PYPT '13 Regulations

PYPT '13 Regulations

 

A.    International Young Physicists' Tournament and the Philippine Young Physicists' Tournament
a.     The International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT) is a competition among teams of secondary school students testing their ability to solve complicated scientific problems, to present solutions to these problems in a convincing form and to defend them in scientific discussions, called Physics Fights.
b.    The Philippine Young Physicists' Tournament (PYPT) is established to introduce the IYPT to the Physics community in the Philippines and to make the first step in sending a Philippine Team to the IYPT in the future.
B.    The Problems of PYPT 2013
a.     The selected problems will be announced on January 8, 2013.
C.    Participants
    1. Only bona fide students of a participating high school are eligible to join the competition.
    2. Each participating school is entitled to be represented by one team only, with at most five (5) members including the team captain, who would be the official representative of the team in the Physics Fights. The team should be accompanied by one or two team leaders, which is a teacher or instructor from the school  the team is representing.
    3. Qualified teams for the competition must pay the team registration fee of only four hundred pesos (Php 400.00) to register. Only six teams will be accepted in this competition. It will be decided on a first come first served basis.
    4. The Philippine Young Physicists' Tournament 2013 will be held within the University of the Philippines, Diliman campus. This implies that the students and teachers from the participating schools must comply with the rules and regulations in application within the campus.
    5. The contact details of the event organizers can be seen on the "Contact Us" tab of this website.
D.    The Jury
a.     The Jury is organized by the UP Physics Association. The Jury consists of at least three members. Team leaders, at least one from each team, are included in the Jury. The team leaders cannot be members of the Jury in the Physics Fight (PF) if their teams participate in the PF. The team leaders should not, if possible, grade the same team more than twice.
E.    Physics Fights (PF)
    1. Only six teams participate in Elimination Physics Fights, which are scheduled before hand by lot. The best teams would participate in the Final Physics Fight.
                                          i.    In the case that more than six teams pre-registered in PYPT. The first six teams who registered will be qualified in the Elimination Physics Fights.
    1. In the course of a PF, the members of a team communicate only with each other.
    2. The PF is carried out in Two Rounds, namely, Elimination Physics Fight (EPF) and Final Physics Fight (FPF).
                                          i.    In the EPF, the six (6) participating are paired randomly. Each team in the three pairs compete with each other. There will be two fights in this round. In order for each team to play both the roles of the Reporter and Opponent, they will switch roles after the fight. The three teams with the highest scores will advance to the FPF.
                                         ii.    In the FPF, there will be three physics fights. Three teams must play all roles (Reporter, Opponent, and Reviewer) in this Round.
F.    The Stage Regulations
a.     The following shall be the order of the performance in the Elimination Physics Fights (EPF) and Final Physics Fights (FPF)
Event
Time (mins)
EPF
FPF
The Opponent challenges the Reporter for the problem
1
1
The Reporter accepts or rejects the challenge
1
1
Preparation of the Reporter
1
1
Presentation of the report
10
10
Questions of the Opponent to the Reporter and answers of the
Reporter
5
3
Preparation of the Opponent
1
1
The Opponent takes the floor (max. 4 minutes), and discussion
between the Reporter and the Opponent
13
12
The Opponent summarizes the discussion
1
1
Questions of the Reviewer to the Reporter and the Opponent and
answers to the questions

3
Preparation of the Reviewer

1
The Reviewer takes the floor

4
Concluding remarks of the Reporter

2
Questions of the Jury
5
5
Concluding remarks of the Jury
2
5
Total Time
40
50

G.    Team Performances in the Stages
    1. During one PF only one member of a team takes the floor as Reporter, Opponent or Reviewer; other members of the team are allowed to make brief remarks or to help with the presentation technically. No member of a team may take the floor more than twice during one PF or, as Reporter, more than three times in total during all PFs. During theFinal PF any team member can take the floor only once. The organizing committee (UP Physics Association) must inform about the devices available for presentations not later than two months before the PYPT.
    2. The Reporter presents the essence of the solution to the problem, attracting the attention of the audience to the main physical ideas and conclusions.
    3. The Opponent presents questions to the Reporter and criticizes the report, pointing to possible inaccuracy and errors in the understanding of the problem and in the solution. The Opponent analyses the advantages and drawbacks of both the solution and the presentation of the Reporter. The discussion of the Opponent should not become a presentation of his/her own solution. In the discussion, the solution presented by the Reporter is discussed.
    4. The Reviewer presents a short estimation of the presentations of Reporter and Opponent.
    5. The Observers are team members or non-participants who do not participate actively in the PF.
H.    The Grading
a.     After each stage, the Jury grades the teams based on Scoring Guidelines to be given to the Jury members. The Jury takes into account all presentations of the members of the team, questions and answers to the questions, and participation in the discussion. Each Jury member would submit integer marks from 1 to 10. The mean of the highest and the lowest marks is counted as one mark which is then added to the remaining marks. This sum is used to calculate the mean mark for the team. The mean marks are multiplied by various coefficients: 3.0 for the Reporter, 2.0 for the Opponent, 1.0 for the Reviewer and then transformed into points.
I.      The Resulting Parameters
    1. For a team in the PF: The sum of points (SP) is the sum of mean marks, multiplied by the corresponding coefficients rounded to one decimal.
    2. For a team in the Tournament: The total sum of points (TSP) equal the sum of SPs of the team in all Selective PFs. The number of fights won (FW) is the number of Selective PFs, in which a team received the highest SP from all the three teams participating in the same PFs.
J.     The Final
a.     The three teams having the highest TSP in the Selective PFs will participate in the Final Physics Fight. In case teams have equal TSP, their participation in the Final is decided by FW.
K.    The final team ranking of the PYPT
a.     The team with the highest score in the FPF is awarded the winners’ cup. Each participating student will receive a gold medal and certificates. Certificates will also be given to their coach.
                                          i.    If two or three teams have the same SP result in the FPF, the winner is nominated according to the highest TSP, in case of equality by FW.
b.    The team that ranks second in the FPF is awarded 1st runner-up.
c.     The team that ranks third in the FPF is awarded 2nd runner-up.

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