The Capsim Challenge

Rules

 

Registration Requirements

1. To be eligible to participate, you must meet the following requirements:
   • Paid registration for a Capsim Business Simulation in the past 24 months.
   • Enrollment in an Associate, Undergraduate, Graduate program with an academic institution
   • No participation in a previous Capsim Challenge. Students that have previously competed in a Capsim Challenge, meaning they have completed four or more rounds in a past Capsim Challenge Qualifier, will not be eligible to compete in the Finals.
   • Have only one active Challenge account. Students that have multiple active Challenge accounts will not be eligible to compete in the Finals. Accounts will be considered active if they have one or more of the following:
     • More than ten logins
     • Completion of one or more qualifying rounds round(s)
     • Uploaded an Official Decision File or saved Draft Decisions
   • ***Accidental registration of multiple accounts will not automatically disqualify a participant. The Capsim Challenge Coordinator reserves the right to decide if an account is active and disqualify participants.
2. There is no fee for registration; however, registration of multiple active accounts will result in disqualification.
3. Individuals can play with or without a team. If teams consist of more than one player, all team members must register. Only registered participants will be noted in the Finals.
4. No more than five people per team.
5. Teams do not have to correspond to a regular classroom team. You can form a new team for the competition.
6. Past and present students enrolled in a Capstone simulation must register for the Capstone Challenge. Past and present students enrolled in a Foundation simulation must register for the Foundation Challenge.
7. Students enrolled in other Capsim Simulations may participate in the Challenge. These students must contact Capsim Support for registration instructions.
8. All team members must register within the registration window indicated in the FAQs. It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure they are placed onto the correct team and that the team has all participants registered prior to the deadline. Participants and teams will be disqualified if there are any disputes regarding the team roster.
9. Students are responsible for ensuring that their school/university information entered during registration is accurate and up to date. If Capsim cannot verify students’ school information, students may be disqualified. If a student enters their information incorrectly, they are responsible for notifying Capsim Support at support@capsim.com.
10. Students are responsible for ensuring their email address is correct during the registration process. Important email communications will be sent out, including deadlines and future instructions. Capsim cannot be held responsible if you do not receive these emails. No exceptions will be made.

Competition Qualifying Round Rules and Processes

• To begin, please select “Join or Form a Company” from your participant dashboard and enter a unique team name. If you expect to play with other team members, you will want to leave registration open. If you wish to play as an individual, check the “Close Enrollment” checkbox so no other individuals can join your team.
• Your team will compete in 8 self-paced qualifying rounds against computer teams.
• Research and development, marketing, production, and finance decisions can be made in all rounds. Additional advanced modules may be included at Capsim’s discretion.
• No advice regarding strategy or decision-making will be available from Capsim support representatives during the competition. Only technical problems may be addressed by contacting support@capsim.com.
• The Capsim Challenge Qualifying Rounds will be in Self-Pace mode. Self-pace allows participants to advance themselves into the subsequent round when official decisions have been saved. Instructions to advance your company’s round are as follows:
  • To save decisions, click File >> Update Official Decisions; then click File>>Exit to return to your Dashboard.
  • From your Dashboard, click the green button labeled “Next Round.” Follow the steps to advance.
• The qualifying competition begins at the close of registration. The starting conditions for Round 1 will be made available at this time. There are no official round deadlines for the Capsim Challenge; however, all eight qualifying rounds must be completed by 12 PM Central Time on the closing deadline (shown on your login page) to be eligible for the Challenge Finals.
• Results from the Qualifying Rounds will be posted under the Challenge section of Capsim’s events page. Please allow a minimum of 24 hours for processing time. During these 24 hours, the Capsim Support team will not be able to share results, including who qualified for the Finals. Please do not contact Capsim Support for results or questions before they have been posted to our website. http://www.capsim.com/challenge/
• IMPORTANT: Capsim cannot be held responsible for technical problems that disrupt the timely submission of decisions. In the event of disputes, the Capsim Challenge Coordinator’s ruling is final.

Challenge Finalist Selection Process

1. Finalists will be selected based on their Balanced Scorecard results, with the six highest-scoring teams/individuals qualifying for the finals. The Capsim Challenge is not eligible for the Balanced Scorecard TOP TEN rankings found in the scoring section of the simulation. Scores earned during the Challenge will be kept separate from this ranking.
2. Only one team from each school/university may participate in the Finals. If more than one team from the same school qualifies, the team with the highest score will move on to the finals, and other teams will become alternates. In this scenario, the 7th highest scoring team from the qualifiers will advance to the Finals. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their school/university information is listed in their account and accurate. The Capsim Challenge Coordinator reserves the right to allow for more than one finalist per school if needed.
3. Finalists and alternates will be contacted by email and asked to confirm participation in the Finals. If a finalist is unable to attend, their slot will be offered to the next available alternate team.
   
