Snow: Causes and Effects

Here's the story what happened last weekend. It began with a snowfall that started Saturday night. By the time it ended on Sunday morning, there was roughly a foot of snow. Early Sunday morning, and quizzing was not cancelled. So at 10:30 AM, I got a call from the Deitricks. They said that most churches had agreed to quiz and they were going to try it. At 10:31 AM, I began to shovel my dad's 4-wheel truck out of the snow. My parents never saw my shovel out snow so fast. By 11 AM by parents gave me a helping hand. At noon, we had finally finishd. After a quick shower and preparation, my dad drove me to practice at Spring City (who had no church). I arrived for 1:30 practice. Mike arrived shortly after with his mom. And she said, "But doesn't the quizzing website say quizzing is cancelled?" Sure enough, when we got ahold of Fred, it was. We were all annoyed. So, since we were already there we had practice. After a half-hour of practice, we called it quits.

My quiz coaches invited me to stay for dinner, so I did. Meanwhile, I helped shoveled out the van for the Deitricks. Yes, mores shoveling. Dinner was great (I never knew rice tasted so much better with butter). So then we went through more questions. We got most of them right on the first try. We were all dressed up with nowhere to go. When done, I went home.

For those who do not know how snow cancellations effect quizzing, it's nasty. The matches have to be made up so everyone has the equal number of matches. This is done in a doubled-up week. To start with, we have to study twice the material: the missed material and the scheduled material. The doubled-up week has doubled-up matches. The matches from last week are made up from the previous week in early afternoon, and then the matches scheduled for this week are during the evening regular time. It's a strain on the quzzers, but needs to be done.

Here was the problem. The schedule for the cancelled week was all at one place, and was designed for that. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get in one buiding the following week, only two. So Fred had to do some major schedule revamping. The number of matches is the same, but the opponenets changed. This came to a surprise to us. More about the schedule later.
So on practice Wednesday, we had to change it a bit. Our practice matches were different. The first 13 questions were from the new material. The 3 "review" questions were the questions from the missed material. Mike and I only read the material twice by practice. For me, I quizzed out all four practice matches. For Mike, it showed-

Question: What 5 should you not take for the journey?
Michael: No money, no staff, no extra tunic, no bread........no duffelbag?

Question: What have nests?
Michael: Ummm....owls?

Question: What should you shake off...?
Michael: Shake your feet off!

Beside that, it went pretty well, but we could use more practice. With double weeks worth of material and matches, you just need a double amount of practice. So that's what Spring City is doing. We are going have an additional quiz practice on Saturday night. Then I am staying overnight. The next morning, we will practice during Sunday school hour. We should be prepared by then. So this is why you may not hear from me.

Now to the schedule. They got it down to two places: Hinkletown and E-Town. Spring City will be at E-Town all day. We were suppose to be at Hinkletown, but the schedule revamping ended us up at a farther away location. It begins at 2 PM. We have new opponents as well. For the 2 PM round, we quiz against Akron 1 (#21), then we play back-to-back matches of E-Town 2 (#6) and Good Shepherd 1 (#1!) Yes, we went from playing the no. 2 team to the no. 1 team. Nevermind, I want to to playing the no. 2. On top of that, those Top 10 teams we have to play consecutively. And I miss the fact that we no longer play the no. 27 team. That would have (theoretically) been easy points. Then at 4 PM, we get a 2 1/2 hour break for dinner. At 6:30 PM, we switch material and have two more matches. The first match is round 4 against Hopewell 2 (#22). Our last match just happens to be the last match of the day (It's gonna be later getting back home. Luckily, no school Monday). It's against Goods 1 (#11). I once again, like usual, ask you to come if you can and support the team. I know it's a distance, but that is why we need you, the distance already cuts down the number of fans. But it is an all day event. Come when you can, leave when you have to. We'd appreciate it.

Quizzing Question of the Post:
Who are the 5 that Jesus let in with him?

Quizzing Joke:
Q:Why should the ACC bring the quizmasters, coaches, scorekeepers and timekeepers to Ohio
A: Because Jesus said to take no staff for the journey