Learned League

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaDlZr_Crs

Grr, finished 72nd %ile, would've gotten all the way to 95th with better moneying. Really hard time identifying the questions that might play hard.

Similar to me, except that my mistake was stupidly moneying sailfish.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLyciIGy7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAtKs4sNc-A

I just received a communiqué from the LLama-in-chief.

It began “Greetings and Salutations.”

j/k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drw39IypXYw

My acceptance letter just came in (Female Rappers)

I just got mine too!

Huh! Thorsten accepted Trip Hop!

uh oh.

Holy cats there's a Pynchon one scheduled!

Also female rock instrumentalists. I was feeling a little unenthused with LL lately but 2022 is looking promising.

LOL and a NYT Spelling Bee one.

Does anyhone ever get both their submiissions accepted? I believe Leee did two last year, but one as co-smith (with forks?). Actually was co-smith of the other one too, I see.

No, he never gives anybody two 1DS's in one year.

I am also excited for the 1DS on The Mole; a super weird topic for a 1DS but one of my favorite shows when I was in high school. Though I haven't even thought of it in 20 years.

Okay, so I should be thankful that I got the one. I am pretty happy about it, although I had already spent a lot of time thinking about my other one recently, especially given the recent documentary.

Yeah, I think if you co-smith one or both, he lets you do two (as was my case this year).

In other news, I've qualified for the general knowledge book club championship! First time ever in a mini, I have a feeling I'm going to her pummeled in the championship but I actually have a decent TCA.

Wow, good for you!

Really though my 1ds was a winner, inordinately disappointed

So sorry. It's such a fun, unique opportunity, hard not to get wrapped up in the expectation
and get disappointed

I had to talk myself down from the LLedge quite a few times in the past week whilst obsessing about this

Did I say last week? It was a bit longer than that tbh

Looks like I got scooped by someone else who's smithing an RPDR 1DS -- I'm not too fussed because now I can play it and, hopefully, do well in it.

I’m looking forward to writing the 1DS that got accepted but can’t quite let go of the 1DS that got away. Not sure if I should just forget about it, try again next year, or write it anyway and submit to Alpaca Farm or somewhere else. Probably just the first option.

Rejected: Velvet Underground
Accepted: Burt Bacharach

DO U SEE?

Take heart in that everyone who took part in the VU 1DS went on to create their own 1DS. I know that doesn't make real sense but bear with me.

The Commissioner should give other people just a little chance.

Anyone who ever had a heart

Am I off-base for being annoyed that Lesbians with Guitars featured no riot grrrl?

Probably not. I haven't looked at LL recently at all, don't know what I am missing.

I know it's early yet but I'm a little horrified by my current DE of 0.286.

lol the friend who invited me long ago currently has an incalculable defense because he's been 9-6ed twice

if an opponent ever misses against him (god forbid), it'll work in his favor tho

you think .286 is bad... i've started at .125. feel like i have completely lost my DE mojo, and i know people say it's luck but i have had consistently top-of-rundle DE for most of my LL career (im gonna chalk it up to writing a weekly pub quiz every week for the past 8 years)

Got Q2 right yesterday thanks to this thread! Least evil of the top 50 American billionaires

Apparently the author of the Rolling Stone article referenced earlier this week plays in LL, and they were assigned 3 for said question.

Heh, hadn’t noticed that, but yeah. I track him along with his friend who also writes for them. I studied their work on the 70s Music ML when I worked on the 60s one and recently playtested the other guy’s “You’re So Vain” 1DS.

Both of them seem to be pretty nice, at least in my dealings with them

I had a strong suspicion that the KMT question would play hard yesterday, but I had the bad luck of facing an opponent with an unambiguously Chinese name.

Three straight matches getting 5 right and yet I went 1-2-0.

i knew i was gonna get relegated from rundle a last season when i got 4 straight 9(6)s and 4 straight ties

That's the A life but I'm punting around in C!

Lol, well put.

barely staying alive seems my style

We can try
To understand
The Learned League’s
Effect on man

Whether you’re a LLama
Or a bad mama jama
Barely stayin’ alive
Stayin’ alive