Dear ARML Coach,

We welcome you with great pleasure to the 32nd Annual American Region Mathematics League competition. This much anticipated event will take place at Penn State University, the University of Iowa, and the site of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas concurrently on June 1st and 2nd, 2007.

Registration for ARML will begin on April 4, 2007. Coaches will be able to register their team and submit most forms via our registration website which is linked to www.arml.com. If you participated in the online registration process last year, you will be able to retrieve your information and update it for the competition this year. If you did not register online last year, you can create a username and password for the purpose of registering your team, providing contact information, and submitting housing forms, etc. In addition, you will be able to edit this information right up to the deadline, at which time the editing feature will be disabled. We will not be accepting the paper registration that we have used in the past. You must register online.

The ARML competition continues to grow. In 2006, there were 113 teams. This year, we are planning on 120-125. As of now, Kentucky and Arizona will bring a team, and both San Diego and Colorado will bring an additional team. The BIG news is that Columbia, South America will bring one team (and add an additional team for the next four years) and Kazakhstan will bring two teams. Both countries will compete at Penn State. Also, two independent schools from Turkey will partner and compete via the internet.

ARML is still in an expansion mode and will be looking for contacts in other states or regions for the purpose of developing teams to participate in future competitions. We are especially interested in teams from Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. If you are aware of colleagues in other states or regions who might be interested, please do not hesitate to have them contact one of us on the executive board.

Please be aware that geographic boundaries of each team must be precisely defined prior to the contest. Any contiguous geographic area that does not overlap that of another team is permissible as a team boundary. If there are any questions regarding the registration packet, please contact the appropriate site coordinator.

For information concerning SAT on June 2nd, please see the SAT Information link on our web site. Lastly, for AMC and AIME scores you can send an e-mail to amcinfo@unl.edu. At this address you can get the student names, addresses and their score ranking forwarded to you.

Sincerely,

J. Bryan Sullivan
ARML President
 

***See below – very important***

Reminders of past & present Constitutional By-Law changes:

• If an ARML entry has multiple teams competing in Division A and B, and one or more of that ARML entry B teams scores at least as many points as it’s A team(s) then the B team(s) will move immediately to Division A and only be eligible for Division A awards.
   
• Teams can ONLY submit exactly one solution to the Power Question. If additional solutions were submitted, then all solutions would be corrected and the team would be assessed the lowest score obtained.
   
• It was also agreed upon that selling of non ARML items and materials would be prohibited until lunch time on Saturday, June 2nd. This policy will continue this year also.
   
• Team tie-breaker rule for the 1st seven teams in Division A and the 1st five teams in B that tie:
  
  The tiebreaker format for teams receiving prizes would be as follows:
  
          Tiebreaker #1 is the sum of the Team Round and Power Question.
          Tiebreaker #2 is the sum of the individual scores.
   
• It was decided that since Penn State is the scoring center for all sites, after the Official Scorer at Penn State has compiled all scores and they are sent back to the other sites AND the site coordinators at those sites have confirmed the results, the scores are then declared official.
   
• ARML will distribute to all Site Coordinators and Head Graders a step-by-step procedure for scoring the contest. This is being done to alleviate scoring errors.
   
• Only 2 singles/team will be reserved for coaches and adults. An upgrade to a single room will be an additional $10 so the cost will be $65.
   
• Cell phones are not allowed in the Team or Power Question rounds. If a cell phone is discovered in the room then the team will be disqualified from that round. Proctors will collect cell phones before the Team/Power Rounds and will return them at the end of the Power Round. Also, cell phone must be in the off mode during all competition and award events.
   
• There are two new links on our web site: “ARML FAQ” and “For Coaches”.