Collegiate National Championship Start Spot Allocations

 

2012 USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship Start Spot Allocations
  D1 RR      D1 CRIT      D1 XC/STXC     D2 RR     D2 CRIT     D2 XC/STXC     
A 17 13 19 17 12 14
E 23 17 18 45 34 21
IM 8 6 9 7 5 7
MW 32 25 23 20 15 19
NC 12 9 8 10 8 8
NW 14 10 8 21 16 18
RM 22 16 29 18 14 33
SC 15 11 15 10 7 9
SE 21 16 18 28 21 46
SW 14 10 16 7 5 9
W 24 18 32 11 8 18
HOST     6 6 4 N/A

How these allocations are determined:
7L2(a)  For each division, Conferences qualify for start spots in a National Championship Race as follows:
(i) first the host Team (if any) qualifies the number of Riders a Team may enter in that Race, so long as this Team and its Riders otherwise meet the eligibility requirements contained in the Rules; then
(ii) each Conference qualifies the number of Riders a Team may enter in that Race; then
(iii) each Conference qualifies a single Rider; then
(iv) each Conference qualifies a total number of Riders equal to (A) the percentage of the total number of category A Riders in that division in that discipline that are recorded in USA Cycling’s membership files on November 30 of the previous year as being members of Teams that are members of that Conference, multiplied by (B) the field limit of such Race reduced by the number of Riders qualified pursuant to subsections (i)-(iii) of this Section.  
Example: D2 RR
(i) Weber State University is hosting, so they get 6 spots automatically  
(ii-iii) Each conference gets a baseline of 6 spots plus one additional spot
(iv) With a field limit of 200, there are now 117 spots left after those first few steps. We now divide up those 117 spots proportionally to the size of each conference. The Atlantic Conference, for example, had 20 of the 246 total D2 Cat-A Road licensees last year, which is 8.1%. Therefore, they get 8.1% of the remaining 117 spots, or 10 more, for a total of 17.


2011 Cat A Road Licensees
Conference  Division 1    Division 2   
Atlantic 52 20
Eastern 78 79
Inter-Mountain 6 1
Midwest 128 27
North Central 24 7
Northwest 33 30
Rocky Mountain   73 23
South Central 38 6
Southeast 69 44
Southwest 33 1
Western 84 8
Total 618 246

2011 Cat A MTB-XC Licensees
Conference  Division 1    Division 2   
Atlantic 41 9
Eastern 38 18
Inter-Mountain 6 0
Midwest 56 16
North Central 5 1
Northwest 5 14
Rocky Mountain   80 34
South Central 28 2
Southeast 38 51
Southwest 31 2
Western 89 14
Total 417 161


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