Re: [quizbowl] Re: What's up with NAQT ICT Invitations

Gordon Arsenoff <*ga001m_at_alexandercurtis.yahoo.invalid*> · Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:34:11 -0400

I don't have anything substantive to add except to congratulate Andy on keeping
his University Senate seat, a feat I sadly was not able to replicate this
September.

However, speaking for one of the UG champion teams that didn't receive a bid, if
it comes down to Rochester going home with our big honkin' trophy and missing
the ICT because that one British team decides this was finally the year, we're
quite all right with that.

(Seriously, it's taller than our 3rd place trophy from the '05 ICT.  Mad props,
Casey.)

Gordon 

> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Susan Ferrari" <srferrar_at_...> wrote:
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> > Oh, God, sports analogies.
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> > 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
> >
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> I don't agree with that. If a team wins their sectional championship,
> they should automatically receive a bid to the ICT. NAQT already takes
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> the difference in sectional strengths by awarding the wild-card bids. 
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> Maybe there were some uninvited schools that had better statistical
> numbers than we did, but the solution would be to expand the field and
> not to deny a sectionals champion their rightful spot in the ICT. What
> would be the point of holding the SCT if the champion(s) are not
> guaranteed a spot in the ICT field?
> 
> Matt Hayes
> UL Lafayette Quiz Bowl
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