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Oh heck - don't - it's still all under control. Just had far to much to do - don't put your self out - I'll be on it later.

Teams sent, good luck everyone and a happy new year.

Boom! Pan Breed 2018, Here's Who You Could Have Won, and a theme team all sent by email. Now time to rela...oh yeah, the Crowdsourced lists!

It takes a lot of planning. Those scripts don't write themselves. Getting the sharks to start filming after they've spent the morning at the catering trucks takes a lot of doing.

Good.

If any of you work in a call centre- Nick Knowles CD is excellent hold music for customers. Its that dreadful they’ll hang up and email instead.... Its awful

She was Mrs Garnett she will obit no problem.

Well, we have arrived at the last day. So I thought I'd double check the non-obits. And lo, a Christmas miracle! Jim Marrs gets a QO at last with this Express Obit: https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/891885/Nibiru-Planet-X-coming-Earth-2060-NASA-Jim-Marrs gcreptile picks up 8 Additional Points for this sub, having drawn the 8 Spades. It's not much, but all depends what happens in the next few hours.

Just because I found the name and have never seen him being mentioned here before: Martin Cooper, the "father of the cell-phone", 89: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)

You never know they may have decided that the best way to celebrate New Year's eve is by meeting to discuss and decide deathlist picks!!

The last time it had proper rules posted they owed a lot to NaP's days but RA still adhered to them 2016 Rules below: Rules 2016 Here are my copy/paste notes on the intricacies of the HPDP - subject to any corrections by Rotten Ali. Hope it helps. Points are scored according to the following highly complex scoring system: Competitors are awarded points according to the order in which their candidates die. The starting positions are as follows: Candidate 1: 50 points Candidate 2: 45 points Candidate 3: 40 points Candidate 4: 35 points Candidate 5: 30 points Candidate 6: 25 points Candidate 7: 20 points Candidate 8: 15 points Candidate 9: 10 points Candidate 10: 5 points When the first candidate dies, points will be awarded as above, and the remaining potential scores will slide up or down one position. If candidate 1 dies first, the team gets 50 points and the points below all increase by 5, so candidate 2 will get 50 points if he or she is the next to go. If a celebrity departs further down the list before the ones above are gone, the scores above are reduced by 5, causing the highest remaining score on the list to disappear. Those below will increase by 5 as before. This will often cause two celebrities to have the same number of points next to their names, but the order in which they die will still influence subsequent scores. The Bonus System: Candidate not picked by any other competitor +2 Candidate under 18 years old -2 25th or less in line to the throne of Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark +2 Been on Celebrity Squares (or Hollywood Squares)+3 Death of candidate in spite of extremely high improbability or unlikeliness of same. +5 US Baseball or Basketball player -3 Former or present UK Prime Minister +3 Drummer +2 Incumbent or recent US president +3 Guilty (in Notapotato's opinion) of crimes against humanity +3 Both of the above +6 Has played in a pantomime+2 Has performed Morris dancing +3 Found dead in a Swimming Pool +3 Died in a farming or gardening accident +2 Death worthy of a Darwin Award +2 Murder, Suicide, Lightning +2 Dies on Notapotato's birthday (16th of May) +2 Death by Fire +2 Death by Water +2 Death by Bongo +6 The bonus is calculated according to the following simple formula: bonus x (score gained from death divided by 5) Multiple bonuses multiply so a bonus of 3 and a bonus of 2 give together a bonus of 6. This makes negative bonuses extremely unattractive. This is also the reason why some bonuses have been increased this year, because 2*2 is the same as 2+2. So a bonus of 2 on a score of 40 gives you 2*(40/5)=16 Additionally there will be a bonus of 50 points for coming in in 13th place in the Hartlepool Deadlypool. Unless there are only 13 or fewer entries. then there won't be. Nothing could be simpler. Oh yes, and there's an extra bonus of unspecified size payable on the first hit of the team which has the most interesting and unusual selection of celebrities. 1. Dead means dead. No longer living: A bit like William Holden who having just been fished out of Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, died drunk and impoverished a mere 31 years later. Eligible for a death certificate. (A Munchkin is optional but may get a bonus) 2. For the purpose of the game a "celebrity" is someone well-enough known to get their death mentioned in the UK national press or on the BBC news website. Or anywhere else Notapotato's heavily-prejudiced mind considers a reliable, respectable source of international news. In the event of disagreement as to the celebrity of any individual or the validity of an obituary, Notapotato's word is final. 3. Only human beings may be submitted as candidates. Animals may take part in the deathpool, but may be ridiculed for doing so, and may not get any points. Unless they are cats with a long history of doing deathpools. Team names which sound like an animal such as "Donkey from Hell" or "Dead as a Parrot" are allowed, I suppose, but may be ridiculed. 3a. Strictly only one team per participant. The submission of teams in the name of domestic animals in an attempt to circumvent this rule is doomed to failure. And ridicule. 4. If a participant dies during the competition, unlike in some deadpools he doesn't win the competition automatically. He may, however get awarded a few extra points by way of consolation. And next year a bonus will be named after you, perhaps. If you do die during the course of 2013, do drop us a line and let us know where you went wrong so others can avoid making the same mistake. 4a. For legal reasons we are unable to actively encourage participants to murder or otherwise accelerate the deaths of their chosen celebrities. There is however no penalty in the Hartlepool Deadlypool for doing so. Your Procurator Fiscal or local alternative may see this differently though, so we reccommend asking beforehand. 5. Anyone selecting tender-aged sufferers of terminal diseases or anyone under sentence of death or highly likely to be sentenced to death at the start of the year will be summarily ridiculed and very likely penalised in an arbitrary and unpleasant way should their candidates actually die or be killed. 5a. And you won't be getting the extra bonus points for original and unusual picks if you don't come up with something a bit more original or unusual.

