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Martin Sleziak

Jan 3 17:34

Happy New Year!

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Martin Sleziak

Dec 24, 2024 12:10

Merry Christmas to everybody!

Martin Sleziak

Dec 14, 2024 13:15

It is almost a year since the last starred message in this room.

simplfuzz

Dec 29, 2023 19:13

I found a couple specifically for Indian tournaments conducted by All India Tennis Association:
1. https://aitatennis.com/playerranking/
2. https://buzzato.com

alamoot

Dec 20, 2023 18:39

anybody else miss the winter bash?

Nij

Dec 16, 2023 01:29

Since both of those are actually questions about interpreting or identifying relevant rules, I have added this tag instead and removed the others. They are not adding any extra searchability or differentiation from similar questions.

Criggie

Jul 16, 2023 12:26

Sports.SE has 27k questions, bicycles.SE has 89k questions. So there's a chance sports wasn't even a thing in 2011.

Criggie

Jul 16, 2023 12:14

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Q: On/Off topic - race strategy, from the POV of a viewer?

Recently we had a well-received question about why Pogačar responded to attacks from Roglič and from van Aert in stage 11 of this year's Tour de France. Bicycles.SE's [tour] describes our site's purpose as: Bicycles is a question and answer site for people who ride, repair, or build bicycles. ...

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Criggie

Jul 2, 2023 21:48

heh I am a mod over there. I'll raise it on our meta for a consensus.
Bicycles.SE has always been about personal effort in riding or repairing or whatever. So watching someone else compete and why they're doing what they do, is a bit of a gray area.

Nij

Jul 2, 2023 20:48

Whether it is or is not on-topic for Bicycles SE, is not something I think we can presume to tell you, either generally or in particular as a mod there. From your comments on the question there, it seems like you're leaning towards off-topic? Feel free to migrate and we'll tidy up, if that's your community consensus or moderator decision.

Nij

Jul 2, 2023 20:45

Hello @Criggie I think that question would be on-topic here. We have similar questions about other sports, not necessarily those that the asker even plays themselves, strategy and tactics are among our most frequently-used tags as well.

Criggie

Jul 2, 2023 03:01

Hey all - I have a question about the dividing line between sports.SE and bicycles.SE
Specifically https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/q/89507/19705

Criggie

Jul 2, 2023 03:01

Which side should race-strategy fall on? This particular example is one where the asker is not riding, so its armchair discussion, though it might be interesting to discuss where strategy falls if you're a competitor too.

Joe

Jun 22, 2023 16:01

(and to be clear, I'm not saying I disagree with striking or anything like that, not saying anything one way or the other honestly, as this just isn't something I am heavily mentally involved with anymore. If we had enough activity for it to matter, I'd hand my diamond to someone else at this point.)

Joe

Jun 22, 2023 15:58

As far as I know, no, none of us are participating, tbh at least in my case I didn't even know about it until you posted that link... :)

Joe

Jun 22, 2023 15:58

once upon a time I was active on SO and meta and chat and would've known about it (and perhaps participated), but my activity these days is basically "periodically see if sports has any activity"

Michael Myers

Jun 5, 2020 19:24

I am not standing in the election. I'll be posting my farewell shortly.

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user 6232128

Dec 16, 2020 04:53

Winterbash 2020 Hat list 👒 🎩

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Nij

Jan 13, 2023 10:17

@JohnK.N. we have a tag for shooting which is currently a catch-all for a range of sports. I doubt we'd get to a tag specifically for this kind of shooting for a while, but as long as they're clearly about a specific competitive sport as you seem to suggest, they're on topic.

John K. N.

Jan 13, 2023 10:08

Thank you. That's a meta Q&A from the TGO and not from Sports.SE. IPSC/USPCA (International Practical Shooting Confederation / United States Practical Shooting Association) are sports where shooting is performed in a dynamic way. The sport has regulations, anti-doping chartas and competitions performed world-wide. IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association) is more a defensive vesion of USPSA / IPSC.

user2236

Jan 13, 2023 02:34

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A: Should we revisit or enforce that pistols are off topic?

The answer by Liam is great, though I think we can at least give a guideline about what constitutes a "The Great Outdoors" activity and what does not. TL;DR This is a theoretical "Let's apply the same logic across the board and see what happens" answer, and that is exactly how I believe that an...

John K. N.

Jan 12, 2023 08:06

Just wondering if USPCA/IPSC/IDPA questions would be on-topic.

Martin Sleziak

Jan 11, 2023 18:33

Welcome to Sports - and Happy New Year!

viande-à-chien

Dec 9, 2022 01:06

Hey, hi! I'm watching Miami Vice and there's this sport Jai Alai (a variation of Basque pelota from what I read). Why is this no longer a thing in the U.S. ? Or should I ask in the History SE?

viande-à-chien

Dec 9, 2022 01:06

Jai alai

Jai alai (: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker cesta. It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing area) where matches take place. The game, whose name means "merry festival" in Basque, is called cesta-punta ("basket tip") in the Basque Country. The sport is played worldwide, but especially in Spain, France, and in various Latin American countries. == Rules and customs == The court for jai...

alamoot

Dec 5, 2019 21:00

This question may have been asked and answered before, but do we know why mastermind_ed left?

