Bible Quizzing

AGE:
Participants be in the 6th – 12th grade by the time of Celebrate Life in May. Each District President is responsible for who may/may not participate from their district. Teams can be registered at http://www.centralregionbq.org.

QUIZ RULES:
Bible Quizzing shall be conducted according to the current edition of the rules published on the NYI Connect website with any exceptions to be noted by the director before the event.

QUIZ TEAM:

The Top Sixteen method or other predetermined method determines the one or two Quiz Team’s for post quizzing.

Subsidy: Team(s) is subsidized yearly for one quiz tournament beyond the field level. The subsidy will be determined annually and be communicated to the team coaches and quizzers.

Coach: The Quiz Director shall have the option to serve as one of the coaches for the field team(s). If he/she is unable to serve, or chooses not to serve, the Quiz Director shall have the option of appointing or using another means of determining the coach(s).

Tournament: Quizzing is a “Round Robin Tournament–all teams quiz (by division) all the other teams once” followed by a Division A, top 6 team double elimination/placement finals and a Division B, top 4 team single elimination finals.

DIRECTIONS:

The Quizzing Director shall arrange the following:

• Officials (Quiz Master, Content Judges – Selection from experienced and/or properly trained collegians, faculty, the ministry, or knowledgeable district representatives and laity. Parents of the district team members and district directors shall not serve as an official (parents may serve as an official in a division in which their child is not participating – provided there are divisions). Material is received from the USA/Canada office which includes but is not limited to the question sets.
• Equipment Technicians / Statisticians – Selection from experienced and/or properly trained collegians, faculty, the ministry, or knowledgeable district representative, laity and parents of district team members (parents only when divisions are used).

AWARDS:

Scholarships:

• The top quizzer on the region and each “other” member of the Five (First Team) receive a scholarship to ONU. Each person who places 6-16 in the “Top Sixteen” receives a scholarship to ONU. Each member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place (Division A) teams will receive a scholarship. A special award for memory verse recitation will be given.
• Three scholarships will be awarded to the top three individuals based on a test given from selected material used during the quiz year. Only one individual per district can be selected by their District Director (an alternate may also be designated in the event a district does not designate a first choice). The Field Quizzing Director will choose replacement(s) based on a random draw of names.
• ONU shall award matching scholarships to each district each year, provided the district makes payment to ONU prior to the student attending ONU. The recipients receive the award from Olivet during their freshman year of college. A district may elect to split the amount available between more than one individual with a cap on the sum. The district must first pay the amount before ONU will award the matching amount.

OFFICIAL TEXT: The official text used will be the NIV 2011.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
•Quizzers’ names are in seat order (first name, then last name) and entered on the official score sheets when all are received. Substitutes must be designated and reported to the scorekeepers.
•Captains (*) and Co-Captains (*) shall be identified on the lineup form.

•Coach name(s) should be supplied.
•Once lineups are submitted, no changes permitted. (Lineups will be confidential.)
•All quizzers/officials must be in their assigned seats in the quiz area after all line-up forms are received or as scheduled or when required by the Quiz Master.
•Teams that are more than 10 minutes late may be required to forfeit that round, provided that rounds are on time according to the official preliminary schedule