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
- Only bona fide
students of a participating high school are eligible to join the
competition.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- In the course of a PF, the members of a
team communicate only with each other.
- 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
- 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.
- The Reporter presents
the essence of the solution to the problem, attracting the
attention of the audience to the main physical ideas and
conclusions.
- 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.
- The Reviewer presents
a short estimation of the presentations of Reporter and Opponent.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.