Oh, God, sports analogies.
All I'm saying is I think it would be ideal to issue ICT invitations
to the schools that are most likely to perform the best at the ICT
based on their SCT performance. I don't place a high priority on
having the ICT be "representative of every region on the continent"
because I think that attempts to make national tournaments broadly
representative in this sense can lead to having some very weak teams
at those tournaments (CBI is the extreme case).
I see that you do place a high priority on representing a lot of
regions at the ICT (as does NAQT). This is a difference of opinion,
which I don't think requires a great deal of pearl-clutching about my
opinion of the prowess of eastern Canadian teams (I really have no
opinion in the matter, though I'm not sure how my saying that one team
from that region had fairly low stats this year among teams that got
ICT bids, and that another had pretty good stats last year,
constitutes painting y'all as terrible, especially since I mentioned
outlier teams from other regions as well. Thanks for trying to change
my "opinion" with your mention of beating a team of Michigan frosh on
high school questions, though!)
I don't really have anything more to say about this, especially on
this board.
Susan