2016 NAQT ICT: Chicago, April 9

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NAQT's twentieth Intercollegiate Championship Tournament will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, IL (a suburb of Chicago near O'Hare International Airport). Additional logistical details will be provided later.

Current field

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Additional logistical details will be provided later.

Full details

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The wildcard application for the 2016 ICT is now available. Our deadline for consideration is Monday, February 8, 2016. As usual, ICT wildcards should be limited to those teams who find it difficult or impossible to attend SCT due to travel costs (plausible examples might be: "we are one of the handful of teams affected by the cancellation of the Northwest SCT," "we are a British team who wishes to play the 2016 ICT," etc.)

wildcard application here

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Preliminary D-values for the 2016 ICT: Division I, Division II

Please contact us ([email protected]) if you find any errors or discrepancies.

[Church51907]

When do you anticipate sending out bids for ICT?

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2016 ICT invitations

[Judson Laipply]

Does registering a team for standby affect that team's place on the ordinary waitlist?

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No. The same team may simultaneously exist on both the waitlist and the standby list.

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Please note that the invitation deadline for the 2016 ICT is tomorrow, Friday, February 19th. If your team has an outstanding invitation to ICT, please contact us as soon as possible ([email protected]) to accept, decline, or arrange for an extension.

Current ICT field

ICT invitation statuses

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The cutoff for making room reservations at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare for the 2016 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament is 5:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday, March 23. After this, unused rooms in the NAQT block may be released and the hotel is no longer obligated to honor our group rate.

[jonah]

The schedules are now posted (Division I, Division II).

[AKKOLADE]

Naming brackets after serial killer suspects and Ted Cruz sure was a decision.

[Rufous-capped Thornbill]

Naming brackets after serial killer suspects and Ted Cruz sure was a decision.

Naming brackets is the only fun that a TD is allowed to have and we should support them no matter what.

[Stained Diviner]

Did you miss that meme?

[AKKOLADE]

Did you miss that meme?

Nope.

[Ewan MacAulay]

Is there any possibility that someone will be live streaming/blogging/tweeting the final like for HSNCT?

[AKKOLADE]

Naming brackets after serial killer suspects and Ted Cruz sure was a decision.

Naming brackets is the only fun that a TD is allowed to have and we should support them no matter what.

also nah

Like, if some individual school did this, I probably wouldn't complain because it's one kid at one school and whatever.

But it's kinda screwed up to name brackets after suspected serial killers in the first place, and it's certainly messed up for NAQT to be doing this given their place in quiz bowl.

[MLafer]

Kinda screwed up to call people serial killers who have never been charged with killing a single person.

[AKKOLADE]

My apologies for omitting alleged.

[Sigurd]

Not to break up the serial killer chat, but the ending of this tournament looks wonderful
Considering the final round of matches has Chicago (10-2)vs Michigan (11-1), Stanford (10-2)vs Yale(10-2), Maryland(10-2) vs Columbia (7-5), and Penn (7-5) vs MIT (6-6).

The finals scenario's include:

Michigan and Columbia win -->Michigan advantaged final vs the winner of Stanford/Yale
Michigan and Maryland win -->Michigan advantaged final vs winner of tiebreaker between Maryland and Stanford/Yale
Chicago and Columbia win -->Three way tie between Chicago, Michigan and Stanford/Yale
Chicago and Maryland win -->Four way tie for first place with Michigan, Chicago, Maryland and Stanford/Yale all at 11-2

I for one, never though I'd see a single elimination playoff at a quizbowl tournament, but that seems decently likely now with the top 5 so close

[Correct me if I'm wrong, but a 4 way tie for first is resolved through 1v4,2v3 followed by one game final of the winners, right?]


EDIT: IT"S HAPPENING!

[lumosityfan]

And Chicago is your 2016 ICT Division I and II National Champions! Chicago defeated Michigan in a thrilling final in Division I and Oklahoma in Division II to claim both titles! Way to go! Congratulations to all who participated!

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Congratulations to Chicago A, who defeated Michigan A 400-270 in a one-game final to win the 2016 Division I ICT! Stanford A won the third-place game over Maryland A, 380-325. UC Berkeley A defeated Harvard A 355-195 to claim the Undergraduate title.

In Division II, Chicago B defeated Oklahoma 410-360 in the finals. Virginia claimed third place. Complete team and individual statistics are now available.

[Cheynem]

Is there a private discussion forum for this set?

[theMoMA]

Is there a private discussion forum for this set?

Not yet, but we'll have discussion threads set up today.

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A private discussion forum has now been created; select "2016 ICT discussion" from your user control panel.