NAQT SCT Northeast Div II result

ehillema · Tue, 15 Feb 2000 06:31:05 -0800

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>Harvard College Bowl would like to announce the
successful completion of
>the NAQT Northeast Sectional
Championship Tournament, held February
12,
>2000.
>
>Princeton swept both divisions, with Princeton Winkin
triumphing in
>Division I with a 14-1 record, and
Princeton Drinkin capturing Division II
>on tiebreaks
with an 11-2 record. Both divisions were held in a
full round
>robin.

>DIVISION
II
>===========
>
>Princeton Drinkin 11 2 (won head-to-head)
>Harvard
Jack Ruby 11 2

Actually, NAQT will recognize
Princeton and Harvard as co-champions in Division II, as
our policy is that ties in SCT competition for any of
our titles (overall, undergrad title, or Division II
title) "shall be resolved by additional head to head
competition, of one or more tiebreaker games." The quote is
from the proposal we adopted in NAQT when establishing
separate divisions and resolving that we would recognize a
separate undergraduate title -- only it seems we never
translated the policy into our published rules, and
neglected this year to inform hosts that ties for these
titles should be broken only with an additional game or
series of games. Since the Princeton-Harvard playoff
that we would have required as a tiebreaker wasn't
played (entirely through our own oversight in
communicating the policy; no fault accruing to our most
excellent hosts at Harvard), our remedy is to recognize
officially both teams as co-champions. Each team will,
accordingly, receive automatic invitations to the
ICT--congratulations to both!

For the record, NAQT's policy is
not to use head-to-head results nor any of the common
total points/point differential criteria as tiebreakers
for final standings at all -- if the tie is for one
of our titles, it should be broken by additional
game play if possible, or else the tie is allowed to
stand; if the tie is for non-title positioning in
standings, in our eyes the tie simply stands as is. (If more
than two teams are tied by won-loss record for a
title, no team should be eliminated using any method
other than additional playoff games--though other
tiebreakers could be employed to determine, for example,
which of three teams tied would receive a bye while the
other two played-off for the right to face the third
team for the title.) We will make certain that this
policy finds a place in our official rules, and that it
is communicated in future to the hosts of our
tournaments!

Eric Hillemann, for NAQT