YoungWillz

Right my pretty little cardsharps, the period of grace for late notifications of death and qualifying obits is over, and it is time to close the Casino doors for 2018! I'd like to thank everyone who entered for playing along. I know you are all moving along to your respective football grounds to start training your Deathlist Cup teams, but afore you go, it is time to review the game and settle up. Unlike last year, we had a couple of long hiatuses (for that is the plural I'm going with) in what seemed to be the Grim Reaper on furlough. Now I don't blame the players here, you did your best in the face of increasing healthcare across society! You can only play the hand you are dealt! As a result, overall pointage was down on 2017. Remigino not obiting came as a surprise to most players, but in the end it would not have mattered to the eventual winner, though the placings might have been different. A run of obits at the end which were for the chasing pack made for an exciting finish, only for our leader's last hit of the year failing to obit in the ultimate anti-climax! So here is the result. If you entered last year, your placing (out of 16 entrants from 2017) is in brackets, along with last year's score. 1st: Death Impends - 1080 Points (1st; 1605 Points) 2nd: Captain Chorizo - 968 Points (3rd; 1190 Points) 3rd: msc - 840 Points (8th; 1035 Points) 4th: Phantom Of The Midway - 818 Points (9th; 1020 Points) 5th: FujimoriNoMorey - 710 Points (-) 6th: Clorox Bleachman - 705 Points (-) 7th: Joey Russ - 647 Points (6th; 1059 Points) 8th: Sir Creep - 631 Points (-) =9th: Bibliogryphon - 515 Points (14th; 605 Points) =9th: The Old Lady - 515 Points (-) 11th: Torva Messor - 514 Points (-) 12th: YoungWillz - 503 Points (15th; 405 Points) 13th: gcreptile - 500 Points (4th; 1133 Points) 14th: Sean - 428 Points (11th; 653 Points) 15th: Toast - 413 Points (5th; 1080 Points) 16th: Yorkshire Banker - 404 Points (-) 17th: Fixed Business - 400 Points (-) 18th: Skinny Kiltrunner - 225 Points (-) 19th: Gooseberry Crumble - 205 Points (16th; 200 Points) 20th: Doulton - 200 Points (-) 21st: Wouk This Way - 122 Points (-) So Death Impends successfully defends his title and enters the Hall of Fame once again. I'll assume you want your charity donation to go to the cat's charity again, unless you say otherwise. Podium places to Captain Chorizo and msc - a valiant tussle. Special mentions go out to FujimoriNoMorey and Clorox Bleachman as highest placed new entrants and of course to Joey Russ who has once again had the most subs die, costing him dearly, and as a result gets his portrait in the Casino toilets for the second year running! As it turns out on points, I am most improved player on 2017, so I'll take a pat on the back from myself for my trouble! If you can be bothered, we might all open the casino later in the year for the next exciting card game! YW.

Ah, I did think you were right that there had been a historical thing, now it appears pictures were recent! Hope nobody was hurt....

Blast....

That is a terrible pic of Jason Orange, btw...

Is it how Blue are made up now?

Helen Worth is 68 today! Has she played the character with the most changed surname in Corrie?

Mike McGear, brother to Paul, is 75 today!

Moshe Arens Dead. https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Former-defense-minister-Moshe-Arens-dies-at-93-576564

Death reported by his son of W Morgan Sheppard aged 86: Hawk The Slayer, Star Trek, Doctor Who (The Impossible Astronaut) etc. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792003/

Hmm, seemed to be a big fire onTwitter, didn't know if it was residential or commercial, but seems to be the latter.

What the heck is going on in Belgrave Road, @Cat O'Falk?

How maudlin that their biggest hit during his tenure was I'm Alive. Also, Haydock looks the least pleased to be there:

Well, there you go. Contestants should be clear that it is the reporting of the death that matters. I understand Twitter isn't valid for that requirement, because all Twitter is speculation. So as an example, if I find out that Edward Haydock of the Hollies is dead on Twitter on 31 December (he isn't, I'm just using him as an example), submit my team including him, he gets an qualifying obit on 2 January, boom! This makes this game exceptional in placing more importance on reporting than the actual death. As long as contestants are clear and the rule is applied fairly, there should be no controversies in future. *runs really far away, never to return*

Pretty sure I saw an obit for Walter Smith in my travels....I'll have a root about...

I see no need for the RHME rule (he said, putting his head above the parapet) and I don't care I'm not in this game and if the rule is the rule then participants sign up to it. However, the abuse of it is quite clear to me at least and again thrown into sharp relief. 1. What is the point of subs? Someone like Morrison dies 14 months ago. It does appear Hollywood Reporter will not be reporting this due to the time scale. However, if someone does mention it given the wide obit requirements, players who picked her don't use their sub, but instead gain maximum points. 2. Let's look again at Kader Khan. He was widely reported speculatively as dead, then the son came out and denied it. He died in Toronto at 6pm, 11pm UK GMT. Again not within the period of the game. Then around 5am UK GMT (midnight Toronto time) the death is reported for the first time. I know, I was up. This seems to me at least utilising possible delays in reporting using the coverage of the New Year celebrations to gain an advantage. Again a sub isn't used. Removing this would simplify the game and remove yet another controversy in fairness to all players. If it is a strict rule the death must occur on or after 1 January, the time of death is as far as practical determined by local time and if a person is ruled out, a sub replaces the corpse. However, again I stress this isn't a complaint, it is merely a suggestion to smooth running. It might be fast and furious in order to give MPFC a quick result, but the continuing issues of this actually mean more, not less, work for MPFC imo. *runs away*

Edit: Nevermind, seems not to have been confirmed as yet. I'm keeping watch...

Implied in this tweet is the death at some point of Dorothy Morrison: Hollywood Reporter are looking into it.

Report of the death of Dragoslav Sekularac: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=https://sport.blic.rs/fudbal/domaci-fudbal/preminuo-dragoslav-sekularac/0cfs8pj&prev=search Also 1958 WC squad.

Darius Perkins dies at 54, best known perhaps as the original Scott Robinson in Neighbours (before some no mark took over ha!). Link is behind a paywall, I'll try and find summat....

50 today!

The interminable wait for a Don Lusk obit continues... Meantime, this pool will be closing in a couple of days. I'm not checking your entries (unless a Doreen Keough type comes in) so if you think you've a death and a QO I've missed, let me know. The lights on last year's casino are dimming, and I'm paying off the EU born bouncers....

B-movie thread for ya Charon

Death being reported of Roberto Cimarosti of Electribe 101: https://twitter.com/billie_r_martin/status/1081230238338744320 Highest charting in the UK was the re-release of this number:

Don't forget the subs for those who go in the latter stages of the previous year! Horrid job. Must be a way of electronically submitting as Deathers suggests.