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Basically the formula is given you just have to plug and chug, some calculators will have an inverse error function ability, if your does you find it use it and plug in the necessary values for the variables, N= number of teams at event, R=your final ranking position and alpha is a constant set by the committee based on averages of event size at 1.07. The lines on each end tell you just to round up to the nearest whole number give it a shot for our first event it would look like this:

invERF[( 33-2x13+2)/(1.07*33)]X(10/(invERF 1/1.07)+12) 13. ....... rounded up to nearest whole integer =14

remember inverse is NOT the same as going to the power of -1 if you don't have a calculator with the function already...

if you don't have this function at all on your calculator then it gets much more complicated solving for invERF as its a function itself requiring integrals and such