Here is a review of how things work within the Chicago Central quiz program.  If you have any questions, please contact us directly. 

Scoring

All preliminary rounds are scored by modified olympic points.  Since in most cases, not everyone quizzes everyone else in the preliminary rounds, we feel this is the most fair way to determine preliminary team placement.  Modified olympic points are figured as follows in a three team quiz:

  • 10 points -first place, plus one point for every ten points over 100.
  • 5 points -second place, plus one point for every ten points over 60.
  • 1 point -third place, plus one point for every ten points over 30. 

Tournament rounds are scored differently, as this is typically a round robin tournament.  Placement in the tournament is determined in the following order:

  • Win-loss record
  • Head-to-head competition
  • If there is a 3-way tie in win-loss, and no way to determine winner based on head-to head, determination is then made by total points. 
    • Example:  Team A, B and C are all tied with a 7-1 record. 
      • Team A beat Team B
      • Team B beat Team C
      • Team C beat Team A
    • In this example, there is no way to determine the winner so total points are used.

Eligibility

Any student who is a part of their local NYI (age 12 or older in accordance with NYI charter) is eligible to participate in Bible quizzing.  We allow 6th graders who are a part of their local NYI to compete at the local and district level if they so choose.  6th grade students are not allowed to compete at the Regional level due to age restrictions and guidelines set forth by the Central Region NYI council. 

Due to a change at the regional level, Each district will now be allowed to take 2 all-star teams to regional celebrate life.  As a result of this change, at the district level, 6th graders are not eligible to compete on district all-star teams as they are not eligible to qualify for Regional level quizzing (this is also true of recent graduates participating in one year of quizzing).  This applies primarily to the St. Louis all star tournament, as this tournament consists of higher level quizzers who may qualify at the end of the year for a district all-star team at Regional Celebrate life.  This decision was made with the approval of the district NYI council. 

Top 16 and determining teams for Regional Celebrate Life

Top 16 method is used to determine who will go on to represent the district at Regional Celebrate Life.  The top 16 quizzers, as determined by the guidelines below will quiz off in a 6 round tournament with the top ten quizzers going on to represent the district at Regionals.  If you want more clarification on how Top 16 is set up, please refer to the NYI Bible quizzing rule book.

Top 16 is determined by the following guidelines:

  • individual scores in 4 of 6 district quizzes September-March (lowest 2 scores are dropped, and December does not count toward individual point totals)
  • attendance and participation at District Finals (counts as 2 scores, and cannot be dropped).
  • must meet the requirements for regional level quizzing 

Traveling Trophy

September, October, November, January, February, March and District finals all count toward total trophy points. (7 quizzes total).  If there is a tie at the end of finals, district finals is used to break the tie as it is over all the material and carries more weight than the other quizzes. 


At Each of these quizzes, points will be awarded based on final placement, and a running total kept througout the year. At the end of the year, the team with the most points will be awarded the traveling trophy. 

  • 1st Place: 3 points 
  • 2nd Place: 2 points 
  • 3rd Place: 1 point

If a local church has more than one team represented in the finals, they will be awarded the higher of the point values (they will not receive 2 points for 2nd place and 1 point for 3rd place, they would only receive 2 total points). 

December does not count in trophy points at this time.