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Woof wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:42 am I recently learned that I ranked 40th among "luckiest LLamas" of LL78. This helps explain why, after 18 seasons in A Rundles, I finally managed to win one. By any measure, this was one of my weaker offensive seasons, though I did have an above average defensive season. In fact, it looks statistically identical to LL76 where I finished in 5th place. Regardless, I'll now get to take my lumps in the LL Championship, where I will be very fortunate indeed to finish above the cut line.
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After MD8 I had missed just six questions and was contending for whatever the high scorer's award is called. I knew better than to tempt the trivia gods by posting, not that my silence helped. That uncanny opening run, which got me only as high as 7th, was followed by a brutal, eight-day, 0-6-2 regression to the mean that left me in 22nd. Even going a respectable 4-5 in my last nine matches, including a rare win over bomtr, left me in 23rd. I did just barely manage to keep my DE over .700 for the season, always a point of pride.

Those A rundles are vicious, and A Cont isn't even a very strong one these days, but I fight like mad each season to stay here. Huge congrats on the win, Mark, and best of luck.
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Woof wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:42 am I recently learned that I ranked 40th among "luckiest LLamas" of LL78. This helps explain why, after 18 seasons in A Rundles, I finally managed to win one. By any measure, this was one of my weaker offensive seasons, though I did have an above average defensive season. In fact, it looks statistically identical to LL76 where I finished in 5th place. Regardless, I'll now get to take my lumps in the LL Championship, where I will be very fortunate indeed to finish above the cut line.
Please can we let the tradition die where people brag in advance about how terribly they're going to do in the championship? Yes you can score 120-130 nearly every season for the last five years and you're over .700 lifetime in 17 out of 18 categories, but now that someone is watching you're going to be terrible. Yes, we get it. It's not cute or funny or amusingly self-deprecating when the championship is literally half filled with people who lose half of their knowledge when someone is watching. Just one more person making a mockery of the game. If you're good enough to win an A Rundle legitimately, then go to the championship and put on a representative performance. If you're full of shit, then please leave the league. (Note that last part is not specifically for Woof but for everyone. Thank you.)
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Submissions officially close for the Country Anagrams 1DS in just over six and a half hours from the time of this post. If you like wordplay, I highly recommend it. (This is from someone who fell out of the habit of looking at the LL site during the off days, and only heard about it in face-to-face conversation on Sunday. I would have regretted missing it.)
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I loved that 1DS...but probably should've read the instructions more carefully before I hit submit.
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seaborgium wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:28 am Submissions officially close for the Country Anagrams 1DS in just over six and a half hours from the time of this post. If you like wordplay, I highly recommend it. (This is from someone who fell out of the habit of looking at the LL site during the off days, and only heard about it in face-to-face conversation on Sunday. I would have regretted missing it.)
That was a good 1DS to ponder while waiting at the DMV
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Volante wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:08 am
seaborgium wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:28 am Submissions officially close for the Country Anagrams 1DS in just over six and a half hours from the time of this post. If you like wordplay, I highly recommend it. (This is from someone who fell out of the habit of looking at the LL site during the off days, and only heard about it in face-to-face conversation on Sunday. I would have regretted missing it.)
That was a good 1DS to ponder while waiting at the DMV
I pondered that 1DS as I spent 14 hours in transit doing a positively insane 23-hour round trip journey to SF to speak at a memorial service. It certainly was a good way to pass the time.
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jeff6286 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:06 am
Woof wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:42 am I recently learned that I ranked 40th among "luckiest LLamas" of LL78. This helps explain why, after 18 seasons in A Rundles, I finally managed to win one. By any measure, this was one of my weaker offensive seasons, though I did have an above average defensive season. In fact, it looks statistically identical to LL76 where I finished in 5th place. Regardless, I'll now get to take my lumps in the LL Championship, where I will be very fortunate indeed to finish above the cut line.
Please can we let the tradition die where people brag in advance about how terribly they're going to do in the championship? Yes you can score 120-130 nearly every season for the last five years and you're over .700 lifetime in 17 out of 18 categories, but now that someone is watching you're going to be terrible. Yes, we get it. It's not cute or funny or amusingly self-deprecating when the championship is literally half filled with people who lose half of their knowledge when someone is watching. Just one more person making a mockery of the game. If you're good enough to win an A Rundle legitimately, then go to the championship and put on a representative performance. If you're full of shit, then please leave the league. (Note that last part is not specifically for Woof but for everyone. Thank you.)
Good grief, Jeff. You read all that into my honest assessment that it'll take some luck to finish in the upper half of that field? When people like bomtr and TomKBaltimoreBoy, both of whom I have a career losing record to in LL, cannot achieve such a feat in the last Championship, I don't think that it's false modesty to not be too optimistic about my own chances. Regardless, in deference to your sensibilities, I'll not comment on it again here.
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Woof wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:26 am
Volante wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:08 am
seaborgium wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:28 am Submissions officially close for the Country Anagrams 1DS in just over six and a half hours from the time of this post. If you like wordplay, I highly recommend it. (This is from someone who fell out of the habit of looking at the LL site during the off days, and only heard about it in face-to-face conversation on Sunday. I would have regretted missing it.)
That was a good 1DS to ponder while waiting at the DMV
I pondered that 1DS as I spent 14 hours in transit doing a positively insane 23-hour round trip journey to SF to speak at a memorial service. It certainly was a good way to pass the time.
Thanks for the reminder. Just spent about 90 min on this with no standing break :shock:
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Woof wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:20 pm
jeff6286 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:06 am
Woof wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:42 am I recently learned that I ranked 40th among "luckiest LLamas" of LL78. This helps explain why, after 18 seasons in A Rundles, I finally managed to win one. By any measure, this was one of my weaker offensive seasons, though I did have an above average defensive season. In fact, it looks statistically identical to LL76 where I finished in 5th place. Regardless, I'll now get to take my lumps in the LL Championship, where I will be very fortunate indeed to finish above the cut line.
Please can we let the tradition die where people brag in advance about how terribly they're going to do in the championship? Yes you can score 120-130 nearly every season for the last five years and you're over .700 lifetime in 17 out of 18 categories, but now that someone is watching you're going to be terrible. Yes, we get it. It's not cute or funny or amusingly self-deprecating when the championship is literally half filled with people who lose half of their knowledge when someone is watching. Just one more person making a mockery of the game. If you're good enough to win an A Rundle legitimately, then go to the championship and put on a representative performance. If you're full of shit, then please leave the league. (Note that last part is not specifically for Woof but for everyone. Thank you.)
Good grief, Jeff. You read all that into my honest assessment that it'll take some luck to finish in the upper half of that field? When people like bomtr and TomKBaltimoreBoy, both of whom I have a career losing record to in LL, cannot achieve such a feat in the last Championship, I don't think that it's false modesty to not be too optimistic about my own chances. Regardless, in deference to your sensibilities, I'll not comment on it again here.
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Interesting that two of the weekend's 1DSs are graded and posted as of 3:30 Eastern, but not the anagram one.
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teapot37 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:35 pm Interesting that two of the weekend's 1DSs are graded and posted as of 3:30 Eastern, but not the anagram one.
Graded now. I got 7 right because I made 2 silly mistakes: LIRA SANK (for RIAL) and BLUE MIG (for LIME BUG)

