With this 2011 edition of the MCM and ICM, COMAP announces a new competition. We have noticed over the years that contest teams have increasingly taken to various forms of documentation of their activities over the grueling 96 hours – frequently in video and/or slide and power point form. We understand that this material has been produced to provide comic relief and let off steam as well as to provide some memories days, weeks, and years after the contest.
We LOVE it. And we want to encourage teams (outside help is allowed) to create media pieces and share them with us and the MCM/ICM community. While we have yet to determine the exact nature of the award categories for this material, rest assured that outstanding entries will be appropriately acknowledged and recognized.
We want to emphasize that the media contest is COMPLETELY SEPARATE from MCM and ICM. No matter how creative and inventive your media presentation, it will have NO effect on the judging of your team ** for MCM or ICM. We do not want work on the media project to detract or distract work on the contest problems in ANY way. This will be a separate competition and one we hope will be fun for all.
We have provided a set of FAQ’s to describe the formats for the contest entries and the timeline. If you have any additional questions please feel free to write us at mcm@comap.com.