Learned 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.

It just gave me a bit of joy in the evening to look back and realize that silby and I tied in the Wodehouse 1DS.

Last place!

I've stumbled out of the gate, too -- currently in 20th.

yesterday's presidents question was a+ trivia imo

also honestly every single answer today should have been 'henry kissinger' with the questions being 'who dated marlo thomas' 'who suborned the paris peace talks' 'who killed the most people' etc

i was just thinking that this season's questions seem easier than usual so far, or at least more in my wheelhouse - feels like a lot more pop culture stuff than usual

though that probably means the rest of the season will be all classical music and ancient geography

disappointed that the beastie boys, to my knowledge, never mentioned the great australian BIGHT

also want to know who decides which vichyssoice ingredient is 'primary'

i'll take 'water'

yeah as far as i can tell there are two primary ingredients. i apparently chose the wrong one

The ingredienthood (or otherwise) of water seems like one of those things that should be settled once and for all in some kind of Quiz Constitution. I didn't even consider it, but see how it might throw you. I thought the Parmentier hint would make this one OK-ish (wiki says "best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe"), except it turns out leek was also accepted.

I got bight right because it's part of my flash card set, which also led me to assign it 1 point on defense against someone with a 70% geography score (they got it wrong).

Anyway, I've dug myself out of relegation, with a miraculous win against someone whose worst category is still 50%.

In a kind of reversal of the previous season, I'm lower half in correct answers, but only one point behind Championship qualification, having got a couple of ridiculous breaks with lucky matchups and strange opponent defence.

I'd have known _____ of Biafra but didn't know about the Australian one and I guess wasn't really sure what the definition was.

I need to brag because this season has been frustrating, but I was one of 2 people who got Q2 right yesterday and it was what got me the tie against the player in first place; what's more, they answered more questions right in that match and have 22(!) more TCA than me.

I don't think I am in danger of relegation, but I'm going to end up with my lowest TCA in 20 seasons. Have the questions been harder this season or just not in my wheelhouse?

by TBA it's probably the worst i've done in about 3 years, so it isn't just you!

by TCA* hah although I suppose it is TBA

I too am threatening to set a personal worst in TCA this year.