   

Challenge Finals Rules

• The Capsim Challenge Finals competition will be a 1-day event, with Round 1 opening at 10 AM Central Time and round 8 closing at 6 PM Central Time. Finalists will have 1 hour to complete each round before it automatically advances.
• To win the title, you must have the highest Balanced Scorecard score among the competing finalists.
• The Capstone and Foundation Capsim Challenge Champions will be recorded in the Capsim Challenge
  Hall of Fame. https://www.capsim.com/challenge/

Good Luck!

Fall 2024 Capstone Results

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Final results for Capsim's Fall 2024 Capstone® Challenge: 

Place	Name(s)	Professor	University Name	Country	Scorecard
1st	Ravi Shankar Singh Varun Agrawal	Amit Karna	Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad)	India	914/1000
2nd	David Wong Linda Yuen Scarlett Rong Silvie  Cher Yu Tat Ho	Dr Hui Kai-Lung	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	831/1000
3rd	David Cohen	Raveh Harush	Bar-Ilan University	Israel	824/1000
4th	Eneld Ahmetaj Julian Ojeda	James Cooper	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA	685/1000
5th	Torin Boyle Zitian Zhang	Sandra Scott	University of Guelph	Canada	611/1000
6th	Aaron  Akridge Gavan Bergman Laurel Padilla Madeline Cregan Samantha  Martin	Norma Juma	Washburn University	USA	557/1000

 

 

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Fall 2024 Foundation Results

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Final results for Capsim's Fall 2024 Foundation® Challenge: 

Place	Name(s)	Professor	University Name	Country	Scorecard
1st	Muthu Kumaran R Venkatasai Jonnadula	Dr. R Subramanian	Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India	India	790/1000
2nd	Abdalla Hafez Mohannad Khairy Youssef Helmy	Irene Shaker	The American University in Cairo	Egypt	704/1000
3rd	Rayhaan Alibaba	Don Anderson	Brigham Young University - Idaho	USA	664/1000
4th	Jaxon Oehler	Brian Rohrs	Bowling Green State University	USA	584/1000

Capstone Hall of Fame

Challenge	Name(s)	School	Score/Profit
Fall 2024	Ravi Shankar Singh, Varun Agrawal	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	914/1000
Spring 2024	Pipitthon Laongkaew	Thammasat University	834/1000
Fall 2023	Nicole Hong LI Curtis Ju WU Kenny Changming CHEN Ferris Ming Yin HO	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	705/1000
Spring 2023	Chun Yui Lai Synge Chin Pok Lam	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	786/1000
Fall 2022	Ofir Yablonka	Bar-Ilan University	760/1000
Spring 2022	Eric Freedman	California State University, East Bay	658/1000
Fall 2021	Rishabh Chawla Ravva Subramanyam Shubhendu Ojas Tewary	S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research	920/1000
Spring 2021	Yonatan Hoffman	Bar-Ilan University	924/1000
Fall 2020	Sisi Ren	York University	799/1000
Spring 2020	Vida Tiu Darreyl Milledge	Webster University	768/1000
Fall 2019	Jiabei Chen	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	855/1000
Spring 2019	Rohan S	Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India	903/1000
Spring 2019*	Avi Turgeman	Bar-Ilan University	884/1000
Fall 2018	Meir Cohen	Bar-Ilan University	750/1000
Spring 2018	Justin Zampedro	Kennesaw State University	771/1000
Fall 2017	Rushabh Patel	University of Houston	808/1000
Spring 2017	Jordan Stewart	Old Dominion University	631/1000
Fall 2016	Hoang Nghiem	University of Massachusetts	624/1000
Spring 2016	Kent Sheffield Morris Fordham Marilynn Dawson	Webster University	666/1000
Fall 2015	Warrapat Korkerd	Mahidol University	797/1000
Spring 2015	Yuvraj Gupta Manu Shrot	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	631
Fall 2014	Ismail Jangda	Schulich School of Business	679
Spring 2014	Mike Veigel	University of North Alabama	804
Fall 2013	Dhiraj Lohiya	SPJIMR	822
Spring 2013	Curtis Wallette	University of Montana	835
Fall 2012	Sonia Apsingekar Vikalp Babelay Gaurav Sapra Viraj Kulkarni	SPJIMR	777
Spring 2012	Christopher Steffes	Michigan State University	926
Fall 2011	Rick Davenport	Midway College	790
Spring 2011	Ren Long Chan	McMaster University	831
Fall 2010	Ramanarayanan K	IIM Bangalore	860
Spring 2010	Richard Powell	University of Redlands – San Diego Campus	910
Fall 2009	Kiran V Holla	IIM Bangalore	864
Spring 2009	Ho Chi Hong	HKUST	806
Fall 2008	Tom Kung	National Cheng Chi University	803
Spring 2008	Kallol Chaudhuri	University of Pennsylvania	796
Fall 2007	Kerim Koyunoglu	The University of Melbourne	822
Spring 2007	Brent Corbitt	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	904
Fall 2006	Bryan J. Rathman	Kutztown University	$165,735,218
Spring 2006	Amy Chittick-Kulper James Guido	Kennesaw State University	$133,278,276
Fall 2005	Jim LaRocca Joe Leonard	Baldwin-Wallace College	$80,465,663
Spring 2005	Ian Goh Kok Loong (Rodney) Lim	Curtin University of Technology	$152,358,170
Fall 2004	Mathew Gardner Morgan Gough	University of British Columbia	$171,230,796
Spring 2004	Abdulla Udaipurwala	Stevens Institute of Technology	$202,847,624
Fall 2003	Vipul Goradia	University of Toledo	$145,704,375
Spring 2003	Scott Barnett	Vanderbilt University	$172,819,920
Fall 2002	Cheong Chew	University of Central Oklahoma	$182,838,524
Spring 2002	Felix Kreh Daniel Copeland Jakob Thoisen	Southeast Missouri State University	$281,135,759
Fall 2001	Dennis Legori Michael Kelly	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	$104,261,576
Fall 2001	Osman Guner Marvin Waldman	University California San Diego	$249,894,560
Spring 2001	Dipti Patel-Misra Robert Rodgers Eric Sprink	University North Carolina Chapel Hill	$358,359,288

