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…
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