YoungWillz

I'm in! Three teams submitted! It's going to be a worrying 19 days....

Of course you were correct @gcreptile.

First black actor to appear in Coronation Street, Thomas Baptiste, dead: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/12/thomas-baptiste-obituary IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052675/

Super. No offence intended.

Nearly there!! My researches for 1983 hits have taken me down some rather dark roads.... Anyway, I'll tweak the final lists and have them to @Spade_Cooley very soon. Then, no doubt in two weeks time I'll be nominating subs and a new Joker knowing my luck!!!

Thought it would make it too easy......

It's still probably time's turn, but here's a fairly easy one to be going on with. Which song's video is famous for its moving walkways going in different directions, a crow and bloody couches?

You know Toast is gonna go crazy if you don't explain it....ha ha!

Ridiculous connection but there is one. Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee?

Hmm, both Number Ones, 1985 and 1986 but more than one Number One between them. Tricky.

Ah, he's kicked the Beckett!

Interesting. She wins Party VoNC. So Labour table Parliamentary one. Enough Tories dissatisfied to "vote for Christmas"? Her response was clear at PMQs. Says the meaningful vote was the referendum. So, already in contempt of Parliament, shows further contempt for the House of Commons who voted for a meaningful vote in Parliament - shows she has no intention of allowing the vote until she thinks she can force one. Response on foodbanks was interesting. A significant minority even of those in work are reliant on them. Tory MPs are never done taking photo ops to open foodbanks. And yet she says she wants to see no-one reliant on them. Ghastly, dismal, horrid failure of a PM. Makes the Suez crisis look like a wiff-waff match with Boris Johnson after port and cigars.

So here's the veritable wall of text: DDP (1) 12 Lords A-Leaving, 8 Ladies Dying: 9 deaths so far however some very obvious tap-ins. Unlikely to hit anymore. Serious improvement on numbers and position, but now a few years in should still have had half my team go. B. (Last Year: A-). DDP (2) Comedy Cremations: Four hits so far. Again. Steady performance and still chuckling. Strong C. Edit: With June Whitfield's late death that's five hits now, so upgrading to a B- .(Last Year: Strong C). DDP (3) Hits of 36 Years Ago and Hits Today: For the third year in a row, one hit. However, there have been several fallers, some I couldn't have seen coming, but some I ruled out. Must be marked down severely, hoping my more detailed research pays off next year. E- (Last Year: B+) Hartlepool: Zero hits with one of my two subs falling only. Worst performance on a pool I've had little luck in. F+ (Last Year: Weak C.) Hare's Pool: I've simply been consistently awful at this, so used the strategy of having a theme team. Only two hits, but my highest score ever. And I now hold the "longest period without a hit" record. So it's better. D. (Last Year: F). Death By Numbers: Joker still hasn't died. Not picking him again. Strategy was to get a load of oldies dying and some ill folk. Hasn't worked but still a fair hit rate. And it's not about the winning, is it? B (Last Year B+). Inverse DP: I predicted a torrid year for deaths on this list and so it has come to pass. Half the number of hits than last year but still a hefty score. Tried to compensate by placing the picks I had elsewhere fairly high, so I win on other pools but not here. Still, I'm happy overall. B. (Last Year: B.) Scavenger Hunt: Well now. The previous Hunt which finished earlier this year just stalled, gaining no hits, so the grade for that remains F. On the current Hunt, I have 2 hits, but I've a feeling that's where it might end. Probably in 2020! Anyway improvement so it's a C so far. Generation Game: Steady progress again. Entered this pool under the original rule of BBC Obit requirements, so later entrants had/have an advantage when the obit requirements were relaxed. 6 hits in 2018 so slight improvement in the hit rate. B+ (Last Year: B). Windy City: 2017/18 as you know was brazen theft of names picked for the Hare's Pool. Turns out that even when I pluck names from the Forum, I can't even do that right! For 2018/19, I already have as many hits so far as I did for the whole of last year. So I'm expecting a fair result, but let's call it a team effort among us all! A- (Last Year: B+). ABC: 2017/18 got 6 right. Which meant I got 20 wrong! Nevertheless, finished about 4th as I recall so I'm upgrading last year's grade from a D to a C+. Struggling for the current year with only one dead so it's a provisional F. Grammys: Got three hits in quick succession and then...nothing! Is anyone but me bothering with this? Anyway, it's a rolling pool so upgrading from Unawarded to E-. Shadowlist: Poor show, fallen back in hit numbers, probably because I treated this as a repository for spare names I had kicking about. I'm hoping for better next year (aren't we all?). D. (Last Year: a fifth of an A). Midsummer: My pick lives to this day. Unawarded. (Last Year: B.) Advent Avalanche: My 2017 pick is alive. Early days on the current year as there's only been one death as far as I know. Unawarded- (Last Year: Unawarded). Poker: I've outperformed last year already, but not hopeful that the next few days will bring much else. D- (Last Year: E). Deathlist Cup: Well, rub me gently and make three wishes! Final eight by sheer force of luck. Wouldn't even have got by the first round except for the flip of a coin. Lucky lucky bastard. Still it's an upgrade for a specky nerd. B- (Last Year: F). DL Prediction: Additional telepathy lessons did not pay off and ended up fairly near if not bottom of the entries. However, I'm having the last laugh as it looks like my entry will outperform the Official Deathlist. So yah boo! He he. D (Last Year: C+). Silver Screen: Early days yet, but no hits, so it's an Unawarded.

Oh dear, got it wrong! And it's one of my favourite songs too.....

Pretty straightforward. If Paradise Is Half As Nice - Amen Corner

Alt-Rock? For this round...

Royalty will always get a QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/12/11/duchess-abercorn-public-spirited-doyenne-northern-irish-life/

One of my first ever picks on here. Sad news....(amends DDP team).

You'll need something to calm you down then....

Ah I know what it is! Ha ha!

Can't be ...their album was much earlier and boring....

Dance The Night Away - Mavericks. Ha!

Mais oui, the Cat is correct, absolument! Over to you....

Euphonium.

Just making a personal choice here, no offence to anyone intended, and I'm probably over-analysing as usual!