MCM/ICM is an internationally renowned mathematical modeling competition, known as the "Olympics" in the field of mathematical modeling, among which winning the H prize is considered as one of the highest honors. H award is one of the highest honors of MCM/ICM. Before 20 18, the h prize and the I prize were collectively called the grand prize; After 20 19, the h prize became the highest honor and the I prize became the second highest award.

There are not many winners of the H Prize. Generally, only 5-8 teams in the world can win this honor every year. Winners of the H Prize are eligible to be candidates for outstanding engineers, mathematicians or scientists at the University of Washington in the United States, and can receive presidential scholarships from the President of the United States. This shows the influence and gold content of the H Prize in academic circles.

According to Messer official website, Messer scored the team in three dimensions: modeling quality: focusing on the effectiveness, rationality, accuracy and scientificity of the model; Document quality: mainly focus on the paper quality, writing specifications and technical specifications in the report; Performance quality: including showing competition events, stating answers and explaining the complexity of the model.

Only by reaching a certain level in these aspects can we win MCM (USA) or ICM (International Mathematical Modeling Competition) awards. The grand prize (now the H prize) needs to achieve excellent performance in all three dimensions.

At the same time, it should be noted that certain "uncertain conditions" need to be met in order to win the prize. Specifically, the papers submitted by team members must be "completely defective", that is, there must be some potential and unresolved problems in the papers, which must be confirmed by the questioner.

From a global perspective, beauty contest should be one of the most valuable competitions in the field of mathematical modeling. Other international mathematical modeling competitions also have high gold content, such as IMC (International Mathematical Modeling Competition) and IFM (Invitational Tournament? Modeling? Competition), UMCM (British Mathematical Trust Problem), etc.