Everything you need to know about the Ameta Cup scoring system, rules, and how standings are calculated.
Ameta Cup is a weekly quiz competition held internally at Ameta. Each week, one person organizes the quiz while the rest compete.
The winner of each quiz earns the right (and obligation) to organize the following week's quiz. While organizing, you sit out and receive your personal average as compensation.
Raw quiz scores vary wildly between weeks (depending on difficulty), so we use indexed scoring to normalize results:
The winner always receives exactly 100 points. Everyone else gets a proportional share. This means every quiz is equally weighted regardless of difficulty.
The winner also receives a dominance bonus that rewards winning convincingly. The bigger the margin of victory, the bigger the bonus:
The field average is the mean indexed score of all participants (including the winner's 100). This bonus also serves as compensation for the winner sitting out next week.
The quiz organizer (last week's winner) sits out and is not included in the scoring calculations for that week.
To keep things fair, the organizer receives their personal average from all weeks where they competed. This removes any incentive to sandbag or avoid winning.
Say Week 3 has these raw scores (Martin is organizing):
| Player | Raw | Indexed | Bonus | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegard 🏆 | 7,890 | 100.0 | +7.7 | 107.7 |
| Per Olav | 7,560 | 95.8 | — | 95.8 |
| Stein Erik | 7,340 | 93.0 | — | 93.0 |
| Eivind | 6,780 | 85.9 | — | 85.9 |
| Martin (org) | — | — | — | 0 |
Field average: (100 + 95.8 + 93.0 + 85.9 + ...) / 7 = ~84.6
Dominance bonus: (100 − 84.6) × 0.5 =
Winner total: 100 + 7.7 =
Raw quiz scores depend on the quiz difficulty, which varies each week. Indexed scoring ensures every quiz counts equally , a dominant performance in a hard quiz is valued the same as in an easy one.
The organizer receives their personal average from all competed weeks. A strong player who organizes loses nothing, and there's no reason to avoid winning.
They simply get 0 points for that week. Standings are based on total cumulative points, so missing weeks puts you at a disadvantage.
Theoretically yes, but in practice it's usually 5–15 points. The bonus is halved (× 0.5) to keep it reasonable. A bonus of 50 would require the winner to be the only scorer, virtually impossible.