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Oh I decided years ago that I am going to be permanently 28 so older age won't touch me. !

So the tantalising possibility of having your bottom smacked enticed you out of the committee closet did it??!! I've met many like you!

Welcome to the next itineration of everybody's favourite obsessive-compulsive disorder, the DeathList Cup is back. I am up for a repeat of hosting this nerve-wrecking and ultimately frustrating competition as we are watching people go into hospice and then not die! Last year's winner was wannamaker in a competition which, like the rest of the year, was a bit of a rough affair. But one does have to adapt to the environment, your host, winner of the Covid Games of 2021, can attest to that. These are the rules: 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 2023 Cup: ie, winners first. 3. Please specify your wish to participate until the end of January 20th by posting in this thread, so that we can determine what the first draw looks like and if there are byes. 4. Players have a 10 day period of submitting their teams. For the first round, if you have not received a "bye", please send me your team by PM between January, 22nd and January 31st. the end of the month. For February, submissions open on February, 19th. The time zone is Greenwich mean time (GMT) in every case. 5. Your team has to consist of 11 main picks and three subs, so 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. Ilias Iliadis (gold medal winner in the men's 81kg judo at the 2004 Olympics) 10. Joe Jackson 11. Kevin Keegan subs 12. Lennox Lewis 13. Meghan McCain 14. Nick Nolte Please explain who some of your more obscure selections are, should googling them not lead to an easy result. 4. Banned picks – we will have slightly higher fame requirements than before, matching my own perception of a slightly higher fame barrier in the DDP. Examples: - "Influencers": A minimum follower count of 100.000 in any one medium - "fame by association": Fringe and family of famous people will only be accepted if society has already been thoroughly aware of their existence, for better or worse (like Amy Price). - local fame: If the fame is "too local", they will not be allowed. High school coaches will not be allowed, "popular bar owners/traffic guides/etc..." will not be allowed, "town originals" will not be allowed. The notability has to extend somewhat beyond their own backyard. We will still allow college football coaches/players, elected politicians at every level, and no-name artists if their work can claim some recognition beyond their hometown. - "Awareness raisers"/"Cancer mums": Only those with nationwide impact will be allowed => I'll try to aim for something slightly higher than before, but still lower than the DDP  5. 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. 6. 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, a March match from March 1st to March 31st and so on... 7. 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 29th 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 2025? 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, provided that they are not automatically generated by AI. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais, El Mundo and 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 by January 21 with the draw to take place immediately after. Player List: Dying Probably (34) wannamaker (1) livingbygrace (40) Cpt. Hemlock (9) Joe Moneypenny (18) justonecornetto (19) Octopus of Odstock (41) Liz Lemon (32) MortalCaso (20) arghton (6) Bibliogryphon (21) Bentrovato (42) Cpt. Chorizo (22) theoldlady (14) DevonDeathTrip (5) Bendee87 (43) Sir Creep (15) Thatcher (35) theoldcrem (44) Diego (23) Spade_Cooley (24) CalebH (16) Wormfarmer (25) msc (7) Gooseberry Crumble (36) An Fear Beag (26) Steve (45) Death by Arsenic (11) max_bossetti (2) Therewillbedeaths7 (17) GuyFromFuture (4) deadsox (27) Sleepiestpeep (46) Heef (47) Funeralopolis (48) YoungWillz (49) AltObitsGuy (28) Banana (3) the killing time (29) Yorkshire_Banker (33) ladyfiona (50) famous6eva (30) MariNisia (10) Yvonne (51) LWCZ (52) Hell (12) Not playing: Perhaps (8) Annami (13) Grim Up North (31) The Immortal (37=) GreatUncleBulgaria (37=) Baby Blue (37=)

Hello There and Welcome, or Welcome Back to those returning, to the fifth round of the Crazy Eight Dead Pool! This pool is a lot like the Midsummer and Advent pools in that every entrant may choose only one pick, but the winner will be he/she/they who predicts the Eighth death, not the first, so folks with only 24/48 hours to live may not be the best choice here. Credit for this pool's creation goes to GuyFromFuture, I am merely the host.  The Official Rules: 1. Entrants will have 24 hours to submit an entry, declared in this thread, as opposed to by PM. 1 entry per person. 2. Entries open on 18th January 2025 at 00:00 GMT. First come, first served. 3. No two players can pick the same person. 4a. Banned picks include death row inmates (unless sentenced to death after being picked), FFBI, people under the age of 18, and all of the usual no-go areas. Death row inmates, FFBI, people under the age of 18, etc. are eligible to enter as a participant, however. 4b. I am aware that some pools class supercentenarians as FFBI, because they are famous solely due to their age, but that is not the case in this pool, and so they are perfectly eligible to be picked. 5. The QO standards remain fairly low, as long as they are definitely dead, and an obituary, as opposed to a death notice or a social media post, has been published, the hit will be counted. The only exception to this rule is, like last time, legacy.com (and other paid-for obit sites) remains a non-QO source. 6. For legal reasons, killing your or others' picks to speed up the pace of the game or to win is not advised. 7a. Hit placement is determined by date of death, as opposed to date of death announcement. However, in the instance that two entries die on the day of the eighth death, whichever death is reported first shall be counted first. 7b. In the case that a specific date of death cannot be determined, the date said death is announced shall take its place. 7c. James C. Floyd Memorial Closing of a Loophole: If a date of death cannot be established, but it is clear that the person in question died before the start of the game, the pick is disqualified and will not count as one of the eight hits. If this is discovered within the first week of the competition, I will allow the player to choose a new candidate, but after this point no such opportunity will be available. If anyone has any suggestions for additions/amendments to the rules, please feel free to say so. The same goes for any questions, should they be prompted. Hall of Fame: 2022-2023: MortalCaso (Ted Kaczynski). 2023 : Yvonne (Joss Ackland). 2023-2024: The Daredevil (Alain Delon). 2024-2025: Wannamaker (Denis Law). Credit for the logo goes to Perhaps.

