Division I: STAGE 1: For approximately the first 90% of invitations (this year, with a 36-team field, this is the first 32 invitations): 1. All SCT winners, undergraduate champions, and SCT hosts get an automatic invitation. (Hosts may choose to use their automatic invitation in either Division I or Division II. Separate qualification by a host of a Division II team will not affect using the automatic for Division I. Separate qualification by a host of a Division I team, however, dissolves the automatic invitation -- a host that also qualifies a Division I team through SCT performance may not use their guarantee to enter an additional team in the tournament, in either division.) 2. The remaining Division I teams from the SCTs are ranked according to their SCT performance by a statistical method based on tossup points scored per tossup heard, adjusted for strength of schedule; bonus conversion; and a small adjustment based on won-loss record. The balance of the first 90% of invitations are issued based strictly upon this ranking. STAGE 2: Additional invitations (and waitlist order) are now issued in the following order of priority, with NAQT to determine any additional tiebreaking procedure that ever becomes necessary: (3. Honoring of any special commitments made regarding invitations to winners of special events or two teams from Britain or elsewhere, if any.) [Two spots--33 and 34 in the Division I field this year--are being offered to British teams based upon results of the British NAQT championships.] 4. Overall champions at an IFT who were unable to attend an SCT because none were held within 450 miles of their school. 5. Undergraduate champions at an IFT who were unable to attend an SCT because none were held within 450 miles of their school. 6. Overall champions at an IFT who have not already been invited, whether or not they attended an SCT. 7. Undergraduate champions at an IFT who have not already been invited, whether or not they attended an SCT. 8. Overall 2nd-place teams at an IFT who were unable to attend an SCT because none were held within 450 miles of their school. (Invitations due to the criteria above will be issued automatically by NAQT so long as places in the field remain unfilled. Invitations due to criteria #9 below, which will be applied only to a team that attended neither an SCT nor an ICF due to our having failed to locate either tournament within 450 miles of them, will be issued only if such a team takes the step of informing us of their interest in attending the ICT.) 9. Winners of any intercollegiate academic quiz tournament held in the current academic competition season that was open either to any enrolled student or to any enrolled undergraduate student, and that involved at least nine teams from at least five different schools.
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