And the results . . .

The Triadelphia Sparks persevered and landed a second-place finish. That would be a very satisfactory result if William and Beth's sashes didn't already hold eleven gold bars representing every other event in this club's history.

I'm glad that we don't have to rush away this evening. It will be good to give a little time for the natural disappointment to ebb.

I mentioned earlier that we had expected the last question to be to list some of the 31 kings from Joshua 12. Beth had spent hours focusing on this list, and had written it out every day for the last few weeks, so it was a big disappointment for her to not get that as the last big-point question. But while we were waiting to hear the results, Pastor Dodge invited Beth ("one young woman from Triadelphia") to come on the platform and recite the list. Many other young people joined her, and here's what it looked like:


There were 23 teams in this event. Of those, 13 placed in first, i.e. within 10% of the highest team, and 9 teams in second, i.e. within the next 10%.