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I think he doesn't deserve his own thread. I also think you are annoying

It’s going well.

Yep, is a hit for @Yvonne, @arghton, @CaptainChorizo, @ThereWillBeDeaths7, @gcreptile and @Kenny CONGRATULATIONS!!!

The bell hath tolled twelve. And so ends another six months of Casino enjoyment. Early on in the game it did look very much like the rookies were taking over the asylum, especially Baby Blue who was having an extraordinary start, only to throw his team solidly into reverse gear. And then the usual suspects began clambering towards the top of the list, this time joined by a perennial player who interloped into a podium position, but more of that later. As folk trundle off towards the stadia of the Deathlist Cup and wallow in the warm glow of their early DDP hits, it falls to me to wipe down the tables and the staff for another year. The final table follows, with entrants from the 2020 competition's position and points shown in brackets after your total for this year. The record points total of 2000 still remains unbreached: 1st: Captain Chorizo - 1594 Points (=12th; 808) 2nd: gcreptile - 1521 Points (9th; 958) 3rd: Perhaps - 1486 Points (1st; 1408) 4th: Death Impends - 1350 Points (3rd; 1244) 5th: An Fear Beag - 1062 Points (5th; 1240) 6th: theoldlady - 1034 Points (14th; 803) 7th: Grim Up North - 1018 Points (6th; 1086) 8th: msc - 1012 Points (7th; 996) 9th: Salmon Mousse - 996 Points 10th: Joey Russ - 960 Points (4th; 1241) 11th: Banana - 939 Points (=12th; 808) 12th: Caleb H - 787 Points (24th; 180) 13th: Baby Blue - 779 Points 14th: Sean - 754 Points (2nd; 1359) 15th: Bibliogryphon -711 Points (19th; 516) 16th: JoeMoneypenny - 685 Points (21st; 498) 17th: Yorkshire Banker - 554 Points (17th; 620) 18th: Great Uncle Bulgaria - 461 Points (20th; 512) 19th: Torva Messor - 453 Points 20th: Toast - 358 Points (23rd; 364) 21st: DeathByArsenic - 352 Points (11th; 809) 22nd: YoungWillz - 351 Points (10th; 872) 23rd: GuyFromFuture - 275 Points (26th; 48) 24th: Gooseberry Crumble - 160 Points (25th; 158) So we congratulate our victor and second time champion Captain Chorizo! Let joy be unconfined! Podium being filled out by gcreptile and last year's champ Perhaps. Special mentions thrown out to theoldlady who has seemingly got the hang of this and consistently improved her position year on year, and to Bibliogryphon who, by sticking with some old favourites saw many of them fall! Our Hall of Fame now reads as follows: 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - Death Impends 2019 - Captain Chorizo 2020 - Perhaps 2021 - Captain Chorizo And now to the Hall of Shame prize. This goes normally to the player who has essentially cut their own throat from winning the competition, either through non-obiting picks or just unfortunate play. I have come to the conclusion that this must, this year, go to gcreptile. There is no doubt that a brave couple of picks who simply didn't obit anywhere (including a Joker pick) cost gcreptile the championship, but also the early conversion of a Joker might have been a shrewd move - but as it turned out, maybe waiting a bit might have gained those Full Houses which never came to pass. Extraordinarily, as gcreptile DID achieve a podium place, I am willing not to place his portrait in the gents, but rather hang it above the entrance to the Players' Room as a reminder that sometimes patience and picking nailed on obiting picks may achieve more. Hall of Shame 2017 - Joey Russ 2018 - Joey Russ 2019 - Sir Creep 2020 - Guy From Future & msc 2021 - gcreptile I'd like to extend my thanks to all players past and present for indulging in this game, and hope you've enjoyed it. Let us see where we are come June and maybe, just maybe, I can sit in that comfy manager's chair once again.

Congratulations to Captain Chorizo! Thanks to Young Willz for running this game. Hope to be back in July!

Have always been too much of a coward to go up against the genius deadpoolers of the forum. But since I'm trying all sorts of different pools this year...I'm in.

Can you explain who he is and stop putting up random names without any information?

Thank you very much tiny sexy rat lookalike and notorious Hollywood asshole Anna Kendrick. Yep, cup season is back on the Deathlist and I'm going to be stumbling through the process as gamesmaster this year following Roey J. stepping down. A series of 100m sprints compared to the DDP's marathon, the Deathlist Cup has been won by all the greats: deadsox, DDT, An Fear Beag, gcreptile, and your boy Spade Cooley. Will we be engraving a new name on the trophy this year? Or will someone finally become the first two-time winner? Anyway, let us copy/paste Joey's rules from last year: The Deathlist Cup  1. This is 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. Unless we happen to end up with 2/4/8/16/32/64 entrants, then certain competitors will get byes to the Second Round. This will be based on results from the 2021 Cup: ie, winners first. 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. Adam Ant (joker) 2. Bob Backlund 3. Chelsea Clinton 4. Didier Drogba 5. Erika Eleniak 6. Frank Field 7. Green Gartside 8. Harry Hill 9. Ivan Ives (Russian rapper) 10. Joe Jackson 11. Kevin Keegan subs 12. Lennox Lewis 13. Meghan McCain 14. Nick Colte Would probably back Frank Field as a joker over Adam Ant though. 4. Banned picks – We're slightly more lenient than the DDP, but we're still banning Famous For Being Ill, people on Death Row (unless they die naturally), anyone who is a prisoner of a terrorist organisation, animals, the under 18s, and anyone who is "missing in action" but blatantly already dead. 5. Famous For Being Ill picks are those who have no notoriety outside of their cancer/other illness. If they played two matches for a Conference North team or they were mayor of a city in Kiribati back in the 90s, that's fine. If they're Joe Bloggs who is in a coma after refusing a covid vaccine or a Brave Parent Celebrating Their Last Christmas, they're not getting accepted. 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. 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 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 will upset at least one player a year. Will it lead to a huffy forum stormout in 2022? Let's see. 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 = a coin toss   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, magazine or significant website in the universe. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais, El Mundo and because I'm running it this year we're adding Corriere Della Sera. If they still can't get a QO from that, then they really weren't famous. 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.  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 me (via PM) a team of eleven celebrities (and some subs hopefully) they think will snuff it in Month 2.  Good luck and sign up to take part in this thread. Entries close on January 21 with the draw to take place immediately after.

