Inside Quizzing Gryphon Shafer and Scott Peterson

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick announcement about an upcoming virtual game night for quizzers, and they answer an interesting listener question about the value of specialization. Then the dynamic duo discuss a series of topics they consider to be the worst quizzing practices, and they take a certain measured amount of umbrage regarding each. Quizzer enunciation, inability to accept feedback, coach favoritism, and question writing silliness are some of the topics discussed. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick announcement about the upcoming 2020-2021 PNW Quizzing season. Then the dynamic duo quickly move into part 2 of the discussion and debate over the worst rules of Bible Quizzing, the rules with which they would like to take umbrage. Unique words, determine word or phrase, context, prompts, and more. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app

Gryphon and Scott welcome to the podcast PNW Internetionals coaches Jeremy Swingle and Kristine Delamarter to talk all things coaching, but before they do, Scott offers an Internetionals statistics overview. Then Gryphon and Scott discuss two related rulings from Internetionals regarding when a jump should be a foul versus an error. Then the quizzing quartet discuss how to be a coach, how to recruit and motivate quizzers, how to setup teams, how to run practices, how to coach at meets, and how to put together an Internationals coaching strategy. At the very end, Jeremy promotes his and Jon's new podcast: John 3:15. (https://open.spotify.com/show/3zmpvLK7ItGlC6OBaCYG44) As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app

Gryphon and Scott being with a quick review of some of the Internetionals 2020 highlights, then quickly move into a short list of lingering questions and concepts. Then the dynamic duo spend the bulk of the episode discussing and debating the worst rules of Bible Quizzing, the rules with which they would like to take umbrage. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app

Gryphon and Scott discuss some listener questions and listener feedback, first about the ethics of challenging. Then the dynamic duo discuss in detail some edge cases for "out of context" and the concepts and implications of context in general. And finally, Gryphon and Scott explore how quizmasters are required to rule on provided reference in both reference questions and quote questions. As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app

Gryphon and Scott discuss a variety of questions related to quizzing: What do you think is a good way to jump competitively in a virtual meet while still minimizing risk? What are ethical standards for quizzing and coaching in terms of challanging and protesting? Is there such a hing as being "too competitive"? And if so, what might that look like for quizzers and coaches? As always, email questions and comments to iq@cbqz.org and follow us on Twitter: @InsideQuizzing. The CBQZ web-based Bible Quizzing application is hosted at: https://cbqz.org/app