NAQT sectionals begin in 12 days, and registration at some sectionals closes in 6 days. NAQT's SCT web page is at <a href=http://www.naqt.com/sct/2002/2002-sct-host-announcement.html target=new>http://www.naqt.com/sct/2002/2002-sct-host-announcement.html</a> Message 4201 on this board, posted by the president of NAQT, includes additional information about the 2002 SCT's that is absent from the NAQT website: << * SCT champions (Overall, Undergraduate, and Division II) and SCT hosts are automatically invited to the ICT. The remaining places in the ICT field will be decided by statistical and order-of-finish comparisons in order to correct for differences in the strength of the field faced in different regions. >> In the past, NAQT has allowed the host of an SCT to use a formula to rank its teams in order of finish in each division, while at the same time NAQT used a method of choosing teams for the ICT that could, and did, result in lower-ranked teams being invited while higher-ranked teams from the same division of the same sectional were not. Will NAQT be using the same algorithm this year? Whether it changes or not, will NAQT reveal the algorithm to be used this year, or will it remain a trade secret? Message 7641 contains the "Preannouncement" of the Midwest Sectional at Washington University in St. Louis, which states that, unlike in previous years: << the packet sets for Division I and II are going to be the same this year >> Will this also be true at other SCT locations?
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