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Wednesday October 11th. I'll let you and nudge have your "my dog ate my homework later than yours" banter as much as you want till then haha.

I tried to be more google-less friendly with this round of questions and its more of an experiment but lets see how it goes. Good luck everyone.

@Stan @CaaC (John) @Dr. Gonzo @DeadLinesman @Spike @Pyfish @nudge @Beelzebub @Tommy @Lucas @Bluewolf Round 2 is underway. As a refresher for newcomers I am reposting the rules here. Should be a fairly easy round. The Rules or How does this work? For people who haven't played before the game is very simple, there will be 10 questions asked per round and they may have multiple answers. The goal is to try and answer like the rest of the players. An example is, What is a common accompaniment with eggs for breakfast? And if you and 5 other people answer "beans" then you get 6 points. If your answer doesn't match anyone else's then you get one point. The idea is to gain as many points and get to the top of the list to be the Sheepiest of the lot. If there is ambiguity in the question, as is sometimes the case, I will put specific instructions next to the question as I know some of these can be close in wording and I try my best to group them together. Sheep - Season 11 - Sports - Round 2 - More Miscellaneous Name a sport played with sticks but no ball. Name a famous Japanese footballer. Name a country who has won at most 3 medals in Olympic Diving. Name a mixed-doubles sport other than tennis. Name a famous manufacturer of Motor Rally cars. Name a sport in which Africa as a continent excels. In the last decade which one of the following has had the most rotation of world No. 1's - Womens Tennis or Men's Tennis (P.S. This is a trick question) Name a famous tennis racquet manufacturer. Name a sport other than beach volleyball where competitors don't wear shoes. If the sheep decide to form a Judo team who would perform the best out of everyone competing this season. (Please be kind) Notes/Rules For 1st timers, the rules of the game are simple. You want your answers to these questions to match with one other player or more than one other players. E.g. If your answer is "Wookie" and five other people answer the same then you get 6 points for that question. If you do not match with anyone else you're only going to get 1 point. The winner is the person who has the most points after 5 rounds. Please DM me all your answers and don't post them in here. Please feel free to ask questions for clarification purposes and I'll try and answer them as best as I can. Please do not try and discuss answers to questions until the round is over. I will accept spelling mistakes and words that follow a certain theme. If the answers have to be unique I will call them out specifically with the questions There is no such thing as a WRONG ANSWER. Keep in mind that you can type anything you want and if someone else provides the same answer we can all have a laugh while you'll walk away with 2 or more points. You all have till Wednesday(Oct 11th) to get your answers to me. If they all come in sooner I'll have the results out faster as well and we can move to the next round. Good luck.

I was a bit over this and then I was thinking about it today when I saw the audio was released. When the VAR ref suspects an offside have them push a button and that automatically brings lines up on the screen they "have" to align to indicate an offside. The idea that someone is reviewing an event on the pitch with all this tech around and there are numerous ways to enforce the right thing is beyond me. It's like when those mails got leaked and I sat there thinking about which monkeys are running tech in one of the most profitable sports on the planet. The tech isn't the issue anymore it's the people using the tech and the number of silly problems they've had it with all boils down to lack of enforcement of protocol. Edit: We can laser precision send a probe to a planet millions of light years away, but we can't get someone in a room to draw a few lines with some consistency. Baffling.

So, a little work update, it's a bit long but ill condense it as much as possible. In Jan this year I had a weird run-in with my manager at work about how we're building software that we peddle to customers that is bug-ridden to the point where it's almost impossible to change it to become more stable without gutting the entire system piece by piece and rebuilding it. I was given a lot of excuses about why it was the way it is and sadly I have a great bullshit meter that doesn't allow me to hear that kind of nonsense. I talked to a lot of folks at work about what it would take to make it better, presented a case for it and then once again got told it would be too hard and would yield absolutely no benefit to the customer. I then of course made the argument that I wasn't just talking about the customer but about us as a company and how being ready to migrate to newer tech was the real goal here which ultimately serves our customers better. Fast forward to April this year and I heard the most shocking thing in the world from someone else who was a higher-up and that was this verbatim "we don't care about the fact that the system is broken in certain areas". I couldn't control myself and started laughing and said that's quite the statement, didn't go down too well and in my defense, I was laughing because I thought it was the most ludicrous thing I have heard in my 25 years in this industry. In August, I decided I had had enough and told them I was resigning. According to laws here, you have to spend 60 days prior to exit to help shore up whatever you need to. Needless to say, I am officially out of tech now for the next 30 days during which I plan to surf and also do some trekking haha. It's a weird feeling because I have been doing this since I was 17 and to disassociate from it without a gameplan for the next step feels a bit weird but so far, it's only been 1 day, and I honestly haven't thought about tech at all during that period.

Takes notes for the next questions

Lets hope everyone doesn't take a cue from that and I start getting answers later in the week.

