Learned League

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)

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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

My opponent today has missed 3 questions all season, so I guess this match day will be relatively low pressure for me!

Ha, know how that goes.

96% in a rookie rundle = I look forward to great things in the future from this dude I've never heard of!

one of today's questions is Bad, imo

― mookieproof, Monday, June 8, 2020 1:48 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Which one did you mean?

very nitpicky, but a 'royal flush' is just an ace-high straight flush; it's not a fundamentally different hand imo. we don't put an aces-over-kings full house in a different, uh, rundle than jacks-over-nines or whatever

i clearly have no business being in a B-level. I am kinda consistently needing 4 out of 6 and it's more often 3.

xp Ha, I don't know shit about poker and was pleased to get that one right on a wild guess.

i'm a poker player and when I wrote out the hand strengths I forgot quads D:

i clearly have no business being in a B-level. I am kinda consistently needing 4 out of 6 and it's more often 3.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:58 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it sometimes takes a few seasons to get sorted correctly. After my rookie season, I was promoted to B, but then bounced back and forth between B and C for a few seasons before eventually winding up in A, where I've more or less stayed for the last few years. (I also think I just got better at LL over time.)

haha ppl are of course arguing the poker question on the message boards but the mason-dixon line argument is even more nitpicky

'the susquehanna river (among other things) crosses that parallel; does the width of the river not constitute a "section"?'

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.