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  4. Posted

    That makes sense, because otherwise people with only 1 obit would get 0 points. Adjusted, but still unofficial, results:

    1. Switch: 62*2+53 = 177
    2. Rad's Rad R'list: 62+53+23+33 = 171
    3. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 45+62 = 107
    4. Cancerous Hatred: 62+23+20 = 105
    5. Yankee Go Home: 62
    6. "O" (that is, the letter O): 62
    7. The Unknown Man: 62
    8. RoverAndOut: 53
    9. msc: 21
    • Anker Jørgensen 45 points (unique)
    • Rob Ford 62 points
    • Johan Cruyff 53 points
    • Mother Angelica 23 points
    • Kris Travis 33 points (unique)
    • Bill Rosendahl 20 points (unique)
    • Rachel Johnson 21 points (unique)
    • Patricio Aylwin TBD – obits still incoming

  5. Posted

    Now that a month has passed since the beginning of the competition, I thought it would be a good time to see where things stand. Note that this is an unofficial results table, since MH might have different thoughts on which obits count and which don't. I relied on the honesty of my fellow participants.

     

    These are the obit counts I used in calculations, as well as the multipliers and points for a non-joker death (unique bonus added where applicable):

    • Anker Jørgensen 25 (Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish) – multiplier 4.6439, 37 points (unique)
    • Rob Ford 37 (Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian , Lithuanian, Macedonian , Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese) – multiplier 5.2095, 52 points
    • Johan Cruyff 50 (Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Somali, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Western Frisian) – multiplier 5.6439, 45 points
    • Mother Angelica 12 (Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) – multiplier 3.5850, 18 points
    • Kris Travis 3 (English, French, Spanish) – multiplier 1.5850, 21 points (unique)
    • Bill Rosendahl 2 (English, Spanish) – multiplier 1, 10 points (unique)
    • Rachel Johnson 3 (Chinese, English, Scots Gaelic) – multiplier 1.5850, 13 points (unique)
    • Patricio Aylwin TBD – obits still incoming
    So far, the only joker that has passed away is Rob Ford for my team. There have been four unique picks: Anker Jørgensen for Death Impends, Kris Travis for RadGuy, Bill Rosendahl for JiroemonKimura and Rachel Johnson for msc. Bibliogryphon will also get a unique bonus for Aylwin. And now, the results table:
    1. Switch: 52*2+45 = 149
    2. Rad's Rad R'list: 52+45+18+21 = 136
    3. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 37+52 = 89
    4. Cancerous Hatred: 52+18+10 = 80
    5. Yankee Go Home: 52
    6. "O" (that is, the letter O): 52
    7. The Unknown Man: 52
    8. RoverAndOut: 45
    9. msc: 13

     

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    Posted this in the Olympic deaths thread but guess it makes sense here too. France reports a 'London 2012 curse' following the deaths of 18 athletes who took part in the games in the subsequent 4 years. Full list of those cursed included in the article, complete with helpful details of their cause of death:

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36055238

    Within 4 years, 18 people out of 10 768, or 0.167%, have died. I don't see a curse here and I'm sure the numbers were similar for all previous Olympics. France is just more sensitive towards Olympic athlete deaths since the helicopter crash last year.

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  9. Posted

    As for me, Diski is the only (near-)certainty. Then there are a few cancer patients who might hold on (Bain, Chong, Kilmer, Wetton), a few ALS sufferers who are also likely to see 2017 (Frates, Ricksen, vd Westhuizen) and Gino Odjick, who seems to be recovering from amyloidosis and is probably a wasted pick. Then I have three wildcards in Gascoigne (if he drinks himself to death), McGuinness (the Isle of Man TT is pretty dangerous) and Vilks (surely there are still terrorists who want to see him dead). I probably won't reach 100, not that it's a bad thing.

  10. Posted

     

    Peking is getting a Winter Olympics?

     

     

    Yeah, the IOC didn't want to be out-done by Quatar landing the World Cup

     

    To be fair, by the day of the voting Almaty was the only alternative. And if Russia could hold its winter games in a summer resort, what's wrong with Beijing?

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    Aye, after coming one point short in my debut year that milestone has been reached at long last.

     

    Also - surely DDT has to have shattered the most points in a month record? By my reckoning, Plowright, Crowe, Feek joker, Davies, Ford, and Travis add up to 64 points.

    Note to self: I'm likely in second place in the same ranking. Crowe (9) + Feek (10) + Ford (10) + Cruyff (8) + Travis joker (24) = 61 points

     

    Also, I think DDT got 66 points (Plowright 9 + Crowe 9 + Feek 20 + Davies 6 + Ford 10 + Travis 12).

