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Committee 2015-16

 

CHAIRMAN - DAVE WESTERBY             
89 Seymour Street
North Shields NE29 6SS
07531-900679  E-mail: davidwesterby@live.co.uk

 

SECRETARY - PAUL FINCH             
17 Conway Close, Bedlington,
Northumberland, NE22 6NJ.
01670 828729

Email:
pfinch@northumberland.gov.uk

 

TREASURER - LEO FORD
 30 Clifford Street, Chester-le-Street, Co.Durham.
 DH3 3JW
 0191 389 0565
 

PUBLICITY SECRETARY - STEVE WESTERBY


 

Divisional Representatives:

John Doyle

Mike Sowerby

Malcolm Hodgson

Trevor Ford

David Morrison

Mick Groves

Committee Meeting Thursday 27th November 2014

Present :-            Bill Stothard, Paul Finch,  Steve Westerby, Malcolm Hodgson, Dave Westerby, Trevor Ford, Mick Groves

Apologies:-            Leo Ford, John Doyle

The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted as a true record.

Finances            There is no update on Finances

Web Site            The Web Master reported that the web site had suffered an attack and had been down for a couple of weeks. It has now been recovered and upgraded and is available again. The web site is now being hosted so it’s hoped a similar attack will not happen again

Table Top Quiz    At the last meeting, the Committee agreed to adopt Trevor Ford’s proposal for the structure of the C League Table Top quiz but the Chairman advised that there should be a specific and laid out format which everyone agreed with and could be related to the teams before the quiz. A discussion took place around the proposed format and it was finally agreed that the format of the table top quiz would be as follows. The quiz shall consist of five rounds of which Rounds 1 and 5 shall be team rounds, Round 2 shall be an Individual Pot Luck round, Round 4 shall be a Specialist Individual round and Round 3 shall be a Team Written round. Round 1 will consist of 20 questions made up of 15 major sport and 5 general sport questions. The questions shall be asked by a Question Master and thirty seconds shall be given for the teams to write down their answer. At the end of the thirty seconds the next question shall be asked and the process repeated until the end of the 20 questions. At the end of the thirty second duration of the last question, the round is at an end and no further answers shall be given. A question may be repeated during the original thirty seconds but shall not be repeated thereafter so teams may not request a repeat of a question at the end of the round. Round 5 will consist of 25 questions made up of 15 major sport and 10 general sport questions with the same rules applying as Round 1. Round 2 shall be an Individual Round where one member of each team in a nominated order will approach the Question Master and receive a random question. After all four team members have received their questions, the process starts again for a second round of questions so that each team member answers two Individual questions. The first Team member will therefore answer questions 1 and 5, the second team member questions 2 and 6 and so on until the round is complete. Answers must be written on individual pieces of paper and handed to the Question Master after thirty seconds and before the next question is asked. The questions shall consist of one each on the major sports and 3 general sport questions. Round 4 shall be a Specialist Individual Round where the Question Master informs the teams of the subject and the teams nominate an individual to answer that question. As in Round 2, individuals shall approach the Question Master and receive their question the answer to which must be written on an individual piece of paper and handed back to the Question Master. The Round shall progress until each team member has answered two questions. Thirty seconds shall be allowed for each answer to be handed in and the questions shall consist of one each on the major sports and 3 general sport questions. Round 3 shall be a Team Round where the answer to the question shall be written within a time duration given by the Question Compiler. At the end of the allotted time, the answer sheet shall be exchanged with another team for marking. Scoring in this round shall be 4 points for the team providing the most correct answers, 3 points for the team providing the second most correct answers and so on down to 0 points for the team providing the least correct answers. After the quiz, League points shall be awarded to teams on the following basis. The Team which wins the quiz shall receive 2 points which will be added to their League points total. The team which finishes 2nd shall receive 2 points which will be added to their League points total. The team which finishes 3rd  shall receive 1 point which will be added to their League points total. The team which finishes 4th shall receive 0 points which will be added to their League points total. The team which finishes 5th shall receive 0 points which will be added to their League points total. In the event of two teams finishing the quiz on level points, a tie break question shall be asked with the team winning the tie break filling the higher position on the night and the other team finishing in the lower position. The points awarded on the night will count towards the overall League Table but there will be no count taken as far as League averages or Handicap League positions are concerned. Therefore League averages and the Handicap League will be based and decided on the standard eight League matches over the season. The Quiz shall commence at 8:15

Pairs/Singles Night  The Compilers and format for the League Pairs and Singles nights are as follows

Open Pairs/Singles            Steve Westerby will compile questionnaire and bell & buzzer quizzes

Division B                    Barry Wilkinson will compile questionnaire and bell & buzzer quizzes

Division C                    Leo Ford/John Doyle will compile questionnaire and bell & buzzer quizzes

The questionnaire will contain a tie break question to speed up qualification and the format of all the bell & buzzer quizzes will be 6-4-6-4-6. The timetable for each night will be determined and publicised by Dave Westerby in advance of the nights. The Open night will commence at 8 o’clock with the Division B &C night commencing at 7:30

KO Cup                       Dave Gutteridge has a potential question compiler for the KO Cup. Mark Galloway has set Civil Service sports quizzes and Dave asked if he would be willing to compile our KO Cup quiz. He said he would so Dave is pursuing this. He has asked for a copy of last years quiz to send to Mark so he can have an idea of the standard.

There is not another official Committee Meeting arranged until the week before the AGM so it was proposed to fit another meeting in sometime in early April. This will be arranged nearer the date. Due to the lack of meetings the Chairman asked if Dave Westerby would arrange the collection of trophies and engraving for the end of season AGM/Presentation night. Dave said he would. The Chairman also asked all members to consider any Rule Changes or Quiz Format changes for next season and to encourage League Members to do the same. The Chairman will arrange the buffet for the AGM and there will be the usual raffle with any prizes gratefully received.

AOB                There was no further business so the meeting closed.