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Welcome to Derby, where you'll never leave... Somehow its December, which means it is now time to start drawing up your teams for the 26th edition of one of the oldest running deadpools in the world. That's right, the Derby Dead Pool, or DDP as its also known. As with 2020, the 2021 DDP will be co-hosted by the team of msc, @Grim Up North and @gcreptile. The emails are going out (apologies again for any gremlins), and so its only now to say the DDP is open for entries! RULES For the hard of reading, a reminder of the four rule changes 1. DONT PICK FFBI PEOPLE. Those who ignore this will be mocked mercilessly. 2. UNIQUE PICKS are now worth 4 points instead of the old 3, to reward those who score with knowledge or punts on notables everyone else ignores. 3. THEME TEAMS need to be a theme team ie they cant be "all men" or "all DDP survivors from last years top ten". Esoteric is OK, taking the piss is not. 4. QUALIFYING OBITS - All from 2020 plus Last Word, Daily Record, Scottish and Sunday papers, STV, UTV, Economist, UK Yahoo, Radio Times, Economist, City AM and The Independent. Otherwise, good luck one and all!

Okay my DDP 2021 Team is now with YoungWillz - hopefully the emails will go out some time today. Here we go again...

Then people don’t know who’s got who. It might just be easier to pick one name and shut the fuck up?

Who else is playing Whamageddon this year? I enjoy taking part in this every year, not least because I fucking despise the song.

Finally DDP banned people "famous" for being ill. Next year should be a better competition.

Never trust statistics (is what my old statistics professor used to say).

American actress Abby Dalton, who had a recurring role as Julia Cumson in the television series Falcon Crest, died at 88 years: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abby-dalton-dead-actress-falcon-crest-joey-bishop-show-was-88-1305960 In addition, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as a nurse on CBS's Hennesey.

But will he be a cadaver?

Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day. And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2020. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes Joey Russ's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: Sean - Dai Davies The Daredevil - Gerd Muller Sir Creep - Floyd Little gcreptile - Hubert Auriol Spade_Cooley - Zafarullah Khan Jamali drol - Saleh Ajery The Old Crem - James Whale theoldlady - Larry King CaptainChorizo - Litsa Menounous Perhaps - Tommy Lasorda msc - Divya Bhatnagar Toast - Mairead Philpott Bibliogryphon - Rush Limbaugh Banana - Rob Orkies chilean way - Leon Spinks The Quim Reaper - Yoko Ono The Mad Hatter - Valery Giscard d’Estaing HDS - Susan Bayh YoungWillz - Tom Smith Grim Up North - Nick Hitchon Book - Ged Stokes Death Impends - Renee Simonot En Passant - Prince Philip ThereWillBeDeaths7 - Leslie Phillips Joey Russ - Sylvain Sylvain Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016  Death Impends  2017 Sean 2018 Banana 2019 gcreptile Good luck everyone.

tbh I forgot about a team name right till the sending email bit and just came up with Pan Breed (ie "deid"!) on the spur. 9 years later... Enjoy. It will only be damaging if you pick 20 DQ'd Mirror sob stories, I promise. Please don't pick 20 DQ'd Mirror sob stories...

I shall be making my DDP debut for ‘21. I’m sure it’ll be a thoroughly damaging experience. I’m gradually compiling a team and trying desperately not to get distracted by coming up with a witty team name. Cheers hosts!

legendary French singer Anne Sylvestre dead at 86. https://www.bfmtv.com/people/musique/mort-de-la-chanteuse-anne-sylvestre_AD-202012010201.html

Nicola Sturgeon and her gang of cunts are giving £500 to NHS workers. Nothing to do with buying votes for independence of course. Ach, we are so hard done by as part of the United Kingdom...getting all these freebies.

You sick fuck

Also not deserving of a knighthood. An OBE was sufficient for walking round the garden a few times over a extended period.

Lets hope the fucker doesn't fall through them, what with his weight and all that.

I think it's a wise decision to end and to change this game! And there is still enough time for more hits until the end of the year! It's not over yet!

Damn, I guess former LA Kings hockey announcer Bob Miller better watch the fuck out! He was forced to retire a few years ago due to heart issues and turned 82 in October.

Exactly. William Gates was a relative.

Rush Limbaugh has absolutely got to be on the list. If he doesn't die in the next 32 days. Stage 4 lung cancer, would be great to see him in the number 50 spot.

Godard deserves a place on the list. He could go any time, he is possibly the world's most influential film-maker now living (and his death will surely be followed by much discussion about whether his films were any good or not), and he's an "icon" of the 1960s.

You clearly have access to the Internet, why not try wiki or just googling him?

Bob Barker. The Time is Right.