Learned League

Oh, I lucked out on a few early doors, and picked up a few where others misjudged - sheer luck has what's seen us through. Was ball sports the one that ended up being a 50/50 between Jansher and Jahangir Khan? That seemed ill-judged for the format.

I absolutely thought Kids might include MGMT, just didn't think it'd go as deep as "what album is Kids on" - was hoping for some kind of Kids in America / Kids Are Alright (film or song) / actual film Kids with Chloe Sevigny as the trash categories weren't what I expected so thought that might have been secret trash. None of those things. Was just weird.

Oh, definitely, that's a way deeper pop music question than what they normally ask. (In hindsight, there were three questions about AC/DC that I can remember in the playoffs - what was the deal with that?!)

I know. I think in the final you can actually hear me ask if that was the same question they asked in the semifinal. Actually, I noticed a lot of category crossover, and I think that was because they clearly wrote sets of three, and not all of the third questions made it into the mystery so they just used the third to base a new category on. Like how last week Savage Garden came up in duos not Australian bands, but you'd think they'd have separated them into different weeks at least.

Like, I usually do food and drink categories (so don't ask why I didn't pick spices, I have no idea). One week was about which island caponata was from. Then it was the other way round, which Sicilian dish is blah blah and I totally didn't say caponata because it had already been a thing. Little did I know....

Like Panama and waterways were categories in the same week...

Congratulations ailsa! Fun match to watch. :-D Agreed about the cross-cat question clustering.

With yesterday's win, I've avoided relegation! Whew, so I can go though this drama next season.

Ha, my approach was: the only way out of this drama is through it.

Relegation is still a possibility for me, though it would require me to lose while three people below me won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q

Ha, my approach was: the only way out of this drama is through it.

I think you're onto something! My QPct tends to be slightly below C-rundle average, so I'm usually going to flirt with relegation unless luck swings in my favor.

My TCA is incredibly low this season, think only one person here is worse and only then by one point. Tomorrow that might even invert.

I just did some random searching through old threads on their message board and stumbled on the one for Glass's "Knee Play 1." The nigh-universal dismissal really hurts me as I find the excerpted song to have an ineffably religious quality to it.

Well, I lost yesterday's match but just barely avoided relegation. Phew!

Probably could've done better had I not posted my worst defense in my entire 31-season career (.577).

i had a bad december

lol, exactly 75 out of 150 correct. i am a very average player.

I had lousy defense this season too, I wonder if the seasons vary a lot in mean DE

Just looking to blame someone other than myself

i ... did well? finished second in our group. i'm not sure exactly how. the questions did seem a little easier/more in my wheelhouse this go-round but i also know i got lucky with some guesses and defense, since i usually end up right in the middle of the pack in C. i'll be moving up to B next season where i expect to be slaughtered and relegated back down to my rightful place.

I am a firm believer that defense is mostly luck. I think some have done statistical analysis showing there is very little correlation year to year.

I am extra firm in that belief because this was the 2nd worse defensive efficiency I've had in my 18 season LL career.

Barely missed reaching 0.500, but ended up in 18th out of 36th, so dead average. This season's questions felt a lot harder to me than the last one, even though I only had one more correct answer in LL86 -- but then my CAA went from 83 to 90 for LL87.

Looks like a bunch of us are signed up for A Feast of Food and Drink.

I missed registering for it!! bah

I signed up for it but expect to do terrible.

Same.

yep

Some good 1DSs right now

I highly recommend today's Not-Quite-Infixes ODS to the crossword fans. I'm still working on it, but it's an appearlingly meaty challenge.

THanks!

*appealingly

Oof! 13th percentile!

Forks' and my ODS is tomorrow!

excited!

i dunno if there's some reason we shouldn't say which one is ours?

Only from an abundance of caution and I guess the conventions we're following in this thread, but for any registered LLers, it'd be pretty easy to figure out which one is ours.

i dunno, maybe we're into umbrellas now

There's only one that's got two smiths!

that's the kind of lateral thinking that shows why we're in learned league

So about The White Album 1DS.

Although maybe only anatol and na did it.

I playtested so didn’t compete. Thought it played pretty easy, although I missed Q6 and Q12, same as na, which turned out to be the hardest two. Seems like more than 70 people went 12/12.

The African American History & Culture ML was really great. I only got 5/12 in the Championship but moneyed all of them, so I didn't do too badly.

Quite enjoyed the White Album one, but it seems my calibration was way off regarding difficulty of Snoop Dogg juice drink vs sheep dogg song title.

Will belatedly check out the African American History & Culture thing as well, thanks for recommendation jaymc!

i scored 8 of 12 for Black American History but was one question right away from 5th. That's LL for you!

Oops I qualified for the AfAm history final but neglected to do it :(

FYI

ALERT! Due to widespread power outages in the US and threats of more issues this week, and in response to a massive number of requests from LLamas, we're postponing LL88 MD1 to Monday 2/22 to accommodate the many players unavailable this week. Sorry for any inconvenience.

— LearnedLeague (@LearnedLeague) February 17, 2021

Had another donut of a match day which is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it was tough for everybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7T2BzVzrxA