Deathray

Prince Phil again.

My 3rd hit in one update along with Feek and Crowe. Sure I won't be the only one.

Need a more reliable source imho. EDIT: Mail have it

Edit: Jan 2 2020 So attempted to make the rules even clearer, remove some of the old leniencies that are surplus to requirements and more concise (the original version was written by a rant teenager after all....... no changes in implementation..... this is for obvious transitional reasons..... Hares Death Pool The Rules (Last updated 2 Jan 2019) 1) Your Team All teams must contain 25 people with some claim to fame (See FFBI section) you expect to die, and a nominated joker amonst the main 25. A maximum 5 subs are permitted for any picks who die before the starting line. (These substitutes will be promoted in order if required) All picks must be human beings aged over 18 on January 1st of the game year.. Death row prisoners only score if they die of other causes, those still on trial will still score points if sentenced to execution after 0000 on January 1st. Entries must be posted in the annual Hares Death Pool thread or PMed to the game runner. (From 2020 onwards teams posted in the Deathrace thread, delivered by status update or sent by carrier pigeon will be routinely ignored.) The competition automatically opens for entries at 0001 on the 1st December and closes at 2359 on December 31st. Substitutes will be automatically promoted if deaths become known about on January 1st or later from the previous years Note: in light of the automatic promotion of subs the host sees no reason to include the January 1st leeway for replacement. However in the unlikely case a player uses all 5 substitutes on picks who died before January 1st a special dispensation will be permitted allowing them add picks up until 2359 January 1st to get them back 25 names up until 2359 on January 1st . If someone has not provided 5 substitutes they will not be entitled to this dispensation as it's their own fault they're short..... Late entries are not permitted. Hosts have long come to the conclusion there is no reason for exceptions now the deadline is 2359 rather than 1600....... Entries submitted on the 31st December could suffer abuse from a stressed host via PM response. (It's something of a tradition, but kinder hosts are not compelled to continue it) For teams submitted up until midday on the 31st December every effort will be made to clarify who your picks are should their be confusion. Hare's has always been incredibly lenient on this front but we recommend you include good old bracket tradition - (i.e cancer nobody but she's a local celebrity who fundraised for dying cats before she got diagnosed, covered by the Buttfucknowhere Gazette....) or (geriatric actor). For teams submitted after midday on the 31st December you'll just get the first name that comes up on a cursory google search if you've not clarified who they are. The host may add cancer/brain tumour/ill to that search if they are feeling nice (see Rule 9 - unlikely).... 2) Obituary Rules Celebrities qualify if they achieve an obituary or article about their death in a local, national or even specialist newspaper/website*. The aforementioned article does not need to specifically relate to their death, instead just mention it and date it*. or website/magazine/paper. If in doubt cite your death note for approval. There is absolutely no requirement for obits to be in the English language, however translations should be provided if they are not. The obit may be published in any language but entrants should give the host a translation if it is not in English. Note: (It's become a tradition for foreign dead pool players to submit local hero teams of DDP useless picks to the Hares on account of this and long may that continue!) The * on specialist websites refers to the following: paid for obituary sites are not specialist websites and will be not used to clarify, the same applies to death notice sections of otherwise acceptable sources. The exception to this rule is if these sites have a celebrities death page - should the picks death notice/paid for obituary feature on their celebrity deaths page/feed the points will be awarded. Note: Wording of this rule has been slightly tightened in this update compared to the old rules but enforcement of it remains the same. Social media posts, personal blogs etc do not count. The cut off period for obituaries has always informally been 2359 on the 7th January the year after the competition ends. (death date must be recorded as 31st December at the latest) - just popping this in here to solidify that rule going forward... 3) Scoring Rules For the purposes of determining the date of death of a celebrity the information to hand will be used to determine the points allocated to the competitors who chose the person. In the event that an exact date is available For the avoidance of doubt journalistic nuisance phrases 'on Wednesday, or last night/yesterday' will count as dates of death, with the date being determined by the tedious process of working it out - ) , full points will be awarded. In the event that only the month of death is in the obituary, points will be awarded to the first date of the month (in September) that has been given ('the Leah Bracknell' rule) if a date is subsequently given in press before the closure of the competition window the remaining points will be added to the total. In the very unfortunate event that only the year of death is provided in the qualifying obituary the poor bastard who picked them will be awarded points to the first day of the year that is given (which the savvy among you will have worked out is 0 points). The overall points system is incredibly simple: 1 Point for each day of the year that passes before your celebs death (if they die on the 10th of January you are awarded 9 points for example) up until the games close at midnight on the 31st December. Pick 1 of your celebrities as a joker to double the points for that pick upon their death. (i.e if they die on the 9th January you'll get 16 points). Jokers are calculated before the 250 point bonus, meaning are 31st December joker will score 978 in a normal year and 980 in a leaper year. 250 point bonus if one of your "celebrities" dies on 31st December in that game year (i.e a 31st death will score 614 points in a normal year or 615 points in a leap year rather than the 364 or 365 points it would normally accrue) In the impressive event of all 25 of your team dying you will receive a 500 point bonus 4) The Don't Be A Cunt Rules Blatant plagiarism of another persons team, in the eye of the game runner, is punishable by expulsion and a 5 year ban on entering the competition. Keeping alive another persons pick against the picks will to benefit in this game is also against the rules. Murdering your chosen "celebrities" is both against the rules and illegal regardless of willing participation. (not to mention gives us a bad name) If assisted euthanasia becomes legal in the future, contestants in this dead pool are forbidden from encouraging/discouraging/or actively taking part in their or another contestants picks decision regarding this or being an active participant in their euthanasia. This rules apply to assisted euthanasia in other countries of picks. Similarly encouraging picks to commit suicide is prohibited. 5) The FFBI Rules Celebrities are disqualified if the game runner determines them to be famous for being ill. This rule has been significantly tightened in recent years. And now bans picks who are: Famous due to impending death (hit by a car, stabbed etc etc you get the idea) Famous due to illness, with not even a minor fame to claim of their own making resulting from that illness (mother with 6 months to live, man with rare genetic disorder) An awareness and activism exception exists (see the filter) If your unsure whether you're pick qualifies for the Hares Death Pool your in look; they're subject to a rigorous FFBI filter that you can use to check them before submitting them - so there's really new excuse. From midday on the 31st December the host has the right to outright reject a team that appears to contain so many FFBI picks it would fall short of a 25 strong field once they are removed or allow it to run short without seeking clarification. The Filter (Quoted from the 2020 OP thread)

