anon6789OPEN - OotY Round 22 - Created vs Screech
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suciusSnowy vs Long Eared, unfortunately for me, went as expected. It got respectable support though, and it never felt impossible, but it never got a last minute surge to pull ahead.
Snowy will go on to meet the tropical Black and White. To me there seems an obvious favorite, but I’ve been wrong about a lot in this year’s games!
Very curious to see how Boreal fares today, and also Morepork and Little tomorrow. Those are the potential disrupters we have left from the look of things. Morepork is coming in with the highest votes, and Little was a bit of a standout too.
What do you do in case of a tie? I can’t decide, they are all so superb.
Thank you for doing the owl of the year, you’re clearly putting a lot of effort, I’m learning so much!
I typically use my partner as a tiebreaker. We usually get one or two.
I like when the results are closer, so I spent a bit of time introducing the matchmaking. A lot of people, myself included, have been surprised by Matt of the results this year. I’m a little frustrated most of my favs have lost, but I’d rather that than having matches be predictable.
I’m so happy I can still teach you guys new things! After almost 3000 posts, I thought I would have long ago run out of things to talk about, but these are really fascinating animals. Either that or you all would get tired of me!
This year’s stuff feels like it’s taking longer. I used to think it was about half an hour a day I’d spend prepping the next day’s matches, but this year, some have been closer to 2 hours since we’ve got some rare owls in this one.
It’s always a ton of work, but you all love it, it really bumps us up in commu rankings, and hopefully grabs us a handful of new people for our group.
If you’ve ever got any questions, feel free to ask. I can talk about these guys all day!
Pls never stop posting, there is always more to learn, and I’m eager to know as much about owls as you, even though it will probably take me years to reach your level haha.
I can listen to you talk about these guys all day.
At this point I’m trying to be able to distinguish the different owl species so ooty is perfect for practicing. Thank you again for doing that in your time off.
The best resource for species ID is something like this, where you can A/B them relatively simply.
They’re grouped by genus, so you can compare the ones most closely related and learn to spot the differences quickly, rather than comparing 2 random owls.
It also makes it nice for if you find one owl you like, you can find other similar ones.
Thank you for your input, this is amazing info also on your personal owl-conaisseur-development.
Of course! We all start with zero knowledge about everything, and at some point in life we often forget that. We may never become experts on all the things we enjoy, I’ve been trying to make music for 20 years now and still consider myself a novice, but we can still enjoy new things even if we never reach the level of expertise we envy. Trying something and never getting good is still often more fun than never trying!
pseudoDefinitly. We need to rally people to vote for it. Saw whet is great I’m not saying otherwhise but it is time for a change. And who better that a owl with two colors during its lifetime?