[Bill_B]

I had the (crazy?) idea that I would like to see a team listing each having a qualification "reason" for being at the championships. Digestion of the spectacular scouting information compiled by 1114 has me now scratching my head about the numbers of teams that are attending by merit-based rules versus those that are going because they signed up in open registration as veterans. It just looks like there are a lot more of them than I would have supposed.

Would anyone hazard a guess as to what the proportion is, approximately? I just want to compare my results to an external guesstimate to see if I'm even in the right "dome" so to speak.