CMQ News and Updates

Just a reminder that coaches will be responsible to transport their quizzers to and from the Science Center in Regina for the social. There will be 3 showings of the IMAX film so everyone registering for the meet is welcome to attend. The first showing is at 5:15 p.m., the second at 6:25 p.m., and the third at 7:35 p.m. We plan to leave WCC for the Science Center at 4:50-5:00 p.m. and leave the Science Center for WCC at 8:30 p.m.

Just a reminder that registrations are due tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22 for the upcoming quiz meet in Regina May 2-4. Thank you to everyone who has registered already. Please get your registrations in on time to assist with the planning of the quiz meet.

It looks like we will have enough rooms on campus for the girls and the female chaperons and we are working on obtaining enough billet homes for the boys and coaches in Regina. If any coaches or officials have friends or relatives in Regina that they could make arrangements to stay with, it would help with our billeting situation. Please indicate this on your registration form. Thank you.

Congratulations to the six CMD quizzers who placed in the top ten for individual stats (based on the 5 preliminary quizzes):

3rd place - Heather Pitman with an average of 40
4th place - Sam Milner with an average of 36
5th place - Jared Haight with an average of 32
6th place - Blake Weiseth with an average of 30
8th place - Josiah Sawatsky with an average of 28 and 2 errors
10th place - Levi Durston with an average of 28 and 4 errors


Congratulations also to Josiah Sawatsky, who received the top rookie award for first-time Great West participants!

Congratulations to the CMD 2 team of Danielle Steiner, Sam Milner, Sandra Munchinsky, and Josh Warkentin, who won an exciting A Side Final by taking question 20 to pull ahead of the Western Canada 2 team of Adrienna Dyck, Grace Ajele, Jesse Wall, Kimberly Wiens, and Sarah Berger. The CMD 4 team of Blake Weiseth, Levi Durston, Rebecca Ward, and Thomas Gadd also had the opportunity to win the Final if they had taken question 20, but had to settle for third place. The final score on the A Final:

CMD 2 90
Western Canada 2 80
CMD 4 60

CMD 3, CMD 1, and CMD 5 met up in an all-CMD quiz F in the A Side playoffs. The CMD 1 team of Heather Pitman, Joel Haight, Seth Jansen, and Timothy Eldred won the quiz, going on to finish third in Quiz H for 7th overall. The CMD 5 team of Charissa Culy, David Peters, Jared Haight, and Josiah Sawatsky finished second in the quiz and 8th overall. The CMD 3 team of Ashley Janzen, Erinn Beach, Jared Ens, and Jordan Gold came in third in the quiz and 9th overall.

Rounding out the A Side were Western Canada 1 in 4th place, Western Canada 3 in 5th place, and Western Canada 5 in 6th place.

The social has been finalized for the final quiz meet at WCC in Regina. We will be going to the Science Centre where everybody will have the opportunity to view one of three showings of the new IMAX film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk. The quizzing group will be divided into three groups with the groups rotating between the IMAX film, time in the Science Centre Powerhouse, and wide games on the lawn.

Our prayers and support are with the quizzers and coaches heading to Calgary for the Great West Invitational Tournament this weekend. The following quizzers and coaches will be participating in the quiz meet Friday night and Saturday. Congratulations and good luck to the following participants:

Quizzers:
Seth
Danielle
Rebecca
Josiah
Erinn
Josh
Heather
Joel
Jordan
Jared
Timothy
Thomas
David
Blake
Ashley
Jared
Charissa
Sandra
Sam
Levi

Coaches & Officials:
Nicole
Lana
Steve
Jamie
Amanda
Jonathon
Llew
Bryan
Ernie

Please remember the team in prayer as they travel to Calgary today and return home on Sunday.

The final quiz meet of the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians quizzing year will be held May 2-4 at Western Christian High School in Regina. Registration will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday at WCHS. The meet will conclude with awards on Sunday afternoon at approximately 4:00 p.m. The cost will be $45 per person.

REGISTRATIONS ARE DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008. Please download and fill out the registration form and email it to the registration email address. Make sure to list the number of teams in each division

Question material content includes all of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians with 20 question quizzes in the A, B, and C divisions. This will be the final district meet of the GEPC quizzing year with 45% of the “A” quizzers personal averages going towards their overall year average. Quizzers need to bring sleeping bags, pillows, and towels as well any personal items required for the meets. Luggage needs to be identified with each quizzer’s name and church group.

Erin Petty, officials’ coordinator, would appreciate knowing about any adults coming to the meet that would be available to help with some of the officiating as scorekeepers or answer judges. For this meet, the registration cost for answer judges and scorekeepers is $20 to help cover the cost of the meals.

We are still working out the final details for the social. Information regarding the social will be posted on the website at a later date.

This year we hope to billet all of the female quizzers on campus. The male quizzers and coaches will be billeted off campus. We will require female adults to chaperon the dorms. If you have female adults available to be billeted on campus, please indicate this on your registration form. Also, if you know of any Regina homes available to take billets, please contact Corinne Lynnes from Westhill Park.

Awards will be presented for Club 145, Club 300, and Grade 12 quizzers. Coaches, please contact Ernie Munchinsky with the awards information for your quizzers by WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. We need to know the name and number of years in quizzing for each Grade 12 quizzer plus the number of Club 145 and Club 300 awards for your quizzing group. Ernie’s contact information is available on the CMQ directory. If you do not have access to a directory, please send the information to the quiz.registrations email address below.

If you have questions or concerns with completing the registration form, please contact Angela Davis. My number is available in the directory.

Send registration forms to:
quiz.registrationsATcmdquizzing.org
Replace the AT with @. (We have to list it this way on the website to prevent SPAM emails.)

Click below to download the registration form:
www.cmdquizzing.org/info/WCC_2008.rtf

Club 145 and Club 300 Tests

Quizzers who have recited the Club 145 or Club 300 verses throughout the year are eligible for the Club 145 or Club 300 tests. Coaches can prepare packages of 15 references from Club 145 and 30 references from Club 300. Quizzers must chose 5 verses to quote from Club 145 and 10 verses to quote from Club 300. The remaining verses can be recited from a 5 word finish the verses question. Quizzers can repeat the test as many times as needed. In each test, the coach is allowed to give 3 helps for Club 145 and 6 helps for 300.

Sunday morning music

Coaches, if any of your quizzers are interested in doing a special music number during the Sunday morning worship service at the final quiz meet, please indicate this on your registration form or email the quiz registration email regarding the special music.