Shawn H. writes : "1. NAQT might want to consider stipulating that for next year's qualification, any player that qualitfies on a DivI team must play at the DivI level for the ICT... Pitt's DivI team needed some help in order to stay afloat without him in the nationals field." I agree with you, Shawn. I'm not saying Pitt did anything wrong, since they fully complied with the rules as they now exist. But the sort of "arbitrage"-style strategies as to how to change divisions to qualify two teams potentially deprived a team that could have significantly outperformed the team with that switched composition once it qualified for a spot. I don't think it's too much to ask for NAQT to tell programs to make up their minds about player eligibility at SCT. "2. Speaking of mid-Atlantic play, outside of UVA and Princeton A, the three other qualifying teams from the region combined to go 17-28. Need I say more about NAQT's dubious choice of teams in the region this year? " Actually, that's not entirely fair, even though I too believe some of the wrong teams were picked to go to St. Louis. Both Pitt and Penn (for different reasons) sent demonstrably weaker teams to ICT than to SCT ; Penn State declined their invite, leaving Princeton B to essentially take their spot.
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