October Meet 72 hours away

Three days to go!

Registration:  if you haven't registered your team yet, you can do so by clicking HERE or to the right in the link column.

Officials: Please let me know any Quizmasters that are coming with you by Thursday.  All officials will check-in prior to the start of the meet.

Lunch: Orders need to be placed by Thursday night, $4 for choice of Chick-Fil-A nuggets kids meal or Chicken Sandwich.  Both come with chips and drink.  Leagues will break midway through day for 30 minutes for lunch.

Start Time: 9am is our start time, we will gather for announcements and then dismiss teams and traveling officials.  Quizmasters then stay for a few minutes for final instructions and to receive their packets.  Quizzing should start by 9:30am.

JBQ Guideline Update

There is an official Guideline update, and it is available by clicking HERE or at the nationaljbq.org link to the right.

This update is one to clarify and reword some of the rules for better understanding, not change any rules.

Registration is now OPEN

Registration is online and open.  Click HERE to go to the OMN page with Registration and the 2010-11 Info Sheet.

Officials Training dates

Whether it's your 1st year or 41st year, we ask everyone who is officiating this year to go through officials training in order to refresh, understand, and bring you up to speed on any changes.  There are a couple of options for this training.  What these tests are designed to do is not so much test you on what you know about the rules, but to bring about comprehension of the rules and how to apply them to matches for everyone's benefit.

  

This year we have two opportunities to gather and go through this training in groups; to discuss and bring understanding to the rules and how they are processed in a match.  

Our two training sessions will be September 18th and 25th.  One is more to the east side of our section and one more to the west.

September 18th-

Location: New Life Church in Poland

2250 E Western Reserve Rd

Poland OH 44514 (may show on GPS as Youngstown)

330.757.0727

-Will be held in the prayer room, which is at the back of the building (from the road), top of the hill.  There is parking up there and will be marked.  Note- there is a food give out going on that morning as well, so most of the lower areas of the parking lot will be full.

September 25th-

Location: First Assembly of Louisville 

1921 West Main Street
Louisville, OH 44641-2340
(330) 875-5883

-details to follow

Both training sessions will begin at 9am and end by 11am and I will cover the same material and format, so whichever time and location better fits your schedule. 

RSVP is not necessary, but recommended to help with preparation of materials and seating.  

Remember, each team that quizzes needs to bring 2 officials per team for each meet.  Teams earn bonus points for our sectional meets, 10 per official brought.

In October we will be running a test run with rotating officials, where only the QuizMaster will be staying in the same room and the other officials will travel with your team and officiate in the room with your team.

Changes to the C-league Question Schedule

The C-league question sequence has been changed and is now the same question sequence as last year and goes along with the same sequence for A & B leagues from last year as well.

October and November meets 

o They will quiz over questions 1-72, 289-336, & 481-504 

• January and February 

o They will quiz over questions 1-144, 289-384, & 481-528

This is the opposite of the previous post, this change was just announced today.  We are sorry for any confusion and hope that this has been caught early enough for teams to change their practice plans.

Dates Announced for 2010-2011 Season

The dates for the Sectional Meets for the new season have been announced:

October 2nd

November 6th

January 8th, 2011

February 19th, 2011

If your church is interested in hosting one of these meets, please email me.  I will send you the guide for hosting, which gives details as to what is needed to host, times, tips and all the rest of that goes into hosting.  This is a great opportunity to showcase JBQ to your church, as well as give your team a little extra rest and be at home for the meet.

Recap of the Great Lakes Regional

The Great Lakes Regional has come and gone and it was a great event.  The top 20 teams from the Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Appalachia Districts came together and quizzed 2 days, (19 rounds! yipes).

   Ohio had all four of it's Top-4 go and participate in the meet looking for Nationals Qualification.  What they found was a very competitive group.  The Great Lakes Region has the honor of being the toughest Region in the country, based on last year's Nationals Results.  (Teams from our region placed higher cumulatively than teams from any other region.)

   But Ohio did not disappoint and what we ended up with was all 4 of our Top-4 placing high enough to qualify for Nationals with Dayspring (Bowling Green) taking 3rd in the whole tournament!   So we say congratulations to Dayspring, Poland, Cincinnati 1st, & Destiny (Dayton) on a great tournament.  You have honored the churches and teams of Ohio with your great play and greater examples of sportsmanship and Christ-like attitudes.  Click HERE for full Regional Results

   As the Holy Spirit leads, if you would remember these teams in prayer and lift them up, that the rest of their expenses and preparation for the National Meet (June 10-12).