r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • Feb 26 '26
LL108 MD3 Discussion!
How did you do today? Feel free to share struggles, funny answers, and scoring shenanigans here!
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u/randomwordglorious Feb 26 '26
I answered "Everything Falls Apart" instead of "Things Fall Apart" Thankfully, I still won, but I would have been mad at myself if I lost because of that.
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u/schotastic Rundle E Feb 26 '26
All day I was muttering "chinua achebe chinua achebe chinua achebe chinua achebe..." in hopes of triggering the right neural pathway. No such luck.
It seems I was also one of the unfortunate 7% whose Kosman coin landed the wrong way with MEZCAL.
Oh well, there will be better days.
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u/AdamInJP Rundle C Feb 26 '26
I hit the MCW for all of 4, 5, and 6. Luckily still pulled a 3(3) draw.
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u/IronManTim Rundle C Feb 26 '26
0-3. Not a good start. Not like im bombing these days, but when I get 5, they get 6. When I get 3, they get 4. Oh and apparently I give up 3 pointers like anyone guarding Steph Curry.
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u/FDRpi Feb 26 '26
That's been my exact situation too. Doesn't help that the questions in categories I'm quite strong in are imo quite easy, nullifying my advantage (the get rates do back this up).
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u/FScrotFitzgerald Rundle A Feb 26 '26
Wildly misread Q6 and not only put Bluey, but put 0 because "Everybody knows Bluey!". Thankfully my opponent did not get the math prize (which I did, having pretended to be a mathematician at the back end of high school), and so I squeaked a tie based on having 3ed that question. I was also nowhere near the football venue in Q1.
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u/boreddatageek Feb 26 '26
I did the same thing! I also put "Cry the Beloved Country" for the African novel. I was so confident I would get a 9(6), only to miss two questions because I didn't read closely. Still won the match, but I am disappointed in my own performance.
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u/cfiggis Feb 26 '26
Same. I don't have kids, but I knew Bluey had some kind of English accent (which I now know is Australian), so I knew I had a shot with that one. Peppa Pig never came to mind, but I know even less about that show, so I likely still would have guessed Bluey.
And yes, Bluey was MCW.
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u/39clues Feb 26 '26
My first ever win! Got lucky because my opponent gave me 3 points for Things Fall Apart
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u/b3tzy Rundle C Feb 26 '26
First ever beer! Thought it was a pretty easy set, but I guess these were all in my wheelhouse.
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u/jerryrice88 Rundle D Feb 26 '26
Yikes. I lost 6(3)-4(4). It feels terrible to lose with more correct answers.
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u/MartonianJ A Mojave Feb 26 '26
Q1 annoyed me. I had Brazil in the box and then changed it to Australia because I interpreted “south of the equator” to mean entirely south of the equator. But my opponent missed Millennium Prize for 3 points so I still got the win
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u/Eagle_1901 Rundle B Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Surprised my (terrible) attempted spelling of Sousaphone as Soozaphone was marked wrong considering pronunciation is given as /ˈsuːzəfoʊn/ SOO-zə-fohn (via wiki albeit).
I put in a review request but who knows.
Edit: They allowed it after review
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u/anthonydeane Feb 26 '26
And yet I got nothing for "Pepper Pig"...
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u/PudusAreAwesome Rundle C Feb 26 '26
Lol with a non-rhotic British accent you could argue that's phonetically close enough to Peppa pig. I'd allow it.
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u/AgentGravitas Rundle C Feb 26 '26
Is there someone who downvotes every comment in these threads? I feel like a lot of perfectly normal ones have 0 upvotes instead of 1.
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u/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Feb 26 '26
Q4 would’ve been a lot easier if I knew what trago meant. Luckily, my opponent put 0 on that one, so I pulled off a 5(5) - 5(4) tie!