Learned League

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.

Just learned from the LL message board that CohenD2, who posted here as govern yourself accordingly, has passed away.

I also found this remembrance by Neal Pollack:
https://bookandfilmglobe.com/creators/remembrance/daniel-cohen-rip/

Oh! RIP.

I saw that on the OQL Facebook group, we had some brief interactions on this thread round about the time of the quizzing world cup. So sorry to hear this, seemed a very well loved presence in the quiz scene and a good friend to many.

Just submitted the draft of my latest 1DS

I've clinched another 1st place finish, which leads me to believe that the Plateau league really is less competitive. Granted, I will likely also set a personal record for correct answers, but in the season when I set my current record, I finished 8th (in the Sakura league).

Kudos! Another friend of mine also finished first in A, can’t remember what league he is in. Okay, I see, Sierra.

i've clinched my second first-place finish! (in D rundle lol)

apparently i was weirdly difficult to defend or something this time around. so far only 1 CA above my record but ~20 points above any of my previous points records

nice work!

Well done, 1st-placers!

I'm comfortable in mid-table obscurity in A Meridian, but I was a bit confused about why I am so low as 16th, given that I am 13th in Total Correct Answers, 11th in fewest Correct Answers Against, and actually 2nd in Defense. Will M.'s post holds a hint to the explanation: Turns out that it has to do with "defense against", which doesn't appear to have its own stat heading: I am rock bottom at Match Points divided by Correct Answers, i.e. I am apparently really easy to defend against!

just learned that i'm one off the lead for the maso in my phylum

my utter nemesis, however, is one up and there's no way this works out for me

Now in that pre-party tidy empty house limbo before a single guest arrives of having submitted my draft and waiting for the first feedback to flow in.

Heh, just submitted feedback to my own 1DS. It did send me an email, but the feedback didn’t actually show up, either on the site or the email, which is for the best, I guess.

Turns out that it has to do with "defense against", which doesn't appear to have its own stat heading

There is actually a stat like this if you click on Expanded Standings - Offensive Efficiency

There is actually a stat like this if you click on Expanded Standings - Offensive Efficiency

Oh! So there is! Yup, there I am at the very bottom. Thanks!

Doing some 1DS playtesting now. Starting to think of better ways to approach this than I have in the past, will report back later.

Feel like I am getting better at the giving of feedback for these things. I recommend everyone try it out at least, especially if you are writing your own 1DS’s.

Anyone else doing OQL? I'm doing it for the first time and it's really fun and novel (esp. as someone who's never going to make the LL championship).

Yes, I do (and really enjoy) both OQL and the various individual competitions (Pop Solos and the International Culture Challenge)

Having opening nightclub jitters

Feel free to play my 1DS today if it is in your wheelhouse!

I've been doing OQL (UK) version since season one. I do Pop Culture Challenge (our version of Pop Solos) from time to time, and can highly recommend COQL (which is basically Only Connect) as well.

Can also recommend Mimirs Well, Fundaesliga and Zephyr Quiz League if you need further quiz fixes.

All individual iterations on the mimir format used in Pop Solos/ICC - the latter two have a slightly different structure - 8 rounds of 2 questions each rather than 5 rounds of 3.

Deep the solos have divisions?

In the UK it starts off randomly with one seeded player, then results see you banded with players who have had similar results to you in this particular tournament - expect Pop Solos works along the same principle

255 contestants, not too many I track, although a certain individual associated with the initials RS (barely) cracked the Top 20, which made me happy, and a certain trivia monster came in third.

Seems like everyone was doing Authors Behaving Badly instead, not that I mind, although I submitted three minutes late on that so my results didn’t count.

…and I have two 1DSs to work on for next year.

I see Greg has one too, didn’t notice any others.

Yeah mine is Baseball Statistics on October 16th

dunno if anyone else is doing Greg's Online Content ML, but this is literally the only reason I got Q1 correct yesterday:

ok so my friends are nerds and are into a lot of nerd shit so here is the nerd shit i am not really into

the podcast "welcome to night vale"
whatever "SCP" is
warhammer
superhero movies
whatever is the hot new video game, like "elden ring" or whatever

in theory i'm super into queer kids cartoons but i never actually get around to watching them, anything that takes me more than ten minutes is a serious commitment for me

in fact there's a lot of stuff i am interested in, but i'm more interested in reading about it than i am in experiencing it directly

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:43 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh i am also a nerd, in case it seemed like i was saying my friends are nerds and i'm not, lol

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:44 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

whatever "SCP" is

Sane Clown Posse, low-key and down-to-earth horrorcore rap troupe

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

(After that post, I looked up what it actually was.)

I'm playing it very poorly but knew that one. Defense has been really hard!

Haha, SCP came up in an OQL UK friendly last week. We were all saying we had no real idea what it was, but all LL players were retrospectively glad of the conversation.

Yes, I do appreciate that defense is pretty much a crapshoot in my ML; my own projections of the get rates of the questions has been way off in a few instances.

RTFQ, Leee.