The 2009 Purple Comet! Math Meet has completed and the full results are posted here.
Many Metroplex Math Circle attendees participated including the Archimedes’ Successors team which earned an Honorable Mention in the mixed middle school division:
- First Place(tie): Philippine Team A (Mathematics Trainers Guild Philippines), VASS (Longfellow Middle School), All-Asian Social Turndowns (AAST) with 15 out of 15 correct.
- Fourth Place(tie): Indigo 2 (PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL), Indigo 4 (PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL), Calculators (BASIC Homeschools), Indigo 3 (PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL) with 14 out of 15 correct.
- Honorable mentions go to ICAE Gauss was a Boss (ICAE), ICAE Bananas (ICAE), Eagles Rumble (Heritage Christian School), Brookings Home School (Brookings Home School), MyTJPrep (Multiple schools/MyTJPrep), Segimwony (St Mary School), Archimedes’ Successors (Eudaimonia Homeschool Academy), Central Maryland Homeschoolers (Central Maryland Homeschoolers)
Designed by Dr. Titu Andreescu and Dr. Jonathan Kane this contest is very challenging. The Purple Comet organizers provide coaches with the following counsel:
Coaches: Please encourage your teams that scores below 50% are not uncommon. The problems offered in these meets are of the same calibre as those offered in the top national mathematics exams, and can be quite challenging. We are very pleased to see teams performing as well as they have, and we know they will rise to the challenge and perform even better in the meets to come.
Metroplex Math Circle 
I first discovered Purple Comet last year. This was the first test that I had found that really challenged my very top kids. I like the fact that they are very similar to Mathcounts just harder. I also like the fact that my kids can challenge themselves against high school kids. My top two team love taking the high school test to see how they compare. (This year one of the teams was 5th in the HS contest). I will be using this test to evaluate my kids at the end of every year from now on.