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There were 38 6-4 teams. Disadvantaging in excess of half the playoff field seems extreme. With 176 teams in the field it was highly likely that more than 64 teams would have winning records, and the card system guaranteed that there would be a large number of 6-4 teams. There are other alternatives...

Man, that scoreboard is atrocious to look at. Also, it's apparently very slow in terms of being updated - the team with the most games played so far is 8. If you want to make it worse :shock: , type Ctrl-A. :twisted: If you want to make it better, save the page and the open it from where it was sav...

I'll throw out a #5, something else, idea. Current NAQT automatic qualifiers to the national tournament are based upon the top 15% in any event that uses NAQT questions. As long as a percentage is used the number of teams qualifying for nationals will go inevitably up as more schools with more teams...

TJ & Dorman were the other semi final teams.
DCC beat Gov B in the consolation bracket for 13th place.

If you stated a guarantee of all 7-3 teams and then all other teams who have PPG's within a certain range of the weakest of the 7-3 teams' PPG's, you might get a "fairer" answer. [snip] That means this year 27 teams would be automatically in the field as 7-3 teams, and so 37 teams get in ...