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:
“Last night I watched my brothers play,
The gentle and the reckless one,
In a field two yards away.
For half a century they were gone
Beyond the other side of care
To be among the peaceful dead.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
“Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man’s field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
—Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)