Wormfarmer

Sorry Banana. You are TOO good at finding the black bananas. Nipsey Hussle's death notice came in March, so no score and one of the drawbacks to posting before the end of the month is you do not get a replacement so you will play with 4 names this month. Don't mean to be a hard ass, but them's the rules this year.

As I normally do, once I get the teams in, I post a table of all the entries, so there is easy reference to the entries for the month. I would like to wait until I get all the entries before I do that, but sometimes there are stragglers, so if a few teams wait too long, I will post the list anyway and then update it when those teams finally do come in. Clearer?

Correct, there will be no new names added to the game this month. (I misread the question as "will the same list of names we select from carry over into April" when I answered this) No one scored in March, so no elimination. BUT - the top 2 point getters in April will both be eliminated. It there are ties needed to be broken, we will refer to carryover points earned in past months (pts scored by players that were not eliminated). I already have a team PM'd to me by msc, so I am sending my team to msc by PM today, and will post an April summary table after most (or all) of the April teams are in. After this botched post I am allowing teams to send in new lists for April, IF THEY DESIRE! No new list is required as March lists can be carried over into April, per earlier posted rules.

Current standings (March 9th): 22 clorox 13 gcrep 10 madhatter 9 capn cho 8 sir c/oldlady 7 JMoney 6 quim 5 FixBus/msc/JRuss/Bentro/wormy/old crem 4 biblio 3 newjack 2 banana 1 Yorkshire Banker Everyone else has squat. Feb was huge! Clorox is on a monster roll. Several teams are yet to submit, they may have wandered off and fallen in an open grave. Things are getting pretty spread out already after only a little over 2 months.

Mar Teams MadHatter 5 + 5 eusibio pedroza micah bowie jeanlouis trintignant sam lloyd peter tobin Prophet sam lloyd 4 norman lloyd kirk douglas sidney walton ozzy osbourne Bou1 violet chamorro sam lloyd 3 tun tin norman lloyd 4 le duc anh OldCrem 5 beverly cleary clarrisa eden honor blackmon pierre cardin Jean of Lux gcreptile 9 + 4+5+5 edmond capon eusibio pedroza 4 barbara hammer stanley crouch billy clayton Captain Chorizo 9+4+4 kathleen blanco edmond capon 4 barbara hammer 4 amilia aquilar ruthie tompson Death by Arsenic michael lonsdale betty white robert marchand billy clayton 4 edith scob msc 5+3 barbara hammer 3 catherine wreford bill heine sally sheridan denis goldberg Newjack 3 I M pei javier perez decuellar bob barker leah bracknell herman wouk Quim Reaper 6 lee kerslake harry reid greg gilbert bill heine 4 jean louis trintignant 4 Philip le duc anh 4 Jean of Lux 4 leah bracknell 4 vera lynn george schultz theoldlady 8 le duc ahn 3 stirling moss tim conway bob hawke alberto fujimori Yorkshire Banker 1 vera lynn 4 bill heine 3 Dr. lubomir strougal anne baker norma waterson Fixed Business 5 leah bracknell 3 kathleen blanco 4 stuart fraser genesis p-orridge shane macgowan Bibliogryphon 4 hugh downs john andretti william russell john lysak jerry stiller Bentrovato 5 david burke harry gregg ray reardon norman tebbit raul castro Clorox Bleachman 14+8 jose jose julia flores colque eusibio pedroza 3 kristie purton luke perry 5 Joey Russ 5+5 howard finkel tommy donbavand stanley crouch 4 bernie torme baba suwe Wormfarmer 5 loongkoonan kane tanaka bob hawke 4 tim conway 4 renee simonot Sir Creep 8 +3 tommy donbavand 4 edmond capon 3 bat mcgrath john starling bill freehan Joe Moneypenny 7 jerry lee lewis imelda marcos stanley ho jose jose lil pump (WTF?) Banana 2 genesis p-orridge 4 nawal el saadawi greg gilbert 4 sheldon adelson ed genson Unknown Man no team yet Grimm Reaperness no team yet ebless - new player no team yet markb4 (WD)

