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ouachiouat wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:41 am I messaged Thorsten about this, but haven't heard back from him yet (and it's been about 2 weeks). My membership dues are up at the end of this offseason. I'm thinking, due to several factors regarding my upcoming move back to the States, that I should sit out LL73. What is the normal protocol on that? Just don't pay, and then pay starting the season after? Or pay, then message Thorsten and say that I'm not going to be participating? Any advice will be welcomed. I know I'll miss LL, as it will provide me some sanity / consistency throughout the end of my time here, but with my flight being towards the end of the season, I'll be spending so much time wrapping things up here / flying / recovering from jet lag / other things I'd be afraid I'd accidentally forfeit several times; however, I definitely plan to be back for more in LL74!
I think you can take either option, but if you choose not to pay now, you won't be able to play ML/1DS after LL 73 either, so if that's important to you, then you should go ahead and renew membership but sit out LL 73.
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I skipped a season recently for various reasons, and I sent a message saying "back next time". I paid my dues when I returned. I don't think I heard or expected to hear anything back, what with hundreds if not thousands of members and the rather low urgency of it.
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jeff6286 wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:57 am
ouachiouat wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:41 am I messaged Thorsten about this, but haven't heard back from him yet (and it's been about 2 weeks). My membership dues are up at the end of this offseason. I'm thinking, due to several factors regarding my upcoming move back to the States, that I should sit out LL73. What is the normal protocol on that? Just don't pay, and then pay starting the season after? Or pay, then message Thorsten and say that I'm not going to be participating? Any advice will be welcomed. I know I'll miss LL, as it will provide me some sanity / consistency throughout the end of my time here, but with my flight being towards the end of the season, I'll be spending so much time wrapping things up here / flying / recovering from jet lag / other things I'd be afraid I'd accidentally forfeit several times; however, I definitely plan to be back for more in LL74!
I think you can take either option, but if you choose not to pay now, you won't be able to play ML/1DS after LL 73 either, so if that's important to you, then you should go ahead and renew membership but sit out LL 73.
Correct on all points, AFAIK.

Lefty wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:00 am I skipped a season recently for various reasons, and I sent a message saying "back next time". I paid my dues when I returned. I don't think I heard or expected to hear anything back, what with hundreds if not thousands of members and the rather low urgency of it.
Thorsten will eventually answer all messages that require at least an acknowledgment, with a profuse apology for the delay if it takes a long time. I'm certain that he does read all messages. With all that's on his plate that requires immediacy much of the time, it's absolutely understandable and fair that he send an explicit reply only if necessary.
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Woof wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:27 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:41 pm The One Day topics are getting pretty obscure. Hate to pull a TPH here, but I can't say I've ever heard of either Nathan For You or Tom Chapin!
I couldn't agree more. I was looking ahead to the next month's worth of topics and a hard time finding nding more than 2 that I felt worth entering. I have nothing against topics that I'm not expert in, but far too many seem too obscure to me to even attempt.

Then I'll have to do something about that. With the plethora of movie fans on this board, you might want to give a look to my "Film Noir" 1DS, available starting tonight about 1:00am ET/10:00pm PT and continuing through Thursday 12:00 noon ET/9:00am PT.

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P.S. I never heard of Nathan For You either and all I knew about Tom Chapin was that he's Harry's brother. Now a Harry Chapin 1DS I could go for!
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Randy, rest assured that your is one of the two :D
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Geeze...if I moneyed right on the Blood 1D, would've moved up 20%ile. Who'd'a thunk it that Blood Falls was so poorly known? (Not surprised gib had a low get rate...I haven't recalled hearing that used in gaming since Doom. The first one.)
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Did anyone else here sign up for 2020quiz during the open invitation for Llamas? It is a British/World version of Learned League that operates very similarly (8 questions per day, assign defense to your opponent, topics distributed among subject categories). There is also a one-day-special every day.

I took the one month free trial (just like Netflix!) and I don't think I'm going to continue. The questions, though good, are a notch down in quality from Learned League to me, and tend to me to be either too easy (science) or too hard (art and literature). The questions come in around 8pm EDT, so I've taken to doing the questions over a 5-10 minute span in the evening, without fretting about knowing the answer or not. If I had an answer immediately, I wrote it down, but many questions I left blank. I found I couldn't stress about dredging out answers over a full day when I was also doing this for LL.

Bottom line, the 3.50 pounds/month price isn't worth it to me with the amount of attention I can (or care to) give to the questions.
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boson wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:35 am Did anyone else here sign up for 2020quiz during the open invitation for Llamas? It is a British/World version of Learned League that operates very similarly (8 questions per day, assign defense to your opponent, topics distributed among subject categories). There is also a one-day-special every day.

I took the one month free trial (just like Netflix!) and I don't think I'm going to continue. The questions, though good, are a notch down in quality from Learned League to me, and tend to me to be either too easy (science) or too hard (art and literature). The questions come in around 8pm EDT, so I've taken to doing the questions over a 5-10 minute span in the evening, without fretting about knowing the answer or not. If I had an answer immediately, I wrote it down, but many questions I left blank. I found I couldn't stress about dredging out answers over a full day when I was also doing this for LL.

Bottom line, the 3.50 pounds/month price isn't worth it to me with the amount of attention I can (or care to) give to the questions.
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If I had a hectic day, the 8pm deadline is too early for me to avoid forfeit.

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Woof wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:27 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:41 pm The One Day topics are getting pretty obscure. Hate to pull a TPH here, but I can't say I've ever heard of either Nathan For You or Tom Chapin!
I couldn't agree more. I was looking ahead to the next month's worth of topics and a hard time finding nding more than 2 that I felt worth entering. I have nothing against topics that I'm not expert in, but far too many seem too obscure to me to even attempt.
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That was a wheelhouse category, for sure. I only realize now that I didn't even look at the picture for question 8 - my hubris fortunately didn't come back to haunt me.
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Had my first top ten finish in a one-day: The War of 1812. It helped that I live where I do. I've seen oodles of Laura Secord stores on my trips to Ontario, we pass the site of the Battle of the Thames on our way to the Stratford Festival, and the River Raisin battlefield is 20 miles from where I live.
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boson wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:20 pm
Woof wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:27 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:41 pm The One Day topics are getting pretty obscure. Hate to pull a TPH here, but I can't say I've ever heard of either Nathan For You or Tom Chapin!
I couldn't agree more. I was looking ahead to the next month's worth of topics and a hard time finding nding more than 2 that I felt worth entering. I have nothing against topics that I'm not expert in, but far too many seem too obscure to me to even attempt.
Yesterday's "Canadian Sports" worked for several of us boardies! Congrats to TsujiG (TurdFerguson here, but not for some time) and OntarioQuizzer for getting all 12 and placing first and fourth. I also got 12, but didn't money as well and came 10th.

That was a wheelhouse category, for sure. I only realize now that I didn't even look at the picture for question 8 - my hubris fortunately didn't come back to haunt me.
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Equestrian kept me from being in the upper decile in the Canadian Sports 1DS. I had the highest score in the War of 1812 1DS that didn't get the Laura Secord question right. I thought I had heard of most of the existing brands of ice cream, but that one has skipped by.
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That weird feeling you get seeing your name directly in between VeredJ and ChernicoffS in the Old Radio ML standings.
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Bamaman wrote: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:36 pm That weird feeling you get seeing your name directly in between VeredJ and ChernicoffS in the Old Radio ML standings.
That's rarefied territory. Bravo!
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Hmmm, so today's 1-day on Thomas Hardy is NOT about the Christopher Nolan actor. Oops.
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