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Tuesday, 26 November 2013
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If you need more quiz action...and like to support good causes...
...then the below two events are for you...
Church House
Bollington – Charity Quizzes
Allan Sherratt informs me that the Church House Inn, Bollington is holding
a regular monthly quiz in aid of the Macmillan
Macclesfield Live at Home scheme.
Entrance is £5 per team and quizzes are due to be held
on the 8th of December and the 12th of January.
The events will kick off at 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
Interested parties can phone the pub on 01625 574014
if they need more details.
Waters Green Tavern –
Charity Quiz
In
similar vein, Nick Peck from the Waters Green Lemmings tells me that Steve
Berwick (ex-Waters Green quiz regular) is running a charity quiz in the Waters
Green Tavern on Sunday the 24th of November,
8pm start.
The
quiz is in aid of the East Cheshire
Hospice and there will be various prizes including funniest team name,
worst score etc. as well as the normal winner’s prizes and raffles.
Refreshments will be provided.
Entry is £2 per person and no more than 4 people to a team. Nick tells
me that there may well be several "loose ends" happy to make up a
team on the night.
This quiz is designed to be a fun evening and all are welcome. Having fun and raising money for East Cheshire Hospice will be more important than winning.
Both the above events are in aid of excellent causes; please do give them your
support if you can.
Cup Round 2 and Plate Round 1 Draw...
The second round of the Cup and first round of the Plate has some interesting fixtures - including one or two truly heavyweight contests. See below for the full story...
Monday, 28 October 2013
Monday, 21 October 2013
Change of venue for two teams...
As many of you will have seen from previous correspondence, the Plough on Prestbury Road is having a change of licensee etc and in addition is going to be closed for at least the short term, so both teams who play
from there (Horntails and Taverners) have decided to relocate and they are both
moving lock, stock and barrel to the Bate Hall on Chestergate.
The two teams will
henceforth be known as the Bate Horntails and Bate Taverners.
All records will be amended from the next News & Views onwards.
Week 1...
Week 1 kicked off with an excellent week of scoring as you can see, with no less than two ‘57s’ (Alice Walker and Peter
McBride), a ‘54’ (Keith Pointon)
and two ‘51s’ (Alan Levitt and Graham
Bailey). Congratulations to all concerned.
Two
teams also scored over 200 points in total, namely the Ox-fford ‘C’ and the Dolphin, a feat that hasn’t been done
before to my knowledge. Let me know if you know otherwise…
Well
done again to all the above. Records are there to be broken!
Thursday, 3 October 2013
New Season 2013-14
It is that time of year again - Season 33 of the Macclesfield Quiz League looms!
At
the AGM on Tuesday we had a nail-biting Plate
Final which ended in an 81-79
win for the Plough Taverners over
the Park Taverners. Congratulations to both teams for an exciting contest and
particularly to the Plough for securing their first trophy for many years –
since their previous incarnation as Macc Cricket Club, I think.
The
game was question mastered by Paul Morrissey and I would like to thank
him along with the Lamb Inn and the Nags Head who provided the questions –
special thanks to Paul Griffiths, Chris
Butler and Billy Stubbs.
The
AGM had slightly more business than
usual to determine but a good debate was had by all present and the below two
changes were decided upon ultimately:-
- Our first subscription increase in 5 years was agreed, thus subscriptions will rise to £50 per team for this year. Looking back through our records, we have only raised the subs twice in the last 14 years (up to £30 in 1999 and then to £40 in 2008) so hopefully the new level will be with us for some time to come.
- A small change to the Specialist Question categories was agreed which will be explained fully in the new 2013/14 Rules, but in essence we will have six “fixed” Specialist rounds instead of five from now on. Geography, History, Science and Sport will remain but the Arts and Entertainment round will effectively be split into two rounds to be called Art and Culture and Entertainment. This will leave two rounds to the discretion of the question setters rather than three. The new 2013/14 Rules will have full guidance as to what the new categories of questions should contain.
I
am currently working on the fixtures which will be complete by next Tuesday the
8th of October.
You
can pay the subs and collect all the fixtures / rules / documentation etc from
the Weaver, Thornton Square between 6.30pm and 8pm on Tuesday the 8th
of October 2013. I
will be there along with Marshall Barnard who will issue the usual
receipts etc.
The
first game will be the following week on Tuesday the 15th of
October.
Question
Setters – Weeks 1 and 2
The following teams have volunteered for question
setting in the first two weeks of the season – many thanks to them:-
Week
1
questions – i.e. the 15th of October will be done in their
entirety by the Ox-fford.
Week
2
(22nd of October) questions will be set by the Harrington ‘B’
(Specialist) and
the Waters Green Rams (General Knowledge).
Week
3 (29th of October) will see an A League team setting all the
questions again, I will let that team know who they are ASAP.
All
will be done by Tuesday and I will email everything out after that.
And Finally - Rob Parkin’s Berlin
Marathon effort
Some of you have already sponsored the Harrington
Academicals’ Rob Parkin who ran the Berlin Marathon last weekend – an event
notable for a new Marathon World Record time set by winner Wilson Kipsang in 2
hrs 3 mins 23 secs (it will be a question soon, you can be sure of that!)
Rob
achieved his target of going round in well under 4 hours which deserves our
collective hats being taken off to him and some sponsorship going in his
direction if you haven’t done such a thing already. Rob ran to raise money for East
Cheshire Hospice once again and has a Justgiving page at the below link…
See
you next week if not before…
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Last Round Up...
Many thanks to all who
attended the Finals Night on Tuesday. The Weaver did us proud before it undergoes
whatever changes it is seemingly due to undergo!
There was an excellent turn-out and photos are posted below all things being equal.
There was an excellent turn-out and photos are posted below all things being equal.
The result of the Cup
Final saw the Ox-fford beat the Harrington Academicals by 113
– 68. Congratulations to all concerned.
Thanks must go to Rick
Davis and Paul Griffiths for asking the questions and scoring
respectively. Thanks also to Keith Pointon of the Waters Green Rams and Peter McBride from the Dolphin
for question preparation. An excellent effort by all concerned.
The final trophy of this
year will be settled at the start of next season as usual. The Plate Final will
be:-
Plough Taverners v Park
Taverners
This game will be played
at the AGM before the start of next season, date and place to be confirmed. The
Nags Head and the Lamb Inn will assemble questions for this game
from those not used for the Cup Final.
An excellent season saw
the Lamb Inn win the C League
with the Wharf also promoted in finishing second. John Hargreaves won the C League
Individual title for the second time, adding to his win in 2008/09.
In the B League – the most tightly contested League of all
this season – the Waters Green Phoenix emerged triumphant at the top of the
tree with the Knot Know-Alls finishing second. Both will play in the A League
next time around.
Keith Pointon bagged the B League Individual title for
the second year running (having won the C League equivalent the year before
that).
The Ox-fford 'C' were
deserving A League Champions losing
only two games all season and they remain the team to beat after a great season
of strong all-round performances.
The Ox-fford won
the Cars and Vans 4U Ltd Question Setters Trophy for their General
Knowledge questions from way back in Week 5.
If I don’t see you
before we start again, have a great summer and see you in the autumn when we
will do it all again...
Regards,
MW
Regards,
MW
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