Learned League

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc

Do any of you have Premium memberships, if not Commissioner's Circle?

I chose to pay for Premier the last time, but haven't really used any of the perks.

My very very favorites are the ones where I truly don't know the answer but manage to reason my way to "the only thing it could be," like "ilium"

Also, I mean, HOW was "glory hole" not the MCW

I chose to pay for Premier the last time, but haven't really used any of the perks.

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:02 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The perks have never seemed compelling enough to justify the extra cost. Private rundles are theoretically intriguing, but I don't know that many people in LL beyond you guys, and everyone would have to be a Premium member to participate.

I usually pay for Commissioner's Circle, although I'm premier currently because I had a huge emergency expense right before it was time to renew - it's worth a lot more than $30 a year to me and I don't mind paying extra if I can afford to. Also I kinda like the player tracker, even if I don't really use an of the other premium features.

why do i always have my 5/6 days when the other person forfeits

They can feel it coming

A new vibration

I haven't gotten a forfeit win since my rookie season, and the rest things are going, I wouldn't mind a couple.

Really annoyed that I turned a win into a tie by zeroing the Butler question, which my opponent missed even though he got the Le Guin question right from two seasons ago.

dolly parton talking about her favorite book is the only reason i got the butler q

I heard someone else say that as well

years of being too online have ruined me for novels but you should really read octavia buter maura

This midseason classic: I got 8 right, which was enough to rep for C Sakura (nice!), and was in 69th percentile (nice nice!).

I yeah, I never paid attention to how it worked, I repped as well.

Sigh at the 6 match winless streak I'm working on.

Finally got a win yesterday, though it was against a poor guy who's had 15 (now 16) losses this season, none of which were forfeits.

you're welcome

Haha, but...

Can you guys guess what my wrong answer was for the James Brown question was?

was it say it loud (i'm black and i'm proud)? bc that was my wrong answer that kept me from a 9(6). obviously i didn't read the question closely enough.

No, not quite.

"Please Please Please." Figure the parenthesized part was "(Please Don't Go)"

i also went with i'm black

Somehow my opponent today -- in a C rundle -- has a QPct of 81.8%. See yall in the relegation zone!

*waves hand*

The key part of the James Brown question was "first-person sentence." So it had to start with "I."

I missed it, too, because I just couldn't think of any titles that fit the bill. Kicked myself when I saw the answer.

yes, that's what i missed by not reading closely enough. also i'm black and i'm proud would have been later than 1965.

i even got that it was first-person, i just didn't register that both parts of the name were first-person sentences

originally had Give It Up until i noticed first person. and yes, black and proud woulda been later but it didn't click for some reason

Okay, I signed up for Player Tracker, it does seem kind of useful.

Somehow my opponent today -- in a C rundle -- has a QPct of 81.8%. See yall in the relegation zone!

Not only did I miss 4 questions, my prediction was wrong, too -- I'm actually two spots above relegation.

Your Rundle is big, 36 players

Yeah, which I take to mean that I have that much farther to fall. OTOH, we have another player in that same rundle who's in line for a promotion to B and is neck-and-neck for first place.

Yeah, I noticed

I think I am the only one here is actually going to be relegated.

I might actually make it back to A, mostly off the back of a forfeit win on a day when I only got two right

My career in A is entirely without distinction

not strictly LL-related but i finished 19th in the world quizzing championships this past weekend and earned the top scores in the entertainment and lifestyle categories, which i can only attribute to insane luck, including a music category that was much heavier on metal and eurovision than normal

https://www.facebook.com/groups/oqlusa/permalink/447543662903536

something folks here might enjoy is the online quiz league pop solos competition, which is starting in january - it's pop culture-only live trivia via zoom; i've been playing in the inaugural OQLUSA team season and it's a ton of fun

I think I did that once. Maybe Tony Hightower was the host.

The world quizzing I mean, congrats. Not the other thing I just looked at.

I've got most of you in Player Tracker now, just because.

yeah, i did it in NYC the last few years - i don't think tony hosted last year, it was at some random bar in the financial district

it's a lot less distracting to do this without a bunch of people downstairs loudly yelling at a soccer game, it turns out

I did it a few years ago on Stone Street, I think, in some Irish pub.

i will probably squeeze by in the C rundle again, somewhere near the bottom. Increasingly clear this is my current level.

I will be joining you there soon.

I did WQC back in 2013, maybe? It was kind of an awkward scene, tbh.

Pleased to see that a Sri Lankan guy who I knew through my old job (he regularly submitted corrections to encyclopedia articles) was once again the top player in his country.

not strictly LL-related but i finished 19th in the world quizzing championships this past weekend

Sick drums and bugles fanfare! I've taken part every year since 2005 except this year, and I can say with confidence that is a truly great result. Didn't do it officially now bcz scared of being frustrated out of my mind by technical stuff that could go wrong. (Also the thing was held in 2004 before Norway got wind of it; but for that fact I might have done it just to keep a 100% attendance). But really, massive kudos!