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Didn't they do well? To get to the Semifinals, I think so, anyhow. So it's commiserations to The Dead Cow and our dethroned Cup holder, Deadsox. The King is dead, long live the King - but will it be the Devonian Prince of Darkness, or a Sir from Louisiana? Only one way to find out. Final masterlist 1. George Bush Sr – Sir Creep 2. Colin Butts – Sir Creep, DDT 3. Matt Cappotelli – Sir Creep, DDT 4. Tom Crawford – Sir Creep 5. Sean Cox – Sir Creep 6. Fu Da-Ren - DDT 7. Angie Douthit – Sir Creep 8. Virgil Hunter - DDT 9. Will Jordan - DDT 10. Alejandro Junco de la Vega - DDT 11. Meng Lang – Sir Creep 12. Rev Violet Mark - DDT 13. Bertie McMinn - DDT 14. Marsh Pratley – Sir Creep 15. Bishop Francis Quinn – Sir Creep, DDT 16. Ralph Santolla - DDT 17. Doug Silsbee – Sir Creep 18. ND Tiwari – Sir Creep 19. Joe Vento - DDT 3rd place masterlist 1. Leonard Bighetty- Cow 2. Kathleen Blanc - Deadsox 3. George Bush Sr - Deadsox 4. Colin Butts- Cow, Deadsox 5. Matt Cappotelli – Cow, Deadsox 6. Jon Hiseman - Cow 7. Will Jordan- Cow, Deadsox 8. Jose Jose - Deadsox 9. Alejandro Junco de la Vega - Cow 10. Meng Lang – Cow 11. Peter Lorimer - Deadsox 12. John McCain –Cow, Deadsox 13. Bertie McMinn – Cow 14. Charlotte Rae - Deadsox 15. Lindy Remigino - Deadsox 16. Doug Silsbee – Cow 17. Gary Thibodeau - Deadsox 18. Papu Pom Pom- Cow Final Sir Creep (Bush, Butts, Cappotelli, Crawford, Cox, Douthit, Lang, Pratley, Quinn, Silsbee, Tiwari) Vs DDT (Junco, Jordan, Hunter, Vento, Santolla, Butts, Cappotelli, McMinn, Quinn, Da-Ren, Mark) 3rd place playoff Dead Cow (Silsbee, Pom, Lang, Butts, Hiseman, Junco, McCain, Jordan, Cappotelli, McMinn, Bighetty) Vs Deadsox (Lorimer, Jordan, Bush, McCain, Cappotelli, Butts, Thibodeau, Blanco, Remigino, Rae, Jose) Now, you might notice two matches. I got asked (a lot) about a 3rd place playoff last year, and so here it is, as both losing Semifinalists were willing to take part. (Indeed, we had unanimity from all 4 contestants!) Never let it be said the Cup wont try and give the punters what they want. You might also notice 2 different masterlists. That's because I see the 3rd place playoff as "separate" from the final, and didn't feel it fair for uniques of Sir Creep or DDT to be lost due to the optional other match being played. Right, we're nearly at the finish line. Good luck to both finalists.

The Deathlist Cup is reaching its culmination, and that can only mean one thing. A summer, autumn and winter of fidgeting, flummoxing and for goodness sakes, get your hands away from there! So we all need something to do and that means I'm re-opening the casino for the possibly more exciting sequel to last year's poker tourney. Do you need to know the rules of poker? No! Do you hate card games? Doesn't matter! That's not what this is about! You just have to submit a list of folk who you think will play their final table and cash in their chips by December 31st. Gain as many points as possible and you could be crowned Champion of 2018 and gain Kudos and a donation of a tenner to your favourite UK charity. So come one, come all....here we go again.......

Nothing but respect for all those obituary writers who have so far ignored a Nobel prize winner, the oldest living baseball player and a man every newspaper wrote about last December, so I can do my update at the weekend instead.

