YoungWillz

Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pioneering-architect-neave-brown-dies-aged-88-bhlwvl928

Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham, former Chief Executive and thereafter Chair of the Financial Times, has bought it in the most final of ways: https://www.ft.com/content/ccff5f90-f54b-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hare,_2nd_Viscount_Blakenham

First page update. Noice! Edit: Just realised I got a mention.

Unsurprisingly, Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5252433/R-B-singer-songwriter-Denise-LaSalle-dies-Tennessee.html Edit: One less name to include in the "Hits of 1985" list I'm now preparing...

Denise LaSalle reportedly dead: https://twitter.com/Echoesmag/status/950672788838338561 Usual confirmations awaited, yada, yada....

Widow dead: http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/15814908.Wife_of_cricketing_legend_dies_aged_84/

People win these things? I never know, I'm normally somewhere near the bottom....

Shucks, thanks for your kind words, but I'm doing nothing else! I shall get the money off to your nominated charity and may I say that is a mighty fine gesture on your part to match it. Homelessness is a growing issue in the UK and for no good reason in a rich economy such as ours. A worthy nomination and topical at this time of year too.

Quite frankly, it was the strongest hold on a tournament I've seen! Unfortunately, as is the way with these things, your hits just dried up and never really returned, and King Michael dying soooo late in the year really put paid to you. So don't write yourself off quite yet. You've seen how it can play out, might be your turn next year.

Okey dokey, I'll get on that this week when I can get out from looking after the old man. Congrats again.

The ones that spring up are The Dogs Trust (Glasgow), The Cats Protection Adoption Centre (Glasgow) or more generally for all animals, the SSPCA's Animal Rescue and Rehoming Charity. Any of those ring your chimes?

Well, what a year it has been! Firstly, thanks to everyone who had a team. It has been much fun spending the last 12 months watching this as it has developed over the year. Unluckily for this pool but luckily for some players, December was rather a Spartan month, bringing few of the really juicy points that this pool craves! We had many leaders. msc bounced up early, only to begin flagging and being overtaken by Death Impends. In fact, it looked like all the world that his team would totally expire within the first half of the year. msc regained some ground only for the magical run of Joey Russ to occur. From a standing start, he gained numerous consecutive hits which led to an iron grip on the lead for several months. But as we all know, this game is all about gaining in the latter stages. Grim Up North started an inevitable climb, as did Sean, The Unknown Man and The Dead Cow, who eventually all came to hold places in the top part of the table. Even Death Impends, whose challenge looked doomed, started gaining points as well, but failed to gain his 3rd consecutive 30 December hit. And there we have it folks, a debutante who won quite convincingly. I also have to mention the following for @Deathray record purposes: Deathray gains the most points for a single hit of 614 for this pool's first 31 December hit. Grim Up North and msc now hold the record for the most hits in a single year (15). Edit: Grim Up North holds the record for most points in a year: 2715. Congratulations to @Grim Up North and remember I did say your team was my favourite, when it looked like all was lost! £24 goes to the UK charity of your choice. So, in the spirit of this pool, hop to it and let me know where you wish your donation made. And so we move on to 2018....

FINAL LEADERBOARD 2017: (*=Joker) 1st: Grim Up North - 2715 Points [15/25] (Wetton; Westhuizen; Coward; Skellern; Morano; Christie; Fawkes; Campbell; Forsyth; Meads; Booth; Dawn; Downie; Berkowitz; Michael) 2nd: Shaun Of The Dead/Sean - 2507 Points [13/25] (Hollingworth; Skellern; Kaufman; Noakes; Sallis; Christie; Meads; Hall; Bettencourt; Booth; Downie; Berkowitz; Michael) 3rd: The Unknown Man - 2373 Points [11/25] (Wetton; Noakes; Christie; Kohl; Campbell; Meads; Lewis; Booth; Downie; Berkowitz; Michael) 4th: Death Impends - 1994 Points [14/25] (Youguang; Nakamura; Hale; D. Carrington; Corey; Skellern; Rockefeller; Sallis; Hart; Forsyth; Bettencourt; Downie; Darrieux; Michael) 5th: The Dead Cow - 1987 Points [12/25] (Sarstedt; D. Carrington; Westhuizen; Skellern; Morano; Sallis; *Van-Zandvliet; Campbell; Hall; Zazu; Booth; Downie) 6th: msc - 1941 Points [15/25] (Snuka; B. Simpson; McGill; Wetton; Coward; Skellern; Hewlett; Lakovic; Sallis; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Meads; Bradley; Downie; Michael) 7th: JoeyRuss - 1854 Points [13/25] (Snuka; *Wetton; Westhuizen; Langhorne; Morano; Pirsig; Bayldon; Allman; Sallis; Campbell; Kristal; Booth; Downie) 8th: Deathers - 1668 Points [8/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano; Campbell; Dawn; Domino; Keogh) 9th: Toast - 1583 Points [10/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness; Sallis; Campbell; *Forsyth; Hall; Dotrice) 10th: JiroemonKimura - 1478 Points [10/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern; Christie; Hofer; Del Rio; Campbell; Bradley; Downie) 11th: Sir Creep - 1476 Points [12/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Campbell; Meads; Qureshi) 12th: Whoaml - 1431 Points [9/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller; Lewis; LaMotta; Michael; Marie) 13th: gcreptile - 1380 Points [11/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano; Kaiser; Kristal; Zazu; Brown; Ruzickova) 14th: Captain Chorizo - 1347 Points [7/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano; Darc; Downie; Barber; Gass) 15th: drol - 1284 Points [9/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James; Sallis; Hart; Campbell; Darc; Dotrice) 16th: Book - 1120 Points [7/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore; Kohl; Bergmann; Campbell; Wain; Hefner) 17th: RadGuy/Phantom Of The Midway - 1051 Points [8/25] (Snuka; Tyler-Moore; Westhuizen; Morano; Sallis; Christie; Kristal; Michael) 18th: Rotten Ali - 840 Points [6/25] (Hurt; Wetton; Christie; Kohl; Blazer; Booth) 19th: Widows Peak - 796 Points [2/25] (*Forsyth; Michael) 20th: Pedro67 - 766 Points [5/25] (Skellern; Walcott; Sallis; Lewis; LaMotta) 21st: Bibliogryphon - 682 Points [5/25] (Dalyell; McCowen; *Freeman; Norman; D. Simpson) 22nd: YoungWillz - 376 Points [3/25] (*Snuka; Bayldon; Campbell) 23rd: ImNotHades - 307 Points [2/25] (Fresco; Sarosy) 24th: Rockhopper penguin - 223 Points [3/25] (Westhuizen; Berry; Dreyfus)

