Not to put a dent in your point, John, but I'm guessing that the Rochester team that is #1 on the waitlist is courtesy of Fred Bush's performance at your SCT, and not the performance at the East SCT. Additionally, there were fewer than 4 D1 UG teams in each SCT that you mention; thay may well have had something to do with it. Andy Saunders President, Brock Trivia andy_at_... Solter, John A wrote: >Did anyone else notice that in the regions where both the Div. 1 and Undergrad titles were contested (and both titles were not won by an Undergrad team) only half of the Undergrad winners got bids to the ICT? > >Those teams not getting a bid were: >Rochester >UT-Chattanooga >Baylor >(Rochester is number one on the waitlist, and the other two teams are not in the top six on the waitlist) > >Teams who did not win a title or host an SCT but still got bids to the ICT are: > >* Carnegie Mellon >* Florida >* Harvard >* Michigan >* Minnesota >* North Carolina >* Princeton >* USC >* Stanford >* Virginia Commonwealth >* Wisconsin > >and on the displayed waitlist, Rutgers, Dartmouth, South Florida, and Columbia won no titles. > >I know NAQT supposedly has some hush hush formula to tell them what the best teams are, >but how does that translate into denying title winners the right to play? > >The disparity between regions in the bid process has been remarked on before, but this year it is getting a bit ridiculous. If you showed up to the Northeast SCT, you barely had to get a .333 win percentage to get a bid or be put in the top six of the waitlist (7 of 9 Northeast region teams fit that description). In the Southwest, unless you were Texas A&M, you're out in the cold. > >I resent the message that it is not enough to beat all the Undergrad teams, I also have to beat teams composed of doctoral candidates and 40-year-olds in order to get to the ICT. > >John Solter >Baylor Quiz Bowl >
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