Hey my friends I’m in the heart of N’awlins doing lots of naughty things, so haven’t had a chance to check in. DDT here’s to a fantastic finish for the two of us, and to a close and exciting match. As I type this I STILL haven’t looked at your roster (that’s next), like I said I wanted to wish you best of luck first. SC

The Rules. Victoria Coren-Mitchell makes sure you have read them and there's no quibbling: You pick 25 names. That's it. Then the game runner allocates a playing card from Random.org to each of your picks in the order you list them. If your pick dies within the period of the game you gain 100 points. Bonuses are awarded for poker hands as follows: High Card (i.e. an Ace) - 5 Points Pair (Two cards of same value) - 10 Points Two Pair (Two Cards of same value plus two cards of a separate value) - 15 Points Three of a Kind (Three of same value) - 20 Points Straight (5 Cards of any suit forming a sequence e.g. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) - 30 Points Flush (5 Cards of any value of the same suit) - 40 Points Full House (Three cards of the same value, and two of another value) - 80 Points Four of a Kind (Four cards of the same value) - 100 Points Straight Flush including a Royal Flush (Five cards forming a sequence of the same suit) - 150 points. Bonuses are cumulative. So say early on you gain say, a pair. If you subsequently gain another pair you would get the bonus for the second pair (10 points) plus the bonus for two pair (15 Points). If you made a straight, say 5-6-7-8-9, then hit a sixth death with a 10 allocated, you would gain an additional straight bonus for 6-7-8-9-10. Winner has the most points at the end of the game. DDP Obit rules in force from time to time would apply. No Jokers or Uniques rules. Only persons notable in their own right, famous for a contribution of some kind are allowed. They must be aged 18 and over on or before 30 June 2018 and human. Members of the Illuminati considered reptilian will be deemed to be human for the purposes of this game. Entries must be received and validated by me by 11:59 pm (BST) on 30 June 2018. The bonuses are so valuable and cumulative that FFBI picks and persons with reflected fame only (PRF) will be excluded. FFBI and PRF are in the opinion of the game runner. The FFBI rule basically excludes anyone famous or infamous for their illness or anything consequential to their illness. This therefore in general excludes campaigners, fundraisers, bloggers, authors of books on their illness and the like. PRF excludes family members, hangers on and the like who in the opinion of the game runner has fame as a result of someone else's fame, but does not exclude such persons if they have a claim to fame themselves separate and distinct from any additional reflected fame (for example, the murderer of a famous person would not fall foul of the PRF rule). Consideration will be given on a case by case basis, but competitors are actively discouraged from giving the game runner a hard time! Do not actively seek loopholes! If one is found, the game runner will be sole arbiter. Death row inmates or anyone under sentence of death whether at the start of the game or for its duration are excluded completely. With regard to terrorists of any hue, confirmation in a qualifying obit of their death by the terrorist organisation to which they belong will suffice. The Strickland/Lucan Rule excludes anyone missing as at the start of the game, or anyone who might be dead and who is officially declared to be dead during the game by judicial or other authority under presumption of death laws. For the avoidance of doubt, someone who famous simply for their longevity is included, but they must still obviously garner a qualifying obit. The game will open on 1 July 2018 and deaths on 1 July according to official sources up to and including 31 December 2018 will count. Therefore a pick who is subsequently found to have died before commencement but after the game has started is excluded and a substitute will be inserted in place of that person (if a sub has been provided by the player). The game will be terminated at midnight on the turn between 7/8 January 2019, to allow time for news of death to be published (the Dietz-Werner Steck rule). It is recommended that you consider up to 5 substitutes along with your team. If a substitute dies without making it into your main team for any reason, the game runner will draw a card from Random.org on being notified of their death and gaining a qualifying obit and you will gain additional points equivalent to the value of that card (Ace high = 14 points, King = 13 points, etc etc down to a deuce = 2 Points). Your sub card will not count towards bonuses however, and it does not gain the 100 point death award. The game runner will be allowed to enter a team. That team will be published in the thread at commencement of opening entries, but to avoid influence (the Toast Rule) an x will represent a letter of the person's name, but the cards allocated will be revealed, for example: XXX XXXXXXXXXXX - 5 Spades would be revealed at the start of the game as Roy Barraclough - 5 Spades. 　 Good Luck!

Yes, two worthy finalists imo. Sir Creep's taken to the Cup like an arsonist to a listed building, and DDT's achievements are well noted, one of the GOATS, without a shadow of a doubt. Still, I know Sir Creep likes 70s/80s wrestling, so "you got to beat the man to be the man"! Anyhow, I couldn't and wouldn't call the final (it's up for grabs), and am glad to see Deadsox and Cow in the 3rd place match. Everyone's a winner, but there is only going to be one winner.

