USQ Update
Gameplay Information for 2016 Northeast Regional Championship
The gameplay format, pools, and bracket structure for the 2016 Northeast Regional Championship are announced below.
The pools for the 2016 USQ Northeast Regional Championship are as follows (listed in alphabetical order):
Pool A: Emerson Community Quidditch, Hofstra University Flying Dutchmen, New York Pigeons, Quidditch Club Boston, SUNY Geneseo
Pool B: Bosnyan Bearsharks, Boston University Quidditch, New York Badassilisks, Skidmore Quidditch, Syracuse Snare Quidditch Club
Pool C: Grove City Legion of Broom, New York Quidditch Club, RPI Quidditch, Tufts University Tufflepuffs, University of Massachusetts Amherst Crabs
Pool D: Harvard Horntails, RIT Dark Marks, Stony Brook Quidditch, University of Rochester Thestrals
Pool E: Brandeis Quidditch, Macaulay Honors College Marauders, Rochester United, University of Massachusetts Lowell Riverhawks
The gameplay schedule can be found here, while information on the regional championship can be found here.
Gameplay format
On Sunday, the top four teams in each pool make the 20-team bracket. Ten teams will qualify for nationals, and there will be two ways to qualify: 1) Reach the Round of 4, 2) Teams who lose in either the Round of 16 or Round of 8 will be placed into Consolation Rounds, needing either one or two additional victories to attain a nationals berth.
After pool play, teams earning a 1-12 seed can qualify for nationals with either of the following win-loss patterns: W-W, or L-W-W, or L-W-L-W. Teams seeded 13-20 after pool play must win one additional game ahead of following either of the previously listed patterns.
As it was last season, teams will be seeded into the bracket with consideration to their placement in pool play. The four teams who finish first in their pool will be compared against each other according to our tiebreakers (as listed below) for the top 4 spots in the bracket. The teams who place second in their pools will be compared against each other for spots 5-8, etc.
The process
The original ranked list was divided into five pots by seed, and each pool had one team randomly drawn from each pot. The rankings were based on the USQ standings, per the rankings algorithm described here. This includes the fifth pot, which was comprised of only three teams. In this case, two Pools drew an “Open” slot. The pots that teams were drawn from are as follows:
Pot 1: Quidditch Club Boston, Rochester United, Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Rochester
Pot 2: Macaulay Honors College, Tufts University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Bosnyan Bearsharks, Emerson College
Pot 3: New York Quidditch Club, New York Pigeons, Harvard, Brandeis, Syracuse
Pot 4: Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, Grove City, Skidmore, Stony Brook, SUNY Geneseo
Pot 5: Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, New York Badassilisks, Hofstra University
