MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION

State Finals

Format will be online on a date TBD.

The national semi-finals will take place on May 13.

Format for the semis will not change – online testing using the Online Assessment Center. Teams will be able to take their semi-finals at any time on this day, but all members of the team must take them simultaneously.

May 14 is a makeup date for teams that can’t compete on the 13th.

Semi-final scores will serve two purposes:

They will identify which teams from each division will continue to the National Finals

And, they will carry over to the National Finals, replacing the written testing that usually takes place at the National level.

We will announce the teams that will progress to the Critical Thinking round by 6:00 pm ET on May 15.

Critical Thinking Round:

The # of teams to advance to the CTR is TBD.

It will still be on May 17, likely start mid-morning.

This round will run as usual – but on zoom. Teams will get their question and have time to prepare before they present to a set of judges. At this point we are operating under the assumption that teams will not be able to be together in one place to prepare and will have the necessary technology for them to work together remotely.

We are also doubling the amount of prep time they will have, to 60 minutes, to account for the challenge of being remote.

We are planning to record teams’ presentations this year, so they will be available for teams to view afterward. 

The virtual Quiz Bowl finals will be on Monday, May 18.

Quiz Bowl finalists will be determined by the aggregate scores of teams’ semi-finals testing and the critical thinking round.

There are still a lot of moving parts regarding the Quiz Bowl and so I can’t give you a specific time at this point. We are still determining whether there will be just a 1st/2nd place competition or also a 3rd/4th place round.

The format for the quiz bowl will change. Think Final Jeopardy!

Instead of a first-to-the-buzzer competition, teams will be read a question and both teams will have 20 seconds to discuss and write down their answer. Once the 20 seconds is up, they will reveal their answers and judges will determine whether they are correct.

There will be 24 questions, the team that answers the most questions correctly will win. If there’s a tie after 24 questions don’t worry, we’ve got some tiebreakers.