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Quiz League Fees 2011-2012: - Archived 10 November 2011
Please note that Registration and League match fees are now due. This amounts to a total of £42 (Forty two pounds) per team. The payment is to be made as soon as possible from 12th September 2011, but at the latest by 31st October 2011.
The fees for the 4 teams (Blue Anchor B/S A, Boot & Shoe A, Bowerham Hotel and Slyne Lodge), who have already paid their registrations, is £40 (Forty Pounds).
Payment should be by cheque, made payable to "Lancaster City Quiz League", which can be returned in a score sheet envelope. Alternatively, you may wish to post your cheque to the Treasurer. His address was provided on your Fixtures' notification.
If you must pay by cash please HAND it to either Mal Kitchin or Crawford Mitchell (please do not put it into a score sheet envelope).
If any team has problems with this time scale can they have a confidential chat with either Mal or Crawford.
Division 4: - Archived 22 September 2011
Cup Competitions: It was brought to the Committee's attention that under the League's rules 'averages on completion of half the league fixtures' must be used to place a team into the appropriate competition. This means that Week 11 averages will be used and NOT Week 7 averages as earlier advised.
2011-2012 Season: - Archived 05 September 2011.
Fixtures have now been compiled, question setters selected and the divisional structure determined.
The top 2 teams from Divisions 2, 3 & 4 have been promoted into the division above. In order to compensate for the loss of 3 teams, only the bottom team from Divisions 1, 2 & 3 has gone down into the division below. It has also been necessary to promote 2 third-placed teams; these being Palatine from Division 3 to Division 2 and Halton SC from Division 4 to Division 3.
Divisions 1 and 3 comprise 11 teams each, Division 2 has 12 teams and Division 4 has 8 teams.
This means that all teams from Division 1 and 3 will be required to set a quiz this season. Setters for the Cup Pools and Quarter Finals will be selected from Division 2 and 4.
Hard copies of the fixtures have been posted to those requesting them and the remainder of teams have been notified by email.
2011-2012 Season Update: - Archived 26 July 2011.
42 teams have registered for the season; a loss of 3 teams from last season.
In order to create a viable league, the Committee has decided that it will be necessary to have 2 divisions of 11 teams, 1 of 12 teams and 1 of 8 teams. This is to ensure that (a) there are sufficient question setters for all the league matches and (b) bye weeks are kept to a minimum. The teams in the 8-team division will play each other 3 times. This will result in a 22 week league season plus Cup games.
Divisional make-up, Fixtures and Question Setters have still to be considered, but the following items have also been decided.
League Start Date: The first fixtures of the new season will be played on Monday, 12th September 2011; the final League fixtures on Monday, 2nd April 2012.
Bye Weeks/Christmas Break: The Committee have been mindful of the complaints arising due to the number of bye weeks experienced in the past few seasons. The new framework will mean that the 11-team divisions will have 2 bye weeks (one of which will be a question setting week), the 12-team division will have no bye weeks and the 8-team division will effectively have 1 bye week (as none of those teams will play in the final week of the season). In the Pool Rounds of the Cup competitions, the majority of teams will have a maximum of 1 bye week only. There will be a 3-week break over the Christmas/New Year period. This will include the Monday before the Christmas weekend and the 2 Bank Holiday Mondays following.
Cup Competitions: There will be a change to the Pool rounds next season, it has been decided to have just 4 pools for each competition instead of 6 pools, as before. This will mean 3 pools of 5 teams and 1 of 6 teams - the top 2 teams in each pool will progress to their competition's Quarter Finals. The Pool matches will commence immediately after the Christmas break on Monday, 9th January 2012 and will run up to and including Monday, 6th February 2012. The average of each team after Week 11 will be used to determine the competition in which they will play. In the case of the 8-team division, the average after Week 7 will be used.
Quarter Finals through to Finals: The Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals next season will be played in the 3-week block between Easter Monday and Early Spring Bank Holiday (16th, 23rd and 30th April 2012). It was felt that playing the Quarter finals in the middle of March resulted in unnecessary breaks to the run of League fixtures.
Question Setters: The Committee will require all of the 22 teams in the 11-team divisions to set the quizzes for the 22 weeks of League games, irrespective of the question setting preferences shown on their registration forms. Setters for the Cup competitions (excluding Semi-finals and Finals) will be selected from the remaining 20 teams.