Learned League

I'm in R Keystone -- I assume R signifies Rookie?

man i can't believe i missed out on this again

Oh no! Ilxmail me your email and I’ll get u for next time.

oh cool ! thanks !

I'm in Rundle C Metro Div I

pretty annoyed i got 5/6 questions right on each of the first two days and lost both

Apropos of one yesterday's questions, it's nice to see that I can leave off a leading article (e.g. "the") and still get the answer counted correctly.

I assigned 3 points to a question about James I when my opponent was Scottish. Oops.

blew the ♂♀ question because i misread it as asking for zodiac signs; stole a win thanks to some curious defense by the friend who invited me to ll

I don't get why the answer to the Holi question was "fitting"

Is it good or bad to have a higher MCW? Or is it just a fun statistic for no real purpose besides amusement?

the latter, give or take 'fun'

I don't get why the answer to the Holi question was "fitting"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, May 23, 2020 12:54 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think just because it's just so blatantly colorful. Like, yes, "Festival of Colors" is an appropriate name for something that looks like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b8/8f/07/b88f07b28b2fdb410d0b48b11130fe7c.jpg

Oh something about the phrasing made me think it was supposed to be a play on the word "Holi." Anyway, I had no idea and I'm impressed such a high % of people got it!

I'm in R Keystone -- I assume R signifies Rookie?

― Gazelle Bundchen (Leee), Thursday, May 21, 2020 5:36 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep, R is Rookie. After your rookie season, you'll be placed in an A-, B-, C-, D-, or E-level rundle, depending on how you finish in your rookie rundle. Also note that the league that you're placed in as a rookie is the same as your referrer, so you're in R Keystone because I'm in A Keystone. (For a long time, I was in Coastal, but the leagues get realigned every so often, and the branch that we're in was moved a couple of seasons ago.)

once you're placed in your sophomore season, you can move up or down in the rundles based on how you play in that given season.

Can someone explain yesterday's math question to me?

zero to the fouth power + two, one to the fourth power + 2, etc.

It’s not a fun question.

oh hm

I got pwned yesterday, but I'm pleased with myself that I got the math question.

I spent a long time trying to figure it out, both before and after answering. Kind of kicking myself because it occurred to me that 258 was 256+2, but I was just thinking of 256 as a number obtained by repeatedly doubling 2 (rather than specifically 4^4), so I didn't see the connection to the other integers in the sequence.

i am absolutely belly flopping this season

I recognized the use of exponents, but it took me actually writing out the power tables to see it more clearly. That was the giveaway for me, physically writing down a grid of powers 0-5 for each integer.

I'm getting into the habit of fucking up the very easy questions, and therefor not being penalized because my opponent gives that question a 0. Made two silly mistakes MD4: answered "murder wasp" instead of "murder hornet" because of the word "Vespa" in the name, and guessed Kennedy instead of Johnson because I thought, "1963, that's Kennedy!" When obviously, that's uh...that's the wrong Kennedy year.

An odd match for me yesterday: a 8(4)-8(4) tie. Both my opponent and I missed two questions, but in each case, they were worth 0 and 1 point.

(I was assigned 0 on the TV question, presumably because that's one of my strongest categories, but I've never heard of the Danny Thomas show and couldn't remember which '90s legal drama starred Dylan McDermott. Meanwhile, I assigned my opponent a 0 on the emulsion question, because I figured if it was a science question that even *I* knew, then it must be easy. Apparently not for him.)

I made a critical error on my defense points yesterday and it resulted in a tie, and today, I'm up against our rundle leader. Oh boy.

defense is difficult in general, but especially in rookie rundles when you have no history to look at

Whoa! I pulled off a bit of an upset yesterday when I hadn't been sure of any of my answers! Though in all honesty I wouldn't have given myself credit for the Chagall question because I spelled it Mark (my reasoning was that no German surname would end in a C).

I was a little miffed in the previous match that my opponent only assigned
1 point to the calculus question. I had genuine trouble remembering if the answer should've been negative, and for some dumb reason they gave me only 1 point for it. I wonder if they saw my last name and assumed that I was some kind of math whiz.

spelling rarely counts

14 players (out of 28) scored 9 in my rundle yesterday

yeah, i am dead last and thought my 5 out 6 would win me yesterday but nope

is there a greater pleasure than being ahead of someone who has way higher TMP than you

I saw a PerryDJ on the message board and thought "Whoa!" before I saw their locale.

Does the long interregnum between submitting answers and the announcement of match day results get easier to manage over time? Because I've found myself obsessively reloading the message board over there several times an hour and reviewing my past questions.

i guess that’s healthier than obsessively reloading most other things these days, but

god bless the abbasids

Couldn’t quite summon up their name, but yeah

I miraculously got that after having binged a bunch of history videos on YouTube.

Yay, i am now dead last in my rundle.
(the guy who invited me is #1...)

Mon: W 3(1)-2(2)
Tue: W 1(1)-0(1)

this_is_how_i_win.gif

for real i have not been killing on questions but seems like my entire rundle is eating it (D Lyceum 2) and i've allowed a grand total of 3 UFPA which feels like its own kinda victory. playing some italian style football in LL

nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy lives on -- hewn into the living rock . . . of stonehenge

Whenever I play one of the leaders, I seem to catch them on an off-day, like yesterday vs. the third place who only answered two questions correctly. Hopefully that trend continues as I'm up against someone who's been a perfect 10-0-0 so far.

Dumb question time: learnèd or learned?

I did this for a month and did ok but I didn’t sign up because a lot of the questions were US stuff that I didn’t have a chance with. Ok that’s my post,thanks for reading.

yeah that's what i thought when i looked at sample questions.

Dumb question time: learnèd or learned?

learnèd

I did this for a month and did ok but I didn’t sign up because a lot of the questions were US stuff that I didn’t have a chance with. Ok that’s my post,thanks for reading.

http://www.worldquizzing.com/

you may want to check out the world quizzing championships, which have been pushed back this year from june to december - it's a big 240-question annual written quiz, and they do smaller monthly events as well.

the material is (significantly) harder than LL but written by a british team and designed for a mostly european audience, so it's like the inverse of LL in terms of its approachability to americans; the best i've ever done is around 50% correct on a WQC test (which is still an excellent score), vs .831 lifetime in LL. they also have a LL clone that tries to be a little less NA-specific, but it's invitation-only.

one of today's questions is Bad, imo