Learned League

I think I realized it when someone told me or I heard it on the radio a fewer years back. So yeah, shockingly old too.

well, at least i didn't finish dead last in the championship. yikes

I started out Round 1 in 64th place due to atrociously bad moneying which, sadly, is a theme that will continue throughout the rounds.

Though, thinking to myself: "Hmm, Thorsten might ask a question about Bridgerton, maybe I should learn the rudiments of it" about an hour before my scheduled match is my proudest moment in trivia history.

h8 u

love you for ken stabler tho

how do the championships work anyway? they used to be like watched by a judge irl or something right?

two straight 6/6s, feels good because my first foray into rundle a was not going so well

The championship is done with someone watching you over a Zoom call.

I ended up finishing 79th, fine enough though disappointing given that I finished 40th last year. The difference was mostly terrible moneying.

In much more pedestrian developments, my defense has been atrocious this season.

And an embarrassing RTFQ fail because I answered Italian Neo-realism for the film question yestreday.

hey, the other day, i said nimbus instead of nimbostratus like an idiot

tbf asking people to be aware that "nimbostratus" is one of the cloud kinds seems like a tall order!

it's been like 20 years since I really read up on cloud kinds

as a child

I thought it was "nimbus" and felt pretty good about my answer. Apparently that's just a more generic term for a rain cloud.

TFW you submit a 1D proposal and then see that it's basically already been done.

Wait did that happen? Sorry

The proposal I just sent in wasn't for anything I mentioned ITT, but basically this is the one that scooped me: https://learnedleague.com/oneday.php?notstartrek

Ah.

I had worries about that kind of thing myself, whether I checked carefully enough

fastball right down the middle for forks today

how so?

pottery

oh, heh. yeah, i was amused by that one. Bombed most of the rest though. 3 a day may not save me from relegation in c, though that feels dead average!

I also got 3 right yesterday but it resulted in an extremely rare instance of winning with 3 correct answers in an A Rundle.

Forks, the 1DS we collaborated on was the reason why I got the Elvis question yesterday!

rundle a is relentless. three straight 6/6's last week, three straight ties. lost 5(7) to 5(8) yesterday. i got 5 again today (thank you middle school spanish inquisition project), hopefully that'll be enough

Hey no talking about today's questions!

Do you guys feel like there have been a lot of MDs where all the questions are roughly equally hard? I may be just making excuses for my unusually bad DE but that's how it feels to me.

Hey no talking about today's questions!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:47 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry sorry, not revealing anything that's not in the text of the q though

I know, I just feel like you never know what shakes something loose in someone's mind

sorry sorry, not revealing anything that's not in the text of the q though

The thing is though that knowing what the subject is ahead of time can lead to questionable behavior -- like if I were sufficiently unscrupulous, I might read up on the subject before I look at the questions and not consider that cheating.

glad i could help leee!
i am now in the relegation zone after losing with a 4/5 day. bleh.

lol i got the elvis one because of the OTHER compilation album that came out in 2004 that pays homage to the elvis cover

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ML acceptances are out, I hear.

Lucky season for me: In my 28-person rundle, I'm in 6th place despite ranking 24th in Total Match Points, because I also have the fewest Correct Answers Allowed.

my first 9(6) yesterday for the season but continuing to teeter totter on relegation to D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1DdO3SISg

Yeah and me both, bro, although I see that you are still slightly above the purple line.

I *think* I managed to stay barely above relegation unless I actually forfeit on Monday.

Good luck, forks!

could go either way for me

Yeah, I saw but didn’t want to say.

I knew who it was but put "Henry Beecher Stowe." Then, later in the day, but before I submitted, I was reading a book that mentioned Henry Ward Beecher. I stuck to my morals and submitted the wrong answer. Then won anyway because my opponent defended catastrophically badly. Karma!

It took me a second to think if that but it was kind of overdetermined that I would get it right

I answered "Beecher" but if you'd asked me for a first name, I would've said "Lyman" (Henry and Harriet's father).

Yesterday I was in 3rd place and thought for a moment I might get to participate in the LL championship?? But then I lost 6(5)-9(6), and now I'm in 5th. Theoretically, I could still make it, but it seems unlikely.

Pushed down the rundle by the katabatic winds.

Good one.

I missed that one as well, but managed to win.

I've guaranteed a winning record while also having a shot at ending in the top 10, although my next opponent has very intimidating numbers.

I knew beecher because he's buried in our nearby cemetery and I've visited his grave on a few occasions!