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At least one House of Windsor had a fatality this week. Wrong. Fucking. One.

STATS AND FACTS The Inverse Dead Pool has seen its most robust participation rate yet, with 48 teams entered (+12 compared to last year). Like last year, no name was unanimously picked or excluded (3 teams at worst, 46 teams at best). The names to come closest to being unanimous picks were the Donald, Her Maj, and Gazza, who were only omitted by two teams each. CaptainChorizo left out Gascoigne, Sir Creep's daughter (whose team was picked by randomly choosing numbers) didn't land Trump or Elizbaeth, and msc's deliberate "take one for the team" excluded all three! The people's choice for 2019 is as follows, sorted by overall points, but with the amount of teams to plump for them also included. The top four remains identical to last year (last year's #5, Angela Lansbury, narrowly missed out on being selectable again). Trump may well start keeping copies of Inverse Dead Pool stats in the Oval Office considering how popular he is here! Name Total Points Total # of Teams 1. Donald Trump 1048 46 2. Queen Elizabeth II 988 46 3. Paul Gascoigne 972 46 4. Dick Van Dyke 838 43 5. Linda Nolan 777 42 6. Billy Connolly 750 43 7. Jimmy Carter 662 43 8. Betty White 540 40 9. Terry Jones 539 39 10. Doris Day 526 39 11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 517 37 12. Marieke Vervoort 458 36 =13. Henry Kissinger 427 39 =13. Prunella Scales 427 34 15. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 378 34 16. Bill Turnbull 361 28 17. Prince Philip 352 34 18. Valerie Harper 347 32 19. Olivia de Havilland 330 32 20. Jimmy Greaves 307 26 21. Olivia Newton-John 282 25 22. Michael Robinson 257 24 =23. June Brown 235 23 =23. Greg Gilbert 235 25 25. Vera Lynn 228 25 The people's choice for 2018, if an actual team, would have finished at =8th place with 36 points. Carol Channing would've been a big landmine had she lasted a few more days... which names out of the above will follow suit and shake up the scoreboard this year? On the flip side, few anticipate this lot making it through 2019: Name Total Points Total # of Teams 1. Kathleen Blanco 25 3 2. Andrew Fairlie 38 3 3. Jean-Louis Trintignant 49 6 4. Lee Kerslake 59 7 =5. Johnny Clegg 64 7 =5. Andrew McGahan 64 5 7. Nobby Stiles 73 11 8. Fernando Ricksen 74 7 9. Herman Wouk 82 7 10. Clive James 85 12 Though it is worth noting that only half of last year's bottom ten actually died. And two of the survivors of that (Vervoort and Gilbert) are on over half of this year's teams!

Happy 99th birthday Javier

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

That’s some astounding breaking news there.

And the door for entries slams shut. machotrouts's team will be entered and the stats posted in a few hours time. Good luck to all, and my sincerest gratitude to Prince Philip for not dying in that car accident and sparing me another substitution nightmare!

Reigning champion fighting to keep my inverse crown. (An inverse crown is very uncomfortable and I don't recommend wearing one.) Billy Connolly Paul Gascoigne Bill Turnbull Queen Elizabeth II Donald Trump Linda Nolan Dick Van Dyke June Brown Prunella Scales Terry Jones Ruth Bader Ginsburg Betty White Marieke Vervoort Henry Kissinger Robert Mugabe Doris Day Jimmy Carter Prince Philip Olivia de Havilland Vera Lynn Michael Robinson Beth Chapman Bob Barker Bob Dole Bob Hawke SUB: Angela Lansbury Billy Connolly and Paul Gascoigne are both eligible for my #1 Hits Derby Dead Pool team, and I decided not to use either of them. Not even close enough to death's door for a theme team that stooped to including Demi Lovato.

Buying a new car doesn't mean he'll be driving it himself, but I stand to be corrected if that's what's being reported.

I'd expect most teams to captain MC Ren.

It is only now I have worked out that I had Windsor Davies, Barbara Windsor and Frank Windsor on various teams this year. I don't think whoever did his bio on the DDP realised that at the time, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum was much beloved and it remains extremely funny (if you strip out the blackface).

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46931129 First DDP hit for me on my Comedy team. RIP Windsor, fond memories indeed.

Sorry but i live in Britain, Australian politics isn’t big news here. I would doubt this guys death would even be reported.

10 year challenge @charon

This has it all....... Brighton. Mary. Wank. The Mad Hatter. Deathlisters in microcosm. https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2019/news/daily-journalist-tops-online-charts-after-being-offered-a-wnk-in-pub/

I’m sure there’s an irony in there somewhere.

The queen loves her car crashes. No wonder she looked so chipper without him in christmas day

Paul Flynn missed tonights vote, with ITK folk saying he is very badly ill now. imo if he had to miss this vote, we're talking gravely...

“Speaking of F1 people who are no longer on DDP lists, I had Sebastian Vettel on the earliest version of my entry, I just thought the irksome little puke has been so lucky that surely he must run out of luck some time soon, and thought maybe he'd pile into the rear of a dopy backmarker in early 2014 while trying to lap him. But then I realised that's a bit unlikely because over the last few years in this incredibly depressing little era we live in, every time you think "things can't possibly get worse, surely something will get interesting/good soon", you find it can and in fact will get worse, so I expect another 7 straight titles for the tedious tuetonic tit, who makes Andy Murray look charismatic (that is if we somehow manage to get through 7 more years without WW3 starting). And in 2014 I expect a mass suicide of the few 30,000 or so people who still actually bother to watch F1 every week, maybe about the time of the Spanish GP, when they finally get sick of hearing the Austrian national anthem, a piece of music so dreary and depressing, if Ian Curtis and Thom Yorke were in the same room and it came on the radio, even they would both shout "OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?"“

Foolishly I keep looking in here to see if the gathered alumni have a recommendation. But no, I fall for it every time, yet more stuff about a 1960's kids programme that just won't die whilst the thread British Science Fiction Programmes sits dustily unused in the corner.

So, Noel Conway's survived the immediate aftermath of the failure of his legal case. Tony Nicklinson was gone days after something similar. I'm wondering if Conway will enjoy a last Christmas/New Year and then check out very early in 2019. Bet his DDP popularity goes up a fair way.