Learned League

I've never finished higher than 7th (in an A rundle), so I've never really paid much attention to the championship.

Wonder how many more participants will show up on this thread today..

Wow, good work.

I'm not sure how to feel about how much of my high score was due to my knowledge of pro wrestling and crappy comic strips, but there we are. My reckoning is coming in Round 3 (spoiler alert)

now i wanna know the crappy comic strip questions

"Most comic strip characters never age. Notable exceptions include those in Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury, and the Patterson family in what strip written and drawn by Lynn Johnston from 1979 to 2008?"

ah, that would've been my moment to shine too.

boxcar!

lol, i still have a boxcar coffee mug somewhere

The other guy rode his boxcar all the way to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ajzQ2fRLM

Would've been 50/50 for me on the strips question because I can never remember if it's For Better Or Worse or For Better Or For Worse (I think it's the former).

It's "For Better of For Worse", and "For Better or Worse" wasn't accepted which probably accounts for a lot of the low get rate.

Have you heard this one before? A LLama walks into a bar, the bartender says "Why the low get rate?"

made the cut!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8josOPbNb8

So you made it past "I Can't Drive 255"? Congrats!

Are you guys all so good you won A rundles? Isn't that who's in this final?

You only have to make top 3, which is good because I only barely snuck in at 3rd place in 1 of the 4 seasons.

ahhh i get the rock star ref now. v cool

had william tell written in all morning, second guessed myself right before I clicked submit and changed my answer and lost the match because of it lmao

B-b-but did you make the cut?

40th place, in honor of U2.

Uno(s), dos, tres, cuarenta!

82nd overall - not moneying Candace Cameron and incorrectly moneying TWICE in round 3 killed me, as did round 3 in general. Nice work, Greg!

Nice work, fellas! B-b-but what about the third man, Harry LLima, how did he do?

Not really a question specific to this thread, but has anyone been doing the Spelling Bee?

Not the one in the NYT?

if it is, i have

Same, I play it every day, and enough to have noticed its recent changes.

Squeaked out a win yesterday thanks to my middling theater score, which I think may have prompted my opponent to assign 3 for the very earnest question.

Meanwhile, I got 0 points for the hardest league-wide question that I ever got right.

Thanks to my middling score, I knew that if *I* knew "earnest" everybody was gonna know.

Same, I play it every day, and enough to have noticed its recent changes.

It used to limit itself to two vowels (not counting y), now it has up to 3.
It used to never have ED or ING among its letters.

Oh so many more words possible now?

So even harder to be Queen Bee?

Yes and probably yes (I only ever Queen when the genius level point total is < 100 points).

I haven't seen or reached 300 points yet, but 200 is much more common.

won 8(4) - 4(4) yesterday #defense

I’ve got 88 points today so far, guess Queen Bee is 108, but I’ve run dry.

spelling bee yesterday wouldn't accept "cope" as an answer, despite using the middle letter.

I am getting absolutely crushed this LL season, and I miss my rookie rundle.

Yeah, that was a big issue.

Spelling Bee talk probably makes more sense in the xwords puzzle thread.

I'm on a 3-match winning streak and am crawling away from the relegation zone! I thought the last match that I might've defended extremely poorly and although I narrowly eked out a win, thanks to being gifted 3 points for Venus.

gonna be lucky if i can hold on in c tbh

got credit for aphrodite yesterday, which was probably undeserved

Win streak at 4! Which is probably going to end today as I'm facing off against our rundle leader.

Streak ended as expected, but I had TWO chances to win and blew them both miserably. So any right now.

a player in my rundle has allowed just 3 UfPA in 16 matches

wtf

Some people take a lot of time on defense?

Sometimes my defense gets on a hot streak but I really don't like to spend a lot of effort on it at this pont.

My first 9/5 yesterday