RULES FOR TOURNAMENTS
The tournament brackets are based on three things:
elimination round, and championship quizzes.
A preliminary round, an
I. PRELIMINARY ROUND
A. The teams will all receive team points as follows:
1. First place in a quiz: 10 points, plus 1 point for every 10 points over 100
2. Second place in a quiz: 5 points, plus 1 point for every 10 points over 60
3. Third place in a quiz: 1 point, plus 1 point for every 10 points over 30
4. In case of a tie, points are awarded according to the team score at the end of
question 20.
B. Preliminary Round Brackets follow.
II. ELIMINATION ROUND
A. When more than nine teams are involved, the following should be done: If there are
10 to 14 teams, the top 9 should be placed into a final nine championship bracket
after the opening round, for the elimination round, and the remaining teams
dropped. If there are 15 to 20 teams, after the opening round the top 6 teams
should be placed in the championship bracket, the next 9 places (7 through 15)
should quiz in the intermediate quizzes given below (XYZ) and the remaining teams
should be dropped. If there are more than 24 teams, the top 6 should be placed in
the championship bracket, teams 7-15 should quiz in the XYZ quizzes to determine
places 7-15. Teams 16-24 will quiz in XXYYZZ intermediate quizzes given below to
determine their placement. A Consolation final 9 bracket will be used for positions
10-15 (determined by XYZ quizzes) and places 16-18 determined by XXYYZZ
quizzes. If you are in the XYZ quizzes, you cannot move below position 15,
regardless of how low their XYZ quiz score was. Likewise, those in the XXYYZZ
quizzes cannot move above position 16, regardless of how high their intermediate
quiz scores were.
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QUIZ X:
Team Number7, Number12, Number15
QUIZ Y:
Team Number8, Number11, Number14
QUIZ Z:
Team Number9, Number10, Number13
QUIZ XX: Teams 16, 21,24
QUIZ YY:
Teams 17, 20, 23
QUIZ ZZ:
Teams 18, 19, 22
B. There will be a tie-breaker quiz for positions 6, 15, and 24. Ties for positions 7
through 14 will be broken in accordance with the following priorities:
1. Head-to-head competition in previous quizzes.
2. Total points scored in preliminaries.
3. Least number of errors.
Points earned in these quizzes should be added to the points earned in the opening
round by each team. The highest three teams, based on the point system above,
are then placed in the above bracket. The next six teams are placed in the lower
bracket.
The C&MA Internationals Bible Quizzing Executive Team
Revised 2013
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