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Bloody Mat Conner

@matconner.bsky.social
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Bad pun enthusiast. Mediocre chess player. Big fan of gambling. Tai’shar Manetheren. (@ballfromgrace on Twitter)

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My six year old wants to play soccer. Not because she’s been captivated by the World Cup games, but because she wants to be on the cards like the Bosnian players in their “Take Me To America” video.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Norway manager saw Belgium win taking its two biggest names off and learned the wrong lesson
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
With these red and green kits the team is ready to be Moroccan around the Christmas tree.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Build the whole offense out of free kicks
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Never tweet. That’s the real lesson.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Of course they score as I type this up
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gotta think that there’s a strong correlation between how bad Belgium have been in this game and the fact that they’re trotting out some of the greatest players in Leicester City history. Does Danny Drinkwater have some Belgian heritage?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Haven’t seen Virgil shut down an attack like that since the Gates of Dis.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More like Van De Fend am I right
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’ve never liked cheese graters. Just can’t abide their holier than thou attitude.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What’d you do to your pinky?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
With the Spelling Bee finished, I took a look at what it got right, and what it got wrong. cc @minakimes.bsky.social doomsdata.substack.com/p/spelling-b...
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sure Norway is great, but you should also check out their sister country, Neitherway.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is exactly what I just said. Where has this energy been my entire life
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Our soccer team is actually fun
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There’s no washed quite like the type of washed you get from having kids. A washed I know well.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@iankarmel.bsky.social Ian I love the pod and am a big fan, so please know that I say this with the utmost respect: I cannot abide your Goodnight Moon slander. “It doesn’t even really rhyme” is the sort of literary criticism I would expect from Sean
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Dan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Pope called it soccer, game set match.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social Hello! Is the website going to post the Spelloff results?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Your outie loves the Knicks.”
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Going to become a DJ with a vampire aesthetic called The Disc Count.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
An Arsenal goal from open play? In this economy?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Final three speller pre Bee ranks: Champion: 3 Runner up: 12 Third: 1
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tethyan now rated as the hardest word of the Bee so far #spellingbee @scrippsbee.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just a heads up: word given is missing on the site
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ccing @minakimes.bsky.social because I feel like I should get to toot my own horn at least a little.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
BEELO pre-Bee rank based on the model priors (in order of speller number): 37 4 3 5 1 12 20 22 100 Out of 247 spellers. Not bad for a first run.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This one felt like the refs giving the extra second before throwing a delay of game flag.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fixed an issue with some spellers incorrectly being marked as still active (result of some feed errors earlier on the Bee site). We are now current. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you! Bee Week really IS the best week 😉
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Website says he spelled it correctly
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Top 5*. Ethan Robert, who was 6th, was eliminated.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Top 6 pre-Bee spellers are still alive as of the end of Round 7.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Let’s go Sarv
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Scripps National Spelling Bee Semifinals start now! 2:30-6:30 at spellingbee.com 8-10 pm on ION @scrippsbee.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social is someone able to fix the missing words in round 4? Gives the result but not the word attempted spellingbee.com/round-result...
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Site is still running smoothly but being held up by the Bee site, which is still stuck in the middle of round 4. We will have updates once the Bee site refreshes.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social the round results page is a bit behind on updates for round 4
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ivermectin ranked the 197th most difficult word of the first round so far.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
After correctly spelling “funori” BEELO now rates Israel at a 1531, with a 0.54% chance of winning.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
cc @minakimes.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Had to rework how the live poller updates but we are now officially live: foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Site is updated. I’ve cleaned up visuals so they appear readable on laptop/mobile. Also word prior model improved so the round baselines are more robust, giving us much more realistic difficulties for later-round words + kick on effect for speller ELO priors foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Omg That would be amazing. Thank you so much!
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thanks! Really glad you appreciate it. The plan is to have it live during the Bee once it kicks off next Tuesday through the Finals Thursday. Prayers up I don’t run into technical difficulties!
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Happy to answer any questions you might have about this, which might be my most absurd project to date.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ask and you shall receive @minakimes.bsky.social. Still working on cleaning up some of the visual elements and toying with the word model, so things may change between now and the Bee, but this is the general structure for BEELO. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Still working on it! I haven’t gotten the live version up yet. I need to clean up a few things visually and then the plan is to set it up hopefully by next weekend. It should be fully functional by Bee Day.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is just the first draft of the website (which isn’t live yet) but I’ve made a lot of progress just this weekend.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This one is for you, @minakimes.bsky.social
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