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Had a long bus ride and hours watching kids at the skating rink this weekend, so I had plenty of time to do the anagrams. I got them all, and was one imperfect money from tying with dozens of others for the win. It was fun, but a few had me pulling my hair out - I had nothing on the Turkmenistan question except 'runt' for hours until I realised runt was contained in the country name and it had 12 letters.

I'm glad Thorsten has been putting quizzes like this one and pencil and paper math on the weekend - but I think they could easily be 'one week specials' to let us work on them at our leisure.
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jeff6286 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:16 pm
Woof wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:20 pm
jeff6286 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:06 am
Woof wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:42 am I recently learned that I ranked 40th among "luckiest LLamas" of LL78. This helps explain why, after 18 seasons in A Rundles, I finally managed to win one. By any measure, this was one of my weaker offensive seasons, though I did have an above average defensive season. In fact, it looks statistically identical to LL76 where I finished in 5th place. Regardless, I'll now get to take my lumps in the LL Championship, where I will be very fortunate indeed to finish above the cut line.
Please can we let the tradition die where people brag in advance about how terribly they're going to do in the championship? Yes you can score 120-130 nearly every season for the last five years and you're over .700 lifetime in 17 out of 18 categories, but now that someone is watching you're going to be terrible. Yes, we get it. It's not cute or funny or amusingly self-deprecating when the championship is literally half filled with people who lose half of their knowledge when someone is watching. Just one more person making a mockery of the game. If you're good enough to win an A Rundle legitimately, then go to the championship and put on a representative performance. If you're full of shit, then please leave the league. (Note that last part is not specifically for Woof but for everyone. Thank you.)
Good grief, Jeff. You read all that into my honest assessment that it'll take some luck to finish in the upper half of that field? When people like bomtr and TomKBaltimoreBoy, both of whom I have a career losing record to in LL, cannot achieve such a feat in the last Championship, I don't think that it's false modesty to not be too optimistic about my own chances. Regardless, in deference to your sensibilities, I'll not comment on it again here.
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Until I actually take part, I won’t feel comfortable commenting on the performance of others. Playing along with past Championships, I find that I get anywhere from 2-7 right in a set giving myself an 8 minute limit. That contrasts with the 8-10 that I usually get in a MSC. For me at least those questions seem distinctly more difficult, but that makes sense for a TOC-like event. The wild card is an externally imposed time limit and whatever adjustments I’ll need to make for proctoring. I guess I’ll know soon emough.
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I'm disappointed in my performance on the Primates One Day. I was 30th, but had a chance at winning since I monied the one question I missed. I was convinced that the answer to Q10 was going to be the Animal Liberation Front rather than PETA. That's the way it goes.

And congrats to Woof on making it to the championship. I'm sure you will acquit yourself admirably.
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Just a heads-up that my 1DS on the Internet goes live tomorrow. I've geared it to be accessible to people who aren't networking gurus, but there will be a few questions that require a knowledge of the history and operation of the Internet.
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Woof wrote: Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:16 pm Just a heads-up that my 1DS on the Internet goes live tomorrow. I've geared it to be accessible to people who aren't networking gurus, but there will be a few questions that require a knowledge of the history and operation of the Internet.
One of the 3 I actually plan on entering this off-season. Looking forward to it! :)
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If the only other women's soccer player you can think of is Hope Solo, and you decide to just guess "Hope Solo" for every other question, make sure you guess "Hope Solo" for every other question, or else you won't gets the points for the question where the answer is actually "Hope Solo".

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I'm in Environmental Science Group 47 with TerrHeel and SterlacciJ.
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I am in:

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I did a quick scan of names, but didn't spot anyone I knew. I hope everyone is having fun with these!
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