Joey Russ

An interesting thing that came in my head: how many countries have your DDP hits come from. So far, I have gotten 10 countries from my hits: UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Syria. Wonder if I’ll get any new countries next year...

With Simon Ricketts now getting an obit, I’d say it’s almost certain at this point that Pity Da Foolz will get the win. Congrats man.

Either that or sometimes Michael Baggott shows up...

Well that was fun. Whitfield had 46 points when she went. I hope anyone who submits in the future can provide me with more subs since the potential of death is still a possibility. Also, 48 hour warning...

Ricketts would’ve been rejected regardless of whether he lived or die, so you would’ve done a replacement anyways...

I’m going to wait until I see a QO for June Whitfield to replace her. However, I will deal with Simon Ricketts’s replacement now, who was in 58th with 163 points. Subs coming in for him...

Well, viewing on a mobile device doesn’t help me at all.

Tbf, I did think that he would likely not get his obit immediately, though I could be wrong...

And the joker dies about an hour after I entered him. Typical...

Hulka is the person who runs the alt Obits competition.

If I had to guess, the lack of a Wikipedia page was probably a big part of why she was rejected.

Didn’t try Simon Ricketts this year, mainly because I tried him last year and he got rejected then.

I was pretty close to sending my deathrace team in when I discovered one of my picks, Bob Shields, died after entering hospice care. I don’t think my team will win, but I’m interested in seeing how well it does...

You have to feel bad for Hulka since he has to deal with a lot of people replacing a lot of picks...

Typically you should get a reply within the day to ask you about replacements. Hopefully you haven’t overestimated the threshold of some of your picks though...

That’s what we thought about Gord Downie and Errol Christie though...

Jimmy Carter till he dies

There was only one name that I was truly surprised at being rejected. But hey, that’s life...

Once again I have submitted an entry to this pool, which is the same entry as my crowdsource submission and the same entry as my shadow list. Good luck everyone...

Better than me though. A whopping 22 rejected names!

There are only 72 hours or so left to have a say on the list for 2019. Time does really fly by fast. Oh, and George Loinger only had 8 points when he died, so substituting his points was no problem...

After being tested to the wire on Alt Obits this year (22 rejected names!), I've finally finished submitting to that pool. Which leaves the following 4 pools remaining for me to enter: DL Prediction Game Deathrace Death By Numbers and of course the Derby Dead Pool

Israeli author Amos Oz dead at 79.

If any of you were going to pick Steffan Lewis here, don’t. Despite me being able to get it through in 2018, the host told me that letting Lewis through was a mistake, and as such won’t accept him in 2019. That clears things up for him hopefully...

Anyone else get the feeling of “feck, it’s really this close to the new year?” Cause I’m feeling that way right now...