We're closed but I have a leaderboard and then a summary to post. Be with you shortly...

Oh, I should mention I will donate a crisp £10 note (Scottish) to the UK charity of @Death Impends choice. Please let me have your nomination. (If it's Gamblers Anonymous, I'll be amazed...)

Right, first of all, thanks to everyone who participated in the inaugural Poker Tournament. I know some of you may have been perplexed, nay, baffled by the rules but submitted a team anyway! I would have been too had there been a Backgammon Tournament, or some such craziness. It seems that the fame level didn't deter participants and indeed didn't deter the Reaper taking them. Cards were played and bonuses won. In the end, the winner was the team who actually had the most low cards, but hit practically all the bonuses you could get. Also the person who randomised his team....something for future players to consider if we run this again. We have a final leaderboard, the link to the detailed board is on the first page. In summary: 1st: Death Impends - 1605 Points 2nd: The Dead Cow - 1375 Points 3rd: Captain Chorizo - 1190 Points 4th: gcreptile - 1133 Points 5th: Toast - 1080 Points 6th: JoeyRuss - 1059 Points 7th: Zsa Zsa's Leg - 1038 Points 8th: msc - 1035 Points 9th: RadGuy/Phantom of the Midway - 1020 Points 10th: Grave Danger - 725 Points 11th: Shaun Of The Dead/Sean: 653 Points =12th: JiroemonKimura - 610 Points =12th: RishCast - 610 Points 14th: Bibliogryphon - 605 Points 15th: YoungWillz - 415 Points 16th: Gooseberry Crumble - 200 Points Honourable mentions to Joey Russ who had more subs die than anyone else, to Captain Chorizo who finished way up despite not using any of his subs and to Toast who looked like she was going to romp this until her challenge came to a shuddering halt. The Dead Cow, having valiantly scored hits quite highly and gained some bonuses towards the end just fell short, but I'm sure we applaud the challenge. Congratulations to our (now official) winner, Death Impends. The cards and chips have been packed away. If there's enough demand, we'll convene again in the summer.

Is it? Not yet it's not. Not until I post a final round up and leaderboard.

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5 hours until the casino shuts down. Check your teams on page 1 of this thread in case I have missed anyone. See you soon...

5 Hours until I shut this one for 2017. Check your teams in case I have missed anyone here: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8314-the-hares-death-pool/?do=findComment&comment=289295 See you soon...

No bias here Joey. I rather like your contribution to the forum. Pushing the rules (or non-rules) is nothing new, like MK's use of Death Row contestants in the Deathrace or gcreptile's use of a "theme" as "people who have terminal illness" (that's a guess btw, I never really knew the "theme"). Things may annoy us, we'll vent, we'll look again and wonder what we got so worked up about. It may lead to a change in the rules, it may not. And it looks like GUN isn't alone in his 19/20 ditto picks. It's not for everyone. Ah well, just remember to bring it up for next year's suggestions on the DDP and who knows?

One hundred per cent agree. Crikey, throw a "host's discretion" into the mix with hundreds of teams....

Or GUN's teams might go down in flames, given the overlap. I don't think anyone should bully anyone into removing their team for fear they might outdo you.

Did I say bomb? Yes, I did.