Right now for the girls, prior to South and California running, I have:
Niwot - SW
American Fork - SW
Pella - Heartland
Penn Charter - NE
Question: What teams have a victory over an auto-qualifier? Pella has a win over Sioux Falls Christian at Griak.
James Robinson VA (Rampage TC) beat Webb (Sparta) and Penn Charter at Great American. James Robinson and Padua Academy tied for 3rd at NXR but James Robinson had a better 6th runner
Right now for the girls, prior to South and California running, I have:
Niwot - SW
American Fork - SW
Pella - Heartland
Penn Charter - NE
Question: What teams have a victory over an auto-qualifier? Pella has a win over Sioux Falls Christian at Griak.
James Robinson VA (Rampage TC) beat Webb (Sparta) and Penn Charter at Great American. James Robinson and Padua Academy tied for 3rd at NXR but James Robinson had a better 6th runner
Good to know. Speed ratings for the SE were quite a bit slower than other regions. Thanks
We look at 3rd/4th place teams that beat a NXR Regional Winner during the season (late September thru November). Beating an NXR 2nd place team doesn’t factor into our decision, we want the best quality so we want teams that beat a regional champ.
Penn Charter girls should definitely be in the mix. They get not much attention being a small independent school in Philadelphia. They can't compete at the PIAA State meet. They pretty much won the Independent school state meet with a perfect score.
Boise girls lost to Heritage by 1. But, Boise beat Mira Costa in Portland who has a good shot of being top 3 at the California State Meet next weekend. We may not see an at-large team beat a region champion. What happens then?
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Then we look at who we as the committee thinks is running the hottest at the right time. We usually like how Cali Teams look since they get to race their State/NXR Race one week before NXN.
Then we look at who we as the committee thinks is running the hottest at the right time. We usually like how Cali Teams look since they get to race their State/NXR Race one week before NXN.
Teams are penalized because their Regional races earlier? Interesting. Thanks for the information.
1) Did the at large hopeful beat a Regional Champ during the season (late Sept thru November)
2) We look for teams that are running hot at the right time (at NXR they ran hot, we don’t want a team that had an off day at NXR, they are most likely limping into NXN and we don’t want that)
Then we look at who we as the committee thinks is running the hottest at the right time. We usually like how Cali Teams look since they get to race their State/NXR Race one week before NXN.
I hope you're not the real Rich G, lol.
To your first point, picking teams that only beat regional champs can leave you with nobody. In normal situations these at large teams are not a threat to win NXN anyway.
Although I do believe an 'at large' has finished in top 10 before.
On California teams, they make great last minute additions since travel to Portland is easy along the West Coast.
Then we look at who we as the committee thinks is running the hottest at the right time. We usually like how Cali Teams look since they get to race their State/NXR Race one week before NXN.
I hope you're not the real Rich G, lol.
To your first point, picking teams that only beat regional champs can leave you with nobody. In normal situations these at large teams are not a threat to win NXN anyway.
Although I do believe an 'at large' has finished in top 10 before.
On California teams, they make great last minute additions since travel to Portland is easy along the West Coast.
Last year both NXN 2nd place teams were at large teams from the Southwest. The SW regularly has at large teams place top 10 (both girls and boys).
