Youth Spiritual Competition Policies

2011 Youth Spiritual Competition Policies

Spiritual Competition Online Registration is now open. Please register teams at http://www.ysc-keraza.org by by August 1, 2011. Absolutely no late registration will be accepted.


Section 1 – Registration Changes (Additions)

  1. If you wish to ADD people additional people to your team. Please inform us via e-mail of the additional names and we will send you an invoice via Paypal for the amount difference.
  2. If the invoice has not been paid before the event date, those extra additional members will not be allowed to participate.

Section 2 – Registration Changes (Subtractions/Refunds)

  1. All refund requests will be handled AFTER the competition date. There will be no refunds beforehand. 

Section 3 – Registration Changes (Exchange people)

  1. If someone is being replaced on your team and is unable to participate, and if you have already paid for the correct number of people, you may swap in other person.
  2. If you have swapped someone, please e-mail us the correct names, so we may correct the registration file. 

Section 4 – Examination & Scoring

  1. Each Team will take an exam consisting a mix of approximately 40 multiple choice questions/fill in the blanks/and true false questions along with 10 short answer/essay questions.
  2. Hymns and Agpeya will be weighed at 75 and 25 percent respectively
  3. Agpeya Memorization will be an oral examination, NOT a written examination.
  4. The entire team will be asked who has memorized their agpeya portions, those who have responded “yes” will be asked to recite it various parts. Those who responded with a “no” will be deducted a point number.
  5. We will not be using the regular ranking format of 1st, 2nd, 3rd. for this year, but a new rank system instead.
  6. Scores will NOT be released to anyone under ANY circumstance. Do not ask the committee for scores.

If there are questions, complaints, comments, or concerns, please e-mail us to info@ysc-keraza.org and we will do our best to assist you in any manner.