2012 Rulebook and Competitions Updates!

The 2012 Rulebook is now available on the MIST Nationals website! You can download it here: http://www.getmistified.com/2012-rule-book/

And for those of you who want to get a head start, here are the topics for the Knowledge test and MIST Bowl!

This year’s Knowledge Test books are:
1. “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers
2. “Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children” by Dorie McCullough Lawson
3. “The War Within Our Hearts : Struggles of the Muslim Youth” by Habeeb Quadri & Sa’ad Quadri
4. “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life” by Karen Armstrong

This year’s MIST Bowl topics are:
Topic I: Mothers of the Believers*
Topic II: Lessons from Historic Narratives*
Topic III: Poets of the Past and Present*
Topic IV: The Year of Protest*
Topic V: All About Africa: Culture, Geography and History*
Topic VI: Current Events, starting January 1st, 2012 (no packet)

*Packets to be posted by February 10, 2012
Specific changes to be on the lookout for in the Rulebook [List not exclusive]:

• A new competition- Advanced Memorization- is now included in the Knowledge and Qur’an category!We encourage anyone who has memorized a significant portion or is planning to to compete in one of three levels(1 =  Juz 1-10, 2 = Juz 11-20, 3 = Juz 21-30).
• Qur’an Memorization will now only test competitors on the 30th Juz (no longer 29th and 30th)
• Art ballots have been edited so make sure you look at them before you submit your piece for MIST!
• Photographs in the photography competition may not be digitally enhanced beyond standard optimization (see the rulebook for examples of standard optimization!)
• Prepared Essay rules and ballots have been updated.
• Community Service competition is back to the way it used to be- you can think of any community service task and present it to the judges. See the rules for more specifics!
• Science Fair is also back and better than before! See the rules for details!
• Nasheed ballot has been updated

As for Debate, Original Oratory and Prepared Essay topics- they’re in the Rulebook as well!
Original Oratory – Available on p. 50 of the Rule Book
Prepared Essay – Available on p. 62 of the Rule Book
Debate – Available on p. 73 of the Rule Book
If you have any questions about the Competitions, please e-mail us at mist.competitions@gmail.com!