playoff schedule • 04/2025

Battle Format…

  • Traditional Battles (Qualifying Rounds)

    April TBD

    8AM and 11:50AM Battles

    In the traditional battles (2-4 games played/team), teams will work together to demonstrate their reading comprehension skills by answering questions about 10 award-nominated Canadian fiction books they have read over the past 5 months. Each battle lasts about 20 minutes. Correct answers earn 1 point, while questions answered incorrectly or passed are given to the opposing team for a chance to answer correctly.

    In each subsequent round, teams will face a new opponent and answer a slightly more challenging set of questions. These rounds provide an opportunity for teams to improve their overall rank and aim to be among the top 8 teams that advance to the Playoffs.

  • Lightning Battles (Qualifying Rounds)

    April TBD

    8AM and 11:50AM

    The Lightning Battle format, back by popular demand is another type of qualifying round where teams compete against each other to correctly answer as many questions as possible within 10 minutes. A correct answer awards 1 point, incorrect answer -1 point and a passed answer 0 points. This round will be counted towards a teams final rank.

  • Playoffs

    April TBD

    11:50 AM ONLY

    Quarter finals: 8 teams
    Semi finals: 4 teams
    Finals: for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

    The top 8 teams will advance to the Playoffs. We welcome all parents of the students who are participating in Battle of the Books to the Gym at 11:50AM for the final game.

SCROLL DOWN…FOR AN EXAMPLE OF THE 2024 BATTLE SCHEDULE

Seed Round 1…

WED, APR. 17 @ 8AM

  • LIBRARY

    SCORE: TMG 41 vs GOATED 15

  • Room 304

    SCORE: FC 7 vs TSGBC 29

  • Room 307

    SCORE: GOAT 31 vs Vikings G2 36

WED, APR. 17 @ 11:50AM

  • Room 301

    SCORE: NA

  • Room 302

    SCORE: TLP 10 vs WF 15

  • Room 305

    SCORE: WHIZ 7 vs NETHER 12

  • Room 308

    SCORE: SP 11 vs POCKEYS 18

“Books are uniquely portable magic”
— Steven King

THURS, APR. 18 @ 8AM

  • LIBRARY

    SCORE: TRR 34 vs. CN 11

  • Room 304

    SCORE: TFF 16 vs THMTM 24

  • Room 307

    SCORE: TFS 17 vs TFC 5

Seed Round 2…

THURS, APR. 18 @ 11:50AM

  • Room 301

    SCORE: RH 11 v. TLP 8

  • Room 302

    SCORE: TWK 2 vs. TCN 25

  • Room 308

    SCORE: NA

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

― Jane Austen

FRI, APR. 19 @ 8AM

  • LIBRARY

    SCORE: NC 6 vs. TFS 17

  • Room 308

    SCORE: SP 8 vs. RR 34

  • Room 307

    SCORE: GOAT 43 vs G.O.A.T.E.D 13

  • Room 308

    SCORE: VG2 25 vs. TMG 22

FRI, APR. 19 @ 11:50AM

  • Rom 301

    SCORE: FC 9 vs TFF 9

  • LIBRARY

    SCORE: RH 14 vs TS 10

  • Room 304

    SCORE: TP 16 vs TSGBC 35

  • Room 305

    SCORE: THMTM 37 vs TWK 14

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Lighting Battle…

MON, APR. 22 @ 8AM

  • GYM

  • LIBRARY

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
—from Legend by Marie Lu

MON, APR. 22 @ 11:50AM

  • GYM

  • LIBRARY

  • ROOM: 304

    SCORE:

Playoffs…

To all of the teams that signed up, committed their time to reading some great Canadian Fiction and giving it their all! Your excitement is contagious! Thank you!

Congratulations…to the top 8 teams who have advanced to the Playoffs! Can’t wait to see you…

THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS COMMITTEE