{"id":31,"date":"2011-02-24T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2024-08-13T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T17:12:05","slug":"rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rules<\/h3>\n<h3>Team Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited to six players<\/li>\n<li>Alternates may attend but only swap in in the event that a team member can no longer play. Swapped out team members can not resume play.<\/li>\n<li>Members must be entering grades 6-9.<\/li>\n<li>All six team members play together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Battle Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Teams will prepare by reading six chosen young adult books.<\/li>\n<li>There will be three rounds of increasing difficulty &#8211; Easy (Round 1), Medium (Round 2) and Hard (Round 3)<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-four questions will be asked per round.<\/li>\n<li>Each round will feature four questions per book. The book from which the questions are being drawn will be announced and grouped together. (For example: &#8220;The next four questions will come from <em>The Hunger Games.<\/em>&#8220;)<\/li>\n<li>Questions will be read aloud by a Battle Official to the whole group. Questions will also be projected on a screen for teams to read.<\/li>\n<li>Teams are provided an official answer sheet on which to write their answers.<\/li>\n<li>Teams have thirty seconds to answer questions in Rounds One and Two, and one minute to answer each question in Round Three and any Tiebreaker rounds.<\/li>\n<li>Answers may take any form: author, title, character, setting, plot, detail or quote identification.<\/li>\n<li>Sheets are collected at the end of each round and graded by Judges, and are not returned. Decisions of the Judges are final.<\/li>\n<li>Teams that are caught eavesdropping or using electronic devices will have points deducted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rules Team Information Limited to six players Alternates may attend but only swap in in the event that a team member can no longer play. Swapped out team members can not resume play. Members must be entering grades 6-9. All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/?page_id=31\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suffolkbattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}