Charlotte Fox, who survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, dies after an apparent fall in her home. http://nationalpost.com/news/world/charlotte-fox-climber-of-the-tallest-peaks-survivor-of-1996-everest-disaster-dies-after-apparent-fall-at-home

My team is in. @deadsox, bad luck - you certainly didn't deserve zero hits from that selection. Hopefully we'll have a rematch next year @Sir Creep, let's hope it's a good match and we don't embarrass ourselves with a 0-0 draw. I have big respect for your deadpooling abilities, so know I'm in for a tough month. May we revel in the spectre of this worldwide festival of death, or something like that anyway. @msc thanks for the reminder messages. Would definitely have forgotten to have entered a team at least once without them.

@Lafaucheuse, that's really terrible to hear. It's hard to know what to say to one in a naff situation like this, I find, except to try and gee one up. So chin up, fight it, go and kick cancer's arse, and get better soon! All the best to you, mon ami, and take care of yourself.

Twitter thinks he's very ill. I don't know what's wrong. Twitter also told me that Gardner Dozois was very ill. So I hope for a repeat.

Creep's certainly had an interesting road to the final, even if less so than deadsox last year. First round he only won via one longtime bedblocker hit against a scoreless team, but he then went on to take out other top players, oftentimes with cult picks he'd written off! And now he takes on one of the deadpooling GOATs with teams worthy of a finale on both ends. Good luck to both.

Update on the Emu sale: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5791145/Rod-Hull-s-Emu-finds-home-Orville-Duck-Rainbow-s-George-sale.html Bought for around 8 grand by puppeteer Phil Fletcher, the chap behind Hacker The Dog, Emu now resides with Orville The Duck and George from Rainbow. Is it about time we started considering Roger de Courcey?

21 entrants (20 quickest off the mark plus your host and - ahem - master Maryportfuncity). Competition opens on 1 June with the aim of getting a winner by midsummer's day. Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2018 (That’ll be MMMDP to you lot!) WTF? HRH MC'S MMMDP!! That there masterlist in all its grim glory! MMMDP 2018 1 - Sean - Matt Cappotelli 2 - Captain Chorizo - Mayor Doug Lachance 3 – Bibliogryphon - Herman Wouk 4 – Clorox Bleachman - Bishop Francis Quinn 5 – MSC - Colin Butts 6 – Sir Creep - Meng Lang 7 – Dead Cow - Irene Jones. 8 – YoungWillz - Jack Dunnett. 9 – YorkshireBanker – Loongkoonan 10 – GC Reptile - Bertie McMinn 11 – Spade Cooley - Carmella James 12 – Rover and Out - John McCain 13 – CastAway - Kathleen Blanco 14 – Joey Russ - Denis Goldberg 15 – Toast - Leslie Phillips 16 – Runebomme - Olivia de Havilland 17 – Book – George Bush Sr 18 – Drol - Fu Da Ren. 19 – FixedBusiness - Leah Bracknell 20 – Death Impends - Jon Hiseman 21 – MPFC – Norman Dewis

Reminds me of the death of Bobby Leach. Think you're tough because you went down Niagara Falls in a barrel? Orange peel says "lol no".

Easily the best ‘ironic’ death ever posted. Shut this thread down! Bravo to Ms. Fox. SC

I will be sending my team shortly.

Times Obituary for John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, historian and TV personality, better known as John Julius Norwich who has died aged 88: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-julius-norwich-obituary-zwfmqq3gd Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Julius_Norwich IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3553199/

What a cougar,her boyfriend looks about 7 decades younger

Congratulations to DDT for making the final. Your team was better and you deserved the win. Best of luck to both the finalists and to my next opponent, the Dead Cow.

Shaun Weiss aka Goldberg from The Mighty Duck movies Was arrested last year for Meth possesion,hasn't had any acting gigs in a decade and looks like a "former child star OD" waiting to happen in any recent pics

Here's wishing to you a full recovery.

Quick note to Dead Cow, thanks for the tense but low scoring match. Seems we both should have had 2-3 more hits, which may account for my roster this round. Nothing but respect, mate! SC

RIP, loved all her music, cannot wait for Grace Jones to play her in a biopic.

WTF, no I loved him in Street Fighter

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