*Two iterations of the Capstone Challenge finals were delivered in Spring 2019 due to scheduling conflicts among participants.

Foundation Hall of Fame

Challenge	Name(s)	School	Score/Profit
Fall 2024	Muthu Kumaran R Venkatasai Jonnadula	Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India	790/1000
Spring 2024	Cami Reece	Brigham Young University - Idaho	796/1000
Fall 2023	Mohanad Hany	The American University in Cairo	612/1000
Spring 2023	Shriram Balaji	Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India	731/1000
Fall 2022	Reece Nicholas  Stammen	Bowling Green  State University	745/1000
Spring 2022	Hunter Rogers	Brigham Young University - Idaho	821/1000
Fall 2021	Luke Le	Lawrence University	808/1000
Spring 2021	Timothy Shiveley	University of Texas at Dallas	820/1000
Fall 2020	Cynthia Orton	Brigham Young University – Idaho	704/1000
Spring 2020	Kamil Bubinski Maciej Milcarz	University of Warsaw	664/1000
Fall 2019	Matthew Lucas Emily DeCamp Kile McKee Caleb Pollert	Purdue University	770/1000
Spring 2019	Benjamin Cook Jackson Fordyce	The Kings College	852/1000
Fall 2018	Brendan Wiley	University of Texas at Dallas	844/1000
Spring 2018	Rodolfo Valdez Enoma Osakue	The King’s College	720/1000
Fall 2017	Ryan Su	University of Texas at Arlington	738/1000
Spring 2017	Sirimon Makarananda	Thammasat University	743/1000
Fall 2016	Aleksandr Fominykh	Brigham Young University – Idaho	750/1000
Spring 2016	Brian York	Illinois State University	651/1000
Fall 2015	Oliver Coates Chris Scrip	University of Alabama in Huntsville	705/1000
Spring 2015	William Reimann	The University of Texas at Arlington	717
Fall 2014	Supap Taratippitak	Mahidol University	826
Spring 2014	Napat Pongsamart	Mahidol University	781
Fall 2013	Kongphop Sahasakula	Mahidol University	767
Spring 2013	Jared Anderson Joseph Barker	Brighan Young University – Idaho	782
Fall 2012	DeMarcus Jones	Lenoir-Rhyne University	762
Spring 2012	Tanner Lambert	Montana State University – Billings	746
Fall 2011	Tyler Melugin Robert Stricklin	Montana State University – Billings	725
Spring 2011	Zoey McRae	Montana State University – Billings	757
Fall 2010	Robert Woodward	Brigham Young University – Idaho	744
Fall 2010	Sam Bradshaw Justin Johnson Alexander Malana Bill Reaugh Shaun Youngberg	Drexel University	805
Fall 2009	Jacob Rewerts	University of Iowa	756
Spring 2009	Tom Molter Tom Murtaugh	Drexel University	764
Fall 2008	Bocheng Lin	University of Illinois at Chicago	757
Spring 2008	Julian Bauer	DePaul University	748
Fall 2007	Christina F. Vaughn	NorthWest Arkansas Community College	776
Spring 2007	Christopher Stanton Christine Snyder Michael Ely	Capital University	705
Fall 2006	Keeran Raaj Raja Ratnam Thiam Song Ng	University of Technology, Sydney	$65,561,803
Spring 2006	Sherry Murphy	Montana State University – Billings	$113,217,275
Fall 2005	Troy Fix	Montana State University – Billings	$88,976,005
Spring 2005	Eddie Minkoff	The University of California – San Diego	$97,103,095
Fall 2004	Eric Zerphy Ed O’Donnell Kevin Shmihluk Kurt Kaminsky	Drexel University	$136,009,115
Spring 2004	Amy Chittick-Kulper James Guido	Kennesaw State University	$113,065,267
Fall 2003	Brett Cormier	Montana State University – Billings	$143,478,423
Spring 2003	Kevin Ross	University of New Orleans	$130,388,956
Fall 2002	Andreas Peter	University of New Orleans	$54,858,272
Spring 2002	David Crouy Peter Landolfi	University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth	$127,009,745

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