YoungWillz

Real life comes first, pools are but a secondary. I'm dreading being so wrong it's almost a good team to challenge this year!

This pool will last for deaths today and tomorrow. We've arrived at the thickest end of the game. Obviously, there will be a hiatus of about a week thereafter for deaths to get reported etc, but everyone who dies in 2017 before closure will count. Now, if I get 7 hits tomorrow, I win....ha ha. Some kind of bonus for hits on the 31st. So it's never over....so here we go....

Twenty Fourth 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: Toast - 1583 Points [10/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness; Sallis; Campbell; *Forsyth; Hall; Dotrice) 9th: JiroemonKimura - 1478 Points [10/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern; Christie; Hofer; Del Rio; Campbell; Bradley; Downie) 10th: Sir Creep - 1476 Points [12/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Campbell; Meads; Qureshi) 11th: Whoaml - 1431 Points [9/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller; Lewis; LaMotta; Michael; Marie) 12th: gcreptile - 1380 Points [11/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano; Kaiser; Kristal; Zazu; Brown; Ruzickova) 13th: Captain Chorizo - 1347 Points [7/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano; Darc; Downie; Barber; Gass) 14th: drol - 1284 Points [9/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James; Sallis; Hart; Campbell; Darc; Dotrice) 15th: Book - 1120 Points [7/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore; Kohl; Bergmann; Campbell; Wain; Hefner) 16th: Deathers - 1054 Points [7/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano; Campbell; Dawn; Domino) 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)

Hopefully nobody picked Kirsten Hawksey for 2018. She dead.

Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it...

Detective novelist and DDP Pick Sue Grafton has died: http://www.wdrb.com/story/37160155/louisville-mystery-writer-sue-grafton-has-died-family-friend-says

Right, I've sorted things out with gcreptile so 26 entries in. This is looking like it's going to cost me come 2018/19! More entries welcome, and the penultimate leaderboard will be posted around midnight GMT, just to heighten the excitement!

I've raised some queries and eyebrows at your team gcreptile! I'll wait hearing back from you...

Nothing in my inbox Widows, but the above seems to be in order, and added. Good luck!

Yeah I think it's a dangerous one here unless someone has been putting the teams on a masterlist already. I think it would be prudent to see if someone has done that.otherwise, tough titty for picking quivering almost dead corpses.

DDP Pick Peter Carrie has died aged 102: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15798451.Scots_war_veteran_evacuated_from_Dunkirk_dies_aged_102/?ref=rss Edit: Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5220783/War-veteran-evacuated-Dunkirk-dies-aged-102.html

Thomas Stanford, who won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for West Side Story, has died aged 93. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-g-stanford&pid=187662616 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford_(film_editor) IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822201/

23. Wormfarmer 24. Grim Up North. Time is running short, but we have reached the number of teams we had last/this year. Well done. Still have not received teams from @Pedro67 and @gcreptile and some others who entered this year. Hurry before the deadline, otherwise you'll have to wait a whole year again before enjoying the 12 month ride that is this pool.

And now a shedload of work removing the Carmen Francos....

Oh God....

One team had King Michael.

A mystery illness? Ok, I'll bite. The doctors still haven't found what they were looking for...

Shush about Roberta Flack, I was hoping to get her on the DDP as a unique three years running! Wait... I've just mentioned her again, highlighting this...

Given the year practically opened with Mary-Tyler Moore, it seems karmic that it should end with Rose Marie. Unless Ed Asner's just fallen ill...*rushes off to check*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5219547/Actress-Rose-Marie-Dick-Van-Dyke-Show-fame-dies-94.html

Yeah, though 4 teams had her for next year. Just been subbing in their replacements...

Whoaml gets a unique with Rose Marie and a sack of points for New Year.

I feels for ya DI, couldn't resist posting it here when I saw you had just entered a team.

Bad luck Book, Rose Marie bites the dust and becomes the second submitted entrant to die overall before the start.