2004 ICT Logistics Information

National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC, is pleased to provide additional logistical information about its eighth Intercollegiate Championship Tournament.

Date:

April 2-3, 2004 (Friday/Saturday)

Location:

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Some of the Division II rooms are not disability accessible. Please contact ict@naqt.com if this will be a concern for your team so that arrangements can be made. A campus map is available.

Schedule:

All times are approximate. Official start times will be announced in the near future.

Friday (evening)
5:00-6:30	Check-in	Louderman 458
6:30-7:00	Player meeting	TBA
6:30-7:00	Moderator meeting	TBA
7:00-10:00	Rounds 1-6	TBA

Saturday
9:00-11:30	Rounds 7-11	TBA
11:30-1:30	Lunch (not provided by NAQT or WUSTL)	various
1:30-3:30	Rounds 12-15	TBA
3:30-3:45	Break	various
3:45-4:45	Community College Final	TBA
3:45-4:45	Undergraduate Final	TBA
4:45-5:45	Division II Final	TBA
4:45-5:45	Division I Final	TBA
5:45-6:30	Awards	TBA

Qualification:

Schools qualify to send teams to the ICT through the performance of their teams at Sectional Championship Tournaments in February and at select international events. Details about the way in which schools (and not specific teams or players) qualify for ICT and which players may represent a school at the ICT may be found on the ICT Qualification Page. This page also details the effects on players' Division II eligibility of playing in an SCT or qualifying for or playing at an ICT. NAQT has answers for some frequently asked questions about eligibility online.

Field:

32 Division I teams and 32 Division II teams.

Invitations:

All invitations, waitlists, and standby lists for the ICT for Division I teams and Division II teams are available online. Schools have one week from their reception of an invitation to accept or decline, though they may request an extension from NAQT if additional time is required. The initial bids must therefore be accepted or declined by Friday, February 20, 2004. The acceptance period may be shortened if invitations are awarded nearer to the actual tournament.

To decline an invitation, send e-mail to ict@naqt.com. To accept an invitation, see the section below on Registration.

Format:

In both divisions teams will be initially divided into four pools of eight teams, each of which will play a round-robin (rounds 1-7). These teams will be repooled into four new groups of eight (the top two advance to the top pool, numbers three and four advance to the second pool, and so forth) for a second round-robin. Advancement will be determined by overall record with tie-breaker games or partial-games during round 8 as required by NAQT's tie-breaker policy.

In the second round-robin teams will play the six teams they haven't yet faced (rounds 9-14). At the conclusion of round 14, the top two teams will advance to the finals. This will be determined based on overall record (i.e., teams' records from the first round-robin carry over). Ties for the top two spots will be broken during round 15, if necessary. Tie-breaker games do not count in final records.

If the top two teams have identical records, they will play a one-game final for the championship. If one team has an advantage, they will need to win one game while the other team will need to win two.

In Division I, if the top two undergraduate teams are eight or fewer spots apart in the rankings after round 14, they will play a similar one- or two-game final. If either of the top undergraduate teams is involved in the overall division final, it will be declared the undergraduate champion outright. If both are involved, one final will be played for both crowns.

An analogous procedure will be followed in Division II to decide the Community College title.

Tie-breaker games will also be played during round 15 if necessary to decide third place in either division or subdivision.

Registration:

The registration fee and discounts for the tournament are as follows:

Base fee: $195
Moderator: $60 discount (per experienced moderator)
Buzzer System: $10 discount (per fully-functional system)

Payments should be sent to:

National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
Chad Kubicek, CFO
11521 W 69th Street
Shawnee, KS 66203

Teams should register online to ensure that NAQT has their information. After NAQT receives that registration information, an electronic invoice will be generated. Teams that need paper invoices may request them in the "additional information" box on the registration form. Please note that team rosters may be changed at any time before the start of the ICT so it is neither necessary (or desirable) to wait to register until a team's composition has been definitively decided. Register as soon as possible and, if necessary, re-register when the composition of a team changes.

Copies of the questions used at the tournament will be available for $25 (or $35 for the sets from both divisions). There will be 20 rounds of 28 tossups and 28 bonuses each in Division I, and 20 rounds of 26 tossups and 26 bonuses each in Division II.

These may be purchased at the time of registration or immediately after the completion of the tournament. The questions will be available for $45 on the NAQT website as practice material for next year. Please note that these questions must be picked up at the tournament itself, after the finals. Teams that leave early or which forget to pick up their questions will be charged a shipping and handling fee of $10 (one set) or $15 (both sets) to have them mailed.

IMPORTANT: This fee assumes that payment is postmarked (or a purchase order is supplied) no later than Friday, March 26, 2004. Teams paying after this date, including at the tournament itself, will be charged an additional $20.

In addition, after March 1, 2004, invitation acceptances will be considered final. Should a team cancel before March 15, 2004, it will still be liable for one-half of its base registration fee. Teams that cancel after March 15, 2004 (including tournament no-shows) will be liable for the entire base registration fee.

Prizes:

The top three teams in Division I (Overall), Division I (Undergraduate), Division II (Overall), and Division II (Community College) will each receive team trophies and their members (and coaches) will receive individual awards. In addition, the top eight individual scorers in Division I, the top eight individual scorers in Division II, and the top four individual scorers in Division II (Community College) will be given All-Star medals.

Individual awards will be based on the seven initial round-robin games.

Flights:

Teams that are flying to the ICT should plan on arrving at STL.

The official airline of the 2004 ICT is American Airlines. Teams that purchase tickets 30 days before traveling will receive a 10% discount off the otherwise lowest fare. Those that do not purchase 30 days in advance will receive a 5% discount. You will need to call Reservations at 800.433.1790 and provide them with the confirmation code 4434AV to receive this discount.

Teams making flight arrangements should be sure to try the various discount airlines, including Southwest, that fly to St. Louis.

Rental Cars:

NAQT is trying to arrange a rental-car discount; if it is successful, it will announce it in the very near future.

Hotels:

The official hotel of the ICT is the Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel in St. Louis:

This hotel is a ten-minute drive from campus and has a complimentary airport shuttle. Quadruple occupancy rooms are $109 (plus tax) per night. Parking is $8 overnight. You must register before March 18, 2004, to get this rate. To register, call the hotel at 1.888.337.1395 and say that you are in the "NAQT block."

Preparation:

Teams that have been invited to compete at the 2004 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament may be interested in purchasing the questions from previous years in order to prepare for the event. Division I sets are available from the seven previous ICTs, with separate Division II sets available from every year except 2000. Teams should be aware that ICT Division I questions are typically as much harder compared to (four-year) Sectionals questions as Sectionals questions are to Invitational Series and that ICT Division II questions are approximately equal in difficulty to the Division I Sectionals questions.

Further Questions

To ask specific questions about the ICT, e-mail ict@naqt.com.