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Round 1 (ties to be played in the month of February) 1. JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 2. Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 3. Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 4. Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 5. Dr T Vs. Markb4 6. Banana Vs. Great Uncle Bulgaria 7. Yorkshire Banker Vs. Skinny Kiltrunner 8. Alt Obits Guy Vs. Time 9. Clorox Vs. Fixed Business 10. The Mad Hatter Vs. Exu 11. Master Tech Vs. Bibliogryphon 12. The Unknown Man Vs. Boudicca 13. Torva Messor Vs. The Old Crem 14. The Quim Reaper Vs. BuffaloPhil 15. Wormfarmer Vs. The Old Lady Teams may now be submitted for these matches. Closing deadline for that is midnight on the 31st, as usual.

Round 2 DRAW (matches to be played in March) 1. Rad Vs. Yorkshire Banker OR Skinny Kiltrunner 2. Chorizo Vs. Grim Up North 3. Clorox OR Fixed Business Vs. Alt Obits Guy OR Time 4. Nantonian2013 OR Maryportfuncity Vs. The Quim Reaper OR BuffaloPhil 5. DDT Vs. Death Impends 6. The Dead Cow Vs. Deadsox 7. Charon Vs. Engineer 8. Deathray Vs. The Mad Hatter OR Exu 9. Gcreptile Vs. msc 10. Joey Russ Vs. Banana OR Great Uncle Bulgaria 11. Sir Creep Vs. Spade Cooley OR Squonk 12. Torva Messor OR The Old Crem Vs Dr T OR Markb4 13. Master Tech OR Bibliogryphon Vs. Book 14. Gooseberry Crumble OR John Key Vs. Heef 15. Young Willz Vs. JoeMoneypenny OR Pedro 16. Wormfarmer OR The Old Lady Vs. The Unknown Man OR Boudicca

No !! Make a snowdog.

Called this one 18 months ago as one to watch: Then promptly forgot until you just mentioned it there. It happens!

I see nothing wrong with him driving again, he had to get behind the wheel quickly to see if he could still do it. Nothing to do with his age, it just had to be done ASAP. If nothing else, it keeps Brexit off the top spot "Journalists: "Brexit will monopolize the front pages for weeks!" Prince Philip: "Hold my beer!""

Happy 99th birthday Javier

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!

Famously portrayed in the movie Argo by Benn Affleck in 2012. What's with all these Carter appointees dropping dead lately ?! Here's an obit for him https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tony-mendez-dies-cia-officer-portrayed-argo-was-78-1177552

Currently my favourite twiiter account Kids Write Jokes - https://twitter.com/KidsWriteJokes Some classic jokes include :- why did the chicken sat on her eggs? because she doesn't have a chair why did the dog miss work? because it was dead why did the cat cross the road? to live in the in the sewers like a giant snake

I entered Scottish actor James Martin for my B-Team, not to be confused with twatty chef James Martin. Terribly sorry.

Brothers, I am disgusted this has not been put on the forums. My twin brother Barry the Bee was found dead, there’s even a New York Times article (the website suffers from dyslexia) Rest in peace to my soul, my rock, my Super stinging honey swinging son of a wasp http://yewnorktimes.com/2016/10/barry-bee-found-dead-moments-bees-declared-endangered/

Sociologist Nathan Glazer dead at 95 years: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/obituaries/nathan-glazer-dead.html

Sounds like Agatha Christie's 10 Little Indians story Mondale to be the last cabinet member to go leaving the President all alone

Lech died in the plane accident in 2010. You’re getting confused with his brother.

Ah! Actually it was the best moment of my day! It at least makes up for my anger about both Shivakumara and Balbir miracolously recovering the same day.

As reported elsewhere, Sir Creep's archenemy Babiker Awadalla has died at 101, multiple sources confirm. Congrats, @paddyfool, you win this round! New round to begin. masterlist and scoreboard to be updated.

Quim's on the first of two legs on his journey back to Blighty. https://www.flightradar24.com/QTR901/1f3b075b N.B. Large portions of the flight are out of range of the tracker. He's on a double-decker 'bus from Perth to Doha. EDIT: Landed 0209hrs GMT 20th January.

So where's the video of him running round the room high-fiving everyone?

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!

Not specifically in the rules, but do remember this addendum:

That wasn't really the point he was making. Granted, it was a sovereignty issue but, I suspect, his point is about the thundering silence that came from Brussels over it. They COULD have offered the Spanish and Catalan Governments arbitration, asked Madrid to not jackboot their way to Barcelona but they did nowt really.

I see May won her confidence vote 52-48% and everyone seems to respect the result.

The first name of the last person on my list is Jean (not Jena), otherwise my list is fine.

I had edited my post to include the replacement for Langford a few days back.

Le Duc Anh please!