2018 has started in Down Under, so here's the thread for the next 12 months.

Happy New Year, Australia!

My first Shadow List Didn't know how to order them, so I choose the alphabetical arrangement after the first given names* for a better overview. *except of Little Richard, haha! 01. Anne V. Coates 09.05.2018 02. Barbara Bush 17.04.2018 03. Benedict XVI 04. Betty White 05. Billy Graham 21.02.2018 06. Carol Channing 07. Charlotte Rae 05.08.2018 08. Devin Lima 09. Dieter Thomas Heck 23.08.2018 10. Estelle Parsons 11. Fernando Ricksen 12. Franco Zeffirelli 13. George Bush Sr. 14. Glynis Johns 15. Gottfried Böhm 16. Hans-Jochen Vogel 17. Iris Apfel 18. Jacqueline “Jackie” Stallone 19. Jacques Chirac 20. Javier Perez de Cuellar 21. Jean-Louis Trintignant 22. Jerry Stiller 23. John McCain 25.08.2018 24. Kirk Douglas 25. Leah Bracknell 26. Liam Miller 09.02.2018 27. Liselotte Pulver 28. Little Richard 29. Lys Assia 24.03.2018 30. Marieke Vervoort 31. Mary Carlisle 01.08.2018 32. Matt Cappotelli 29.06.2018 33. Michael Caine 34. Olivia de Havilland 35. Olivia Newton-John 36. Oskar Gröning 08.03.2018 37. Ottfried Fischer 38. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 39. Pierre Cardin 40. Rayya Elias 04.01.2018 41. Reinhard Hardegen 09.06.2018 42. Reneé Simonot 43. Richard Buckley 44. Sean Connery 45. Stefan Karl Stefansson 21.08.2018 46. Suzy Delair 47. Sylvia Miles 48. Valerie Harper 49. Wolfgang Bosbach 50. Zemin Jiang 14/50

The last strike for Roberto Clemente on this day 45 years ago, aged 38.

Just PM'd my shadow list!

Was a great match, just hope Cross win's now, can't stand Taylor great player but a c*nt of a man, somehow don't want to see a convicted sex offender go out on a high but i think it will happen sadly.

@Deathray Last year, Sir Creep posted a few theme teams in the DDP thread assuming it'd count as a submission. It didn't. So on that I'd recommend sending Spade some emails.

They said that last year and we have ended up with a record year.

THIS IS A FINAL REMINDER. With under 14 hours to go before the time for submission of teams for 2018 slams shut, and I mean for good, I am now asking that any additional teams now be posted on the thread. This means you are not a hostage to the messaging system (some don't appear to have reached me initially, for some reason), and lets me have a rather busy Hogmanay without checking every hour there are more entries. This is the list of confirmed entrants so far: 1. YoungWillz 2. Bibliogryphon 3. FixedBusiness 4. Deathray 5. Phantom Of The Midway 6. NiceGuyEddie 7. The Unknown Man 8. Torva Messor 9. JoeyRuss 10. Captain Chorizo 11. Grigori 12. Whoaml 13. FujimoriNoMorey 14. The Dead Cow 15. msc 16. John Key 17. Sean 18. Death Impends 19. Prophet 20. drol 21. Book 22. Toast 23. Wormfarmer 24. Grim Up North 25. WidowsPeak 26. gcreptile 27. mr.whit 28. the_engineer 29. Pedro67 30. Sir Creep Entrants from 2017 not on the list are JiroemonKimura; ImNot Hades; Rotten Ali and Rockhopper Penguin (well, understandable). Everyone is welcome to bust my bank account for 2018 for charity. No further reminders will be issued. Then the game will commence and I can get a Masterlist up early on New Year's Day. Thank you to everyone for your understanding and for the entries so far. Again, this already has a greater number of entries than ever before. Best, YW.

Yeah, we had that chat a while back - managers of dead pools have hit the valium in tribute

Shadowlist 2018: 1)John McCain 2)Leah Bracknell 3)Olivia Newton John 4)Alberto Fujimori 5)Clive James 6)Kirk Douglas 7)Billy Graham 8)Herman Wouk 9)Tessa Jowell 10)Peter Lorimer 11)Nobby Stiles 12)Leslie Phillips 13)George H W Bush 14)Olivia de Havilland 15)Denis Norden 16)Bob Dole 17)Prince Philip 18)Peter Carrington 19)Javier Perez De Cuellar 20)Prunella Scales 21)Jill Gascoine 22)Henry Kissenger 23)John Hume 24)Doris Day 25)Charlotte Rae 26)Pierre Cardin 27)Murray Walker 28)Morgan Tsvangirai 29)Chris Rea 30)Doug Ellis 31)Stirling Moss 32)Neil Simon 33)Stan Lee 34) Betty White 35)Stephen Hawking 36)Liam Miller 37)Joni Mitchell 38)Sheila Mercier 39)Pope Benedict 40)Freddie Starr 41)Roger Bannister 42)Linda Nolan 43)Charles Aznavour 44)Robert Mugabe 45)Valerie Harper 46)Desmond Tutu 47)Martin Peters 48)Ray Wilson 49)Jimmy Carter 50)Queen Elizabeth II

Aye, good call! With all this ice about, that will make an ace scraper of ice off ya windscreen!

I'll be posting a team and would encourage others to do the same. If necessary we can always worry about who will be in charge later. The HPDP has been running for a long time and it would be a shame to see it go.

I'm sure DevonDeathTrip will be excited to see me mention Sister Wendy Beckett as a possibility for next year, as I think she could make an appearance next year perhaps...