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user 6232128

Nov 26, 2020 13:26

The annual Oxford-Cambridge University Boat Race was first raced in 1829 and is now one of the world’s oldest and most famous amateur sporting events. Cambridge has won the men's race 84 times and Oxford 80 times, with one dead heat. In the women's race, Cambridge has won the race 44 times and Oxford 30 times. Cambridge has led Oxford in cumulative wins.

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F1Krazy

May 17, 2022 17:34

@ChocolateOverflow Generally speaking, yes, the closer you start to the front, the more likely you are to win. The exact odds vary from sport to sport, depending on how easy it is to overtake and what the reliability of the machinery is like. In F1, the cars are very reliable and overtaking is difficult, so it's very hard to win from outside the top three on the grid; in NASCAR it's much easier to get a slipstream and overtake the car in front, so qualifying position is less important

ChocolateOverflow

May 17, 2022 14:18

I don't watch sports but I'm curious: in racing sports like F1/plane racing, how much does the starting position (in the front/middle/back) correlate with winning chance? Is it the intuitive "front wins more"?

Philip Kendall

Feb 25, 2018 20:31

Hey all - the recent discussion on autograph questions has come to the conclusion that autograph identification questions are now off-topic.

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random

Mar 18, 2019 13:50

in The Assembly, 32 secs ago, by random

NCAA Men's Basketball brackets are now open for picking. Upset bonus again this year, which is that lower seeds winning will basket more points - https://bracketchallenge.ncaa.com/picks/group/724288 - pwd: waffles

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fyrepenguin

Apr 11, 2022 08:24

At this point, I actually have my answer (fortunately, despite whatever network deal they've figured out in Europe, they are still streaming the IFSC World Cup circuit on YouTube + posting full replays).

Generally, it's an interesting conundrum since rock climbing/sport climbing are customarily outdoors-centered activities. But with it being included in the Olympics as a sport, there's more crossover between Sports and TGO. Not a terrible thing, since it's not uncommon to have things on-topic on multiple sites in the network

fyrepenguin

Apr 1, 2022 08:17

yeah, I'd've normally asked on TGO, but since it was less about the climbing/outdoors aspect and more about the organized sport aspect I was wondering if it would've been more on topic here than there

Ty for the info; it's often hard figuring exactly what's on/off topic when looking at a new site, even *after* perusing the help center & FAQ

fyrepenguin

Apr 1, 2022 07:26

Are questions about what methods to watch a sport broadcast/event on-topic here? I'm trying to figure out whether changes & broadcast deal(s) mean that a sport (rock climbing in this instance) will be streaming via YouTube as per usual in addition to other things, or only via another platform

skillpatrol

Jun 5, 2020 21:41

I'm sorry to hear that @MichaelMyers. Will you still join us for the March madness pool?

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Feeds

May 25, 2020 20:33

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Q: 2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Sports is scheduled for an election next week, June 1st. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. Here's ...

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Nij

Feb 21, 2022 21:01

@MartinSleziak as one of the more frequent contributors to this room, your information and observations are of course appreciated, and prompting constructive discussion.

Philip Kendall

May 3, 2020 13:18

Hey folks - we're starting the process of getting more moderators for the site :-) sports.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/960/…

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Martin Sleziak

Apr 2, 2020 06:21

I think I saw that somebody shared similar video for marble soccer: google.com/… It looked similar to this one: Marble Race Football Tournament | 2018 FIFA World Cup Marble run

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Martin Sleziak

Apr 2, 2020 06:18

Go Comet! How Competitive Marble Racing Is Becoming an Enthralling New Fixation for Sports Fans google.com/search?q=marble+race&tbm=vid

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Martin Sleziak

Apr 2, 2020 06:17

Some people settled for watching chess instead of the usual sports, but the tournament was eventually suspended: Candidates Tournament 2020.

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 13, 2022 15:06

specific-question It seems a bit strange that a question is tagged both football and american-football: Can a player unretire when the postseason starts who hasn’t played all season and be eligible play in the postseason.

alamoot

Dec 31, 2019 16:28

Happy new year!

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Martin Sleziak

Nov 29, 2019 13:44

Here are some estimates of how much users gained in the reputation recalc: data.stackexchange.com/sports/query/1150427/…

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skullpatrol

Mar 3, 2018 03:04

waffle-collusion password: quora

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Martin Sleziak

Feb 9, 2018 09:31

It seems that the featured question Revisiting autograph identification questions is incorrectly tagged. At least if we consider ED_MASTERMIND's explanation that on-topic is for asking whether something is on topic and scope should be used for discussion about changing what is/isn't on-topic.

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Martin Sleziak

Feb 8, 2018 06:09

This room (?and site?) is now six years old. Happy anniversary!

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Philip Kendall

Jan 9, 2018 12:26

OK, I've just done my first ever tag merge so "tagging" and "tags" are now the same thing.

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Philip Kendall

Oct 30, 2017 20:41

Yeah :-( It's a real shame he left. I try and pop in, but we've lost critical mass here.

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Michael Myers

Apr 3, 2016 03:05

JAVY_01 is the winner of our bracket challenge!

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