Congratulations. Nobody cares.

Showing my alleged hipster card, probably but I'd legit have If I Should Fall From Grace With God in my top ten albums of all time. And in the title track (MacGowans handwritten epitaph from 35 odd years ago), there is a bit of phrasing I love: Bury me at sea Where no murdered ghost can haunt me If I rock upon the waves No corpse shall lie upon me

I mean, with 9 wins in the HOF in 5 years or so, the rest of us are probably lucky Reptile hasn't just swept the board yet! I missed the Hall of Shame before, and that I'd have won last years if not for 3 LOTLs. That's funny. More important, congrates to the Captain.

Well, in any given year you'll have a fair few "oh thats a shame" celeb deaths, so its always nice to have a "good riddance" DDP hit.

I remember a few very close misses last year. Jean-Louis Trintignant, for example. I think he'll make a comeback. Another one was Norman Lloyd, who has died in the meantime. I do wonder about Clint Eastwood. Very big, very casual name. Basically in competition with some names from the young-ish but very ill category, especially Francoise Hardy and Milos Zeman. Bobby Charlton will be in, of course. Donald Trump probably not. Tony Bennett "should" have been in already, now he definitely will. I wonder if the Oomph behind Yoko Ono will remain.

Holocaust witness and survivor Trude Simonsohn has died aged 100. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tagesschau.de/inland/trude-simonsohn-101~amp.html

Olga Orban-Szabo dead at 83 https://news.tvs-24.com/news/174538.html Won Silver medal in fencing in 56 losing to Gillian Sheen of GB in the final, got bronze in the team fencing event in 68 and 72

New to this website; Any Prolific politician/leaders..etc The Carter's The Clinton's The Trudopes, Boris Johnson. Politicians are just like diapers - full of shit and have to be changed daily

Bill Bryden being reported dead (IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117317/)

Well enough to write an oped:

Maybe harness some of this effort and put it into getting yourself an avatar

What I love most about this is Djocovid has made it known, like the arrogant tosser he is, for the past couple of days that he was going to be given this inexplicable vax exemption, but the Aussies sat on the tarmac and waited for him to land before telling him he’s gonna have to fuck right off. They’re doing a marvellous job there.

Novax Djokovic set to be deported from Australia

Years ago there was a chap who won the French Open by going 2 sets down in every game and winning, to the point the joke was he'd go two down and then say "Aha, now I have you where I want you!". Not convinced Biblio isn't gearing up for a similar run in the Cup one of these years. Only 19 in the now (by a quick count), long way off the record of 48-ish (off memory, I didn't go and look before pedants arrive).

All 174 newcomers to the HPDP system now have their profiles filled out. Masterlists up to date. Ready to roll. As mentioned before, following the awarding of Harry Reid consolation points to theoldlady, Betty White and Billy Turner also jumped the gun. Those who got the bonus points were 0.99 for Hell, John Key, markb4, and The Old Crem and 0.81 for An Fear Beag, Banana, Book, and gcreptile. Four pickers for each name from two very different spheres of deadpooler! Two proper hits thus far. Firstly ITV journo Gary Burgess on Jan 1. Unsurprisingly given the 500 or so "please make 2022 please make 2022" posts in recent weeks, most of the 16 who chose him placed him very high indeed. drol, gcreptile, Pedro67, and theoldlady 50 points. Annami, An Fear Beag, Banana, Book, CaptainChorizo, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Salmon Mousse 45. maryportfuncity, msc, and Perhaps 40. Kenny 35. And John Key 25 sub points. And Book is proving to be on fire in these opening days as two days later, alien-looking French TV host and fraudster Igor Bogdanoff died of COVID. 45 base points coupled with the 18 bonus points for uniqueness ends with a total of 63. Plus, as his death was COVID, the 0.19 bonus coupled with the 0.81 for Billy Turner's death means Book has precisely 1 bonus point now! Now then, all of my deadpooling eyes are on helping get the DDP up and running until further notice, so this scoreboard will have to satisfy your Hartlepool needs until mid Jan or so... 1. Book 109 2. theoldlady 50.82 3. gcreptile 50.81 =4. drol 50 =4. Pedro67 50 =6. An Fear Beag 45.81 =6. Banana 45.81 =8. Annami 45 =8. CaptainChorizo 45 =8. Great Uncle Bulgaria 45 =8. Salmon Mousse 45 =12. maryportfuncity 40 =12. msc 40 =12. Perhaps 40 15. Kenny 35 16. John Key 25.99 =17. Hell 0.99 =17. markb4 0.99 =17. The Old Crem 0.99 =20. Everyone else 0

Perhaps we should have people like that wear this t-shirt so we can spot them a mile off

Morris had the good fortune not to be married to Esther Ratbag, that's how I differentiate them.