Learned League

okay, how'd you place?

right in the middle of the pack. all i really wanted tbh.

same

ninth, although i should have been a bit lower. weirdly, i beat each of the 2-8 finishers

terrible, 25th of 26! Brutal season. Will be bounced out of A Rundle for the first time in 3 years.

Middle of the rundle, with a record of 10-12-3. That's par for the course for me: my career line is 294-302-104. As long as it keeps me in A, I'm happy. I'm also pleased whenever I hit 100+ correct answers in the season, and I got 103 this time.

I won my rookie rundle btw! Pure luck. Level B is gonna kick my ass.

Excited for the One-Days tomorrow on Steely Dan and Tiki Culture.

anybody else doing world cuisine?

i never responded but i am also doing world cuisine! and getting completely shellacked. managed to get a 9(6) on the most recent one though which was nice. almost everyone in my bracket has like a .800+ in food (and a lot of them it's their best/only good category), lucky me. :/

side note, bc i don't know where else to post it: since everything closed, i moved my weekly pub quiz trivia night to twitch, and i'm now telling y'all in case you're interested! mondays 8pm ET at twitch slash 0n3m1ll1am (except turn the numbers into letters). i was originally doing it for friends and people who come to my bar, but then all of a sudden i made affiliate, so i can make a few bucks while doing it? you should come and play! (and if you have amazon prime you should "subscribe" to me so i can make back a fraction of the cash i'm losing by not running it in a place that marks up the price of beer and wings for profit lol) (but seriously i'm not hurting for money or anything so if you wanna use it well, look for shelters and food banks in your city to donate to instead)

is there a "pub trivia" thread i should post this in?

i've been doing the '70s music minileague. it plays harder than i expected! i'm usually pretty strong in the pop music categories but i'm around 3-3 so far i think.

I have had a similar experience. Also been making some unforced errors, including forfeiting on one of the days I would have had a win. I'm 3-2-1 now.

I chucked LL about a year ago because I'm too lazy and I kept forgetting about it and was probably going to get ejected for repeated forfeiting anyway. I do still go in and look at the questions from time to time. Didn't realise there was an ILX contingent on there.

...and we're back!

I got my invite! I am now fully registered AFAICT.

LET'S GET LEARNING.

ooh a hair metal one day on thursday

lol

i'm doing okay on the theater! i did shitty on the food one.

I ended up a close third in the my MiniLeague 70s Group, did reasonably well on the final which didn't matter I guess but it's over. Not doing badly on the theater so far.

I'm all set up for my rookie rundle this season, super excited to give it a go even though the sample questions regularly kick my ass.

Grats on the 3rd place finish @James Redd

Thanks. I see jaymc finished a close fourth in his group.

How much does spelling count in your answers?

Generally it doesn't! I've gotten a lot of slack.

Any ILX0rs need a referral for next season?

Also: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/science/llama-coronavirus-antibodies.html

I was doing well in Theatre -- even scored a 9(6) tie against crossword champ (and off-Broadway pianist) D@n F3yer -- and then I spaced yesterday and forfeited, dropping me from 2nd to 5th in my group.

Wow, sorry. D@n was always really nice, I used to seem to always run into him getting off the subway on the way to the tournament when it was back in Brooklyn.

It's funny how he and the other most-winning champion, Jon D, both have the same job.

317 out of 2184 in the Theater minileague, 85 out of 2494 in portmanteau. "epipen" eluded me.

i had a couple of real good one days lately! 94th percentile in video game business which was shockingly hard (i would've placed 5th overall if i had had a little more confidence in my tougher correct answers). however i did finish 5th overall on stand up comedy audio! the canadian content question gave me 99 points lol

I got to #168 on standup. Had never heard of Melissa Villasenor before!

oh, and i got 100% robbed on portmanteaus, i spelled smize wrong and didn't get points (even though i thought there was a "sounds like" rule?). i was sure it was smize but the portmanteau thing had me second-guessing the spelling, i knew it was "smile with your eyes" so i wrote smeyes.

...and as i read this complaint i go back and look and it was given to me after the fact, lol. still only 314th placement, even though i scored on 11/12! one bad money away from top 100, shame.

don't know melissa villasenor?! you should be watching snl! just kidding you shouldn't idk why i still do

New season! Welcome to rookies (and remember, no discussion of questions while the match is still live).

Also, there's an article about LL in The Ringer today:
https://www.theringer.com/2020/5/20/21264342/online-trivia-learned-league

I think I'm going to get 1 point today, these questions are hard!

sshh!

There's no penalty for wrong answers, right?

we back baby

leee, as i was told upthread: no discussion about the current day's questions no matter how innocuous until the next day
and no penalty for wrong answers, guess away

Ack sorry! And thanks.

I will comment that I like the new mobile-friendly interface.

same

Won my first match in my rookie rundle! I like that the questions (somewhat like Jeopardy questions) give you enough information to point you towards an answer, even if you don't directly know what it is.

I won my match! I only got two answers but me opponent's point scheme gave me 2 points, whereas they answered the same questions correctly but I have them 1 total.

love to get a hockey question on day one

At least for the rookie Rundle, the easiest and most difficult questions seem too be reversed in the standings page?

I bombed my day one.