The International Team Challenge is a 4 person DBM team tournament in which  each team member play an army from one of the 4 DBM  army books. The ITC is  held each year in Ghent, Belgium in early September.  It had been held in  Grandson Switzerland but was moved in 2004.

The USA sent their first team over in 2004, and was  able to field another in  2005. These were ad hoc teams put togther from those  who wished to go and  had the resources to attend. Because of growing USA  interest in the ITC a  more formal procedure for selecting teams was deemed  necessary. Since the  Ghent Organizers prefer to work with national gaming  bodies wherever  possible, and NASAMW is the only national level organization in North America, NASAMW became the de facto organization for selecting such a team.

The US Team Tournament, currently held in the Atlanta area in January/Februaryhas become more established and popular. Since this event parallels in many respects the Ghent event it was decided to use it as a means of  selecting the  representatives starting in 2006 under the oversight of the NASAMW Chief  Umpire. Unless the Executive Committee of NASAMW over-rides the Chief  Umpire's decision this is how future American ITC teams to Ghent will be  selected:

1. NASMAW will first offer invitation to represent the USA at Ghent to the team that wins the US Team tournament shortly after the results of that event are published..

2. In the event that some/all of that team cannot commit then the NASAMW Chief Umpire will work thru the 2nd and 3rd place teams from highest to lowest scoring to fill the remaining spots.

3. If after going thru the top 3 teams (12 players) the 4 spots are not taken  then the NASAMW Chief Umpire will offer invitations to other players that  have voiced an interest in going. The order of those additional invitations will be at the sole discretion of the NASAMW Chief  Umpire including the option of selecting the NASAMW Chief Umpire as a possible Team member.

Possible team members must confirm acceptance to the Chief Umpire at least one month before the list of player names are due.

 Contact the NASAMW Chief Umpire Jim  Hauber (jshauber@yahoo.com) with any  questions/comments or to get your name on the list of possible players, but  only after the US Team Tournament takes place.

Information on the US Team Tournament can be found on the NASAMW tournament announcement page, usually by November of each year.

Information on the ITC itself can be found on the ITC Site