Season Standard Operating Procedures
The following are season standard operating procedures for Pacific Northwest Bible Quizzing.
Bracket Types
Quiz meets will be comprised of preliminary score sum bracket consisting of all registered teams. Each team should be given the same number of quizzes therein, with as many being 3-team quizzes as possible, and 2-team quizzes only as necessary to ensure an equal total quiz-per-team count.
Following the score sum bracket, there will be 1 or more "top-9" positional brackets and an "auxiliary" positional bracket. The teams sorted by total team score from the score sum bracket will fill the 1 or more "top-9" positional brackets, and the remaining teams will be placed in the "auxiliary" positional bracket.
There will be at least 1 but possibly multiple finals/championships quizzes of the top 3 teams from the "top-9" positional brackets.
Club List Weighting
The club lists will be weighted as follows:
- Preliminary score sum quizzes are:
- Club 100: weight of 1
- Club 300: weight of 2
- Full Material: weight of 3
- “Top-9” positional quizzes and finals/championships quizzes are:
- Club 100: weight of 0
- Club 300: weight of 1
- Full Material: weight of 1
- Auxiliary score sum quizzes are:
- Club 100: weight of 3
- Club 300: weight of 2
- Full Material: weight of 1
Individual Averages
Quizzer individual averages for a meet are computed as follows:
- Each bracket's quizzes are averaged (with exceptions; see next)
- Finals/championships quiz scores do not count toward individual averages
- Auxiliary score sum quizzes have their averages reduced by 50%
Quizzer individual averages for a season are computed as follows:
- Scramble and pre-season meets are ignored
- For meets 1, 2, and 3: drop the lowest score of these, then the remaining 2 count 10% each
- For meet 4: count at 20%
- For meet 5: count at 25%
- District Championships: count at 35%
Great West Individual and Team Specifics
The default pattern for quizzer selection to the Great West Individual (GWI) will be:
- Invite quizzers based on:
- Year-to-date balanced-weighted individual scoring average
- Coach-confirmed memorization of at least 50% of the material at synonymous quality
- Maximum number of quizzers invited will be no greater than 20% of the district or 20 quizzers, whichever is lower
As far as team formation:
- 4-person teams will be preferred
- PNW teams 1 and 2 are "stacked"
- PNW teams 3-5 are "snaked"
Any changes to these policies will be decided by the Board of Directors and must be before District Meet 5.
Weather Minimums
There may arise situations where the weather forecast predicts conditions unsafe for travel to, from, or about the meet location.
General Principles: We don't want to cancel any meet, but we have an obligation to cancel whenever the safe outcome of travel is ever in doubt. There isn't an easy way to decide this because there isn't a uniform standard weather minimum for safe travel shared across all drivers, vehicles, and locations. A meet shouldn't be canceled if most teams can safely travel to and from the meet; however, if any coach believes safe travel is in doubt due to weather and declines travel to a meet that isn't canceled, their teams should not be statistically penalized.
The following are the weather-related meet policies:
- A coach may, by citing what they feel is unsafe forecast weather conditions, decline to commute their teams to any meet. Such a decision must be made prior to the start of the meet. The coach needs to contact the Coordinator as soon as possible following the decision. Given this case, the quizzers and teams from that group will have their averages calculated with the missing meet removed from the sum denominator.
- If more than a third of ministries decide to decline participation in a meet due to weather, the Coordinator will cancel the meet.
- The Coordinator will cancel the meet if at the meet location or along any common roadway where a majority of ministries will likely commute the following weather minimums are expected to be exceeded:
- Ice on the roadway.
- Snow accumulation of 2".
- Freezing rain.
- Visibility below 1 statue mile except for morning fog.
- Flooding.
- Electrical power loss at the meet location with no backup power capability.
- If the Coordinator cancels a meet, all teams will have their averages calculated with the missing meet removed from the sum denominator.
For individuals missing a meet due to weather:
- If missing one of the first 3 meets or District Championships, the individual will receive a 0 average for that meet
- If missing District Meet 4, the individual will receive a 0 for 10% of that meet and 10% weight applied to District Meet 5
- If missing District Meet 5, the individual will receive a 0 for 10% of that meet and 15% weight applied to District Championships
For teams missing a meet due to weather:
- If missing District Meet 3, the team will receive Last Place for 15% of that meet and 10% weight applied to District Meet 4
- If missing District Meet 4, the team will receive Last Place for 25% of that meet and 10% weight applied to District Meet 5
- If missing District Meets 1, 2, 5, or District Championships, the team will receive Last Place for that meet