Round 6 is underway - all eleven remaining teams are in and there is no score yet so all shovels are clean. Here is a quick breakdown of who would go home in the event of a single hit on the list for the month: oldlady - jose, rogers, johnson, barker, kumar wormfarmer - harper, alagiah, lloyd paddyfool - nakasone, prince philip, de Cuellar, kissinger, escheverria bibliogryphon - gascoine, cardin, phillips, ricksen en passant - safe qtips - nolan, mugabe, pope ben, scales, james, mccririck, bracknell, stiles Clorox - tanaka, cleary msc - wouk, de Haviiland, dole, greaves grim up - vervoort cap'n cho - safe j russ - downs, jaffee, clegg, flair, stevens, conway, redstone In addition, there are 6 names that would result in ties if they are the only death for the month: day = oldlady and jruss newton-john = wormfarmer and jruss mercier = biblio and clorox QE II = cap'n cho and paddyfool reiner = en passant and biblio And a 4 way tie if it's Jimmy Carter = paddyfool/en passant/msc/cap'n cho!!

Round 6 - March (Sir Creep elim. Rd 5) wormfarmer theoldlady bibliogryphon grim up north paddyfool newton-john jose reiner vervoort QE II harper day gascoine jose carter day nolan cardin harper nakasone jose rogers mercier nakasone prince philip prince p johnson nakasone rogers de cuellar carter jaffee johnson day kissinger clegg barker phillips mercier mugabe nolan kumar tanaka mugabe dole alagiah de havilland ricksen johnson escheverria lloyd alagiah cleary alagiah pope ben en passant qtips msc cap'n chorizo clorox bleachman joey russ reiner nolan wouk QE II tanaka newton-john carter mugabe carter carter nolan day harper pope ben de havilland gascoine day downs day scales harper harper mercier jaffee jose james dole pope ben QE II clegg gascoine cardin prince phillip scales cleary flair cardin mccririck day jose scales stevens jaffee bracknell greaves mccririck gascoine conway prince philip stiles barker jaffee de havilland redstone johnson gascoine de cuellar johnson johnson ricksen

On my way to a Bob Seger concert, but gotta get a team in before the points are gone: Wait, I'll just use some old scrubs . . . Loongkoonan kane tanaka bob hawke tim conway renee simonot

Also, while I am on site, I might as well post the first March list: Wormfarmer newton-john harper day jose jose prince philip carter clegg nolan alagiah lloyd

Since Feb has so far been a very quiet month, there will not be any new names added. There should be plenty to choose from. If there is a flurry of death before the March entries start coming in, I will reconsider.

A very nice find, oldlady. I was playing Peter Tork every chance I got 10 years ago when he first got cancer as it sounded very bleak for him. But he contintued to do so well that I completely forgot about him until I saw him on your list this month. I still didn't think he was going to go. Sad he is gone but you made the most of it.

I cannot help you there either. Might be referring to the 2 teams that failed to submit a list in Rd 2, but they were eliminated that round so have not been playing since. Everyone else is "existent" to my knowledge. Sir Creep's post is cryptic to me at best, but it seems clear that his heart isn't in it at this point so hopefully his current score of 7 will hold up as the big score for the month which will gracefully release him from all obligations hereforth . . . . Clorox and Capn Chorizo may very well benefit!

Sir Creep, sir. Got your list, posted as of Friday, which has incurred a 7 pt penalty as thus: 3 pts for the death of a name on the master list (Mcgahan), which no one had on an active list (otherwise it would have been 3 pts plus the highest score incurred by a list containing mcgahan), plus one pt per day starting the 5th (4 pts). So I will get you posted, but you are in a hole. ALSO, you seem to have lapsed on the rules for this pool which state you cannot use names in consecutive months. Both Jimmy Carter and Marieke Vervoort were on your Jan list, so they are illegal here. Please sub in two legal names at the same spots ASAP. Otherwise if we get more hits I am going to have to figure out more penalty scenarios - sigh.

