Re: NAQT and tiebreakers

"It's true that, as the page says, SFU C
(Division II) had a 7-3 record and SFU A (Division I) had a
6-5 record, but the Division I and II fields were
separated after the combined round-robin. After the
Division I rounds, SFU A and Whitman A were the top
Division I all-undergrad teams, both with 5-5 records, so
they played a final game to decide the Undergraduate
championship. SFU A won that game."

Ack! OK, the fault
was mine in not yet looking past the records and
standings as listed on the spreadsheet of results that was
sent. The host hadn't explained the format employed,
but did say that SFU A was the undergraduate
champion. Looking at the won-loss records, I mistakenly
thought this was an error arising from an assumption that
a Division II team wasn't eligible for the UG title
(which they are, in a combined field). I didn't look
closely enough to see that this tournament was partly
combined and partly separated, and that it played an
undergraduate title game.

So now I'm glad Peter pointed
this out before we announced invitations. Which we are
just about ready to do, pending word on which division
a couple of our hosts are choosing, and a search
for some missing playoff statistics in the Midsouth,
which could make a difference for a team or two
there.

Eric Hillemann
NAQT invitations
coordinator

P.S. There are a few errors on the website results
page right now, though not involving champions --
corrections to some teams' won-lost records, mostly. These
have been reported, but due to one person's moving and
another's being on the road, may or may not be corrected
immediately. Ditto for the correction of the 2001 title.

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