This is a question that I still haven't seen clarified, in either Samer's or Eric's post. If a second division one team for a school (intentionally avoiding the term "B team") qualifies mathematically for a bid (i.e. is among the 14 or so teams Eric refers to to fill out the 32 slots that are allocated based solely on sectionals performance), they do get it, don't they? NAQT just takes "the top 14 (or so)" teams their formula spits out, and those bids are not altered based on external considerations, correct? The only thing that determines who gets those bids is their sectionals performance, as calculated through that complex formula. Eric's message (excerpted below) seems to imply that only after these 32 teams get their bids and the final 4 "at large" bids are being handed out are second teams automatically excluded. Thanks for the clarification. MD Eric Hilleman wrote: We don't have the statistics yet from all of the sectionals, so it is hazardous to predict too much, but probably several of the schools Samer lists for their IFT high placements will already have qualified by this point, in the 14 (or so) invitations that rounded out the first 32. The "B" teams that he lists won't be included -- I did not make clear in my earlier outline of the process I guess that invitations from this category go only to schools who have not otherwise qualified a team; not to add "B" teams.
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