Just a note. The rules have been amended there's no great shake-up here. Just clarifications on rules as they would have been enforced anyway, as I noticed a shit-tonne of ambiguity in them. Main changes regard some miscalculations on wildcard deaths (364 points would be scored on a 31st December death, previously rules had assumed 365), an extension of the official deadline to 2359 on 31st December and the codification of the leniency shown in past years and examples of qualifying celebrities and illegible famous for dying types. Lastly of these minor changes, the game now automatically opens on the 1st December at 0001 - please don't be a C.U.N.T and submit teams in June/July/August as they won't be accepted. The biggie for all players is that liability for checking whether a player is breathing at 0000 on January 1st lies with the player, not the game runner. This follows the precedent set by the Prince Bernhard situation last year, whereby the team was left to run with 24 names rather than 25 once the issue was spotted far too late to do anything about it. As no-one raised objections at the time I should hope this change is welcomed. Inconsequentially all references to specific years (2013/14 namely) have been removed so that the rules can be used in all future competitions and all reference to I have been replaced with the game runner, so that should I fall of a cliff or get banned from DL again another person may voluntarily take over the game and there's no petty squabbles. Champions have also been added to the OP, along with links to Teams and Scoreboards for existing years. Finally - for those too lazy to click to page 1, here - in spoiler tags for mine and your sanity - are the new write-ups of the rules and scoring system. Any objections/concerns/gripes/heaps of praise should be raised as soon as possible, not at the end of the year when you realise it might affect your points total (which it shouldn't as there is in my opinion nothing here that would actually affect points totals).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35739377 Anyone pick this bloke -

Please don't tell McClaren or his press conferences will become "we played well. we just had too much air pollution.."

