Orrell & District Quiz League

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.

The Merrymen will now play their home games at The Delph Tavern NOT The Running Horses

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.)