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Sorry if my bracketing has caused confusion there.
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Joe - lob me an email if you need me to help out with the brief & the spreadsheets reqd. Cheers :)
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It seems fair, but wonder if it's a death knell for this format
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No I doubt it. I can always provide a few hundred if you need Nirv.
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I'll provide my quota chaps.
Gives me something to do at work and might improve my GK along the way. |
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I agree we all need to put our share in, but i dont understand hows this work ?:|
I mean if we all submit 3 Q`s each from those categories, whats to there will be an even distribution of home subjects. What 10 people in a league want History as a home subject, wouldnt we need alot more History Q`s than one that is not being used? |
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Great idea
In this years league "never has so much been owed, by so many, to so few" Apart from my Home play off Qs of course :) |
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Good point bjk.
We need everyone to opt in with their home subject first (and a second home subject if that option comes in again half way through the season)... then the allocating of questions can begin. |
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Poppydog. 18 Nov 23:24
It seems fair, but wonder if it's a death knell for this format _______________________ No, why should it be ? |
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Hope were not going to get all those questions that have been asked 30+ times before
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Graham V Green -- please see EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS thread -- you are in it .. :D
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Alex 69 --
We have that covered + Thank you for your offer --- but, have you thought about becoming a League Referee ? |
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The idea of this is to make the quiz leagues by everyone, for everyone. The admin team should just be here to administer the leagues, not to have them as second unpaid jobs.
I know from experience that researching and setting 99 generic questions is about 5-6 hours work in total, which isn't too stretching in terms of doing them over more than 2 months. It was a lot harder for us last year to research questions on obscure home subjects, but the more general ones should be much more straightforward. We actually think this will increase the strength of the leagues as we will be getting questions from a variety of different quizzers. Furthermore setting questions actually does increase one's knowledge. My league form improved in the second half of the season, probably because of all the questions I was researching. Another point is there is nothing worse than being criticised for your question setting (especially if youve done 2000+) but this way nobody will have any idea as to who set the questions, so I think this is good as well. Of course the questions would be asked in a league other than your own. We will publish three email addresses on here later for Premier, Championship and Cola players to each send their questions to a member of the admin team, which ensures that none of us can get to see questions for our own leagues that we are players in. Initially the idea is for everyone to set one batch of 3 on each of the 16 main categories listed. One medium difficulty, one multi A-F (which mustnt be a gimme) and one hard question. As Joe Jordan says, we are also looking for a few extra referees as well so any volunteers should let us know. |
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Alex69 18 Nov 23:17
Joe - lob me an email if you need me to help out with the brief & the spreadsheets reqd. Cheers I meant Nirv - or whoever! :) |
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Hi guys..
I have decided i am going to withdraw from the league. Its not so much about the question setting, its more because of the categories. I have voiced my concerns before about having very general specialist subjects, and if we are having to choose 3, i just feel i would have no "home advantage" whatsoever. From what i've seen so far, i don't think i have seen an entertainment question about anything during or after the 90's(as i often said during my matches "another old entertainment question"), apart from specialist subjects of course My knowledge on the other subjects is poor, so I would probably have to choose science(ok) tv(probs be 80's q's and before) and films or sport, again will most probably be old questions. and with having to set questions now, and then the fact that if i lose in this league i could be out of the leagues, i dont think all that effort just to lose week after week would be worthwhile |
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Just a thought Andy but it might be better to wait until you see the full picture which will be forthcoming soon when it's all finalised.
At the moment you seem to be basing your resignation on a series of assumptions which are all inaccurate. |
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nirv gave the subjects, and said it'll probably be more than 2 we have to choose as our home subjects?
and its not really assumptive(is that a word?) to say that most questions will be old time questions, take a look at the ones asked this season |
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Andy - momm's is the most accurate post , you are basing your assumptions on hearsay .
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our posts crossed andy .but mine stands .
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what assumptions am i making?
if its the being out the league if you finish bottom, you were the one that told me that |
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Andy Murray 19 Nov 08:43
i dont think all that effort just to lose week after week would be worthwhile ============== Not this from the Player who had what many considered to be the finest win of the Season ,and another win in the Top 20 .. :D |
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in the Top 20 of wins last season .
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but thats the point, it was a specialist subject, im not going to win anything if im constantly asked questions about porridge, blackadder and who won the world heavyweight title fight in 1972
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oats and water with a little milk
Rowan Atkinson Joe Frasier ;-) |
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If anyone but you , had posted up telling me Andy Murray would finish in the bottom 3 , I would have thought they were havin a larf m8 ...that is genuine .
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Lets see what comes out , then make our decisions eh Andy ..
i must away for now . |
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90% of my goals last season must have come from my home subject, without that i probably wouldnt have got a single win
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Andy, there's no chance of you finishing bottom of the League. That spot has been reserved for me.
Anyway, we'll keep the door open for you until the complete format is announced and you can make an informed decision then. We'd hate to lose you. |
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FWIW I think everyone providing 99 questions each is a great idea. From experience, however, the only thing I'd add would be that the 'brief' is watertight, with examples of what type the questions should be, how hard they should be & precisely how they should be set out. Cheers :)
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I don't mind compiling my quota, in fact I was going to volunteer my services but wouldn't it be easier just getting a few quiz books and copying from them?
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10/11 Momm
10/11 Andy How's that for a match bet?...lol |
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I will put up guidelines for Qs at lunchtime.
For now, players should concentrate on the first batch of Qs, those for each of the 16 categories. We will give more information about what is needed for the second batch after the first batch is completed. |
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Lozzy 19 Nov 07:37
Initially the idea is for everyone to set one batch of 3 on each of the 16 main categories listed. One medium difficulty, one multi A-F (which mustnt be a gimme) and one hard question. I have to say its a grey area what is a hard question, if you know it its easy but if you do not its difficult, you cannot have people compiling questions & trying to work out is it difficult enough. |
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Pumpy - that's why the original question-setters must supply examples of questions to follow.
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Joe - just saw your 'ref' post. Yeah, I don't mind reffing the odd game so long as no-one has a problem with it.
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Ovalman ...Quiz books seem to have the same questions going the rounds ...
What we would like are Questions that have not been seen if possible , but "should" be "answerable " by a person with a reasonable level of the subject or general knowledge . |
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Alex seen ..+ on way out ..we will be in touch ...cheers ..
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Alex, I have done loads of quizzes over the years & I have always tried to make the questions a tad obscure without them being impossible, I have looked in on some matches last year & seen both ends of the scale to very easy to basically impossible, but like I say whats a difficult question to one person is somewhat a lot easier to others.
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Still sorting a few things out so will post the guidelines later today.
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Pumpy - I agree with what you're saying re: past Qs but take a question on Mars for e.g.
For me, Q1 = easy, Q2 = hard, Q3 = gamestopper (as they say in quiz machine land) 1) Name one of Mars' two moons (A = Deimos, Phobos) 2) What percentage of Earths mass is Mars? (A = 11 per cent) 3) What is Mars axial tilt? (A = 25.19°) [b]In other words, 1) = something most quizzers would/should know, 2) = tough, but guessable as most people would know Mars is smaller than Earth, 3) = impossible to guess, unless you were a total |