VTRMC Results 2019

98 schools from 29 states took part in the 41st contest and there were 758 participants. The maximum possible score was 70. The leading scores were (if anybody has any objections about putting these leading scores on the WEB, please inform the Contest Director immediately!)

Score Name
Institution State Math/Grad
60 Konoplev, Steppan Univ of MD MD Math 23
60 Smith, Nathan A WUSL MO Math 22
60 Peng, Fei Carnegie Mellon PA Math 21
60 Sanguanmoo, Sivakorn Univ WI Madison WI Math 21
57 Damian, Alex Duke NC Math 20
50 Xue, Christopher M Yale CT Math 21
50 Liu, Yijia Duke NC Math 23
50 Chi, Sungjae Princeton Univ NJ Phys 22
50 Phuc, Lam H Univ of Rochester NY Math 22
50 Shi, Wenze Carnegie Mellon PA CS 20
50 Lehmacher, Connor A Vanderbilt TN MathEd 22
50 Kang, Benjamin G Thomas Jefferson VA HS
49 Shen, Zeyu Duke NC Math 23
49 Bangachev, Kiril A Princeton Univ NJ Math 22
49 Milojevic, Aleksa Princeton Univ NJ Math 23
48 Heil, Samuel W WUSL MO Math 20
47 Sacramenta, Pedra H Univ of Penn PA Math 21
45 Dinev, Atanas B Princeton Univ NJ Math 22
45 Suh, Jung Joo Carnegie Mellon PA Math 19
44 Ranis, Max P Yale CT Math 22
42 Lee, Eugene Carnegie Mellon PA Math 22
41 Li, Xiaxin Univ WI Madison WI Math 20

The score distribution was
Score Range Number of Contestants
57 to 60 5
47 to 50 12
40 to 45 21
30 to 38 23
21 to 29 28
15 to 20 57
10 to 14 153
5 to 9 21
1 to 4 104
0 334

For more details, see all the scores ranked

The order of difficulty of the problems as indicated by the scores, starting with the hardest, was 5,6,7,1,3,4,2.

As usual, several students failed to put their registration number on their solutions. Some of the solutions we could not assign to a student, in other cases we made a guess (so it is possible a students got points he/she never actually got). Thus one student lost at least 14 points. Also, some registration forms weren't filled out.

I'm grateful for help from Edgar Saenz, Clayton Lungstrum, Eyvindur Palsson, Sohei Yasuda and Leonardo Mihalcea.

I would like to thank all the schools who took part, and I hope you will all take part again next year. I also hope that many schools who did not take part this year will take part next year. Watch these WEB pages; even if you do not get an invitation, we will still be delighted for you to take part provided you fill in the registration forms before the closing date for entries.

The most likely date for the contest next year is Saturday, October 24 2020. Occasionally announcements about the competition will be posted in the Sci.Math newsgroup.