--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, tak_seorangpun <no_reply_at_y...> wrote: > Suppose that fewer than four teams play in a division at an SCT. > According to NAQT's new rules, the champion does not qualify > automatically for the ICT. NAQT will use a secret formula to decide > which teams qualify -- and nothing that NAQT has revealed about the > formula rules out the possibility that the champion might *not* get > invited while a *different* team from the same division of the same > SCT does get invited. Can someone from NAQT assure us that either (1) > the secret formula guarantees that this will not happen, or (2) it's > possible that this might happen, and NAQT has thought about this and > has decided that it makes sense? Peter -- The answer is (2). It is possible that that might happen and NAQT has thought about that and decided that it makes sense. An extreme case would be one in which 2 DI teams play with 10 DII teams, the first team wins its games by an average of 400 points and gets 80% of the tossups but loses to the other DI team by 5 points. The other DI team beats the DII teams by an average of 5 points and answers 35% of the tossups. In this case, at least, S-values will cause the first DI team to be invited ahead of the second, even though the second is the champion of the SCT. NAQT believes that there is strong reason to think that the first team will do (much) better at the ICT than the second, despite the second team's championship. -- R. Robert Hentzel President and Chief Technical Officer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
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