Well, this weekend a group from my church traveled up to Mt. Vernon Nazarene University to participate in the Tri-State Regional Teen Bible Quiz. It actually ended up having more than 3 states involved - I know there were teams from 5 states there (NY, PA, WV, OH, KY) and there may have even been more.

There's a bit of the background at http://www.kdconsulting.com/ (they apparently ran the quiz).

There were about 140 teams of teenagers. Our team had 1 or 2 first time quizzers and 3-4 quizzers with more experience. However, only one of our quizzers had ever attended a large tournament before.

Friday night they quizzed 4 teams, winning all 4 matches, and that put them in 10th place out of about 70 teams. Saturday was rougher, and they ended up with a record, I believe, of 4 wins and 3 losses. This put them in 12th place out of the 70 teams... quite respectible. Not only that, but the top quizzer on our team (which was one of the two quizzers on the team who happen to be my sons) ended up as the 16th highest quizzer in the section - that was out of over 200 quizzers (maybe over 300 ... I've not seen a tally yet).

Anyways the young people did well, and youth pastor Mike Rodgers and his lovely wife Amy (as well as the parents of some of the others) were there to cheer the team on.

Also, we got to see various friends from other teams and even among the student body of MVNU . So a good time was had by all, despite my personal woes.