First of all, admit a fact. On the whole, the gold content of this competition is not high, and even many students spit out "too much water" and expressed their disgust at this competition. These are all understandable. Let's analyze the reasons.
(1) The S Prize and the H Prize have almost no gold content. Reason: The winning proportion is too high, and the winning difficulty does not match the corresponding prize level.
First of all, the translation of the award-winning beauty contest is not appropriate. The literal translation of successful contestants is the "Successful Entry Award", but the translation in China is the third prize. The proportion of S prize and above is almost 100%. As long as you successfully submit a paper that does not deviate from the topic, you will definitely get the S prize. There are very few teams that can't even get the S prize every year, and sometimes they can't even get it. However, some schools in the United States think it is international, so those schools use the "third prize in international competition" award for students who won the S prize in the United States, which is very unfair and will make people who know it feel "too watery". In fact, the positioning of the US Tournament should be the same as that of the National Tournament. Even so, the "national third prize" of the American S prize is much easier than the national third prize of most other competitions.
Honorable Ti's translation in China won the second prize, which made people want to vomit. Literal translation should be the honorary nomination award, and in everyone's common sense, the honorary nomination award should be the team that has not been officially ranked in the competition. For example, ACM regionals are divided into gold medals, silver medals, bronze medals and bronze medals, and that's honor. In China, the honor prize of the American College Model Contest is regarded as the second prize, so in most schools, the national second prize is awarded. This is also unfair, because winning the H prize is too easy. In the formal review, as long as you pass the abstract, you will win at least one H prize. Take an extreme example: you only need to write a summary carefully. Even if the text is written casually, as long as it looks a bit like a whole (the structure and formula of the article are neat and beautiful, and there are charts that look ok), you will definitely get an H. From this perspective, there is no difference between H and S for teams that understand this law.
Ps: After I won the O Prize, I went to some schools to share it. During this process, I talked with many students about their school's incentive policy for the American Games. I have to say that some schools reward Messer H too much, and Bao Yan can get a lot of points ... It takes a lot of efforts to improve GPA by so many points. However, in order to get Mercedes-Benz H, even if it is zero-based, a few days of preparation is enough. So I think this is very unscientific.
(2) There are different opinions on the gold content of the M Prize, but it is still not worthy of the gold content of the "National First Prize" on the whole.
Compared with the national competition of mathematical modeling, the proportion of national first prize+national second prize is only 8%, while the proportion of M has exceeded 10%. So in proportion, the setting is not scientific enough.
Moreover, there are hundreds of teams in the M Prize, and the level of these hundreds of papers is actually very different. Some M-prize papers have actually reached the level of F and O, but because the places of F and O are too limited, we have to give an M-prize. And more M-prize papers are better than H-prize papers, but there are more papers at the bottom. But the contestants don't know this, they only know that they have won the M prize.
Generally speaking, it is not difficult to win the M prize. I have seen many people who have never had the foundation of mathematical modeling competition improvise and even matlab won the M prize. But it's not easy to win the m prize. Similarly, I have seen many strong teams (first prize in China, good at mathematics and programming) only get H or even S.
(3) The ratio of F prize to O prize is very low, which is very difficult and valuable in the circle of mathematical modeling, but only in the circle of mathematical modeling competition.
Finliast's translation is a grand prize finalist, and O-prize translation is a grand prize. For each topic, the F prize and the O prize have only single digits. Get one of these two, mathematical modeling competition career basically no regrets.
But the game is just a game after all. Don't think that winning the O prize will pass the exam. Getting a job and going abroad is also good.