ZAMM Phaedrus wrote: "NAQT SCTs this year had, by my count, 145 teams, but they came from 76 schools." That is accurate for the 10 "regular" NAQT sectionals, but doesn't include the 3 SCTs for two-year colleges. Counting those (but not the British championships), 177 teams participated in the NAQT SCTs, our third straight year of increase. We are happy it's that high, and wish it were a great deal higher! CBCI has many many more total schools involved. NAQT is pleased, though, that virtually all of the schools perceived as having "top" quizbowl teams do participate in our events. Taking as a convenient index the most recent Top-25 poll (message 8018), all of the top 35 votegetting schools are NAQT regulars, and 34 of the top 35 participated in our just-completed SCTs. (All except Duke.) Here, not overall numbers, is where we can claim a "prestige" edge over CBCI: by my unverified count, only 3 of the top 10 teams in the poll played in CBCI regionals, and only 6 of the top 22 teams in the poll did so. My NAQT affiliation makes me not the appropriate person to harp on why that may be, but it gives us something to be pleased with even as we envy CBCI's continuing advantage over us in terms of overall number of schools. Eric Hillemann NAQT VP for Development, among other titles
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