United States of America

The United States of America, also known as the US, is one of the active delegations of IOL.

Summary
The United States first competed in the IOL in 2007, and has competed in 13 olympiads. They most recently competed in 2019. They have sent 108 participants in 27 teams.

In competition, teams from the United States have brought home 74 medals (19 gold, 35 silver and 20 bronze), 11 trophies (8 gold and 3 silver), 8 first-place team cups, 22 best-solution prizes, 20 honorable mentions and 2 team contest honorable mentions.

In addition, the United States has sent 14 Repeat Medalists and 8 Dream Teams to the Hall of Fame.

The US teams are chosen through the NACLO, North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition

History
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Team selection
The US teams are chosen through 2 rounds: the Open Round and the Invitational Round of the NACLO. The Open Round is open to all interested high school students, while the Invitational Round is given to the top 10% of scorers in the Open Round. The 4 highest scorers form the USA Red team, while the next 4 top scorers form the USA Blue team. The next 4 top scorers are alternates, and compete if one or more of the top 8 scorers of the exam are unavailable to participate.

Previous Host
The United States hosted IOL in 2011.

Trivia

 * The runner of IOL Jeopardy, Dragomir Radev, is one of the US Coaches