Learned League

My ego has…don’t quite know how to finish this sentence.

Enjoying working on my 1DS this weekend.

Silby and I did pretty well on Buster Keaton.

Now that I think of it, the first time I saw The General was at Silby's alma mater.

I've had some awful moneying this 1DS season -- off the top of my head, I've played at least 2 where I ended < 50%ile but could've finished as high as the 80th.

That said, congrats to Greg for winning one recently!

yeah nice bird knowledge!

If everything goes well with today's, I'll be in the Pop Culture Philosophy finals! Which is surprising to me, since I consider myself to be very bad at reading philosophy!

I will probably be a frustrating 3rd in my group sadly

I forgot to register for that one. Looked good.

Not doing great in the one I am in. Cross Town Traffic or whatever it is called.

Greg monied a bit better than I did and beat me on Bubblegum.

Halfway point and not only am I above 0.500 but I'm also in the top 10, which just means there's a lot more room for me to fall.

Yesterday was big beer day.

Not for me! (I missed thiamine.) In fact, I haven't scored a single 6/6 all season. If that holds, it would be the first season since LL63 in 2014 in which I didn't get at least one. Luckily, I've had plenty of 5/6 days and am in the middle of the pack as usual.

Well, my prediction is proving true, as I'm on a 6 game losing streak where half of the losses have been avoidable.

i've been doing better than usual this season, though i've been frustratingly stuck at fourth place for a while

I was in the 92nd percentile for the Urban Planning one-day, which sounds good until I tell you I was the librarian for the American Planning Association for six years.

I really lucked out and somehow made it into the Latinx finals.

Me too! I played all three MLs, and I would not have guessed that would be the one I'd do best in.

i wished i had joined the latinx and midwest ones, i wouldn't have done too badly! i somehow limped into the lgbt finals and got absolutely bodied though, like bottom 50

through 21 matches i have 101 CAA

the top TCA-scorer in my rundle has gotten 100 right

ffs

Not sure how it happened, but I'm sitting at the top of an A rundle for the first time ever this late in the season. I think maybe the league that I was moved into last season (along with Leee and NA) is a little less competitive? Anyway, I've probably jinxed it by mentioning it, but still crossing my fingers.

Rooting for you from the cheap seats in the middle of C, jaymc.

xp nice!

I think maybe the league that I was moved into last season (along with Leee and NA) is a little less competitive?

That's sort of my take, mainly because our placement in the last MSC was pretty bad (with the caveat of course that not everyone plays it). Then again, I have a TCA > CAA only because I've benefited from THREE forfeit wins this season, so maybe we're just in a less dedicated league?

Congrats to jaymc!

Oh yeah, see that now. Congrats, jaymc!

Thank u! Looking forward to the championship.

Go jaymc wd!!

ended up with 122 CAA

of the 28,830 players, only 65 had higher

hell yeah! my all-time best is 120 but I only finished 8th that season.

oops lol I misread your post

tough breaks, mookie

haha thx

Sorry, mooks.

Couple of relevant 1DSs today

Bit surprised I placed as high as I did (but not that high really) on XTC, also that as far as I can see jaymc was the only other ILX0r to play.

First day of new season people, don’t forget to submit!

Got my customary day 1 loss out of the way.

Well, I submitted a MiniLeague proposal which is a decision that, if accepted, I'm sure I will come to regret.

This turns out to be true (hey it turns out writing, testing, and curating 78 questions is WAY more work than 12), but signups will be open for the Online Content ML in a couple of weeks regardless, so keep your eyes open. (There will, sadly, be no questions on the ILX forums).

Also the LL Championship results start posting tomorrow but I'm trying not to think too much about that because I did awful this year, unless everybody else also found it way harder than prior years.

I'm looking forward to your ML, Greg!

I did not do very well in the championship, but it was my first year competing, so I have nothing to measure it against.

I had a fantastic time working on an ML, but it was still a ton of work for most of us involved even for me, even though all I was doing was mostly fact-checking and writing recaps.

Round 1 of the champs was an unmitigated disaster for me, but I did well enough on round 2 to salvage 73rd place after 'day 1'

As I expected, I did not make The Cut.

My best MSC finish ever -- top 10%!

Kudos! I was top 20%, think maybe I could have joined you if I had moneyed better.

Thanks! Q6 was, if you'll excuse the pun, my moneymaker; it was required reading for a class that I pointedly didn't bother crack open, but I still went to lectures and it must've osmosed into my brain decades later.

I was a little worried I wouldn’t get credit for PETER MACKINTOSH for Q12.

I knew Q6 because it seems to come up a lot, although I never read myself. My should have monied were Q3 and Q8.