Learned League

does anyone have a spare invite for bored of Hull here please? I quite fancy giving this a go.

i don't think you can join midseason unfortunately.

Don't think so either. Next season is second half of August, looks like, so when the call for recommendations goes out we can help you then.

I didn't realise, thanks both, I'll keep an eye out for it in a couple of months

I have become unexpectedly good at defensive scoring, to the point I am now 3rd in my rundle with an 8-2-3 record and 16(!) UFPA. This despite badly muffing several questions. I was so pissed at myself for missing the India/Pakistan answer the other day.

there is a guy in my rundle with 7 ufpa

i am very much not that guy

Hah, nearly twinsies, Eliza: I'm 8-3-2 with 17 UFPA! However, I'm in 8th place, and I currently have the highest CAA among the top 9.

Also, my defense was bad yesterday, though my opponent's was worse and I was able to edge them by a point. Three points for WILD STRAWBERRIES? I'll take it of course, but really?

Well, it was the hardest question of the day across the league (23%). Arguably your opponent should've noticed that you're 5-for-5 on film questions so far, though it's still a small sample size.

i have 7 ufpa this season so far! my defense has been sick. verrry lucky. are we in the same rundle? is it me lol? (d lyc 2)

i have the same problem w/ the royal flush as a separate hand thing but it is pretty much "accepted" that it's its own hand. i also wrote em all out and got that one, i don't play much but i used to work for a poker website like 10 years ago so i'd feel quite the fool if i had missed that one.

im somehow in first in my rundle (im guessing the 7 ufpa helped... in fact i know it does. i have won so many days on just defense this season). i am almost 100% sure that'll change by tmrw tho

broken record here but 21 UFPA and only 29 TCA means I am out of my element.

having reached a certain stasis over a few years, my theory is that, apart from the true polymaths and the *very* occasional overachieving defender, what really produces your ranking is CAA, and there's nothing you can do about that

Got 5(!) questions right, played perfect defense, and still lost -- as expected.

4 right, lost

Got all 6 yesterday, woke up worried they were not going to accept Krohn with a K but in my heart I knew Thorsten would allow it.

it's safe to assume spelling only counts when it's explicitly stated that spelling counts or when your misspelling yields an answer to the question that is the name of a real thing that is a plausible incorrect answer. (Monet will never count for Manet, to use the classic quiz bowl example about vowel pronunciation rules)

I believe there's sound-alike rule. Correct spelling not required but the pronunciation has to be fairly close. So a K instead of a hard C would always be marked correct (even, presumably, "Hillary Klinton").

SOOO glad that stupid bits of trivia like "neap tides" stick in my brain for decades. Even though I lost the match.

Why are people so smart when they play against me

My first win of the month!

I kind of resent the idea that I might have to pay closer attention to Trump in case of another hydroxychloroquine-type question.

Not worth it tbh

I GOT EVERY QUESTION WRONG YESTERDAY FFFFFFFFFFFFFU.

Why are people so smart when they play against me

PS I even lost by a point.

You mean your opponent got one point?

Yes.

When are the results for the midseason classic usually posted?

shouldn't be much longer! usually a few hours after it closes.

up now!

Hah there it is. Don't know why I was so anxious to see myself in the 63rd percentile.

Just noticed that I came in 6th in my rundle for the midseason -- so close to repping (which would've been accomplished with optimized moneying)!

I'm inordinately proud of myself for deducing The Bodyguard yesterday.

Good on you! I was trying to go through Alan Silvestri scores in my head and it just would not come to me, and of course specifying the songwriters rather than the performers planted an obvious land mine.

a) there are really only two possible nick lowe songs
b) i picked the wrong one
c) neither would have helped me anyway

ashford and simpson and dolly parton seemed like the giveaways to me

yeah i guessed it based solely on dolly parton

i wasn't sure it was right but it was the only logical choice that came to mind

Wonder if people got credit if they put My Bodyguard.

And glad I got credit for writing Davies for Q5.

I put Farraday for Q5 knowing darned well it was wrong.

At first, for some reason, I wanted to put Colette for Q1 until I remembered it wasn't a pseudonym. But then I got it right.

I ended up putting the MCWA for that one.

lol, i also put Farraday knowing it was wrong! It's weird how our brains work!

Yeah, Dolly was the only person in the Bodyguard question that I recognized.

Apparently Davy was an assistant to Faraday (sez the person who answered "pilot").

I cannot *believe* I got Q3, 5 and 6 right today but muffed a layup like Q1.

it was my understanding that all noteworthy scottish british inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries were made by either watt or macadam

Davy was Cornish, apparently.

Also glad I didn't accidentally put Humphrey Ocean.

Apparently Davy was an assistant to Faraday (sez the person who answered "pilot").

Wow, I won yesterday's match 7-0. I think that's my first perfect defensive scoring. Pretty amazing considering I only answered three questions, but I got all three correct (3, 5 and 6).

i finally got my first 9(6) of the season yesterday