Questions and Answers: Scoring

The final score is listed all the way to the right, and it determines the place of standing. Two teams which have a final score less than one point
apart are considered to be tied.

The raw scores are the scores the judges actually gave. These are then calculated to a maximum score of 200 in long term, 100 in spontaneous,
and 50 in style. After the scores are calculated, any score deduction is subtracted.

Scores are calculated by taking the highest scoring team in each problem/division and scaling it to the maximum score. Let's take an example of
three teams, looking just at spontaneous raw scores:

A: 79
B: 123
C: 100
The highest scoring team is B; therefore we want B's calculated score to be 100. So we multiply their score by 100/123, or 0.813. To calculate the
scores for A and C, we multiply by this same number. So the calculated scores are:

A: 79 * 0.813 = 64.23
B: 123 * 0.813 = 100.00
C: 100 * 0.813 = 81.30
The same sort of calculation is done for long term and style, but using the high score in each of those areas. Got it?

The scoring room enters the raw scores into a database program. This program does the calculations and ranks the teams according to their final
score.

The structure problem seems to have an extra column of scores, "Wt Hld"... what's up with that?
In the structure problem, the weight held (Wt Hld) is scaled separately from the remaining points. The raw weight held by the structure (raw: Wt
Hld) is scaled to a calculated maximum of 150 (calc: Wt Hld). The remaining raw Long Term points (raw: L.Term) is scaled to a calculated maximum
of 50 (not shown), which is then added to the scaled weight to get the final calulated Long Term score (calc: L.Term).