Sheep - Season 11 - Round 1 - Scores Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Totals Bluewolf 1 3 5 8 1 4 9 4 1 6 42 Caac John 1 3 1 8 4 4 9 1 4 6 41 Deadlinesman 1 3 5 8 4 1 9 1 4 5 41 Dr Gonzo 1 1 5 8 1 3 9 4 4 5 41 Pyfish 2 1 5 8 3 3 9 4 1 5 41 Lucas 2 3 3 8 3 4 9 1 1 6 40 Beelzebub 1 3 5 8 1 1 9 1 1 6 36 Spike 1 3 1 1 4 3 9 4 4 5 35 Stan 1 3 1 8 3 1 9 1 1 5 33 Nudge 1 3 3 1 4 4 1 1 1 6 25 Tommy 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 19 Apologies abou the table format but I am on a mac today and I'll fix it once I get home. As far as first rounds go that was very interesting, @Bluewolf who was one of the last few to submit his answers in leads the pack and what a slim lead it is. @CaaC (John), @DeadLinesman, @Dr. Gonzo and @Pyfish are all in close second with @Lucas not far behind either. Important Notes: Some sheep feel very strongly about VAR who would have guessed Imran Khan was the most popular political celebrity who used to be a sports-person The sheep chose Archery as their comeptitive sport at the olmypics. What's odd is that they also have a plethora of choice in alcoholic beverages from the other question about a sponsor who also makes alcohol. Archery and Alcohol mixed is quite the fun time for anyone watching event. We move onto the next round now and will we see an upset at the top? Who knows. Note: Can someone from the admin team please pin this post to the top of the sub-forum group? Thank you.

And that's it for round 1, I am going to go tally the scores and put up the leaderboard post now. Next round will start tomorrow, and I'll be posting the questions here.

10. The sheep have decided to form a team to play one of the following sports as a team sport which one did they pick from the following: (Archery/Synchronized Swimming/Gymnastics) Synchronised Swimming - 5 Stan Dr. Gonzo Pyfish Deadlinesman Spike Archery - 6 Caac John Tommy Lucas Beelzebub Nudge (we're too cool for the other two) Bluewolf

9. Besides China, name a country that won the most mens-doubles badminton gold medals. South Korea - 4 Dr. Gonzo Caac John Deadlinesman Spike United Kingdom - 1 Stan Taiwan - 1 Tommy USA - 1 Pyfish Indonesia - 1 Lucas Malaysia - 1 Beelzebub Japan - 1 Nudge Denmark - 1 Bluewolf

8. Name a country who has won a gold medal in curling just once. (Best guess) Great Britain - 4 Dr. Gonzo Pyfish Bluewolf Spike France - 1 Stan Italy - 1 Caac John Canada - 1 Tommy USA - 1 Lucas Norway - 1 Beelzebub Finland - 1 Nudge Scotland - 1 Deadlinesman

7. How many rectangles does a football pitch have? Seven - 9 Stan Caac John Dr. Gonzo Pyfish Lucas Beelzebub Deadlinesman Bluewolf Spike Five - 1 Nudge Four - 1 Tommy

6. Name a famous sports sponsor company that makes alcoholic beverages Heineken - 4 Caac John Lucas Nudge Bluewolf Carlsberg - 3 Dr. Gonzo Pyfish Spike Chang - 1 Stan Budweiser - 1 Tommy Duff - 1 Beelzebub Castlemaine 4x - 1 Deadlinesman

5. Name a sports-person who is now in politics. Imran Khan - 4 Caac John Nudge Deadlinesman Spike George Weah - 3 Stan Pyfish Lucas Vitali Klitschko - 1 Dr. Gonzo Caitlyn Jenner - 1 Tommy Romario - 1 Beelzebub Sebastian Coe - 1 Bluewolf

4. Name a popular sport that is not an olympic sport yet Cricket - 8 Stan Caac John Pyfish Dr. Gonzo Lucas Beelzebub Deadlinesman Bluewolf Darts - 1 Tommy MMA - 1 Nudge American Football - 1 Spike

3. How many referees are there in total for a modern football match? (Possibly the most interesting answer list of this round) 5: Referee, 2 assistant referees, 4th official, VAR official - 5 Dr. Gonzo Pyfish Beelzebub Deadlinesman Bluewolf Four - 3 Tommy Lucas Nudge (Fuck VAR) Seven - 1 Spike 6 (referee, 2 assistant, 4th official, 2 VAR). - 1 Stan 3 - 1 Caac John

2. Name a sport that was invented in Brazil. Jujitsu (how the fuck do you spell that!?) / Jiu Jitsu - 3 Stan Beelzebub Deadlinesman (only guy to spell it right) Beach Soccer - 3 Caac John Lucas Bluewolf Capoeira - 3 Tommy Nudge Spike Futsal - 1 Dr. Gonzo Footvolley - 1 Pyfish

Stan @CaaC (John) @Dr. Gonzo @DeadLinesman @Spike @Pyfish @nudge @Beelzebub @Tommy @Lucas @Bluewolf Sheep - Season 11 - Sports - Round 1 - Miscellaneous - Answers So, I wasn't expecting what happened in this round but its good. on with the answers. 1. Name a sport that is played with three people on a team? Boules/Bowls - 2 Pyfish Lucas Beach volleyball - 1 Stan Lawn Green Bowling - 1 Caac John Street Basketball - 1 Tommy Torball - 1 Dr. Gonzo Relay Race - 1 Beelzebub 3x3 Basketball - 1 Nudge Basketball - 1 Bluewolf F1 (2 drives and standby) - 1 Deadlinesman 3-way tag team match (WWE) - 1 Spike Now, there were so many basketball variations in this one I thought really hard but in the end they really are all unique on their own. Sorry.

Oh I got yours really early. Was just curious about why I never got the rest but it seems sorted now.

@Spike @Bluewolf @DeadLinesman still dont have your answers. Leaving this open till tomorrow morning my time since timezones can be tricky.

You did. Just so that everyone knows it was a general announcement. If you've already sent them in I have them.

Oh I know this is just a PSA

@Stan @CaaC (John) @Dr. Gonzo @DeadLinesman @Spike @Pyfish @nudge @Beelzebub @Tommy @Lucas @Bluewolf I'm going to wait till end of day. If you haven't gotten your answers in please do so as I'd love to get us moving forward

You're just jealous he gets more time and you already submitted your homework in a hurry