Field
The 2006 and 2009 tournaments each had the same 16-team field, chosen by invitation. Starting with the 2013 tournament the top 12 teams from the previous tournament were chosen by invitation and a qualification round has been used to determine the remaining 4 teams.
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Famous quotes containing the word field:
“Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one’s trundle-bed.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)
“the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem;
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over—
or nothing.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“When it had long since outgrown his purely medical implications and become a world movement which penetrated into every field of science and every domain of the intellect: literature, the history of art, religion and prehistory; mythology, folklore, pedagogy, and what not.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)