Learned League

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!

Also it seems you're the Lifestyle King!

(this is a notoriously volatile title, judging by various year-on-year national and international stats one keeps half an eye on :-P )

oh man, thank you!

yeah, at the risk of being too specific (they sell the question sets after the fact, so i don't wanna jack their IP), the lifestyle category was mostly just stuff i knew - looking at my paper, i knocked out the first 18 before i even ran into one that i couldn't guess. i managed my time a lot better this year by not worrying about unguessable questions like those (see also: the sport category, much of which is impossible for americans), but it also helped that i'd been playing in the quizzing world cup and was very familiar with their canon and style. i haven't had much to do in 2020 but competitive quizzing, so i knew i was a lot better prepared for this than i was last year. still, i was hoping for something like a 120 (i got a 109 last year), and i outdid myself, mostly because of those two categories.

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

welcome to competitive quizzing lol

there are definitely people in the quiz community who take it way too seriously, but honestly most of them are pretty clever and into jokes and banter. i don't think i'd do as much of it as i do if everybody was super humorless and strait-laced! even in the world cup, which got pretty intense as we progressed into the playoffs, my team was always screwing around and joking, which made it a lot more fun even when we lost.

this was mentioned on the British Comedy thread but i am STRONGLY recommending all LLers try out the UK game show "Only Connect," available stateside via this guy's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
it is fucking HARD

er, that youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=featured

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

fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/ c/wheelsongenius/featured

but remove the space before "c"

the OQLUSA folks are launching an online version of that in january as well! licensed and everything

https://quizcentral.net/connections/coql/

bobbin

What about it?

it's a good ilm word

Got another 9(6)! Though the feeling of accomplishment is a little muted since a win is a win and I only moved up two spots in the standings.

This season has been a rollercoaster.