Guardian Thursday Quiz

[No Ta Doctor]

Uh... Huh... 🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

You still have not explained.

While it remains the responsibility of each competitor to keep abreast of the precise rules and regulations of the quiz as administered by @classic33 (ignorance of the law is no defence) It should be recognised that the current ruleset is a recent modification, after an exploratory committee initially made some suggestions regarding broadening of the sport to provide competition throughout multiple levels, with a provisional timeline a new formation from next season. These were brought before a peer group of stakeholders but received little extra input, and classic33 is in the process of implementing them with a more immediate effect than originally envisaged.

The original suggestions can be found here:

I think that from next season we should merge this with the BBC quiz, and then also include the Guardian Saturday quiz, which is a far tougher proposition. We should split the league into two, with promotion and relegation on a three year cycle, and only the top league league gets automatic invites to the Saturday quiz, where the points are doubled. The top two players from the lower league will also be invited to the Guardian Saturday quiz, but these will be determined on a year by year basis. The quizmaster* will have an additional two invites for the Saturday quiz per week to distribute, but only to those in the top two thirds of the lower league. The Guardian kid's quiz will be open to the lower league players, but this will have half points. Top league players will also be able to claim points in the kid's quiz, but only four of them for any one quiz, invites must be requested in advance and will be determined by the quizmaster. This is a very transparent and simple system which should be easy for all. Around halfway through the second season we'll change how points are distributed and introduce point based fines for e.g. moderator warnings, wearing the wrong length socks or waste disposal infringements (putting the wrong bin out, forgetting to put the bin out, putting the wrong waste in the bin etc.). To ensure these infringements are properly self reported, the quizmaster shall each week randomly pick a poster and stand outside their house on a bin night, dressed as the quizmaster's current avatar.



*@classic33 of course

With some follow-up modifications based on open discussions with the stakeholder community here:

In cases like this, I like to think: "What would the UCI do?".


That's why we'd be splitting the yearly lower league competition into two and reweighting the points in it. The tri-yearly promotion/relegation system would remain unaffected, except that we would randomly double some points for no apparent reason. We'd also introduce new rules governing screen-width as a safety feature, and demand maximum rendered font sizes, and also require all participants to be geotagged at all times. Sock length rules will be unaffected, though we'll establish a working committee to come with recommendations for sock colour. Mismatched socks will now trigger a yellow card system, and wearing socks with sandals a direct DSQ.

Final decision on which rule alterations to accept and how to implement them, remains as ever with classic33

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

While it remains the responsibility of each competitor to keep abreast of the precise rules and regulations of the quiz as administered by @classic33 (ignorance of the law is no defence) It should be recognised that the current ruleset is a recent modification, after an exploratory committee initially made some suggestions regarding broadening of the sport to provide competition throughout multiple levels, with a provisional timeline a new formation from next season. These were brought before a peer group of stakeholders but received little extra input, and classic33 is in the process of implementing them with a more immediate effect than originally envisaged.

The original suggestions can be found here:



With some follow-up modifications based on open discussions with the stakeholder community here:



Final decision on which rule alterations to accept and how to implement them, remains as ever with classic33

Seems like a lot of fannying about faff just for the sake of it if you ask me.
It also runs the risk of favouring the 'favourites'.
🤷‍♂️

By all means, have an upper and lower league to cater for late - comers and so on, but as for the rest? Why?

To be fair, it might actually make a lot more sense to me if I saw it in person, but, then again...

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Seems like a lot of fannying about faff just for the sake of it if you ask me.
It also runs the risk of favouring the 'favourites'.
🤷‍♂️

By all means, have an upper and lower league to cater for late - comers and so on, but as for the rest? Why?

To be fair, it might actually make a lot more sense to me if I saw it in person, but, then again...

Something tells me the phrase

In cases like this, I like to think: "What would the UCI do?".

has failed somehow to set off the alarm bells it might have been thought to deserve, what with the UCI being responsible for all sorts of overly-complex, nonsensical, beurauecratic beaurecratic buaerueacratic bureaucratic, ill thought out, counter-productive and frankly daft rules.

Other parts of the posts which might warrant some closer perusal are highlighted below:

..... The Guardian kid's quiz will be open to the lower league players, but this will have half points. Top league players will also be able to claim points in the kid's quiz, but only four of them for any one quiz, invites must be requested in advance and will be determined by the quizmaster. This is a very transparent and simple system which should be easy for all. Around halfway through the second season we'll change how points are distributed and introduce point based fines for e.g. moderator warnings, wearing the wrong length socks or waste disposal infringements (putting the wrong bin out, forgetting to put the bin out, putting the wrong waste in the bin etc.). To ensure these infringements are properly self reported, the quizmaster shall each week randomly pick a poster and stand outside their house on a bin night, dressed as the quizmaster's current avatar.



*@classic33 of course

Obviously all these suggestions were designed by a committee consisting of me, some ADD drugs and probably several bottles of Belgian beer and it's solely within classic33's purview which, or indeed if any, of these to implement.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Something tells me the phrase



has failed somehow to set off the alarm bells it might have been thought to deserve, what with the UCI being responsible for all sorts of overly-complex, nonsensical, beurauecratic beaurecratic buaerueacratic bureaucratic, ill thought out, counter-productive and frankly daft rules.

Other parts of the posts which might warrant some closer perusal are highlighted below:



Obviously all these suggestions were designed by a committee consisting of me, some ADD drugs and probably several bottles of Belgian beer and it's solely within classic33's purview which, or indeed if any, of these to implement.

I had wondered, but given I've seen many a ridiculous thing on this forum over the years, I'm never quite sure. 🙄😆

I did recognise the beginning of your post as being from the Sir Humphrey Appleby school of twaddle, but as for the rest?

I never clocked the UCI bit, but then, I rarely follow anything like that anyway.

 

[classic33]

Seems like a lot of fannying about faff just for the sake of it if you ask me.
It also runs the risk of favouring the 'favourites'.
🤷‍♂️

By all means, have an upper and lower league to cater for late - comers and so on, but as for the rest? Why?

To be fair, it might actually make a lot more sense to me if I saw it in person, but, then again...

You mean like taking three points of current third place, and giving them to someone else.
Leaving said third place in 4th, maybe 5th?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You mean like taking three points of current third place, and giving them to someone else.
Leaving said third place in 4th, maybe 5th?

You know what I meant, don't you start too! 😝🙄

You see, this is why I'm never sure - I feel like Classic really would if he wanted! 🤣

 

[steverob]

Anyway, enough of this nonsense; this week’s quiz is here:

Thursday news quiz: hasty exits, horny bees and naked Nordics
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...dge-topical-news-trivia-223?CMP=share_btn_url

I got ten correct BTW.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anyway, enough of this nonsense; this week’s quiz is here:

Thursday news quiz: hasty exits, horny bees and naked Nordics
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...dge-topical-news-trivia-223?CMP=share_btn_url

I got ten correct BTW.

Nonsense? Nonsense?!
I resemble that remark!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anyway, enough of this nonsense; this week’s quiz is here:

Thursday news quiz: hasty exits, horny bees and naked Nordics
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...dge-topical-news-trivia-223?CMP=share_btn_url

I got ten correct BTW.

Urgh, too early for me... 10 (it really should have been 11, but I talked myself out of one).
We now await to see what that T4tomo does...

 

[slow scot]

8

 

[ianrauk]

A poor 6

 

[richardfm]

9 for me

 

[BrumJim]

8

 

[Tashman]

a respectable 12/15 this weeek

 

[Electric_Andy]

6