The organizers of the highly successful Sports Journalists Night have changed the format from just one night every 3 months to a league.
The competitive Quiz Night has had 3 editions in January, April and June where Journalists from different media houses form teams of 5 members each and compete for prizes in different categories testing their sports knowledge.
The Head Organiser of the Sports Quiz, Leon Ssenyange while speaking to the press said;
We decided to make the Quiz Night a league in line with all sports competitions world over. After each round teams will accumulate points and the top team after the 4 rounds will be declared champions of the Sports Quiz League.
The League will feature 10 teams and the house rules remain the same with 5 members per team but each team has to have at least one female member which carries a bonus point as well. However, each team cant have more than 2 players from the same media house.
In the previous editions, all participating teams have walked away with prizes from the partners of the Quiz Competition with the top 5 teams walking away with cash prizes as well.
The league will not be any different with prizes for every monthly edition and a huge reward for the overall winner at the end of the league.
We are still speaking to our partners about the reward for the teams, and on August 14th we shall have another press conference to unveil our teams and partners for the league. Whoever takes part in the league will be a winner with all participating teams getting something.
Registration for teams is ongoing and a registration fee of 200,000 is charged for each team. A commitment fee of 100,oo0 is required before the 1st round in August. The league will run in August, September, October and the final round in November. The league is scheduled to kickoff on August 24th as long as all teams have finished with their registration by 14th.
Rugby Cranes Captain Brian Odong and the Basketball Gazelles Captain Flavia Oketcho will be judges in the league and Oketcho was emotional as she gave her comments about the league.
I am a bit teary to be here watching people who usually ask us questions being put on the spot about the same. But am privileged to see the growth of the media in covering sports, gone are the days when guys got results over the phone.
Now Journalists are always looking for the story and are eager to talk to us, as someone who studied Mass Communication at UCU, I feel part of this group and I look forward to the league.
Team Augusto led by Brian Tuka won the first two editions before being knocked off by Team Virgins led by Innocent Ndawula in the 3rd edition. Both these teams dominated in a 100M dash but now in a marathon consistency is key to being the overall winner.
For more details on how to be part of the league Call 0712380663, 0752081435 or email squizleague@gmail.com.
