# How to get score

As noted above, the total contest points earned in a contest are the sum of each participant's average contest points, so the design is such that if an Auditor is competing in an Audit with a relatively weak or relatively strong participant, the Auditor is not given an unfair advantage or disadvantage.

Each Auditor then receives a score based on the amount of high and medium severity reports sent.

> **Note**: In AuditDAO contests, only Medium and High vulnerabilities count as assignment points; there is no reward for submitting Low or Informational questions.

The points awarded for each report submitted for a particular contest are called Issue Points. Payouts from Auditer's Contest Points and Prize Pool are determined by calculating the percentage of all Issue Points awarded and multiplying that percentage by the total Contest Points earned in the contest and the total Prize Pool.

Auditor's Ranking Points = (Aditor's Issue Points / All Auditer's Issue Points) \* (Total Contest Points earned in the contest) Auditer's Prize Pool = (Auditer's Issue Points / All Auditer's Issue Points) \* (Total Prize Pool available)

The Auditer issue points earned are weighted based on severity and calculated taking into account civil tolerance. To give credit where credit is due, the Code4rena team designed an innovative formula. This means that contestants will no longer submit their findings under multiple identities in order to win more prize pools (i.e., Sybil). They will do this by awarding a larger proportional portion of the prize pool based on the uniqueness as well as the seriousness of the finding. If more than one person finds the same problem, their cumulative score will be lower than if one person found it, effectively penalizing the individual who attempts to "attack" the finding. Thus, in the AuditDAO system, issues of high importance are weighted five times more than issues of medium importance.

Weight of medium risk issues = 1 \* (0.9 ^ (IssueSubmissions - 1)) / IssueSubmissions Weight of high risk issues = 5 \* (0.9 ^ (IssueSubmissions - 1)) / IssueSubmissions
