The selection competition starts from the sixth week of the school term each evening, running from nine to midnight for six rounds, and concludes by early Friday morning.
Each round is scored by five randomly chosen judges from the Hunting Committee, with a maximum score of one hundred and a minimum score of zero. The highest and lowest scores are removed, and the average of the remaining three scores is the score for that evening's competition.
The scores from all six rounds are summed to give the Hunting Team their final score for the selection competition, theoretically with a maximum score of six hundred. In theory, playing all eighteen rounds could yield this perfect score.
But theory often differs to some extent from reality.
For instance, judges from Jiuyou tend to habitually lower scores for the team from Alpha Fortress, even if it is Alpha Academy standing in the Hunting Ground against a bunch of Zu Ge.
