Re: NAQT ICT Division I Field (2 of 2)

ehillema · Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:39:12 -0800

After the first 90% of invitations are determined
solely by reference to SCT results as above, we then
make additional invitations in the following order of
priority:

1. Honoring any special commitments made regarding
invitations to winners of special events or teams from
outside the U.S. and Canada, if any.
2. Overall
champions at a CCT who were unable to attend an SCT because
none were held within 450 miles of their school.
3.
Overall champions at a CCT who have not already been
invited, whether or not they attended an SCT.
4.
Overall 2nd-place teams at a CCT who were unable to
attend an SCT because none were held within 450 miles of
their school.
5. Overall 2nd-place teams at a CCT
who have not already been invited, whether or not
they attended an SCT.
(Invitations due to the
criteria above will be issued automatically so long as
places in the field remain unfilled. Invitations due to
criteria #6 below, which will be applied only to a team
that attended neither an SCT nor a CCT due to our
having failed to locate either tournament within 450
miles of them, will be issued only if such a team takes
the step of informing us of their interest in
attending the ICT.)
6. Winners of any intercollegiate
academic quiz tournament held in the current competition
year that was open either to any enrolled student or
to any enrolled undergraduate student, and that
involved at least nine teams from at least five different
schools.
(After running through these criteria, we then return to
the SCT performance rankings.)

Three teams
from the UK have had spots reserved for them under
criteria #1 above. No team qualifies under criteria #2.
Under criteria #3 two teams qualify, Georgia Tech and
Texas A&M. Georgia Tech got the first nod, for being a
CCT champion in a field with 9 Division I teams,
while Texas A&M's CCT championship was in smaller
field. Therefore Georgia Tech got the last of the
initial invitations on that basis, and Texas A&M is first
on the waitlist.

After that, no teams qualify
under criteria #4. Under #5, four teams qualify as
teams that took (or tied for) 2nd place at a fall CCT,
and these are presently the teams that are 2nd, 3rd,
4th, and 5th on the waitlist. In order, based on the
size of the Div. I fields at those CCTs, those teams
are Johns Hopkins, Southern Cal, Florida State, and
Oklahoma B. (The Oklahoma team taking 2nd at the CCT
having no player overlapping with the Oklahoma team that
already qualified through the SCT; otherwise they would
not be able to have a second team considered via this
route.)

Positions 6 and south on the waitlist (not publicly
announced) then return to the order of our rankings of SCT
performance. Those teams will be informed of their position as
(if) we do in fact get that deep into the waitlist due
to teams declining their invitations.