I'd just like to thank Doug Ellis for his role in making Villa a club that makes Newcastle look ever so slightly less shit.

Is it me or is Jon Sopel looking rough as fuck on the news right now?

3-1 at home to Bournemouth, a visit to Leicester coming up - that's another -4 to add to our goal difference, followed by the mackems - best case scenario a 0-0 draw, followed by Norwich city, potential 1-0 win but more likely a 0-0 draw or loss, after that Southampton, Swansea - losses or draws at best.

By having Feek's name on this list, we've already lost. Why? She's a celebrity.

Forum 2 - Real Deathlist - 3 We're still losing.

The one out of my hits that took a bit of convincing to add in, I'd heard of the rest outside of DL unlike her. Glad I threw her in now.

With those two, you've moved from joint 67th to joint 65th. Sorry, it's an old joke but I couldn't resist. I'm not sure I get the joke but whatever...

Can anybody fag-packet my new position with Feek and Crowe - I'm too damn lazy?

Feeling like your life is suddenly turning into the opening segment of one of those films where the persons life absolutely falls apart but knowing there's absolutely no chance of repairing half the damage, and the rest is going to take an insane amount of work on your part...

Just an idea, like, wouldn't it be good for politics in general if every deceased MP had - by law - to be replaced on the forthcoming ballot by the last person (still breathing) with whom they had sex? Some of those 'last people' might not be old enough to stand for parliament. Well, at least, unlikely the old system those particular individuals would no longer be forced to stand to come into a grouping of parliamentarians. EDIT: Too far?

Sorry mate, the article claims he may die in prison. Unless you can link to an article that categorically states he actually died in prison - rather than still breathing with the opportunity he may later stop breathing, I can't award any points. My online hunt has found no such article.

Following the fine tradition of other dead pools I'm able to offer a prize of £5 in amazon vouchers or donate £5 to a good cause on your behalf, the offer also extends to RA for last year giving no prize was provided for the first year - in the name of fairness and all that.

Glad you raised that - because, basically, it all stops on the winning day, so the podium is as it was then. If you dig into the rules you'll see there's even an exclusion clause supporting that and stating no death subsequently proven to have taken place earlier can overturn it. Oh aye, and... I have a cunning plan for a new dead pool based on a really brutal division of winning and losing - but more of that in late May. I have a great idea for a DP as well but fear I won't be able to administer it with all that goes on in my dreary life. Maybe I'll give her a go though. I want to finalize the concept first then present it. It'll be soon, as I want it to start apart from Jan 1. SC As long as you're not even less efficient than the Hares Death Pool I won't complain.

Deathbed wedding?

