Battle Rules

Local Team Information

• Limited to six players, one Coach and one Assistant Coach.
• Members must be entering grades 6-9.
• Only three team members may be “in play” at one time.
• Player substitutions are allowed, at the discretion of the Team Coach, when the team is in downtime.
• Each team will participate in four rounds.

Guests are welcome.

Regional Play-offs

• Teams will compete in one of three Regional Competitions.

Regional Battle Rounds

• Twenty questions will be posed to each team per round.
• To assure all titles are Battled, two titles will be announced at the beginning of each round and the questions for that round will only come from those titles.
• Questions will be posed to individual teams that will then have five seconds to answer.
• Answers may take any form: author, title, character, setting, plot, detail or quote identification.
• Decisions of the Judges are final.
• Teams that call out an answer out of turn will lose a point and the team in play will immediately receive a new question.
• At the discretion of the Battle Staff, guests creating a disruption may be asked to leave the room for the remainder of the round.
• At the discretion of the Judge, teams creating a disruption may lose a point.

Booklist for the Battle

TO BE DETERMINED

Important Dates

• An introductory meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 29 at 4:00 pm.
• First team meeting will be held on Monday, June 12 at 4:00 pm.
• Practice Dates TBD.
• Battle Date: August 11