Part 2: Divisions and Conferences

In Bible Quizzing, there are three main divisions, aka ranks. When you join your team in (usually) fifth or sixth grade, you are called a Young Teen Rookie. After you have quizzed for two years, you are a Young Teen Veteran. In around tenth grade you are classified as a Senior Teen Veteran. [Disclaimer: I only speak for my team and conference. Elsewhere things are probably done differently.] This is done so that experienced competitors do not go against rookies, so as to give an 'equal' chance to all. For this reason, there are often A and B divisions to even competition out within a rank when some teams are better than others. In addition, one who joins in 11th grade and has never done quizzing before is grouped with the YTVs as a Senior Teen Rookie.

Conferences are just like regional chapters, usually containing part of one state. The conference is larger if states don't have a lot of teams.

Bible quizzing: what is it? Part One: The Big Idea

At Bible quizzing, what we do is this: Each year, the world's quizzers study a certain book of the New Testament, in my case, or more than one as was the case last year. (We did Romans and James.) Each week, the team gathers at church to read a chapter and work on it, as in practicing on the jump seats.
[jump seats: electronic pads placed on a chair. When a quizzer sits on it and then stands up, the pad is connected to a box, and a light goes on corresponding to the quizzer's position. Before their invention in what, the 70s?, quizmasters had to use a piece of paper and judge the order in which the quizzers stood up.]

Then once a month, my team meets with teams from other area churches to compete over what we have learned.

The reason for this blog's existence

Well, I started this blog because I'm studying the Bible, specifically Acts this year, although I may not really post regularly until this fall, when I begin a new year in Bible quizzing.

This is also because we are encouraged to journal our thoughts, and personally, I think a blog is a friendlier form of doing so. Less obligatory. And if there are any Christians out there, you can feel free to comment and join me.