Congratulations to Alfordsville of Indiana the 2004 Great Lakes Regional JBQ champions! Alfordsville won 16 straight matches after starting the event 2 and 2 and this was just the tip of the Indiana ice burg as Indiana took 4 of the top 6 places, becoming the first Great Lakes state to send 4 teams to Nationals! Elkhart finished 3rd, Fort Wayne 4th and Newburg 6th. Naperville team 1 held the lead after Fridays quizzing with a 13 -1 record, they finished second, but just could not keep up with Alfordsville incredible winning streak. 2004 marked the addition of the Appalachian district to the GLR. For a district that is new to JBQ it was a rude awakening being placed in, historically, the top Regional in the Nation. We pray they learned bunches and will take it back to their district and share with the other new programs back home. This was the highest scoring GLR since I have been keeping track of it as three churches topped 190 per match.
With the new rules for qualifing for Nationals each Regional takes on a greater significance then in the past. The five State Champions finished in the following manor. (Calvary Elkhart (3), Bethesda Sterling Heights (7), Trinity Chapel Lousiville (8),Calvary Church Napervillle (12) and First Assembly Ashtabula (14). Thus a finish in the top six was required to qualify for Nationals. Congraulations to Allfordsville (1), Calvary #1 Naperville (2) First Assembly Fort Wayne (4), Clearcreek Christian Springboro (5) and Abundant Life Newburgh (6) for qualifying for Nationals.
Clearcreek Christian qualified for Nationals for the fourth straight year, joining Highway Tabernacle (1997-2000) and Capital City(2000-2003) as the only churches from Ohio to do so. Clearcreek also has become the first church in Ohio JBQ history to attend Nationals seven times in eight years. (1997-2004).
Will the Indiana dominance continue at Nationals? At this web site we always root for the Ohio teams. (It's a Ohio site! Duh!) So here is hoping that Astabula learned a bunch this year at Regionals and will be ready to step to the top at Nationals. Clearcreek has finished in the top 7 at Nationals the last three years, I'm sure they'd love to see that continue. We would not mind another "Great Lakes" show at Nationals either.
Level 1 Won/Lost Points 1 Alfordsville/ Alfordsville In 19-3 3920 2 Calvary #1/Naperville Il 18-4* 4335 3 Calvary/ Elkhart In 18-4 4260 4 First Assembly/Fort Wayne In 16-6* 3935 5 Clearcreek Christian/Springboro Oh 16-6 3765 6 Abundant Life/Newburgh In 15-7 4205 7 Bethesda #1/Sterling Heights Mi 13-9* 3800 8 Trinty/Lousiville Ky 13-9 3695 9 Victory/Lowellville Oh 13-9 3540 10 First AOG/Lexington Ky 13-9 3385 11 Lakeside AOG/Shelby Township Mi 13-9 3375 12 Calvary #2/Naperville Il 12-10+ 3945 13 Bethesda #1/Sterling Heights Mi 12-10 3360 14 Astablua/Ashtabula Oh 12-10 3240 15 Dayspring/Bowling Green Oh 11-11 3615 16 First AOG/East Lansing Mi 10-12* 3220 17 Cornerstone/Danville Ky 10-12 3485 18 The Stone Church/Palos Heights Il 9-13 2460 19 First AOG/Mt. Washington Ky 4-18 2280 20 First AOG/Normal Il 2-20+ 1115 21 Kings River #2/St. Albans WV 2-20 1020 22 Kings River #1/St. Albans WV 2-20 915 23 Brush Arbor/Pulaski VA 0-22 405
District Champion qualified for JBQ National Festival Qualified for JBQ National Festival at this event
* - Won head to head match with team with same record
+ - Team with most points in tie of three or more teams
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