     

     

    Kris Travis was 32 so only worth 10 points.

     

    Well, I say "only"...

     

    Ah, for some reason when I made my team I wrote down he was worth 12. Probably would have chosen Feek as joker if I had known it was actually 10.

  15. Posted

    Aye, after coming one point short in my debut year that milestone has been reached at long last.

     

    Also - surely DDT has to have shattered the most points in a month record? By my reckoning, Plowright, Crowe, Feek joker, Davies, Ford, and Travis add up to 64 points.

    Note to self: I'm likely in second place in the same ranking. Crowe (9) + Feek (10) + Ford (10) + Cruyff (8) + Travis joker (24) = 61 points

     

    Also, I think DDT got 66 points (Plowright 9 + Crowe 9 + Feek 20 + Davies 6 + Ford 10 + Travis 12).

  17. Posted

     

     

    Mother Angelica German: http://www.kath.net/news/54552

     

     

    Dutch: http://www.katholieknieuwsblad.nl/nieuws/moeder-angelica-overleden

    Portuguese: http://observador.pt/2016/03/28/morreu-madre-angelica-fundadora-do-maior-grupo-catolico-radio-televisao/

    Italian: http://www.news.va/it/news/morta-suor-angelica-fondatrice-negli-usa-del-netwo

     

    A lot of the obits we have so far are from Catholic news websites so who knows if they're valid.

     

    Croatian: http://www.bitno.net/vijesti/svijet/umrla-majka-angelica/

    Hungarian: http://hu.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/03/29/elhunyt_angelica_n%C5%91v%C3%A9r,_az_ewtn_katolikus_telev%C3%ADzi%C3%B3_alap%C3%ADt%C3%B3ja/1218849

    Czech: http://www.tyden.cz/rubriky/media/televize-a-radia/zemrela-zakladatelka-katolicke-televize-ewtn_377648.html

     

    Magere Hein, the time to collect obits for Jorgensen has expired, and it will expire in a few hours for Ford. Should we expect the first scoreboard soon?

     

  19. Posted

     

     

    Danish: http://www.tv3sport.dk/fodbold/nyheder/fodboldlegenden-johan-cruyff-er-dod-er-kraeft/

    Italian: http://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/esteri/2016/03/24/news/e_morto_johan_cruyff-136215892/

    Norwegian: http://www.nrk.no/sport/johan-cruyff-er-dod-1.12870290

    Polish: http://sport.tvn24.pl/pilka-nozna,105/johan-cruyff-nie-zyje-legenda-futbolu-miala-68-lat,629968.html

    Portuguese: http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/ultimas-noticias/2016/03/24/johan-cruyff-morre-aos-68-anos-apos-luta-contra-cancer.htm

    Swahili: http://www.goal.com/en-tz/news/5786/main/2016/03/24/21649572/johan-cruyff-amefariki-dunia-baada-ya-kusumbuliwa-na

    Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/article22505621.ab

    Vietnamese: http://news.zing.vn/Huyen-thoai-bong-da-Johan-Cruyff-qua-doi-vi-ung-thu-post636680.html

     

    Afrikaans: http://www.netwerk24.com/Sport/Sokker/sokkergrote-sterf-aan-longkanker-20160324

    Arabic: https://arabic.rt.com/news/816215-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82-%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1/

    Croatian: http://www.prvapolitika.com/Umro-Johan-Cruyff-Svijet-je-ostao-bez-nogometne-legende/

    Hebrew: http://www.haaretz.co.il/sport/world-soccer/1.2893312

    Indonesian: http://panditfootball.com/berita/johan-cryuff-meninggal-dunia/

    Persian: http://www.varzesh3.com/news/1312699/%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%81-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA

    Romanian: http://www.romaniatv.net/johan-cruyff-a-murit_282442.html

    Serbian: http://www.rts.rs/page/sport/ci/story/31/%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB/2256737/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BE+%D0%88%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%98%D1%84.html

     

  25. Posted

    I, too, went for people who are not very likely to die, but should obit all around the world, should they do so.

     

    Rob Ford (joker)
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Emperor Akihito
    Muhammad Ali
    Bashar al-Assad
    Benedict XVI
    George HW Bush
    Fidel Castro
    Jimmy Carter
    Dick Cheney
    Johan Cruyff
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Paul Gascoigne
    Hugh Hefner
    Gordie Howe
    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    Jerry Lewis
    Pervez Musharraf
    Nadiya Savchenko

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