Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHC) (Contains Non-ACHA members) Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHC) Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA) Northeast Collegiate Hockey Association (NECHA) Women's divisions ACHA Women's Division 1 includes 25 teams for the 2019–20 season, with all but independent Wisconsin playing in one of the four WD1 conferences. Eight teams qualify for the national tournament each season: automatic bids are awarded to the playoff champions of the Central Collegiate Women's Hockey Association, the Western Women's Collegiate Hockey League and Women's Midwest College Hockey, with the remainder of the field filled out by the highest-placing teams from the last of a series of weekly computer rankings. At nationals, the eight teams are paired off by ranking (1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, etc.) for a best-of-three first round, with the winners of those series advancing to the semifinals. Conferences Central Collegiate Women's Hockey Association (CCWHA) Eastern Collegiate Women's Hockey League (ECWHL) Western Women's Collegiate Hockey League (WWCHL) Women's Midwest College Hockey (WMCH) ACHA Women's Division 2 includes 51 teams for the 2019–20 season, with a majority standing as a member of one of four conferences. All teams are sorted into the Northeast Region (13 teams), the Southeast Region (19 teams), or the West Region (19 teams). At the end of the year, the top four teams from each region in the final edition of a monthly computer ranking are invited to the ACHA National Tournament. The WD2 tournament differs from WD1 in that teams are divided into four pools and play a round robin, with the pool winners advancing to the semifinals. Northeast Region Conference Independent Women's Collegiate Hockey League (IWCHL) Southeast Region Conferences College Hockey East (CHE) Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference (DVCHC) West Region Conference Central Collegiate Women's Hockey Association (CCWHA) Note: The CCWHA includes both a Division 1 and a Division 2 conference, with separate groups of teams as members International competition Players are selected from only ACHA Men's D1 to represent USA Hockey in the Winter World University Games, an IIHF and FISU event. ACHA Men's D2 and D3 division created the Select Teams to offer opportunities for the other Men division's to experience International hockey and they are ACHA events. The Division 2 & Division 3 Selects Teams alternate going over to Europe each year during the Holiday Break to play European teams. The players are chosen from a round robin tournament in the spring