Eric Hillemann of NAQT writes: << Host guidelines for the SCTs contained this: "Ties that have no consequences for awarding any of the three titles, or for advancing into playoffs or further bracketed play, need not be resolved, they are simply left as ties. Ties that do need to be broken should be done by playing additional partial or full game(s) as needed, if at all possible -- that is, unless all 20 rounds provided are already being used. In no case should previously used head-to-head results or points-based statistical comparisons be used as tiebreakers for NAQT SCT events." >> Where were these guidelines posted? I couldn't find them by following links from <a href=http://www.naqt.com, target=new>http://www.naqt.com,</a> which would be the obvious place for anyone to look for them. I don't remember them being posted to this board, either. The closest I could find was in message 8412, where Eric "speaking for himself, not for NAQT" writes: << The host requirements are at www.naqt.com/2002-sct-host-call.html >> This page says something similar to the lines quoted above, but not in the same words. I should add that this appears to be a hidden web page, not linked from any other page at the NAQT website. The 2002 host call web page also includes this paragraph: Hosts must offer separate Division II competition if at least four teams are interested. Hosts must offer separate Division I competition if at least four teams are interested. But then in message 8549 here, Eric writes: << Sectionals must have separate play if there are four or more teams registered in each division. >> which is a lot more sensible, but it contradicts the host requirements web page. Also in 8549, Eric writes (7 days ago): << Technically, the top Div. II team at last year's NW Sectional was that tournament's undergraduate champion as well, even if it didn't occur to us at the time to list them as such. >> The page at <a href=http://www.naqt.com/Results/2001-sct-results.html target=new>http://www.naqt.com/Results/2001-sct-results.html</a> still does not list them as such, even though NAQT has since updated its website to list all of the 2002 SCT championship teams. Actually I couldn't find anything on the NAQT website that says which teams are eligible for an SCT Undergraduate championship. In practice, it seems that if an SCT had a combined field then the top all-undergrad team won the championship, but if the divisions played separately then the top Division I all-undergrad team won it. Is this correct, that Division II teams may be ineligible for the Undergraduate championship? Are the rules written down anywhere? Back to 8752, Eric writes: << I believe that NAQT will be giving more prominence, with a webpage in future, to our rules for tiebreakers, and to offering recommended and acceptable SCT formats meeting our guidelines (at least 12 games for everyone and fair determination of titles) for any field size from 4 to perhaps 24 teams. >> >From a glance at the numbers at <a href=http://www.naqt.com/Results/2002-sct-results.html target=new>http://www.naqt.com/Results/2002-sct-results.html</a> it appears that fully half of last weekend's sectionals had at least one team that played fewer than 12 games.
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