Learned League

I've forgotten, all the jargon is too contrived :)

my school of rock opponent today went 0-for-6 on friday

he is now 0-for-18 and i'm wondering if it's some sort of art project

Hey forks/ulysses, have you ever smithed a 1DS? I have an idea for one if other potential collabs fall through, and we share a certain interest in a particular subject.

i'd love to!

Sweet! I just saw that it's been done before, but I've PMed the smith for that to see if they're interested in a sequel.

OK I just heard back from the OG smith who said that a sequel is fine, can I ilxmail you to work out the details?

I've never smithed an official Learned League 1DS or ML, but I've posted a couple of quizzes on the Alpaca Farm.

Leee, please do; want to hear what your topic is to see if i can contribute.
if it's alt-comics or cemeteries, I'm good to go.

Leee, send me your email address so i can respond!

Sent!

Will reply shortly!

i've written a couple 1DSes ("pirates" and "vaporware" iirc), happy to help if you have any questions about the process

I've played over 1,000 LL matches, including Mini Leagues, and I'm pretty sure that yesterday was the first time I've lost 0(0)-9(6). It was in the Spain ML, and my opponent not only has a .775 lifetime QPct, he also lives in Madrid.

Forgot to sign up for that one but can imagine

lol that is brutal

led my school of rock minileague in TCA, allowed exactly one UfPA in 11 matches for a .962 DE . . . and finished third. it's all in the CAA

heh, i also got third. didn't play as good as you!

Did okay not super on PKD 1DS but Top Ten finish on Oulipo, woo-hoo!

Looks like Leee and n/a are in the same rundle for this upcoming season, along with another one of my referrals (my brother's friend SiegelbaumS).

MD18 showdown!

Is there a branch named after you now, jaymc?

Oh no. still named after our friend.

No, those are my only three active referrals, and it doesn't look like they've referred anybody. So I have merely a twig.

BUH, forgot to scrutinize all of my opponent's category %s today.

Two match days, no unforced points given, hell yeah

It's kind of a bitter taste when you get the exact same answers right as your opponent and still lose.

My first experience out of the rookie league has been pretty rude: 0-3, MPD of -3. Looking at the rest of my division, I see that other people who have the same TCA (or worse!) as me are above me in the standings, so I'm trying not to get too down on myself as far as the knowledge side of things go (I definitely could improve on my defense, though at 0.636, even THAT's not the worst). So, mostly bad luck to kick things off.

i think i need to square myself with being a 3 out of 6 average guy and not expecting much more.

i honoured the fire last week but not so much today

this would all be a lot easier if i just gave into the little voice that says
juuuuuuuuust goooooogle iiiiiiiiiit

okay things are not looking great for the young Unctious on these first few match days, I am definitely the heaviest leaf on the silby branch

Does anybody else feel this season has been really hard so far

I have been doing poorly (0-4, baby!), but I've also whiffed a few questions that I should have gotten right had I just spent a little more time with them. (My longtime conflation of Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy did me no favors on MD1.)

The other one I'm mad at myself about was the Yasmina Reza question, because I saw "one-word title" and just wrote "Art" and didn't read the rest, which was stupid.

i always do better at this when i write in the answers, hide the tab and then come back a few hours later to re-check.

Except when I forget and go to bed and forfeit on a day when I had all the answers filled in

yeah, calendar reminders are required in tandem with this strategy

Yeah, I usually take more time and ponder. Think I've just been distracted lately.

i've started off this season unusually hot (i usually do pretty bad for the first week). there have been a lot of film/TV/literature/pop culture questions so far, which is to my benefit. we'll see what happens as the topics balance out.

i've found that the vast majority of the time, i either know the answer within a few minutes or i'm never going to get it, so i don't usually bother with taking a break and coming back to my answers. though it's probably a good strategy.

The other one I'm mad at myself about was the Yasmina Reza question, because I saw "one-word title" and just wrote "Art" and didn't read the rest, which was stupid.

I used to ponder a bit and once in a while I get an extra answer or two, but don’t want to spend that much time on it. Just want to rip the band aid off.

For defense I try not agonize either, just sort of try to group the answers into 0-1 or 2-3, the easy half and the hard half.

Heh, so I pondered a bit yesterday and then I did have an aha moment.

For defense I try not agonize either, just sort of try to group the answers into 0-1 or 2-3, the easy half and the hard half.

This is exactly what I do. I assign all questions either 1 or 2 at first, and then figure out which 1 to bump down to 0 and which 2 to bump up to 3.

Can’t really speak about this ML I am currently pitching in on but maybe I will be inspired afterward to try to smith a 1DS or two.

i definitely overthought today's music question

Lol same

So far, I've turned two ties into losses already. It's going to be a long season, and I'm probably going to be serving a cupcake to NA when we face off.

Wonder if it would be fun to post links of old 1DSs or even MLs here on even on the wider board. Not sure, flipping the Kosman Koin to decide.

This 1DS, written by someone familiar to us, was excellent: https://www.learnedleague.com/oneday.php?deathbyopera

Not the one I did the best in, but think this is the ML I enjoyed the most: https://www.learnedleague.com/mini/poetry/