Adam Fine wrote: "No offense to the team from Georgia Tech in particular, but how did they get a bid? Based on stats on the NAQT SCT Results page..." OK, fair enough. Adam has successfully passed the "one of these teams is not like the others" test, in that Georgia Tech is indeed so far the only invited team whose invitation stems not from SCT performance (or hosting, or being British). The general NAQT procedure for issuing Division I ICT invitations (as described on the mailing list at the beginning of last December, I believe), calls for us to start with SCT considerations as the sole thing we look at for the first 90% of available invitations -- for a 40 team field, that is the first 36 invitations. Those first 36 were filled by the 14 automatics to SCT overall and undergraduate champions (Arkansas, Berry, Cal Tech, Carleton, Case Western Reserve, Chicago, Georgia, Michigan A, Oklahoma, Penn State Princeton, Queens, South Carolina, Univ. of Washington), 18 invitations to the teams we ranked as having the strongest SCT performance without being an automatic (Cornell, Duke, Florida, Harvard A, Harvard B, Illinois A, Illinois B, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan B, Ohio Wesleyan, Penn, Stanford, Swarthmore, Texas, Wisconsin, Yale), and 4 invitations to hosts not yet invited, wishing to play Div. I (Berkeley, Northwestern, Virginia, Waterloo). Note: hosts BGSU and UT-C elected to use their host automatic for Division II, an option available only for a team not playing a Div. I team at the ICT. The other three hosts (Harvard, Oklahoma, and Washington) qualified teams through performance, and so do not use their host-automatic.
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