It has been held at the Grand Floridian Resort in Walt Disney World each spring, usually in April, after 2015.
Participating counties are separated into three divisions based on their full-time enrollment numbers for grades 9-12.
The questions asked become progressively harder in each round and cover a variety of fields including English, math, science, social studies, art, music, foreign language (French and Spanish), technology, and multi-subject.
A panel of judges is present in each competition room to deliberate if a challenge is declared by a team.
Some questions, such as foreign language, music, art and physics are written and are distributed on handouts, simultaneously, to all participants.