These were the kids who earned the Master Memorization Award (MMA) or what used to be called the Platinum Award. That is the award for quoting all of Romans & James in 50 minutes or less with less than 7 mistakes. A mistake can be as small as saying "a" instead of "an" or adding an "s". Even a small stutter on a word is a mistake!
All 3 God's Girlz earned it this year. They tried last year but didn't make it.
At the end of the banquet is when they announce where Nationals will be next year. I was hoping for California or another bordering state. Not so lucky....
More of pretty dresses before they changed to watch the Match of Death & a couple more last hours of games.
The picture above is of all the Southwest teams. Three from AZ and one from CA.
The girlz with a friend from another AZ team.
I don't know how to get pictures in order when they fail to upload properly without deleting them all & starting over which I'm not willing to do! I figure most of you can deal with it & see where they should have gone. These pics are the SW teams sporting their "W" for the West is Best and other goofy pics.
After the banquet was over the girlz made a quick stop at a photo booth where they got a strip of pictures that we'll laminate so Hannah can use it as a bookmark. Then they changed clothes for the more "fun" part of the evening/morning. Around 10:30pm everyone gathered to watch the "Match of Death" where the top 8 quizzers in the nation compete in a match with completely off the wall weird questions. This took about 1 1/2 hours & was hilarious. After that the kids broke off into smaller groups and played games one last time. We made it to 2AM but then headed home.
The Match of Death was something the girlz had been looking forward to. Hannah tried to explain it to me from videos she saw but I didn't get it till I saw it. The questions were still based off Romans and James but the question writers got to have fun with it. Questions like quoting all the verses that had typos and pronouncing the typos as they were mistakenly printed. There was a question about quoting all the words that were hyphenated in their books. Yes, someone got it. Another was answering a question in one breath which is hard to do when some of the answers are super long. Another question required the quizzer to jump up while answering & run over to the quizmaster & take a selfie with him while he uploaded the picture to Facebook. There were others that I can't quite remember so you'll have to trust me that it was weird,hard,and so very funny.
So that's it for Nationals. Acts is the next book. Joshua is joining his JBQ team mate in participating in the "Acts Experience" which is an intro league to TBQ. It's not as intense or scary to get started. He will only need to memorize 4 chapters over the whole season-just one at a time and one per meet. There's no review over past chapters like there is in the "A" league.
Hannah missed 3 Honk rehearsals that week so she jumped right back into it this week with 3 rehearsals before tech week starts next week. Then 2 weeks of shows. I love Honk and can't wait to see it several times but I'm also looking forward to the break we get in August. Just a short break though because the Fall theater semester starts later in August.
Hannah & I go to the homeschool convention this weekend. The boys will go bowling and who knows what else while we're gone. Hannah & I will get to join them at a Rattlers game with our Pogo Pass on Saturday after the convention. We'll just walk over to the arena. It's that close.
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