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Yeah, well I guess running that chain of greeting card retailers into the ground, would not of helped one bit!!

Welcome to the Hares Death Pool - aka the reverse Deathrace - no denial will be made of the source of inspiration for the game, the game where you try and predict who'll make it through most of the year before dying. The game where 25 players dying on the 1st January is worth 500 points - 24 players dying on the 1st January being a mere 0 points and 1 player dying on the 31st December being worth either 614 and 976 points. Can you find the reliable soles who'll die late in the year? Then enter a team. The Rules (Last updated 6 March 2016) All teams must contain 25 picks. A maximum 5 subs are allowed. All picks must be humans aged over 18 on January 1st of the game year.. Death row prisoners only score if they die of other causes, those still on trial will still score points if sentenced to execution after 0000 on January 1st. Celebrities qualify if they achieve an obituary or article about their death in a local, national or even specialist newspaper - the article does not need to specifically relate to their death, instead just mention it and date it. or website/magazine/paper. If in doubt cite your death note for approval. There is absolutely no requirement for obits to be in the English language, however translations should be provided if they are not. Entries must be posted between 0001 on the 1st December and 2359 on December 31st, if a pick dies before 2359 but it's not known until January 1st they may be replaced until 2359 GMT on January 1st provided the replacement hasn't died between 0000 and their addition to the team on January 1st. The Game runner is permitted to enter a team on the express understanding that team is visible prior to the entries opening. The game runner is permitted to permit a team submitting within the first few days of January at their own discretion, under the proviso no other teams have scored upon the late teams entry. The current game runner does not allow late entries. The exception to this is if the late team includes someone sentenced to death between 0000 on the 1st January and it's submission, in that instance the player will be kindly told to fuck off and have the entire team rejected, ditto for replacements. The current game runner does allow late entries. Murdering your chosen "celebrities" is both against the rules and illegal regardless of willing participation. Keeping alive another persons pick against the picks will to benefit in this game is also against the rules. If assisted euthanasia becomes legal in the future, contestants in this dead pool are forbidden from encouraging/discouraging/or actively taking part in their or another contestants picks decision regarding this or being an active participant in their euthanasia. This rules apply to assisted euthanasia in other countries of picks. Celebrities are disqualified if they are a celebrity because of their impending death. For clarification Tom Attwater - fundraiser dying of cancer was an eligible pick for hia fundraising. This man who became critically ill after being hit by a trolley in M&S would not be an eligible pick if his identity were known for a game held in 2013, if the man were to recover, his extremely dubious claim to fame as the man hit by a trolley in M&S would be sufficient to see him eligible as a pick if he garnered the required obit. All entries must be posted in this thread or PMed to me, they'll then be posted in this thread as one post for each game year. The onus is always on the player to check that the person in question is alive at the start of the competition and replace them within the 24 hour leeway allotted, if this is not something you are willing to do please provide up to 5 substitutes. Even if you're convinced all you're players are breathing you may wish to provide substitutes just to be safe (a player who shall remain nameless provided a pick who died in 2005 in their team, we are all capable of making mistakes - better safe than sorry) Blatant plagiarism of another persons team, in the eye of the game runner, is punishable by expulsion and a 5 year ban on entering the competition. Scoring System (Last Updated 6 March 2016) 1 Point for each day of the year that passes before your celebs death (if they die on the 10th of January you are awarded 9 points for example) up until the games close at midnight on the 31st December. 250 point bonus if one of your "celebrities" dies on 31st December in that game year (i.e a 31st death will score 614 points in a normal year or 615 points in a leap year rather than the 364 or 365 points it would normally accrue) Pick 1 of your celebrities as a wild card to double the points for that pick upon their death. (i.e if they die on the 9th January you'll get 16 points). Wildcards are calculated before the 250 point bonus, meaning are 31st December wildcard will score 978 points not 1228 500 point bonus if your entire list perish of this mortal coil in the game year. So let the games begin who do you think will very nearly make it to next year but alas lose out? 2014 Champion - Rotten Ali 12 Teams - Final Scoreboard 2015 Champion - Toast 16 Teams - Final Scoreboard 2016 Champion - Gcreptile 17 Teams - Final Scoreboard 2017 Champion - Grim Up North 24 Teams - Final Scoreboard 2018 Champion - ?????? 30 Teams - Latest Scoreboard 2019 Champion - ??????? XX Teams - Latest Scoreboard (TBA) Records Lowest Scoring Hit - maryportfuncity with 0 points for Dorothy Baldwin (2014) [1 was awarded in consolation] [1st January 2014] Highest Scoring Hit - Sir Creep - 666 points (George H.W Bush on 30 Nov 2018 with WC points). Time Without a Hit - YoungWillz - 243 days and counting in 2018 Most Hits: - msc 16 in 2018 All Time Leaderboard - Points Tally (up to 2017)

Wait, I don't get it...did you make the fake edit on Wikipedia about Laemmle or? Yeah, that was me. You realize how offensive this is, don't you? Idiot. How is it offensive to vandalise wiki pages? 1. Millions of people, including myself, are making huge efforts of trying to create the world's largest online Encyclopedia. The last thing we need is to waste energy on those who attempt to destroy our goal. 2. Imagine if someone came up to you and said that your parents are dead, only to later say that he was only joking. Would you find it amusing? 3. How old are you?

I've been weighing this post up over the last few days because I find this "joke" absolutely disgusting and it's even made me decide whether I want to keep visiting Deathlist. Do I want, or can I justify being a member of a site where making jokes about raping babies is deemed acceptable? As my children get older and take interest in what Daddy's looking at on the laptop, can I really feel comfortable about some content of what I'm reading here? For now, I'll just register - publically, that for me, this is a joke too far even for this site.

Expecting a revolution?

And Darby Crash died the day before

Found this on Twitter. Seemed like the best thread to post it in. Merry Christmas everybody.

I agree with davey think they will go within a year of each other but Philip first .

I'd be impressed with a theme team of Black Gay Jewish picks.

Her mother made her centenary ( and was known to be very senile in her last years as she was unaware her youngest daughter had die).I wouldn`t be too surprised if Zsa Zsa did as well.

Well, it's even bad enough that BBC just did a brief report on it. And usually they are filled with thinly-veiled contempt for America and would never bother covering something unless it was Katrina-esque. Whenever I hear of bad weather in places like Texas, I'm so confused. I just don't fucking understand how a place that is so normally associated with scorching hot deserts filled with fucking rattlesnakes and shit like that can get such icy death-weather just because it's December. It's one of those things that will always be a mystery to me, like...... how people find American football entertaining, and other stuff like that.

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels”. -Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund

Dora Bryan strips off her tracksuit and heads for the field of play. Yeah, but she thinks she's going to primary school! Nice one. I am running out of names my first team only had 15 names on it then I had to replace Godfrey and now Nelson. If anyone else goes before the starting gun I will be scraping the barrel. Trust me Biblio... the Deathrace loves barrel scrapings!