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The Final Files are now with Reptile - it's not as simple as him simply pressing a button and from last year we know that the transfer process picks up errors in my data/formatting but we're getting there and I'm very pleased to report that I am no longer the one responsible for any delays. Until next year.....

INVERSE DEAD POOL 2021 No doubts 2020 was a bonkers year. Somehow we have survived it, but the same could not be said for 19 of the selectables for last year's Inverse Dead Pool. There were a number of hits that were selected by at least half the participants - Jill Gascoine, Michael Robinson, Little Richard, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Barbara Windsor (34 out of 36 teams!) - and the end result was the Quim Reaper winning with the highest score yet. But even as the farewells to Kirk Douglas and friends leave us wondering who could be left, fear not, there's still plenty of popular DDP pickings to root for the survival of... Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2021, 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 fewer 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 2020 - The Quim Reaper - 34 points 2019 - drol - 10 points 2018 - machotrouts - 17 points 2017 - drol - 25 points 2016 - Pedro67 - 21 points 2015 - Death Impends - 15 points 2014 - Bibliogryphon - 10 points 2013 - N/A 2012 - Esturian Float - 4 points 2011 - Garn2 - 15 points Top 50 George Alagiah David Attenborough Bob Barker Susan Bayh Pope Benedict XVI Tim Bilton June Brown Rob Burrow Jimmy Carter Bobby Charlton Billy Connolly Dai Davies Shannen Doherty Bob Dole Queen Elizabeth II Paul Gascoigne Greg Gilbert Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Greaves David Gulpilil Sarah Harding Rolf Harris Larry King Henry Kissinger Angela Lansbury Jerry Lee Lewis Rush Limbaugh Norman Lloyd Carlos Menem Gerd Muller Willie Nelson Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Yoko Ono Tom Parker Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Yoo Sang-chul Prunella Scales Tom Smith Leon Spinks Jean-Louis Trintignant Donald Trump Bill Turnbull Desmond Tutu Dick Van Dyke Murray Walker Doddie Weir James Whale Betty White #51 Sidney Poitier

A pick for @Phantom in last year's DDP, brass and reed instrumentalist Howard Johnson, reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/hojotuba/posts/4131693800191601 Led the Saturday Night Live band for a while. Of more importance to me, appeared on John Lennon's Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy albums. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/

National Racehorse Association?

Reportedly dead.

Tanya Roberts actually baring this out, goddamn

Yes, I can remember two hits in a single day. Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) and the Lockerbie-Bomber Al-Megrahi (both on the list in 2012) died on the same day.

This was hard. The first half dozen were not too difficult but then everyone else was a potential land mine. Am hoping that other people score big rather than I score small. Tough year.

Patricia Loud, matriarch of the Loud family in An American Family, has died aged 94. Obituaries: The Sun

I had my first hit on January 21st last year (Terry Jones). At the end of the year my shadow-list reached 22 hits. So far...everything is okay at the moment. Btw you cant set a new record every year, that becomes impossible at some point and the benchmark from last year (20 hits) is already very high. so I think 15 hits should be realistic and reachable for this year.

I really don’t think he has the right to do that.

You seem to be confused. This year isn't a leap year so January is only 10 days long this year as with every other month.

What the fuck are you on about? It’s January 10th. We’re not even halfway through the month yet. Chill

Lloyd Cowan, hurdler and then Coach of several British athletes, dead at 58. BBC

Id like to join

4/5 of the Bush siblings dead then. Banker Jonathan Bush (wiki) survives. Turns 90 this year.

8th January Sir Brian Urquhart Albert Roux Dame Rachel Waterhouse Gerry Marsden

For 2022 New John Astin (1930) Rosemary Harris (1928) Estelle Harris (1927) Michael Schumacher (1969) Buzz Aldrin (1930) Gene Hackman (1930) Bobby Charlton (1935) Tim Curry (1946) Marsha Hunt (1917) Harald V (1937) James Earl Jones (1931) Return Larry King (1933) Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) Ozzy Osbourne (1948)

End of the love for Low Rawls on this day 15 years ago, aged 72.

Ending act for Ray Walston on this day 20 years ago, aged 86.

BRIAN BLESSED! Somebody was going to. TQR's description is halfway there, but it really demands a bit more ooomph!!

Neither is Keir Starmer IMO

If there's no support for a particular thread, it will wither and die. Chillax peeps. And some of you noobs need to get some in before you start telling the older members what's right & what's wrong round these parts.