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INVERSE DEAD POOL 2020 Another new year arrives, and with that comes another round of reckoning the lingering prowess of the DDP's most popular selections. Of the 16 expiries throughout 2019, drol only selected 3 and notched his second win in the process. Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2020, pick a team of 25 names who you think will survive the year. Rank your list in order of least likely to die to most 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. 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 2019 - drol 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 Frankie Banali Bob Barker Susan Bayh Pope Benedict XVI June Brown Jimmy Carter Billy Connolly Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Chris Doleman Kirk Douglas Queen Elizabeth II Paul Gascoigne Jill Gascoine Greg Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Greaves David Gulpilil Rolf Harris Terry Jones Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger Angela Lansbury John Lewis Vera Lynn Stirling Moss Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Genesis P-Orridge Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Little Richard Michael Robinson Yoo Sang-Chul Prunella Scales Tom Smith Pat Smullen Leon Spinks Nobby Stiles Alex Trebek Jean-Louis Trintignant Bill Turnbull Dick Van Dyke Gianluca Vialli Doddie Weir Betty White Barbara Windsor #51 Sam Lloyd

I liked the one in some 80s episode. Doctor: So you escaped from the planet of evil? (Made up, I know) (X): Oh Doctor, you have been naive. And thats the entire explanation. On with the plot.

What every weak leader potentially threatened with removal from office does - start a war. Get the plebs flag-waving, kill some of your military for the greater good, drag your allies along for the ride. However. Do the American people really want another involvement in a far off sandy land, possibly locked in to more terrorism on US soil? Given European leaders are at odds with Trump on the Iran deal, will they get involved? You know the blibbering numpty in Number 10 more likely to agree to anything the US does (hostage to Brexit/US trade deal), and the thought of the UK becoming a proxy battleground for this insane move is very worrying indeed. This is 10 times worse than Iraq. Maybe 100 times worse. Welcome to the 2020s.

I"m assuming that was a smarmy smart ass response. And assuming that, I like you John Key.

It would have ruined the 90's and 100's club they've got going on

I saw the special. Did not really say anything new about his illness (though for now, he still has days where he's well enough to do roof work), but the behind-the-scenes looks at Jeopardy itself were quite fascinating. It had some neat trivia, such as a look at the very first person to win on Trebek's Jeopardy, and that Merv Griffin composed the theme on a piano that once belonged to Marlon Brando.

Shadowy List for a Shadowy Planet 2020 or: hombres de sombra veinte veinte Alex Trebek Anton Coppola Barbara Walters Bert I. Gordon Betty White Beverly Cleary Bob Barker Bob Gibson Boris Pahor Chris Doleman Clarissa Eden David Gulpilil Diana Serra Cary Fay Vincent Genesis P-Orridge George Alagiah Gianluca Vialli Harry Reid Hugh Downs Jean-Louis Trintignant Jimmy Carter John Andretti John Lewis John Prine Joyce Randolph Kirk Douglas Kane Tanaka Larry King Lawrence Ferlinghetti Leon Spinks Mikhail Gorbachev Norman Lear Norman Lloyd Olivia de Havilland Peter Tobin Prince Philip Qaboos bin Said al Said Sultan of Oman Ray Anthony Reneé Simonot Robert Marchand Roger Angell Rosalynn Carter Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sumner Redstone Susan Bayh Terry Jones Toko Shinoda Vera Lynn Walter Mirisch Willie Nelson

If we go "by statistics" though she cannot die at the age of 118 because nobody in history ever did.

Also Rosalynn Carter should have been on the list.

No, he won't 1. He's almost 5 years older 2. He's been in the hospital far more often 3. Her mum made it to 101. 4. He's a man

1. Genesis P-Orridge (joker) (14th of March) 2. Kirk Douglas (5th of February) 3. Alex Trebek (8th of November) 4. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 5. Daniel arap Moi (4th of February) 6. Leon Spinks 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Nobby Stiles (30th of October) 9. Hosni Mubarak (25th of February) 10. Desmond Tutu 11. Joanne Woodward 12. David Crosby 13. Peter Sutcliffe (13th of November) 14. Vera Lynn (18th of June) 15. Abdelaziz Bouteflika

@theoldlady good lord, what a runaway! Congrats!

Those Maltesers truffle type things. Lovely. As you were...

The new series was preachy shit which spent more time tut tutting at the British Empires wrong doings ( like we didn't fucking know already) than doing what Dr Who used to do so well, entertain us with Daleks, Cybermen and that utterly filthy Camille Couduri. That's the Beeb all over, bunch of preachy left wing cunts that are so far off of the pace it is embarrassing. We just wanna be entertained FFS!!!!!!! The fact that there are so many bastard Star War films to choose from says that the owners of the franchise milked it considerably more than even you have done with your cock. I'd even go as far to say that you cock is probably more entertaining, well a sock told me it was.

A fine example of a shit thread. What next? The Best Alien Film? The Best choccy in a Celebrations tub? Utter bollocks.

Jesus Christ is dragged to the cross Climate activist Roger Hallam is dragged to the cross

She plans to try to live to 120, which means she has exactly 3 years to go.

Thanks all. With winning the DDP the white whale of my deadpooling career, it is very satisfying and relieving to have finally achieved it. I very much felt like Bert Trautmann in 2017 throughout the year, in that this would be the now or never year for me to win the DDP. It was all very fluid throughout most of the year and I did not feel confident in winning until the deaths of Fernando Ricksen and Suzanne Whang. Even after that, the death of Jimmy Spicer gave me a sinking feeling (that turned out to be for naught) and I certainly sweated at the deaths of Vervoort, Baghdadi, and Frates. The last few months were a crazy rollercoaster of a scoreboard, and it was very fortunate that my lead was sturdy enough that I stayed in first while the rest of the top 20's arrangement kept getting scrambled. These last few months showed that while Whang and Legh were the most obvious components of the win, the more commonplace names on my team (Bracknell, Conway, and James were the last three in) were just as crucial. Once again referencing Bert, I did briefly mull whether or not to go out on top and retire TJS from the DDP. With life getting busier, I definitely am not going to have the time for research I used to. But of course I remain active in the community (so even if I end up having very little research time I can still cobble decent teams out of forum names) and I want to continue my hit history (I could hit the century this year should I get at least 13 hits with my current team). And as I alluded to in other posts, I only wanted one win, and so I welcome the new freedom victory gives me, to pick Jimmy Carter instead of the more coldly logical fringey name. My thanks to the 14 fatalities, who all seemed like good folk undeserving of their maladies, but whose contributions to the effort and interesting lives of wine expertise, disaster awareness, and singing bizarre I Will Survive parodies to your tumors shant be forgotten. And of course, thanks to Spade for his hard work running the DDP and holding the fort as we head into the well overdue committee era.

I'm a Dad. You should always be charitable when playing against weans.

Bill Gates' old man? Weak.

As 2019 draws to a close, I can officially congratulate @drol as the year's Inverse winner! Though he picked the two most popular hits (Doris Day and Marieke Vervoort) plus the welcomed death of Mugabe, he placed all three very low on his team, seeing him finish with the impressively low score of 10. Additionally, as he also won in 2017, he becomes the first player in Inverse history to win twice. Befits someone known for his lists of immortals, doesn't it? New thread to commence in the coming days...

Apparently actor Josh Brolin tried tanning his arsehole ('perineum sunning') and severely burned his bung.

When she does, "The Lady Vanishes" would seem to be an appropriate tag line...