INDIVIDUAL BEE EVENTS AT A GLANCE
Bee competitions are buzzer based events for individual students which utilize pyramidal style questions.
Divisions
- Varsity/Junior Varsity Competitions
- Varsity – 11th or 12th grade (no older than 19 years old)
- Junior Varsity – 10th grade and under
- Students in 8th grade and under are welcome to participate in the JV Division, which will qualify them for the Varsity/Junior Varsity National Championships but NOT the Elementary/Middle School Championships
- Elementary and Middle School Competitions
- Middle School
- 8th grade
- 7th grade
- Elementary School
- 6th grade
- 5th grade
- 4th grade and under
- Middle School
- Note: Home school students can participate according to this guide
Format
- Rounds
- 3 preliminary rounds
- 1 final round
- Scoring
- 1 point per correct answer
- 0 points per incorrect answer UNLESS
- -1 point if 3rd incorrect answer and moderator has not finished reading the question
- Preliminary Round Scoring
- Varsity/Junior Varsity rounds play to 8 correct answers per student or a total of 35 questions
- Elementary/Middle School rounds play to 5 correct answers per student or a total of 30 questions
- When a student reaches the maximum correct answers for their division they go out for the round and receive bonus points
- Bonus points are award to those players that reach the maximum correct answers per round depending on the question number they go out on
- Final Round
- Two to Ten students advance to finals depending on the size of the field
- Finals scoring works the same as the Preliminary rounds
- No bonus points are awarded during finals
- The Finals are completed when EITHER three students have gone out or all of the questions have been read.
- The three highest scoring students will receive medals
Click below to learn how to qualify for our National and International Championship events.