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Monday, 12 May 2008
2007 Nationals Info:
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Free Methodist Bible Quiz Finals
Tournament Co-Directors: Mike Hopper and Eric Young
March 15, 2007
Dear Bible Quiz Leader:
We trust you are having a great Bible quizzing season and that you are looking forward to participating in the exciting conclusion to this season at the Bible Quiz Finals at Roberts Wesleyan College in North Chili, NY. On the web site you will find the registration forms for Quiz Finals. These need to be sent to the Quiz Finals Tournament Co-Director Eric Young (in New York), postmarked by May 1, 2007.
DATES: Opening registration will be on Monday (June 25) from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pearce Memorial Church is offering a meal on Monday evening for $4 per person. The closing banquet and subsequent awards ceremony will be on Friday evening, June 29. Everyone will be free to head toward home Friday evening, however, Friday night housing is included.
FORMS: There are seven registration forms: Payment, Housing, Team, Individual, Additional Housing/Airport & Train Shuttle, QUIC Adult Quizzing, and Medical. All of these need to be mailed to Eric Young with your payment by May 1, 2007. A completed medical form for each person in your group (quizzers, adults, children) must accompany these forms. If you need housing for extra nights, please fill out the additional form for these needs. (An extra night's housing is only available on the Sunday night before Finals at $18 per person.) These forms are not attached to this letter, but can be downloaded from the 2007 Quiz Finals web page at www.fmquizzing.org/07finals/
HOUSING & MEALS: Registration for quizzers and adults is $189.00 for programming, five nights lodging, eleven meals, and a t-shirt. Housing on campus will be limited to the first 600 persons that register. After 600 persons have registered, teams will need to make their own housing arrangements at nearby hotels. (The individual registration fee will be reduced by $90 for those not staying on campus, and that can be applied toward the cost of the hotel rooms.) In addition, the first teams to register will have first chance to stay in the air-conditioned rooms.
Extra Housing is available only on the Sunday night prior to Quiz Finals; there will be no housing available following Quiz Finals. All teams need to be off campus on Saturday morning. Extra banquet tickets may be purchased for $15 per person. In addition, the host church (Pearce Memorial Free Methodist Church) will provide the Monday evening dinner for an additional cost of $ 4. You can sign up for this meal by indicating the number in your group for this on the Payment Form.
LINENS: Towels, sheets, and blankets WILL be provided. Pillows will be available only for those who fly in.
CHILDREN: The rate for non-quizzing children who sleep on the floor in their parents room is $99 for ages four and up, and free for three and under.
TEAM QUIZZING: Each team registration will be $160. This cost covers the quizmaster expense, Quiz Finals expenses, and what it takes to run the Bible quiz ministry through the year. We may run eight divisions, with an A and a B level in each division. Please mark the appropriate division for each of your teams on your team form. (We reserve the right to move teams from A to B, or from B to A, based on their performance during the season, particularly when 16 teams have already registered for a division.) There will be no C divisions. Remember that in order to be a rookie team, the team can have only one experienced quizzer. If a team has two quizzers who have each quizzed at least one half of a year before this quiz season, then that team must be a veteran team. (Quizzing in 6th grade and under does not count toward this experience.)
SPECIAL TEAM REGISTRATIONS: Any coach wishing to register a team that is not made up of members as defined by the Rulebook must contact the Denominational Director before registering such a team. This includes teams made up of quizzers who do not all attend the same church, teams that have quizzers under 6th grade, and many other possible scenarios which may occur. Quizzers without teams can attend and be placed on a "pooled" team of like quizzers, but must compete in a "B" level division.
INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION: Please register quizzers for Individual Competition. The cost is $5.00 each. In the top Senior Teen Veteran Individual Division, scholarships to any Free Methodist College will be awarded in the amounts of $2,000 for 1st, $1,750 for 2nd, and $1,500 for 3rd place.
DISABILITIES: If you have a quizzer with a disability for whom you would like to request special consideration in the competition, please send your request as soon as possible to the denominational Co-Director Mike Hopper for consideration. ADD is one condition that may be considered in this category.
JUMP SEATS: Quiz Seats are needed. Please bring them. Also please bring your broken down sets. Two skilled electricians have volunteered to work throughout Quiz Finals to repair jump seats at no cost to you. Lets make sure that all our jump seats are in good working condition--not only for this tournament, but also for the coming quiz season.
QUIZMASTERS will be contacted directly concerning their participation in Bible Quiz Finals, after the Co-Director Mike Hopper has received recommendations from the Conference and Regional directors. A quizmaster is not confirmed until he / she has received confirmation from Mike. Selected approved staff will not be charged the registration cost. Do not register someone as staff until that person has received confirmation from Mike.
QUIC (QUizmasters Including Coaches) quizzing will be over Acts 9-10 & 16-17. We are asking that adults form teams and register to compete either as a team of former quizzers or a team of non-former quizzers. If there is one former quizzer on the team, it qualifies as a former quizzer team. Coaches and quizmasters are encouraged to get a team together to enjoy the fellowship. There will also be QUIC Individual quizzing--divided into two categories--former quizzers and non-former quizzers.
AIRPORT PICKUP: Transportation to and from only the Rochester airport and train station will be be provided at the cost of $5 per person for each way. If you need to be picked up and returned, please fill out provided form.
COLLEGE CONTACT: Our Roberts Wesleyan College contact is David Dunn. His office phone number is (716) 594-6230. His e-mail address is DunnDR@roberts.edu. If you have any questions about Roberts Wesleyan College, feel free to contact David.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES: On Friday evening, there will be a special dinner and subsequent awards ceremony. Plans are to have a thematic Awards Banquet in the Voller Athletic Center to conclude Quiz Finals. Also several evening activities are being planning including time to visit Niagara Falls, the testimony/communion service and a concert to culminate the end of Quiz Finals. Recreational activities during the free time include swimming, basketball, and tennis. Seminars to better equip the adult leadership for more effective ministry to youth are being planned.
DEADLINE: Mail all forms (including medical forms for each person in your group) and your payment (check) made out to "Roberts Wesleyan College" to Eric Young in Gowanda, NY. It must be postmarked by May 1st. Late registrations may not be accepted. Please make and keep a copy of your completed registration forms before mailing. (Sometimes letters have gotten lost in the mail.) Forms are available on our web site. Remember that housing on campus will be provided only for the first 600 persons that are registered. Any registrants after that will need to make reservations in area hotels. There will be no refunds after June 1, 2007.
CONFIRMATION: Please be checking our web site at www.fmquizzing.org for additional information on Quiz Finals. Updated team registrations will be posted there following May 1st . Your only registration confirmation will be that your teams will be posted on the web site. Corrections to team and individual registration can be made via e-mail to Eric Young at fmquizzing@gmail.com.
Please be praying for God to touch lives in a special way at Quiz Finals. Pray for God's leadership for Eric and Mike as we co-direct this important ministry event. May God richly bless you and your ministry for Him.
Mike & Eric
Mike Hopper Co-Director
Free Methodist Youth Bible Quizzing
(507) 352-5455 E-mail: swimfast@hmtel.com
Eric Young - Co-Director
Free Methodist Youth Bible Quizzing
(585) 943-7374 fmquizzing@gmail.com
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