I cannot believe that Summit is now less than a month away! I am very excited!!! We have been studying and practicing for months, and it's almost here! Yay!!!
Here are some pics from our Quizzing & Games regional meet.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
It's less than a month away!!!!
I cannot believe that Summit is now less than a month away! I am very excited!!! We have been studying and practicing for months, and it's almost here! Yay!!!
Here are some pics from our Quizzing & Games regional meet.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Ok, I'm awake today AND have some time to write all about our regional meet. yay!
First was quiz. This year I did not feel like I studied as much as I should have, even though I know I did. I did not feel prepared, but for some reason it didn't matter. Our church had two teams-on the one was 1 sophomore guy & girl and 2 junior girls (who didn't study at all) and on the other (my team) was all girls, a freshman, sophomore, and me (junior). We were going to have a senior guy, but he bailed on us. Oh well, he's the one that missed out. Overall, the quiz went really well. Trek went first and our church had 3 out of 9 teams. They all did well, and our three teams answered 11 out of 16 speed questions. I'd say that's pretty good. The journey quiz had 6 teams. Two of the teams were from one of the churches (Immanuel Baptist) that made it to platinum last year, so the competition was hard. Our team answered 2 questions right, and the only other teams that answered questions right were the 2 from Immanuel Baptist. We answered 3 wrong in multiple choice, and two of which was because one of our girls thought she knew it and put the wrong one up. That irked me because I knew the right answer and she wouldn't listen. Doesn't matter though, we had fun. Third place was really good considering the competition.
Second was games. They were very interesting because we only had 2 teams this year. Last year we had six teams and I don't know where they all dissapeared to! :-) Anyway, we were supposed to have 3, but one dropped out. Since we only had two, all of the running races were run on a four-way circle. It wasn't that bad, but different. We basically lost almost every game, but had a great time! The girl's team (i was in teh middle) didn't do too bad. Team basketball went ok, but our bounce passes were terrible (for some reason we've always had trouble with the idea of 'getting low' and not bouncing it too high-no one listens to the fact that it needs to be done in order to shave off seconds!) Well, our relays went really good (i was in the sprint relay) and the marathon team actually won due to a DQ for the other team. They knocked it over sometime while the girl was running three laps because our church all started to yell "Howie! Howie!..." as Howard ran the four laps by himself. It was fun! Suzi & I did 3-legged, and were pretty good. We were very close to winning. Our girl's tug team held their ground for a long time. We were waiting over a minute before either team moved. The opposing team pulled it out in the end. The guy's team is another story. They were practically dragged on the floor as the other team went for their beanbag. Bean Bag grab (yes, we still do this in our area-we don't do bb bonanza) was good competition. We had at least 4 battles for the middle bag, and ended up gaining a lot of points. The sprint races & the girl's marathon race were close, but our guy was tagged out in the 5th lap of the marathon. Agility (Me & Katie's favorite)- I was extremly close to winning, and Katie would have won had she not DQ on the last pin. Balloon relay-both were close. We held on, but there wasn't much we could do when you are running against a whole team who seems to all be on a track team. We had a ton of fun though, and that's what matters!!!
I hope that this gives you a glance into what we did on Saturday. I also hope it wasn't too boring. If it was, go read Marcelo's blog on their games team. It's much more interesting and exciting. :-) Have a great day!
First was quiz. This year I did not feel like I studied as much as I should have, even though I know I did. I did not feel prepared, but for some reason it didn't matter. Our church had two teams-on the one was 1 sophomore guy & girl and 2 junior girls (who didn't study at all) and on the other (my team) was all girls, a freshman, sophomore, and me (junior). We were going to have a senior guy, but he bailed on us. Oh well, he's the one that missed out. Overall, the quiz went really well. Trek went first and our church had 3 out of 9 teams. They all did well, and our three teams answered 11 out of 16 speed questions. I'd say that's pretty good. The journey quiz had 6 teams. Two of the teams were from one of the churches (Immanuel Baptist) that made it to platinum last year, so the competition was hard. Our team answered 2 questions right, and the only other teams that answered questions right were the 2 from Immanuel Baptist. We answered 3 wrong in multiple choice, and two of which was because one of our girls thought she knew it and put the wrong one up. That irked me because I knew the right answer and she wouldn't listen. Doesn't matter though, we had fun. Third place was really good considering the competition.
Second was games. They were very interesting because we only had 2 teams this year. Last year we had six teams and I don't know where they all dissapeared to! :-) Anyway, we were supposed to have 3, but one dropped out. Since we only had two, all of the running races were run on a four-way circle. It wasn't that bad, but different. We basically lost almost every game, but had a great time! The girl's team (i was in teh middle) didn't do too bad. Team basketball went ok, but our bounce passes were terrible (for some reason we've always had trouble with the idea of 'getting low' and not bouncing it too high-no one listens to the fact that it needs to be done in order to shave off seconds!) Well, our relays went really good (i was in the sprint relay) and the marathon team actually won due to a DQ for the other team. They knocked it over sometime while the girl was running three laps because our church all started to yell "Howie! Howie!..." as Howard ran the four laps by himself. It was fun! Suzi & I did 3-legged, and were pretty good. We were very close to winning. Our girl's tug team held their ground for a long time. We were waiting over a minute before either team moved. The opposing team pulled it out in the end. The guy's team is another story. They were practically dragged on the floor as the other team went for their beanbag. Bean Bag grab (yes, we still do this in our area-we don't do bb bonanza) was good competition. We had at least 4 battles for the middle bag, and ended up gaining a lot of points. The sprint races & the girl's marathon race were close, but our guy was tagged out in the 5th lap of the marathon. Agility (Me & Katie's favorite)- I was extremly close to winning, and Katie would have won had she not DQ on the last pin. Balloon relay-both were close. We held on, but there wasn't much we could do when you are running against a whole team who seems to all be on a track team. We had a ton of fun though, and that's what matters!!!
I hope that this gives you a glance into what we did on Saturday. I also hope it wasn't too boring. If it was, go read Marcelo's blog on their games team. It's much more interesting and exciting. :-) Have a great day!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Yay!!!
I will tell you the details of today's regional meet later, but right now I'm too tired to go into detail. We sent two quiz teams, and my team won 3rd place out of six. Yay!!! I have to say, I sorta do like speed quizzing first. Games-unfortunately we only had 2 teams competing this year because one dropped out. For running events we ran a four-way circle. It was ok. We came in second, but we had an awesome time! I'll tell you more after I've had some sleep. :-)
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