Firstly apologies for the wall of text that is contained within the post. Secondly I am delighted to announce Toast as 2015 Hares Death Pool winner. As always, it's worth double-checking your team to see if I've made a cock-up - it's possible (although unlikely) that a death here or ther has gone unawarded. There's seems to be a pattern emerging - the winner way out on front with between 1600-1700 and then the rest of the good teams at 900-1300. Congrats (??) to Bibliogryphon for breaking the previous low score record of 275 held by TUM in some style with a 114. The high score remains held by Rotten Ali in 2015 with 1762. These don't factor in 2016 scores, as I highly doubt that high scores been breached yet. EDIT: The above pattern rambling is of completely nonsense, as Luise Rainers 30th December death was never added to the 2014 final scoreboard. That's now been rectified. A late December death still appears crucial . Final 2015 Scoreboard Toast (9/25 - 1607 points) Jules Bianchi (197 points) Bart Cummings (241 point) Ethel Lang (14 points) Stephen Lewis (223 points) Maureen O'Hara (296 points) Peter O'Sullevan (209 points) Marguerite Patten (154 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Jeralean Talley (197 points) Whoam (7/25 - 1209 points) Richie Benaud (99 points) Maureen O'Hara (296 points) Helmut Schmidt (313 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Sir Nicholas Winton (181 points) Leonard Nimoy (57 points) Jules Bianchi (197 points) Death Impends (9/25 - 1121) Little Jimmy Dickens (1 point) Howard W. Jones (211 points) Irving Kahn (54 points) Marjorie Lord (331 points) Maureen O'Hara (296 points) Robert H. Schuller (91 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Jerry Tarkanian (10 points) Lee Kuan Yew (81 points) The Unknown Man (5/25 - 1101 points) Sam Simon [wildcard] (133 points) Leonard Nimoy (57 points) Al Molinaro (302 points) Maureen O'Hara (296 points) Helmut Schmidt (313 points) deadsox (9/25 - 1036 points) Colin Bloomfield (114 points) Grace Lee Boggs (277 points) Carmen de Tommaso (158 points) Jean Dore (165 points) Ahmad “Real” Givens (50 points) Ethel Lang (14 points) Misao Okawa (89 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Percy Sledge (103 points) maryportfuncity (7 points - 945 points) Douglas Gordon Goody (28 points) Jimmy Hill (352 points) Ethel Lang (14 points) Stephen Lewis (223 points) Misao Okawa (89 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Chris Woodhead (173 points) The Engineer (7/20 - 943 points) Sam Simon [wildcard] (133 points) Dave Benton - (145 points) Tom Attwater - cancer fundraiser (272 points) - Note on impending death rule; qualifies due to fundraiser profile regarding daughter. Misao Okawa (89 points) Ethel Lang (14 points) Ellen albertini dow (123 points) Roberto M Livingston (167 points) Captain Chorizo (8/255 - 922 points) Jules Bianchi - (197 points) Manoel de Olivera (91 points) Francis George (106 points) Ahmad Givens (50 points) Kirk Kerkorian (165 points) Bernice Paolozzi (156 points) Robert Schuller (91 points) Sam Simon (66 points) msc (5/25 - 821 points) George Cole (216 points) Stuart Wagstaff (68 points) Ron Moody (161 points) Richie Benaud (99 points) Grace Lee Boggs (277 points) Shaun of the Dead (5/25 - 646 points) Pamela Cundell (44 points) Patrick Macnee (175 points) Brian Sewell (261 points) Viv Nicholson (100 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Eesti (4/25 - 617 points) Sam Simon (133 points) Colin Bloomfield (114 points) Sir Chris Woodhead (173 points) Jules Bianchi (197 points) gcreptile (581 points) Egon Bahr (230 points) Johanna Quandt (214 points) Heinrich Windelen (46 points) Manoel de Oliveira (91 points) Rotten Ali (5/25 - 441 points) Colin Bloomfield (114 points) Misao Okawa (89 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Robert Schuller (91 points) Lee Kuan Yew (81 points) Book (2/25 - 316 points) Jean Darling (246 points) Terry Prachett (70 points) Estuarian Float (4/24 - 264 points) Ahmad Givens (50 points) Leonard Nimoy (57 points) Robert Schuller (91 points) Sam Simon (66 points) Bibliogryphon (2/25 - 114 points) Jeffrey Segal [wildcard] (70 points) Louis Jourdan (44 points)

It is actually quite unexpected, sure he would go at some point this year, but I'm sure nobody expected him to be the 3rd hit considering the situation Zsa Zsa is in.. Everybody expects Zsa Zsa to make it to December, you'll understand in a year or two when the Prinz is still keeping her life support on..

Is their a word that can sum up this level of hypocritically ironic naivety because I can't find it: Also, I fully expect him to be gone by Christmas. Although he's probably not even 96.

Trying to work out if this is aimed at me, Sir Creep or MK. I'd have normally assumed Zorders but he hasn't posted in a while, do we know what the hell happened to him? Was he banned, committed suicide or went to jail? I thought this was aimed at MK. LFN not being inclined to accept Folly of Youth as mitigation. It wasn't. MK is fine and likeable, he just needs to keep away from trying to be a bit Z and remain more Bambi. It was aimed at Sir C, a massive twat, whos obsession with post counts and 'likes' is boring the tits off of the collective forum. As he is still posting like he hasn't been posting that crap you have to assume that he is either stupid or a sociopath. You say sociopath like it's a bad thing... SC Hate to be the bearer of bad news but...