Top 8 teams from all tourneys can be found at NAhardcourt.com
fun with math...NA teams...
64 teams, right? 64 teams with 3 players equals 192...roughly a hundred players have qualified after deleting duplicates...so say 24 players qualify at NSPI (actually less because of duplicates) that would only be 124 qualified players (not counting those players that can't afford to go or can't cross the border or just can't commit to those dates). 192 total spots minus 124 taken spots equals 68 available spots...68 divided by 3 equals 22 teams...so the top 22 teams from the wildcard tourney will advance...worst case scenario would be if every qualified team picked up one unqualified player which would mean that the 124 players form qualified pairs of 62 and pick up 62 unqualified players equalling 186 players total of the 192 players allowed within the 64 team capped tourney...meaning that only the top two teams from the wildcard will advance...those two teams could consist of two pairs of wildcard players and two randoms...so in the end just 4 wildcard players out of the 84 who qualified could advance.
what's funny is that if you did the original math...8 teams per tournament meaning 56 teams or 168 players could have qualified if there were no duplicates...if those 168 players formed pairs of 84 and then each pair picked up an unqualified player (adding 84 players to the mix) the total would have been 252 players...which would have surpassed the 64 team mark of 192 players by 60 players...meaning negative 60 players from the wildcard would advance.
someone with a math skills/math degree step in and state this more elegantly, hahaha,,,i majored/minored in languages/lit/linguistics/women studies...i'm a pseudo-mathnerd.
You're right, we'll know the exact number of people who qualified in about 10 days.
The system was designed with a lot of give to it, because we didn't want to be too rigid or shake things up too much in the first year. (There were never closed region tournaments before this 2011, and teams have always changed up their players throughout the year).
We we knew for sure that we wouldn't have 56 "top 8" teams that would split into 84 teams. But we had to include that measure, to allow for people to be injured during their qualifier, or having prior plans, and to not have to break with the tradition of having teams that change throughout the season. This would have been a big sticking point for a lot of people.
We also knew that there would be some people who qualified more than once, about 20 to 25% of the overall spots. So far, It stands at 25.8% for the top 8, so guessed pretty accurately.
I think the one thing we didn't anticipate was how much of a barrier the border and the distance would pose to participation to NAHBPC. But Calgary was the only city that submitted a bid for NAHBPC, and we couldn't factor that issue into the qualification system discussion. We had to assume that most people travelling to a qualifier would also travel for the NAHBPC.
Here are the current numbers
Top 8 | 9th place
SW 19 | 12
Southeast 3 | 9
SC 9 | 14
Northside 4 | 7
Midwest 42 | 16
Eastside 37 | 3
Cascadia 29 | 11
Total 143 | 72
Minus dupes 106 | 67
THESE NUMBERS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND REQUIRE A BIT OF REVIEW FROM REGIONAL REPS. WE'LL HAVE OFFICIAL NUMBERS SOON.
After Northside qualifier in 10 days, i think we'll have about 125 qualified as top 8, and 75 qualified as top 12. Maybe we'll only end up with 64 teams who are qualified and want to go, even when some teams split and pick a third. Calgary would then decide if it wants to fill the wildcard on a first come first served basis.
I've been thinking about this a lot actually. I'm of the opinion that there is going to be a lot of open space in Calgary and that restricting it to qualified teams only is unnecessary. Consider that so many people have double, triple, or even quadruple qualified and couple this with the fact that Calgary is a long fucking ways away from everywhere, and add to THAT the assumption that qualified players are not going to be playing with unqualified ones... I just don't think it's going to fill.
Where can I find this information on the top 8 from each tournament so far? If you compile that info, you can count and probably see that at some time very shortly after all qualifiers have been completed and all qualified players have had a chance to register, this tournament should just be opened up to whoever wants to go.
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