Not at all. I appreciate poolers like you that follow the scoring and help keep it straight. You had credit in Jan, and somehow in my translation to the Feb table it got vaporized. All fixed now, nothing personal.

Current standings (Feb 11th): 14 clorox 9 capn cho/gcrep 8 sir c 7 JMoney 5 MadHat/FixBus/msc/JRuss/Bentro/wormy 3 oldlady/newjack 2 quim/banana 1 Yorkshire Banker Everyone else has squat. I am allowing a new entrant in because it looks like up to 3 slackers may have dropped out already as they haven't ponied up a Feb team. Welcome to ebless, who has submitted the following: stan bowles vera lynn (4) doddie weir stirling moss (4) herman wouk (3) I am not adding him to the table above as of yet due to formatting difficulties with the original post. I will start including his team with the others next month, but his list is now active.

The above table is posted with the teams in order in which they were posted for Feb. I am thinking that although this table does not show the standings without a lot of effort, it makes it easier to follow the decrease in point value for names that are used by multiple teams. I will post the standings separately each month for clarity on those. Three teams have yet to come in, and we got a new entry even though the game is closed (ebless). I will consider letting latecomers into the game if it appears teams that signed on in Jan bail out and don't submit this month. The last 3 teams may fall in that category. I think the strategy here is interesting, with the push and pull of the incentives to post early vs. the disincentives of losing out on scoring opportunities. We already have scoring for Feb with Andrew McGahan!! I personally missed a double 5 pt score with him by one day - he was top name on my Jan list. Cest la vie.

Feb Teams 1 markb4 herman wouk Jean of Luxembourg prince philip leah bracknell bill turnbull 2 Bou1 vanessa redgrave rosalyn carter james deway watson javier perez decuellar kane tanaka 3 MadHatter +5 frank robinson 5 lee kerslake RB ginsburg olivia newton-john stirling moss 4 gcreptile +4+5 frank robinson 4 walter jones 5 harry reid micah bowie paul volcker 5 Fixed Business 5 lee kerslake 4 kirk douglas samula anoa'i nobby stiles johnny clegg 6 Sir Creep 4 (pen-3*)+7 frank robinson 3 walter jones 4 harry reid 4 micah bowie 4 paul volcker 4 7 Joe Moneypenny 2 + 5 le duc anh michael bowie andrew mcgahan 5 grace slick miiko taka 8 theoldlady 3+5 robert mugabe peter tork fernando ricksen RB ginsburg 4 johnny clegg 4 9 Bibliogryphon +4 mahatir mohammad beverly cleary hal holbrook tinto brass peter tork 4 10 Wormfarmer 2+3 fernando ricksen 4 kathleen blanco walter jones 3 bob barker JL trintignant 11 msc 5 billy clayton edmund capon wt johnson tanya gendle kathleen blanco 4 12 Philip harry reid 3 olivia newton-john 4 birch bayh bill brock john mccririck 13 OldCrem +5 vera lynn paul flynn 5 tina turner jose jose prince philip 14 Bentrovato 5 ozzy osbourne robert mugabe 4 leah bracknell 4 herman wouk 4 prunella scales 15 Quim Reaper 2+4 leah bracknell 3 paul flynn 4 nobby stiles 4 murray walker RB ginsburg 3 16 Captain Chorizo 7+2 walter jones 2 billy clayton 4 JL trintignant 4 denis goldberg rosita quintana 17 Clorox Bleachman 4 +10 rocky lockridge 5 andrew mcgahan 4 edmund capon 4 walter jones 1 tim conway 18 Banana +2 micah bowie 3 walter jones 0 frank robinson 2 peter tobin billy clayton 3 19 Death by Arsenic marcel zanini olivia dehavilland diana serra cary zizi jeanmarie michael bouquet 20 Joey Russ 4 +1 walter jones 0 frank robinson 1 billy clayton 2 james watson 4 lee kerslake 3 21 Newjack 3 le duc anh 4 edmund capon 3 frank robinson 0 kirk douglas 4 fernando ricksen 3 22 Yorkshire Banker 1 gustav gurneth eileen whelan baroness jill knight olga buzova katherine johnson Grimm Reaperness Prophet Unknown Man *Sir Creep is penalized his first Feb hit for duplication of gcreps list Clorox is on FIRE!

