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INVERSE DEAD POOL 2019 As always, with the new year comes another opportunity for you all to reckon which DDP darlings have another 365 days left in their tanks. Though the 2018 Inverse Dead Pool had less deaths among its selectables than 2017 (15 compared to 20), there were still three massive scoreboard-scrambling landmines among them in Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, and Stan Lee. By the year's end, machotrouts emerged the least scathed with 17 points. Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2019, pick a team of 25 names who you think will survive the year. Rank your list in order of least likely to die to least least likely to die. Post your team in this thread. If someone dies and they are listed on your team, then you will receive points according to their position. If your #1 pick dies you'll receive 25 points, whilst if your #25 pick dies you'll receive 1 point. If someone dies and they are not on your list, then you receive no points. In case one of the names available for entry dies before the submission deadline, you are allowed to have one sub. The sub can be anyone from the top 50 or the 51st most popular name, who will be revealed alongside the top 50. The 51st name can not be part of the original 25 if no one dies. In the case of one of your original team dying pre-deadline, the sub goes into 25th place by default, but if the sub was previously the 51st, you are allowed to change the position of the new pick. If the above scenario happens, you are also allowed to name a new sub and I will reveal the 52nd most popular name. Whoever has the lowest score at the end of the year is the winner. NEW: If two or more teams are tied at the end of the year, the tie will first be decided by who has less hits. If they have an equal amount of hits, then whoever among the teams died latest in the year, and thus came closest to being a correct prediction, will decide the winner. If said name was on multiple teams in the tie, whoever had said name lowest will win. If multiple teams had said name in the same position, the second most recently-deceased name will be referred to, and so on, until a winner is found. If, by some alignment of the stars, the tie is of either no hits or of all of the exact same hits in the exact same positions, all teams in the tie share victory. Credit to Toast for inadvertently coming up with a peach of a topic description, and of course, credit to Spade for creating this wonderful game. Credit to Dead Cow for his job as previous host, laying the framework for the Inverse Dead Pool's OP, and the idea for a "dies during entry period" rule. Credit to machotrouts for the suggestion of the latest hits factoring into tiebreakers. Previous Winners 2018 - machotrouts 2017 - drol 2016 - Pedro67 2015 - Death Impends 2014 - Bibliogryphon 2013 - N/A 2012 - Esturian Float 2011 - Garn2 Top 50 George Alagiah John Andretti Bob Barker Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Kathleen Blanco Leah Bracknell June Brown Jimmy Carter Beth Chapman Johnny Clegg Billy Connolly Tim Conway Doris Day Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Kirk Douglas Queen Elizabeth II Andrew Fairlie Pete Frates Paul Gascoigne Jill Gascoine Greg Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jimmy Greaves Valerie Harper Bob Hawke Clive James Terry Jones Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger Vera Lynn John McCririck Andrew McGahan Stirling Moss Robert Mugabe Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Fernando Ricksen Michael Robinson Prunella Scales Nobby Stiles Jean-Louis Trintignant Donald Trump Bill Turnbull Dick Van Dyke Marieke Vervoort Betty White Herman Wouk #51 Angela Lansbury

So now it's time to tally up the final score for this year. Here is a brief list of who died, and what bonuses they all received: John McCain (drop 40, joker bonus for Book, Cast Away, Chorizo, Cow, DI, FixedBusiness, Heef, msc, Rad, Toast, Torva, Unknown Man) Charles Aznavour Montserrat Caballe Stan Lee (drop 40) Fernando del Paso (unique in DDP and joker’s) Devin Lima (drop 40, joker bonus for FixedBusiness) George Bush Sr (drop 40, world leader, joker bonus for Book and DI) Albert Frere (unique in DDP) Simon Ricketts (drop 40) Additionally, there is some end of the year bonuses. First, I get some excitement because since I was dead last at 18 points, I get 10 extra points to boost up my score a bit. However, I am still dead last in the end. The next two aren't so lucky bonuses. The first bonus is the unlucky 13 bonus, and it's none other than drol who loses 5 points. He retains his position however. The last bonus is for the person with the most hits, and Chorizo won that bonus, making him go down from being 2nd alone to being in a 3 way tie for 2nd alongside DI and msc. As such, I would like to officially confirm that Torva Messor won the pool for 2018 with a grand total of 78 points. Here are the final scores! 1st - Torva Messor - 78 points 2nd= - CaptainChorizo - 68 points 2nd= - Death Impends - 68 points 2nd= - msc - 68 points 5th - Pedro67 - 64 points 6th= - The Dead Cow - 63 points 6th= - RadGuy - 63 points 8th - CastAway - 62 points 9th= - Book - 60 points 9th= - Heef - 60 points 11th - The Unknown Man - 58 12th - Toast - 57 points 13th - drol - 49 points 14th- FixedBusiness - 48 points 15th - Bibliogryphon - 38 points 16th= - Gooseberry Crumble - 29 points 16th= - YoungWilz - 29 points Last place - Joey Russ - 28 points Now it's time for me to enjoy my retirement as host of this pool. I would like to confirm that Clorox Bleachman is planning on taking this over starting in 2019, meaning that this pool will live on for another year. Have a great year everyone.

Okay, you asked for it, so here you go, @msc and others... A collection of recent New Idea covers that help the housewives of Australia keep an eye on that bloody Camilla, who is always up to no good. The Globe, for good measure:

Seems like more.

Just realized we now have 3 people from The Mary Tyler Moore Show on the Deathlist this year, lol! If only Cloris Leachman had made the cut too!

I don't doubt it, which is why I picked her as well. Very hard to get a unique pick with potential these days.

If I was the Queen I'd have a subscription to the Globe just for the hell of it.....

More coincidence: They were all born in 1942.

I need a soundtrack to all of this:

I'm liking my chances

I disregarded the rumours and speculation in 2017 because I trusted that insider who said he was just off receiving treatment for gammy fingers – then in 2018, the insider comes out and says it was a deliberate red herring to distract from his actual health issues. Very exciting plot twist.

I watched it again just to give it a second chance. Everything, from the script to Jodie's acting, is just as risible as I thought it was. "I liked the idea of possession (a la Spiders From Mars) unfortunately it's yet another Pertwee idea (Green Death/Arachnids In The UK) rip off." Yes but it was also a staple of early 1950s B-films before that. "It Conquered the World" starring Lee Van Cleef is an example that is fairly similar to this episode, which is probably partly why I find it so schlocky. Planet of the Spiders, by contrast, is full of rich ideas.

Yes, all good. More here: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-03/olivia-newton-john-plays-down-health-rumours/10681802

That's irony.

The first scoreboard is up with Team Bubba leading with the first hit after being the only team to not score in 2018. What’s intriguing is that Cancerous Hatred is back this year, so may be another tough year for us. Good luck all...

That is a great picture of Mugabe.

2019 quit taking all our celebrities!

Why oh why did I let Daryl slip from my 2019 lists...

I can't see Noel Conway having any QO trouble.

I've worked out DJL's real life job. He's an editor!

Hmmmm. "The Brain" It, sort of, suggests that you are a mega genius and the font of all knowledge. The only DL members on here who come mightily close to fulfilling that criteria are Mary and CA. You are aiming very high

he looks like he is about to dine

60+ years as a top level entertainer (and most of that as a kids entertainer, which has a very short lifespan usually). Let's hope the only updates in this thread remain birthdays for a while yet.

If that is what is left of Hadrians wall then get the bastard built up again pronto!!!

Maybe he's that person who wrote the telegraph obituary for Jessi Zazu...