QU12 News News 25, February 12^th 2008:

QU12 Music and QU12 Team events

First things first!

Send your entry via Pay Pal to steve_jm_kidd@yahoo.co.uk. Or cheque to Steve Kidd, 104, Rookhill Road, Pontefract, WF8 2BZ

£5 for the QU12 Music per individual,

£20 per team in the QU12 Team

Following the runaway success of QU12, “the quiz for quizzers”, we are overjoyed to invite participants for the Music and Team events in the first half of 2008

Four Heats plus the final will take place on:

• Heats 1: Sunday March 16th: North East: Grange Moor, Yorkshire (In conjunction with Steve Burdin's National Pop Quiz).
• Heats 2: Sunday April 20th: South West/Midlands
• Heats 3: Sunday May 18th: North West: Victoria Hotel, Rainhill
• Heats 4 and Finals: Sunday June 22nd: South East/London: Kidlington

On each date a round of both QU12 Music and QU12 Team will be held, enabling the competitors to make it through to the final.

QU12 Music

The nature of music in the context of the quiz will be 90% what might be termed popular music. Clasical, Jazz and World music as well as theory will be included, but the focus will be more “Buzzcocks” than “Counterpoint”

Rules:

• All games are played by individuals on buzzers.
• All rounds are started with a blank score sheet.
• Tie breaker: Head to head, single question appropriate to round.
• If three or more contest a tiebreaker: Correct answer = Progress to next round, Incorrect answer passes on and eliminates from game.
• If two contest a tiebreaker: Correct answer = Progress to round 2, Incorrect answer passes over.
• The question masters decision is final (see "objections", below)

• Question Nature: Quick fire buzzer, with verbal questions getting easier as the round progresses
• Outcome: Top nine after twelve minutes progress to Part Two
• Players: 12
• Scoring: Correct answer = 1 point, Incorrect answer passes on and carries a penalty of loss of half accumulated points.

• Question Nature: Quick fire buzzer, with verbal questions asked incrementally
• Outcome: Top six after twelve questions progress to Part Three
• Players: 9
• Scoring:
  • Correct answer on first clue = 6 points
  • Correct answer on second clue = 5 points
  • Correct answer on third clue = 4 points
  • Correct answer on fourth clue = 3 points
  • Correct answer on fifth clue = 2 points
  • Correct answer on sixth clue = 1 point
• NEGATIVE POINTS FOR WRONG ANWERS APPROPRIATE TO VALUE (e.g. minus 6 for wrong answer on first clue)

• Question Nature: Quick fire buzzer, records will be played at random. Identification of both title and artist is required for one point. If either artist or title is correctly identified there is no life penalty. Failure to correctly identify both artist and title after a buzz will be deemed an incorrect answer (see below).
• Outcome: First to twelve points wins round, second and third to 12 points qualify for final
• Players: 6
• Scoring: Correct answer = 1 point. Three incorrect answers and player is eliminated.

“Pardon”

If a player is close with an answer, but not quite right, the questionmaster may consider he has perhaps not heard correctly, in which case he may ask the competitor to repeat their answer, e.g.

Competitor: “Ant Music by Adam Ant”
Quizmaster: “Pardon?”
Competitor: “Ant Music by Adam and the Ants”
Quizmaster: “That's what I thought you said – One point!”

Objections

Any player may object to a question, answer or score within one question of completion. If the objection is overruled that player's right to objection is then forfeit.

Entry:

£5 per entry

Places in the starting twelve are awarded to competitors to request a place and pay the entry fee who have competed in the fewest QU12 Music 2008 rounds. In the case of over subscription and equal entitlement there will be a preliminary round of Part One: QU12 Music

Prizes:

The winners of each round will get a medal. Top three finishers will win a place in the final. The winner of the final, will receive £100 plus trophy.

QU12 Team

Teams of three players. Pending the discression of the organisers, any team must be one that is established in a recognised quiz league, and each member must have played at least 50% of that teams matches in 2007. The game will follow approximately the same structure as QU12 apart from that there will be one team eliminated in each of the three parts of any given round, i.e. 4 teams will contest part one, 3 part two and 2 part three, with 1 team qualifying for the final.

Rules:

Game rules are as for QU12, in addition:

• All questions must be answered by the team member who buzzes first
• No conferring
• Once one team member has buzzed, that team cannot buzz again on that question

• Outcome: Top three teams after twelve minutes progress to Part Two
• Players: 4 teams of three players
• Scoring: Correct answer = 1 point for team, Incorrect answer passes on and carries a penalty of loss of half accumulated team points.

• Outcome: Top two teams after twelve questions progress to Part Three
• Players: 3 teams of three players
• Scoring:
• Correct answer on first clue = 6 points to team etc..

• Outcome: First team to twenty four points wins Round and qualifies for final
• Players: 2 teams of three players
• Scoring: Correct answer = 1 point. Three incorrect answers and player (not team) is eliminated.

Entry:

£20 per team

Places in the starting twelve are awarded to teams to request a place and pay the entry fee who have competed in the fewest QU12 Team 2008 rounds. First dibs are offered to League champions on 1/1/08. In the case of over subscription and equal entitlement there will be a preliminary round of Part One: QU12 Team Prizes:

The winners of each round will get a medal and a place in the final. The winners of the final, will receive £100 plus trophy.

So that's it -what are you waiting for? Send your entry via Pay Pal to steve_jm_kidd@yahoo.co.uk. Or cheque to Steve Kidd, 104, Rookhill Road, Pontefract, WF8 2BZ

£5 for the QU12 Music per individual,

£20 per team in the QU12 Team