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Running this again, for better or worse. Please submit a list of names from this year's deathlist to predict who on the list is actually going to die this year. Points will be allocated as follows: +1 per death correctly predicted -1 per death incorrectly predicted +4 if the number of deaths you predict matches the actual number of deaths, i.e. the number of names in your list matches the actual number of deaths +2 if you only miss the correct total number of deaths by 1 -2 if you miss the total number of deaths by more than 5 +1 bonus for a "unique" correct prediction (predicted by no other punter here) +1 bonus if you pick the bookie's favourite (single most popular guess in this contest) and they are a hit. -1 penalty if you pick the bookie's favourite and they are a miss. A further +1 bonus for every 3rd correctly predicted death (+1 on 3rd, 6th, 9th etc) You may if you wish select one entry as a joker. We are changing the rules for the Joker this year: you get an additional +2 if correct, and an additional -2 if incorrect; no more multiplication. In the event of a tie on points, the dead-lock (see what I did there) will be broken by the following: 1) Whichever team had the most hits 2) If unbroken by 1, whichever team was closest in their guess of predicted deaths for the year 3) If unbroken by 1 and 2, whichever team was submitted first. Entries in by Jan 10th, please, either by pm or by posting here. Any deaths before then will still score for any lists entered at least 24 hours before the death and will still count towards the total deaths for the year. Good luck.

There was a great article in the Guardian the other day about how we can look forward to a post covid renaissance, as and when we overcome the pandemic. The summers of 2023 and 2024 in particular were forecast to be extra hedonistic, with packed events, increased spending and sexual freedom high on the agenda. So I thought I'd make a thread about it. How is life going to change post covid? I don't think things will ever be the same again, nor do I believe that is a bad thing. My prediction is that homeworking will become the norm, that cannabis will be legalised as a tax raising measure and that we will inadvertently discover a cure for the common cold in our efforts to cure covid. Trust in central government will be greatly diminished and young people, with very good reason, are going to rebel on a grand scale Might liberal attitudes even cause deadpooling to become more socially acceptable?

June Brown?

Hardly what I'd call a miss. Or is this thread only about people that died and weren't on the list? We already have a thread for that called the Dead of 2021 thread.

We're back in February, so, if the first round draw happens on the 20th January, this gives everyone 18 days or so to decide if they want to enter the Cup or not. In 2017, deadsox beat Spade, he beat DDT and he beat Death Impends to win the first ever Deathlist Cup. In 2018, Sir Creep got to the final in swashbuckling form, only to find wily old DDT too much. And in 2019, Spade Cooley proved why he is one of the GOATs, dominating every single match he was in like it was nothing. Bou made a nice run in the cup too. Last year, rookie An Fear Beag blew it out of the park and beat every opponent he faced, including Death Impends in her second finals appearance. Will An Fear Beag make it 2 for 2? Or will anyone win? DeathByArsenic had a wonder run that lasted them all the way to the quarterfinals. It's a Cup, skill is good but so is luck. Come one, come all, and look at the rules... Some Basic Rules which I've tried to explain as simply as possible, but which are open for questions about how obvious things I've forgotten work. The Deathlist Cup 1. This will be a knockout tournament featuring one on one matchups between Deathlist forum posters. These matches will be determined by use of a random draw, using Random.org. 2. If we have an odd number of players ie 30 like in 2017, then certain players will get byes to the Second Round. This will be based on results from the 2019 Cup ie Winner first, then Runner up, semifinalists, etc etc. 3. Players, on receiving their randomly drawn opponent, will have a ten day period to send the Referee their First Eleven for the match by PM, and one sub in case of an early death. These eleven picks can be very low hanging fruit if you so wish, as the point of the game is to score as many “goals” during the month a match is played. ie, a perfect team would look like this 1. Alan Alda (joker) 2. Jeb Bush 3. George Bush Jr 4. Bill Clinton 5. Hilary Clinton 6. Barack Obama 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Walter Mondale 9. John Major 10. Tony Blair 11. Donald Trump subs 12. Melania Trump 13. Dick Cheney 14. Sarah Palin As an example. Though in reality, that team would be shit for actually scoring points... 4. PROHIBITIONS – The following picks will be PROHIBITED ie NOT ALLOWED: death row prisoners, anyone who is a prisoner of ISIS or similar terrorist groups, people solely famous for being ill and nothing else, animals, no kids (that’s anyone under the age of 18), no one missing in action who blatantly died already. 5. For clarification, my views on Famous for Being Ill are extremely lenient by forum standards. Is your pick an obscure in their own field type, like a historian from Trinidad? They’re fine. Is your pick someone who is in coma due to a heart attack, or a dad on his last Christmas, or the like, the type no one would have heard of for anything? Don’t pick them, there’s PLENTY of other better options. There’s enough Kate Bowler (published academic, cancer) types in the world that you don’t need Kate Cancer Mum of the Mirror Sob Story. Thank you. NOTE: If they are rejected for the DDP, they will also be automatically rejected here as well just FYI. 6. If in doubt, submit a pick, but the decision of the ref (me) is final and is not open to any court of appeal. If you think it’s a dodgy pick, it probably is. If you think the ref is a grumpy teenager, well, he is. 7. Each match will take place over the course of a single month. For example, a February match would take place from February 1st to February 28th (or 29th on a leap year), a March match from March 1st to March 31st and so on... 8. Games will be scored in the following manner: A person in your team dies = 3 points A unique person in your team dies = 1 more point (ie 1 bonus point) Fatality – Your joker. Double points Someone famous only for being ill dies – 0 points because not in the team (hah, bet you thought I wasn’t paying attention here) 9. Here is what happens in the case of a team member dying prematurely (ie on 28th Feb for the March game). If you discover this before the 3rd of the month, your top sub will automatically go into place. If it is discovered on the 3rd or after, sorry about your luck. If it turns out the person was dead and known to be (this is determined via a reference in a newspaper or magazine, not social media) then subs don’t come into play. This was a bone of contention in 2017, 2018, AND 2019 and I hope this clears that up. If it bloody well doesn’t I’m instituting a Hewlett Rule in 2022! 10. At the end of the month, the player in the match with the highest score wins that game, and will advance to the next round. The player who doesn’t have the highest score will lose, and be eliminated. 11. In the event of a draw, the following tiebreaks will be used: 1st tiebreak = number of hits 2nd tiebreak = average age of hits 3rd tiebreak = flip of a coin 4th tiebreak if needed = A little game of eenie meenie miny mo (hehe) 12. A player is only held to one team for a single match. If they win their match and advance to the next round, they may pick eleven entirely different people for the next round. In this way, folk who announce their terminal illness in, say, May, can be put to good dead pooling use. 13. Qualifying obits? Every single English language newspaper or magazine (ie Bleeding Cool for example) in the universe. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais and El Mundo. If you still can’t get a QO, well, really… The referee (Joey Russ) may make a judgement call based on what he is provided with, and that call will be final. Forum posts on Deathlist, and your own blog don't count, sorry. 14. For the removal of any doubt, any players who do not send in their team before the deadline will be DQ'd and replaced by the highest scoring loser. No matter how many sad PMs you send afterwards. Apologies aren’t allowed either Example Death Impends, Joey Russ, YoungWillz and msc hypothetically take part. Random.org gives us these matches: 1. Death Impends v Joey Russ (feck) 2. YoungWillz v msc This draw takes place in Month 1 (ie January) and is for matches taking place in Month 2 (February). After the draw, each player sends The Referee (ie Joey Russ) a team of Eleven Celebrities they think will snuff it in Month 2. Then, for the results: msc scores in Month 2 with a big name celebrity and a unique but obscure punk music historian. Young Willz gets a unique big name celebrity. The score is 7-4 to msc, who advances to the next round. Good luck!

