We're organising an event where one of the activities is that visitors get different assignments for which they will get points, and then, at the end of the event, the person who has scored the most points will get a small prize. Now I'm wondering whether I could use "scoring contest" for this? I've checked both my bilingual and my monoloingual dictionaries without any luck; when I google "scoring contest" I get a lot of hits, but none that make me certain I can use it in this context. If "scoring contest" doesn't work, what would you suggest instead?
The point is precisely that participants score points for the various assignments, and not for doing the assignments well, but just for doing them – the word we use in my own language translates as "score hunt" or "points hunt". Simply using "contest" seems to imply that the contest is about doing something specific, and doing it well (e.g., "who can build the biggest sand castle?"; "who makes the best pie?" etc), whereas this is really just about collecting points...