Orrell & District Quiz League

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.

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 for the upcoming season have been calculate based on the pointsd difference fro teams at the end of last season, and can be seen below:
 

TEAM	PD	AVERAGE	HANDICAP
Cricketers	148	8.2	0
Delphic Horses	81	4.5	4
Masons	80	4.4	4
Star Inn	30	1.7	7
Millstone	-70	-3.9	12
Merrymen	-77	-4.3	13
Bryn Labour	-192	-10.7	19

All of the teams registered last year have decided to compete in the new season.  Fixtures are available both on the Fixtures Calendar and on each team's homepage.  Handicaps for the seaon will be released soon.

All delegates and Committee Members are required to attend if possible. Should anyone not be able to make that date, then please confirm in writing ahead of the meeting your intention to enter a team for 2024.

Further to submitting an entry it would be helpful if all teams competing in 2024 were also to make an initial, nominal payment of £50 at some point between the Registration Meeting and the first round of games. (This will preclude the need for an early April ‘paying in meeting’)

 The provisional date for the first round of League matches will be Tuesday 2nd April immediately after the Easter Weekend ….this will be confirmed or amended, if necessary in due course.

(We cannot be certain of all dates and full season costings etc until we know for sure how many teams will be competing.)

Delegates and players are reminded that the League AGM will take place at The Delph Tavern at 8:00 pm on Sunday 10th December. To the extent any team would like to make any new proposal or counter proposal to the redrafted Constitution and rules as distributed last week, please do so by Sunday 3rd Dec

Similarly any nominations for office should be submitted via e-mail by the same date.

26 players (13 pairs) representing 7 teams took part in last night’s Pairs Competition at Bryn Labour Club. After the 40 questions 6 pairs emerged as the top scorers namely Dag Griffiths (Masons) & Graham Barker (Cricketers), Paul McAteer (Delphic Horses) & Chris Quinn (Cricketers), Sue Perks (Delphic Horses) & Bill Gerrard (Star), Debbie Davidson (Bryn Labour) & Andy Firth (Cricketers), Peter Duffy (Star) & David Fitzgerald (Millstone),Tony Spark (Star) & Mike Preston (Merrymen). The competition then entered a 15 to 1 style knockout phase and only after 70 questions were the six pairs reduced to three namely Dag & Graham, Sue & Bill and Paul & Chris. The standard of quizzing was very impressive. In the final again it took well over 50 questions before Dag & Graham emerged the winners so congratulations to them.

A raffle of donated prizes raised £73 and hence more than covered the cost of the room. I would like to thank everyone who attended especially those who gave prizes and hope you all had an enjoyable evening’s quizzing.

Star Inn - Plate Runners-up	Delphic Horses - Knockout Cup Runners-up	Bryn Labour Club - Knockout Cup Winners
Delphic Horses - Handicap League Runners-up	Cricketers - Handicap League Winners	Delphic Horses - League Runners-up
Cricketers - League Winners	Millstone - Knockout Plate Winners

 

The 2023 Presentation Night will be held at Bryn Labour Club on Friday 10th November commencing at 8pm.

A Pairs competition will be held on the night, with entrants drawn together randomly.  There will be a 40 question qualifying quiz, with the highest scoring six pairs progressing to the knockout final.  This will be a 15-to-1 style quiz, with each pair having three lives, one of which will be lost each time they get an answer wrong, until just one pair remains.