He's my first on this list.

Can't wait to see all of your reactions when you find out Maude Apatow made 150 teams

Well, I couldn't help it. Here's yer 26 for ‘26: I'm losing interest in deadpooling, so I wanted to get this out of the way.

Law is there. Plowright isn't.

Masterlist: Summer in Transylvania: Indarjit Singh. Trome: David H. Murdock. YoungWillz: Liza Minnelli. MortalCaso: Yoko Ono. Tracy: Eva Marie Saint. Bobytomi: Ilie Ciocan. Death Impends: Barry De Vorzon. Steve: Al Pacino. Ladyfiona: Esther Rantzen. Wannamaker: Eddy Merckx. The Daredevil: Joanne Woodward. Commtech Sio Bibble: Dick Van Dyke. Bendee87: Prunella Scales. Livingbygrace: Jane Morgan. Dying Probably: Violeta Chamorro. Gooseberry Crumble: Lee Majors. Clorox Bleachman: Noam Chomsky. Toast: James Whale. Lord Insomnio: Valdas Adamkus. The Unknown Man: Roberta Flack. Nick: Don King. Time: Jimmy Tarbuck. Captain Hemlock: Ryne Sandberg. LWCZ: Jesse Jackson. Polar Duck: Ted Turner. CaptainChorizo: Cliff Jones. Perhaps: Michael Eavis. Superstar: Jake Garn. Gcreptile: Rupert Murdoch. Funeralopolis: Stanley Baxter. MariNisia: Cleo Laine. Theoldlady: Cindy Birdsong. LizLemon: Cecile Richards. Hit #1 (20th January 2025). ThereWillBeDeaths7: Buzz Aldrin. Bibliogryphon: Harald V of Norway. Arghton: Ajahn Sumedho. Spade_Cooley: Bob Backlund. Book: Maria Riva. Chilean Way: Isabel Martinez de Person. Grimgrass: Hans Blix. BuffaloPhil: Ludek Miklosko. Diego: Pope Francis. GuyFromFuture: Cynthia Erivo. Hell: Rudolph A. Marcus. JoeMoneyPenny: José Mujica. Parents of the Hearse: Esther Rantzen, Indarjit Singh, Pope Francis (Rounds II-V).

All gone.

High key wondering how far down Inverse will have to go at this point - not sure if Plowright or Law hit D40, but I could see them there easy

I picked the right year to retire from DP hosting...

My hands are getting tired from writing all these damn crowdsource obits

Easy punt for low requirements pools: Brazilian sports pundit Léo Batista, 92, in critical condition with pancreatic cancer.

Well, THIS is a miss.

Hannah Wants, British DJ with a Radio 1 residency, diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time aged 38.

Does she have any health issues?

https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/genevieve-callerot-une-ancienne-resistante-francaise-decoree-est-morte-a-l-age-de-108-ans_AD-202501170531.html French "Résistante", Geneviève Callerot is dead. She was 108.

Stephane Venne, a noted Quebec singer-songwriter whose success was primarily enjoyed in the 1960s and 70s, has died. He was 83. Among his compositions was 'Un jour, un jour', the theme for Expo 67. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2133627/auteur-compositeur-stephane-venne-deces

James Whale, please.

Denis Law is a popular hit here.

Margarete Tröstl has died today at the age of 113 – almost one month before she would have celebrated her 114th birthday. Until her death she was considered the oldest living person in Austria. https://m.noen.at/gmuend/margarete-troestl-pbz-schrems-aelteste-oesterreicherin-starb-kurz-vor-dem-114-geburtstag-456625821

The official portraits have been released. Trump looks like he's about to tell a ghost story, while Vance looks like M3gan if she became transgender:

I've been hanging around here for 10 years today! Happy anniversary to me, I guess...if you like that sort of thing.

He reminds me of another great, James Lovelock, so that could see him make 2029.