RD 5 Feb only 12 of us left! theoldlady wormfarmer bibliogryphon grim up north joey russ paddyfool QE II QE II greaves QE II alagiah trintignant newton-john deHavilland scales prince philip rogers bracknell carter cleary bracknell nolan scales deHavilland kissinger cardin deHavilland greaves QE II day reiner kissinger barker newton-john vervoort stiller bracknell jaffee douglas kissinger greaves newton-john deCuellar lear jose jose deHavilland stiller harper harper vervoort stiles reiner ferlinghetti mercier wouk stiller littlefeather carter p-orridge dumar prince philip rogers r mccain deCuellar dole scales en passant qtips msc cap'n cho +3 (late) clor bleach 3+2 late sir creep 3+4 late QE II alagiah newton-john flair alagiah illegal rogers newton-john alagiah vervoort newton-john frates nolan QE II lynn rogers vervoort illegal alagiah greaves douglas newton-john stevens norden james conway mugabe Nolan gilbert p-orridge frates rogers QE II greaves blanco schultz newton-john carter nolan frates flair de cuellar bracknell prince philip james alagiah prince philip kumar vervoort deHavilland scales reiner r mccain flair littlefeather stiller kissinger mercier rogers barker

Well, in general, things seem to be running smoothly into month 2 . . . . . except for an exchange between Sir Creep and gcreptile that I don't think pertains to anything that happened in this game, or if it does, it went over my head. However, then Sir Creep posted a team that was an intentional exact replicate of gcreptile's that was just posted, and I did reserve the right to penalize such a tactic. The penalty is partially already built in to the format, as all those names will earn Sir Creep one less point if they hit than they will for gcreptile. But since it was intentional and I am trying to discourage the strategy, I will also doc Sir Creep his first Feb hit. If no hits occur in Feb, then no harm done, and we start over in March. But from here on out, let's play nice boys. Don't make me hate being the commish. Although I feel it is less complicated than last year since you don't have to worry about ranking the names to point value and avoiding previously taken point slots, note that it is still important to keep track of how many times a name appears on posted lists! Point in case: as of Clorox Bleachman's post Walter Jones had been used 5 times so his value was down to 1 point. So all lists using Walter Jones after that are wasting a slot as he is now worth zero (Banana, Joey). That is all I will say on that and in the future if you get a hit and score zero points . . . . . you know why. We have 21 Feb teams in already, and with all the different names it is likely to be a busy month of scoring. I will post a table in the next couple of days.

I have some things to address at the end of the day, but for now only time to get in my team before they become worthless: Fernando Ricksen Kathleen Blanco Walter Jones Bob Barker Jean Louis Trintignant

Quim, it does not look good for your survival. The new names for RD 5 are up on the first post. I will go ahead and be the first to post my Feb (RD5) team, barring any disaster that gives me more than Quim's 2 points in the next 4 days. Wormfarmers RD 5 team QE 2 deHavilland cleary cardin kissinger jaffee lear vervoort stiller rogers

Thank you for catching that, I meant to say that you will NOT be able to replace the name. Fixed, all better now.

This is just a reminder for players who have not reread the rules and think they know what is going on from playing last year - - please reread the rules (first post) for major changes! You may post Feb lists early, but now if someone dies on your Feb list before Feb starts, you will NOT be able to replace them. This is in addition to nullifying your current Jan list. Also, check for last minute obits on your active list and post hits (even if no QO yet) BEFORE you post a new list, to confirm the death occurred before you nullify your active list with an early post. This year there is more incentive to post early - - more potential points per name if you are first, but the disincentives are also steeper. Thanks for playing, and I hope this new version of 5-4-3-2-1 is more challenging that last year's.

Sorry I missed it, it looks like a cool idea. Give me a shout out next year if you run it again.

Get a replacement name in at your #1 slot . . pronto!