District and Kingdom Pentathlon Championship Rules

1. Contestants must be residents of the Middle Kingdom, either by physical residency or by treaty. Contestants in a district championship must physically reside within that district.
2. All of the General Rules of Participation in the Middle Kingdom Arts and Science Faire apply.
3. Scores received on a group-submitted entry may not be applied toward the championship.
   For this year (A.D. 2002) Go here for the rules about group entries.
4. Scores received on a mail-in category may be applied toward the championship. The mail-in entry due date will be designated by the Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences and announced in the Middle Kingdom Newsletter, The Pale, but this date will be before the date of the first district faire. A mail-in entry will only be judged once and the score applied at both the district and Kingdom Faire.
5. A maximum of two (2) research papers may be used as entries within the District or Pentathlon Championship. Research papers dedicated to a clear criteria division and category may be applied as an entry within that criteria division. General research papers will be applied within the Research criteria category, as is normally done.
6. Only those entries used in scoring a Pentathlon entry at the district level may be used in the Kingdom Pentathlon Championship.
7. The Pentathlon Championship will be determined as follows:
   • The contestant must have scores in five categories drawn from at least four separate criteria divisions, with entries in no more than two categories in any one division.
   • Should a contestant have more than one entry per category, the highest score will be considered applicable for the championship.
   • Should the contestant have entries in more than one category per criteria division, the two highest scores in that division will be applicable.
   • The highest possible cumulative combination of scores on only five categories, as specified herein, will be used to determine the Pentathlon Championship.
   • All entries used in a district pentathlon championship must score higher than 19 points to be eligible to participate at the Kingdom Pentathlon Championship.

The Middle Kingdom Arts and Sciences Faire Judging Criteria, 1998 Edition.
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Individual criteria in this volume may be photocopied and
disseminated for use within the Middle Kingdom Arts and Sciences Faire.