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Gameplay Information for 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship

by US Quidditch | November 9, 2016

The gameplay format, pools, and bracket structure for the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship are announced below.

Photo by: Katie Skipper

The pools for the 2016 USQ Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship are as follows (listed in alphabetical order):

Pool A: George Mason Club Quidditch, Penn State University Nittany Lions, Stockton University Ospreys, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Quidditch, Wizengamot Quidditch at VCU

Pool B: Duke University Quidditch, Philadelphia Honey Badgers, Richmond Ravens, The Warriors, Virginia Quidditch Club

Pool C: Appalachian Apparators Quidditch, James Madison University Quidditch, Lock Haven University Quidditch, Maryland Quidditch, West Virginia Mountaineers

Pool D: District of Columbia Quidditch Club, John Hopkins Quidditch, Richmond Quidditch, Rutgers University Quidditch, Villanova Quidditch

The gameplay schedule can be found here, while information on the regional championship can be found here.

THE FORMAT

On Sunday, the top four teams in each pool make the 16-team bracket.  Nine 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 1-16 seed can qualify for nationals with either of the following win-loss patterns:  W-W, W-L-W, W-L-L-W-W-, L-W-W, or L-W-L-W.

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 here) 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. The pots that teams were drawn from are as follows:

Pot 1: Maryland Quidditch, George Mason Club Quidditch, The Wariors, District of Columbia Quidditch Club

Pot 2: Rutgers University Quidditch, Appalachian Apparators Quidditch, Philadelphia Honey Badgers, Penn State University Nittany Lions

Pot 3: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Quidditch, Lock Haven University Quidditch, Richmond Quidditch, Richmond Ravens

Pot 4: Villanova Quidditch, Virginia Quidditch Club, West Virginia Mountaineers, Wizengamot Quidditch at VCU

Pot 5: Duke University Quidditch, Stockton University Ospreys, James Madison University Quidditch, John Hopkins Quidditch