Joey Russ

1. Spade_Cooley 2. Boudicca 3. Banana 4. Clorox 5. TQR 6. Death Impends 7. Chorizo 8. Reptile 9. Mad hatter (have yet to confirm entry) 10. Torva (have yet to confirm entry) 11. Book 13. Deadsox 14. Bibliogryphon 15. John key 16. DDT 17. Dead cow (have yet to confirm entry) 18. Old lady 19. Heef (have yet to confirm entry) 20. Grim 21. Alt obit guys 22. Deathray 23. Engineer 24. Maryport  25. Young willz 26. Joey russ 27. Msc 28. Sir creep 29. Yorkshire banker  30. Skinny kiltrunner 31. Master tech (have yet to confirm entry) 32. Joemoneypennny Updated state of play for byes. If you don’t see your name on the list, it means you’re playing in round one. This includes anyone else who plans on joining the cup in the next few days. Unless your name is charon. Then it just means another forum ban for you. You can also see that your host is getting kind of close into being played into round 1, so if we can get 6 more people to join the cup, you’ve just guaranteed to have me play in round 1.

Yeah, take care @Pedro67. You are always welcome back to the cup in the future

Alt Obits 2019 is now closed, and Allen Kirshner has officially won again. Congratulations.

Cup entries ends in 4 days...

Will keep that in mind while rigging the draw then.

Uh, Sir Creep? Apparently you missed this post...

Oh you do get a bye right now. In fact, at the moment everyone who made it to at least round 2 gets a bye. That is, until more people join, then things will shake up...

As of now only 3 people who competed in 2019 have to compete within round 1. So if you’re in the top 8, you’ll most likely get a bye...

Here’s my squad. Narrowed it down to 55 and then randomized that list of 55: Kissinger, Henry Cameron, Earl Andretti, John (Joker) Fleming, Rhonda Stiles, Nobby Smullen, Pat Doleman, Chris (Joker) Nelson, Willie Cale, John Lewis, John Obayashi, Nobuhiko Cribbins, Bernard Smith, Tom (Joker) Cunningham, Walter Frankland, William Delon, Alain Aldrin, Buzz Gascoine, Jill Sang-chul, Yoo Atkins, Ronald Bennett, Jana Baxter, Stanley arap Moi, Daniel Aaron, Hank Bennett, Tony Adelson, Sheldon Blake, Quentin Trintignant, Jean-Louis Saint, Eva Marie Marcos, Imelda Downs, Hugh Gorbachev, Mikhail Champion, Marge Crosby, David Greaves, Jimmy Anthony, Ray Johns, Glynis Cisovsky, Marian NQO P-Orridge, Genesis (Joker) Bergman, Alan Jones, Terry DNS Hume, John Trebek, Alex (Joker) Carle, Eric Bilton, Tim Philip, Prince Banali, Frankie Gulpilil, David Bayh, Susan Dole, Bob Subs Johnson, Katherine Hagen, David Carter, Jimmy Tobin, Peter Bacharach, Burt

Depeche Mode The Doobie Brothers Whitney Houston Nine Inch Nails The Notorious B.I.G. T. Rex The 2020 inductees

I must give a special shoutout to Dr Shipman’s Waiting Room. Their entire team has a grand total of 0 drop 40 picks and 0 uniques. An amazing feat onto itself.

Am completely stunned that Alauddin Ali, Bibian Mentel, and Majek Fashek we’re on the database whereas folk such as Jeffrey Foskett and Peter Schjeldahl were declined. Really inconsistent...

Alright, it looks like Skinny’s pool just began the process of locking down, so here’s my list: Alauddin Ali Bibian Mentel Chris Doleman David Gulpilil Frankie Banali Genesis P-Orridge Gianluca Vialli John Andretti Julie Strain Lars Hogh Majek Fashek Mark Howard Neddy Smith Oskar Lindblom Peter Tobin Stanley Crouch Susan Bayh Sylvain Sylvain Terry Jones Yoo Sang-chul

Excellent job. Surprised John Lewis is drop 40, but I’m certainly not complaining about that at all. Means my lowest point names are Jana Bennett and Susan Bayh at 8 points a piece. Will that prove to be helpful for me? We’ll have to wait and see. In the mean time, thank you all so much for running this, and good luck to all of the competitors.

Can confirm I made the first cup draw now. This will change if more people sign up (and again, please do), but what I can say for sure is that round 1 and round 2 looks quite interesting.

I have mine kind of set, including a couple of how the fuck they got on names. (I can assure you that none of the names I’ve tried adding to database got in or are still waiting for a response, so all have been on the database before I got on before now)...

Cross posting here, which yeah, seems super grim...

And I believe we now have our first 2019 team who has to compete in round 1. Sorry @markb4

Julie Strain dead

I've already got someone in mind to submit my list to. As it stands, the only people to play in round 1 are those who did not participate in the cup in 2019. That'd be JiroemonKimura, grobler, HDS, Annami, An Fear Bag, LizLemon, and Sean. Additionally, if nothing else changes, one of those names will get a randomly drawn bye into round 2. However, if more names enter into the cup in 2020 (and by all means, please do), then some of last years folk will have to play again. Most likely to play again in round 1 are markb4, Great Uncle Bulgaria, and The Old Crem. For reference, here is the entire bye list barring a few folk who probably won't return in 2020: 1. Spade_Cooley 2. Boudicca 3. Banana 4. Clorox 5. TQR 6. Death Impends 7. Chorizo 8. Reptile 9. Mad hatter (have yet to confirm entry) 10. Torva (have yet to confirm entry) 11. Book 12. Pedro (have yet to confirm entry) 13. Deadsox 14. Bibliogryphon 15. John key (have yet to confirm entry) 16. DDT 17. Dead cow (have yet to confirm entry) 18. Old lady 19. Heef (have yet to confirm entry) 20. Grim 21. Alt obit guys 22. Deathray 23. Engineer 24. Maryport 25. Young willz 26. Joey russ 27. Msc 28. Sir creep 29. Yorkshire banker 30. Skinny kiltrunner 31. Master tech (have yet to confirm entry) 32. Joemoneypennny (have yet to confirm entry) 33. Wormfarmer 34. Buffalophil (have yet to confirm entry) 35. Nantonian (have yet to confirm entry) 36. Unknown man (have yet to confirm entry) 37. Old crem 38. Exu (have yet to comfirm entry) 39. Great uncle Bulgaria 40. Markb4 41. Fixed Business (have yet to confirm entry) 42. Time (have yet to confirm entry) 43. Squonk (have yet to confirm entry) If you notice a "have yet to confirm entry" thing by your name and intend to play again, this is a warning to you. Also, if you are able to force the host into round 1, well, that might be an achievement on your end. As you can see, it's not that difficult to do at all...

Yeah, no reason a knighted, highly respected (to some people) philosopher and government advisor should ever receive a QO...

There’s about a week left to enter. Well, truthfully I think we got about 80% of the participants at least for this, but in case you have forgotten about the cup, entering the cup is still open...

Tbf, Last did have some (very minor) fame before her cancer was known, although I totally understand if you think she was super fringey.

Cory Booker suspends his campaign, leaving 12. Which was what I believe was left at the Republican Iowa Caucus in 2016...