2024 Selection Process

 

In deciding which teams to invite to the WSICT, tournament organizers spend a great deal of time researching the strength of potential invitees.  That includes:

 

  • Monitoring traveling league website results and standings.  Most of the larger traveling leagues in the state (e.g., The Great Northwest, YGSBL, WYBL, etc.) maintain websites that post standings and/or game results.  We monitor these on a weekly basis during the fall/winter season.  If you coach a team that plays in a smaller league that maintains a website that is actively updated with game results, let us know what that website is by emailing us at:  terri@gnbl.org.  We only monitor leagues that are organized on an A/B basis, or where the communities participating field only one team.  We will not monitor leagues where participant communities have multiple, evenly-divided teams, because the results of games involving such teams do not accurately reflect the relative strength of a community's "A" team once the strongest players are put together on one team for our tournament.

 

  • Recommendations from alumni coaches.  The coaches of the teams that enrolled in the 2023 WSICTs were asked to recommend younger teams (last season's 4th grade) from their community or other communities, that they felt would be sufficiently strong to play in the 2024 WSICT. 

 

  • Varsity coaches and tournament directors.  Throughout the year, we talk to many varsity coaches and tournament directors about strong teams in their area that they have seen.