Very old age, the gift that keeps on giving - TO US!!! Brian Urquart obit - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/obituaries/brian-urquhart-dead.html Puts Lardy and Gooseberry Crumble into play on the old scoreboard.

Brian Urquhart picked previously in the Poker Tourney, dead at 101: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/obituaries/brian-urquhart-dead.html Date of Death seems to be 2nd January 2021.

20th November Des O’Connor CBE Richard Trim OBE Dr Ataullah Siddiqui Edith Raymond Locke 27th November Diego Maradona Rosalind Grimshaw Jan Morris CBE 4th December Hamish MacInnes OBE José Padilla Anne Rasa 11th December Mario Molina Irina Antonova Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Peter Alliss 18th December John le Carré Patience Thomson Doug Scott Dame Barbara Windsor 27th December Millie Small JJ Williams Maurice Healy Dame Fanny Waterman 1st January Stella Tennant George Bizos Joan Feynman Rishi Kapoor

When interviewed by reporters, Tanaka adfirmed she felt sad. They asked her why, and she answered the Old Crem had created threads for everyone but not for her.

St Matthew was wrong in the Beatitudes - the pacemakers weren't blessed after all.

Just out of curiosity what is the difference between your pool and the crowdsource list? Cause from what I can tell it’s exactly the same thing

Joey's BoxRec profile updated accordingly. 1991 death removed, 2020 one added.

Larry Kings family rushing to be at his bedside according to the Sun ...https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6483990/larry-king-hospitalized-covid-19/ Not looking good at all...

Dead within the past hour on the same day she got two winners. Obituaries: The Telegraph, The Sun

I do that. Maybe not "definitely", more "feasibly not going to last". Where I've obviously gone wrong is starting with an actor. Any other approach just seems against the spirit of the game to me.

Don Salls, American footballer/coach, WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient, has died aged 101.

Book, I think my score misses a zero at the end. Should be +490, instead of +49.

I might give it a go. Just have to finish this brand new invention I'm working on first. It has this round 2D-ish shape and it's designed to transport objects in a forward manner.

The 3 posted yesterday are posthumous uploads. The guy who uploaded them says in the comments of this video that Joey is dead.

Quick, replace him with Larry King. Nobody will notice!!!

Live scenes from Iain’s lounge:

I don't know about every year, but the Express I remember, certainly have (they're both from the same stable) - they like to demonstrate faux-outrage, while peddling celebrity tripe and gossip themselves.

Your idea is pretty much the Crowdsourced DeathList, is it not?

I’m hoping for an avalanche of points!