{"id":5910,"date":"2023-02-06T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:44:20","slug":"announcing-the-shady-dealers-datamatch-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/announcing-the-shady-dealers-datamatch-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Shady Dealer&#8217;s Datamatch 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UChicago-centric comedic dating quiz will return for its fifth year in 2023 with new and improved questions, more false hope for students\u2019 romantic lives, and a slightly lower chance of matching students with their own sisters. The <em>Chicago Shady Dealer<\/em>, UChicago\u2019s humor magazine, will return as question writers, with a survey for 2023 with never-before seen jokes about the university and student life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter four straight years of Datamatch, we thought we\u2019d hit rock bottom in terms of question material, but it turns out we could sink lower down!\u201d said R.E. Stern, co-editor-in-chief of the <em>Dealer<\/em>. \u201cStudents taking Datamatch this year can expect laughs, insights, and an enduring sense of disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Dealer<\/em> has also made significant upgrades to Datamatch\u2019s question-writing and matchmaking processes for 2023. The service has also expanded its operations and strengthened its longstanding partnership with local businesses. \u201cNew for this year, students can show up at Hutchinson Commons with their matches, bring a nickel and two dimes, and get a quarter in return,\u201d said Stern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked the programmers to add UChicago-specific personal preferences like \u2018has been rejected by a maximum of three frats\u2019 and \u2018failed startup co-founder\u2019. They refused, but we\u2019re still optimistic that this year\u2019s Datamatch will be a success,\u201d added Kelly Lo, the <em>Dealer<\/em>\u2019s other co-editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Datamatch will open Tuesday, Feb. 7th at midnight at <a href=\"http:\/\/datamatch.me\">datamatch.me<\/a>, and matches will be released on Valentine\u2019s Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14th, at 9AM EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter four straight years of Datamatch, we thought we\u2019d hit rock bottom in terms of question material, but it turns out we could sink lower down!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}