Overview of EMU Season 2
Here are some stats and details of the second season of the league
The second season ran from 26th July 2023 to 27th September 2023 (approx. 63 days). Note that the actual game dates are different as games may start one day later or end one day earlier within the allotted days for the game-week (actual game dates can be found on the Public Sets pdfs), depending on the scheduling undertaken by the players. The formally allocated number of days and hours in each game-week were 7 days and 6 hours.
During the 8 game-weeks, we had a total of 209 games (one extra game was arranged for some players who missed their game). This brings the total number of games played in both the seasons to 439. Including the four spares in the sets of every game-week, a total of 416 questions (48 × 8 = 384 questions as main questions and 32 others as spares) were played during the second season. So in total, 827 questions have been played in the first two seasons.
For the second season of the EMU nature, science and technology quiz league, we had a total of 104 participants (105 if we count an exchange of seats near the end), out of which ~87.62% (n=92) were familiar with the mimir format, while ~12.38% (n=13) haven’t had played this format before (more than Season 1). We were happy to introduce this fun format to the uninitiated. Given that an international general-themed mimir league usually has anywhere between 200-400 players per season, but the theme for our league usually represents just around 6-13% every week in such general leagues, that’s a good turn out.
With the the help of our various offers - free tickets, promise-based tickets, and League Credits from reading during Season One,18 out of the 104 players (~17.31%) were able to play without paying a single penny/cent/rupee. Many more (13 players = 12.5%) played with discounts up to 40%. We are happy to be enable such a model where people with an interest in the subjects, irrespective of their financial background, can play without paying a registration fee.
We had players joining us from 15 countries within 5 continents. As you can see in the pie chart, most players were joining from India, followed by the USA, and then the UK. Besides the countries labelled in the chart, we had one player each, joining in from South Africa, Spain, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, and Malaysia.
The following chart shows the age-wise distribution (only players who are 18+ years of age are eligible for participation). As you can see, most players were between 31-50 years of age, followed by the 18-30 age category, and then by 51-70 age category (same pattern as Season 1).
The following are the grand (Tier 1) champions of season two:
The following are the other Tier champions of season one:
The following are the top 5 in various metrics of the season:
Players with the highest weekly Adjusted Differential Scores (ADS):
Krishna Girish - 13.35 and 11.4
Pat Gibson - 11.87 and 11.31
Tilman Thiry - 10.35
Pravar - 10.32
Jyothishraj N and Daniel K Lee - 9.55
Players with the highest overall Adjusted Differential Scores (ADS):
Krishna Girish - 71.81
Pat Gibson - 65.39
manoj saranathan - 56.96
Tilman Thiry - 56.8
Subrat M - 55.2425
Players with the highest weekly points:
Achyuth Sanjay - 20
Hari Parameswaran - 19
Pat Gibson - 18
Pravar and Krishna Girish - 17
Suresh Vishnu - 16
Players with the highest overall points:
Krishna Girish - 107
Pat Gibson - 100
Tilman Thiry - 95
Aditya Gangrade - 91
Subrat M and Daniel K Lee - 88
Players with the highest Bonus attempts % (Correct answers during bonus attempts/No. of bonus attempts). This measure indicates very cautious and strategic gameplay:
Hrishikesh Varma - 92.31%
Tilman Thiry - 90%
Krishna Girish - 86.96%
Aswath Venkataraman - 82.35%
Suvajit Chakraborty - 81.82%
Players with the least Xs in their seat i.e. players with the least amount of unanswered questions in their seat (this indicates higher amount of answering of questions by the players in their own seats):
Rajagopal - 15 questions
Krishna Girish - 16 questions
Pat Gibson and Aditya Gangrade - 17 questions each
Maitrey Deshpande - 19 questions
Suvajit Chakraborty - 20 questions
Here’s some statistics on how much of the information from the league was new to a sample of participants (similar pattern as Season 1):
Here are the theme-wise quads from season 2 (arranged from week 1 to 8):
1. Physical geography:
Ancient volcanoes and archaeology
Ramsar sites
Rivers of Western Ghats
Volcanic Seven Summits
Sedimentary rock types
Cloudy with a chance of clouds
Island Rails
High intensity earthquakes
2. History and Literature:
The Rumbling Island
"It came to me in a dream"
Sea Legs
Trees of Delhi
Science credentials of celebrities
Creatures of the Eastern Seaboard in Rachel Carson's works
Napolean and associated innovators
The Sixth Extinction
3. Biology:
Woods in Minecraft
Randomised controlled trials
Tardigrades
Plant-based nutrition
Frogs named after their calls
Bird beaks
Animal Sentience
Vestigial organs
4. Chemistry:
Science of Spices
Boron's lesser known uses
Sulphur cycle
Colligative properties of solutions
Aromatic organic compounds
Portmanteau names of scientific materials
Fancy organic compounds
Luminescence
5. Physics:
Women in Astronomy
Quantum entanglement
Travelling waves
Quasicrystals
General relativity
Discovery of fundamental particles
Wave-particle duality
cgs units
6. Engineering and Technology:
Tech originally funded by NASA
Scientific instruments in Sean Connery's James Bond
Biodiversity monitoring technologies
Animal crossing
Fun with AI
Artificial satellites
Electrical circuit components
Edison's inventions
7. Math:
Sphere packing
Probability distributions
Eponymous transform functions
Weirdly-named mathematical theorems
Ciphers
Math references in movies
Learning math through visualisations
Sorting algorithms
8. Movies and TV:
Theoretical physics in Ant-Man lore
Biology in Through a Wormhole
Wildlife in Poacher
Murder at the End of the World
Biology in The Last of Us
Technology in Batman Begins
British Medical Journal Christmas issue articles
The Night Manager
9. Music, Art and Architecture:
Science and tech in assorted music collection
Physics breakdown of famous paintings
Biomimicry in architecture
Articles with music titles
Astronomical digital art
Web architecture
Bats in Hans Zimmer's Batman Begins soundtrack
Bird art in the stamps of Zaire
10. Mythbusting:
Moon-landing conspiracies
Myths regarding birds in America
Soy myths
Movie myths in Mythbusters
Pseudoscience in TED talks
Myths regarding nuclear power
Government-funded pseudoscience in India
Goop
11. Social Science and Psychology:
The autism spectrum
Psychometric tests
Evolution of language
Phobias
Machine learning in econometrics
Misogyny in evolutionary psychology
Thanatology
Mental health disorders in Alice in Wonderland
12. Wildlife
Giants post non-avian dinosaurs
Calls of Asian Elephant
Birds-of-paradise
Glass animals
Binomial nomenclature of flycatchers
Wildlife conservationists
Cobras but not cobras
Seed dispersal