are other restaurants at the hotel.

Because there is much material to prepare for the competition, please complete your registration as soon as possible after your Chapter meet. Registration deadline was Feb. 29.

If you have any changes on your registration or questions, please contact Katie Jamieson at katie@mathcountsmn.org

Letter for parents

>> Click here for a letter which should be given to the parents of your students who are participating.

>> Click here for a media waiver form