Orrell & District Quiz League

Pairs Competition and Presentation Night at Bryn Labour Club

At our forthcoming event at Bryn Labour Club, on Friday November 8th the Committee would greatly appreciate it if participating teams could bring along one or two raffle prizes, much as we all did last year.
Nothing elaborate, the odd bottle, box of chocolates or biscuits etc. 

Raffle tickets will be the only time we’ll be asking anyone to put their hand in their pocket….entrance to the Pairs Competition will be free of charge.

Anyone who has played this past season is eligible to enter the pairs competition and this extends to regular ‘squad members’ who may not have played much (or at all) but have fulfilled roles such as question masters and scorers.

We really hope to see everyone there on the night.

Congratulations to the Star Inn on winning this years Knockout cup competition.  Starting with a handicap of 16, they beat The Cricketers 66-49 in the quarter final and The Millstone 67-61 in the semi-final.

Their opponents in the final were last year's winners, Bryn Labour Club, who played off a handicap of 23.  They beat the Delphic Horses 69-61 in the quarter final and Merrymen by 62-55 in the semi-final.

In the final, Bryn led for the first 7 rounds, with The Star Inn pipping them in the final round to win by 63 points to 61.

Congratulations to their squad of Peter Duffy, Arthur Heyes, Tony Spark, Lee Whitehead and Steve Pilkington on winning an excellent competition.

Huge thanks also go out to Bill Gerard who wrote all of the excellent quizzes used on the night.  The quizzes used can be found on the Quizzes page in the 2024 folder.

Based on the final league table, here are the handicaps for the cup competition to be held at The Delph next Tuesday (27th August) starting at 8pm sharp.

Team	Handicap
Masons Arms	0
Cricketers	5
Merrymen	4
Delphic Horses	8
Millstone	14
Star Inn	16
Bryn Labour Club	23

 

Congratulations to the Mason's Arms who have won the league by beating Merrymen in their final league match.

Further to the 2024 KO Draw listed by Chris it was agreed at the Delegates meeting on Aug 1st that a Plate competition was impractical this year given the amount of matches we need to compress into a single evening.

At the delegate meeting held at the Delph on 1st August the draw for this season's Knockout competition was made. Assuming that all teams compete, the draw is as follows.

Due to time constraints the matches will start at 8pm sharp, and timings for answering will be set at 20s for your own question, 10s after a pass to a teammante, then 10s when passed over to the opposition.

Handicaps will be calculated based on the final league table.

A	Millstone v Masons	Winner of Heat A v Winner of Heat B	Winner SF1 v Winner Sf2
B	Cricketers v Star Inn
C	Delphic Horses v Bryn Labour Club	Winner of Heat C v Merrymen
D	Merrymen - bye

 

The handicaps have been revised based on points difference in this week's table and will be applicable for the rest of the season. The new handicaps can be viewed on the results page.

Many of you will remember Frances Hanley, who played for St James' quiz team for many years. She passed away at the end of May aged 89. She was a fine quizzer and lovely person as well as being a much loved and respected teacher at St. James' for many years. Her funeral will take place at St. James' church at 10am on Tuesday 25th June.

Delegates are reminded that there is a meeting this Thursday 30th May 8:00 pm at The Delph Tavern 

At the AGM in response to a general complaint about the standard of some quizzes. The Committee resolved to try and conduct some form of analysis re the scores that   teams give to the Quiz on the answer sheet. Chris will then log the scores and we will collectively try to assess whether any patterns emerge regarding specific Quizzes.

Assessing/judging quizzes is always difficult (as is setting them!) and subjective but we will nonetheless take a look at it.
However in the first round of matches last week only one scoresheet contained any score ranking of the Quiz. To the extent teams think that this requires some level of scrutiny then we can’t begin this unless these scores are consistently applied, so can we ask teams to rate the quizzes consistently and we will then look to assess and respond later in the year.