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Heartland Bible Bowl Guidelines and Rules General Information1. The Bible will be the soul source of information from which questions and answers are generated. 2. The Bible Bowl is a study over one chosen Bible book a year, one either from the New Testament or one from the Old Testament. 3. The book will be announced at least 3 months in advance of the Bowl. 4. Any age may participate. 5. Four (4) people form a team. 6. Teams are divided by age into three divisions, Junior, Teen and Adult. 7. The questions will be multiple choice with three possible answers. (1 will be correct and two will be incorrect “distracters.”) 8. 10 points per person per correct answer is awarded. 9. A bonus 10 points is awarded if all members of a team are correct, so there is 50 points possible per question. 10. There will be three rounds of questions. Teams with the four highest scores will advance to the semi-final round. The two top scoring teams of the semi-final round will advance to the final round. 11. The third highest score will determine third place after the semi-final round. 12. Team Awards are given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. 13. The top three individual scorers from the first round (out of each division) will be awarded individual trophies. General Attitudes 1. This is a competition where students and teams who can answer the most questions correctly will be declared “winners.” The number of points they earn will rank them. 2. Students and teams who participate in the competition who do not score enough points are still winners for striving to gain knowledge and understanding of the Bible. 3. This is not an equal chance game, however, participants should be recognized for at least attempting to compete and build on their Bible knowledge. 4. Every effort will be made to make the Bible Bowl a pleasant experience for all who participate. Everyone’s attitude should be centered on the mission of the competition and the mission of the Church.
Age Divisions1. Teams will be divided into two divisions: Junior, Teen and Adult. Juniors will be made of 1st through 6th grade. Teens will be made up of 7th – 12th grades. Adults will be made up of anyone 18 or older. 2. Juniors may be on a Teen team but Teens cannot be on a Junior team. 3. If a team has even one member that is 7th grade or above it must compete as a Teen division team. Teams1. Each congregation may have as many teams as they want. 2. The teams may be made of members who are in different grades. (For example, a team could consist of two 3rd graders, and a 5th and 6th grader.) 3. Each team should be made up of members from the same congregation. 4. If a congregation does not have enough participants to make up a team they can join forces with one other congregation to make up a team. 5. Teams may invite young friends to participate on their team if they do not have enough to make a full team. 6. Each team should have an alternate ready to participate if someone is unable to compete. 7. The alternates will be allowed to volunteer and can compete for the team they are subbing for (not the congregation they are with) and individual points.
Uniformity1. Questions will be taken from the New International Version of the Bible. 2. Questions will be written from actual content printed in the Bible. There will not be questions written that deal with applications of scripture or implications of scripture. 3. The books of the Bible to study will be announced to the participating congregations before it is announced to the host congregation. 4. Questions to be read to the teams will be kept secret until they are read at the Bible Bowl. 5. The junior and senior teams will be asked the same questions but will compete only against teams in their own division.
Scoring1. Each round will consist of 20 questions. 2. Each correct answer by a team member will be awarded 10 points to the team. 3. Each correct answer by a team member will be recorded for individual point totals. 4. When all team members answer a question correctly, the team earns an additional 10 points. 5. There will be six rounds of scoring previous to the semi-final round. 6. The top four (4) teams in the Junior and Senior divisions will progress on to the semi-final round. 7. The top two (2) scoring teams competing in the semi-finals will progress to the final round.
Individual Scores1. Team coaches will keep track of the individual scores of their team. 2. The totals will be turned into the question reader at the end of each round. 3. The question reader will total the individual scores after the end of the first six rounds and report to the announcers. 4. The three (3) highest scorers at the end of the first 6 rounds in each division will be awarded. 5. The highest scorer on each team will be recognized even if their team did not make it to the next round.
Format *1. Each team member will have a file folder with three large cards with the letters A, B, and C on them. 2. Each team member will be seated so that they cannot see what answer their team members are holding up. 3. The question will be read first then the three choices. 4. The question will be repeated and the choices will be repeated (1 X) 5. A five (5) second waiting period will follow the second reading. 6. Time will be called and each team member will immediately hold up a card with what they believe is the correct answer. 7. The correct answer will be called out. 8. The correct cards are kept in the air, while they are being tabulated and the incorrect answers are laid back down. 9. Participants are told to lower their cards. 10. Scores are tabulated. 11. The next question is asked in the same manner listed above. This continues for each question until the end of the round. 12. Team members may not discuss the answer to any question and they must hold up a card when the waiting period (5 seconds) is over. * We may present the questions using electronic “buzzers”-we will have to wait and see. |
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