Joey Russ

Ah well, since Maryport decided to open the Deathrace thread, I think that it's time to open up this dead pool, which could be considered to be a kickoff to a brand new dead pooling season. So here we are, another year of the Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day. And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2017. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes joeyruss's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and there choice of candidates: 1. Sean – King Michael of Romania 2. YoungWilz – Bob Newhart 3. Spade Cooley– Rabbi Ephraim Einhorn 4. CaptainChorizo – Sir Wilson Harris 5. Grim Up North – Ami Brown 6. Bibliogryphon – Carol Channing 7. Msc – Peter Overton (footballer) 8. EricDjembaDjemba - Lucia Hiriart 9. Bentrovato - Shane McGowan 10. Toast - Nobby Stiles 11. Gcreptile - Naryan Datt Tiwari 12. RadGuy - Franco Zeffirelli 13. FixedBuissiness - Valerie Harper 14. Bou1 - Billy Graham 15. Death Impends - Andrew Apostoli 16. Youwanticewiththat - Johnny Hallyday 17. Torva Messor - Marsha Hunt 18. drol - Patrick Cryne 19. time - Bill Lucas 20. TheQuimReaper - Leah Bracknell 21. CoffinLodger - Leslie Phillips 22. JQW - Mark E Smith 23. Ripley - Rayya Elias 24. redrumors - Queen Elizabeth 25. Joey Russ - Vanessa Goodwin Lets look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 Death Impends (with his old avatar) 2017 Sean Good luck everyone.

I’m not sure what happened...

Rapist Antoni Imiela will probably be spending eternity in hell now at the age of 63.

Not as great of a dictator as Donald Trump. He'll tell ya, he's the best dictator you'll ever know, and any evidence against that is fake news.

Reveals fear of leaving daughters behind...

It was actually Spade who posted that, but I understand why you confused him with Maryport. For some reason, the site has it when you link a post from elsewhere, you have a big photo of the creator of the thread whereas the person who wrote the post is just small at the very top part. I have no idea why it’s structured like that...

Deathray, have you considered checking into psychiatric care? You really haven’t seem to be yourself over the past few months...

Pretty sure he was talking about Sir Roger Bannister when he made that comment...

Alright, I’m getting tired of the very shitty posts by the Dalai Lama. Gives me memories of Africa777 tbh...

Here you go.

Wall Street friend Gary Cohn has resigned. His poor presidency continues...

Alan Gershwin, who is supposedly the lost son of George Gershwin, is dead at 91.

From the article, I think he might have a few years left. However, if the cancer spread to vital organs quicker than expected, then yes, he looks like a cert for the deathlist.

I told him I thought he posted in the wrong thread in that thread, but I'm guessing that he blocked me again...

Did you mean to post that in the death anniversary thread?

I don't think that Jerry Maren is notable enough for the deathlist tbqhwy. Sure, he is one of the munchkins who performed the Lollipop Guild and he's the last surviving one of the munchkins, but that's really all he's known for. Basically he's a one hit wonder in acting, and it's in a role that I don't think had more than five minutes of screen time...

Tobe Hooper got snubbed as well. I mean, Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn’t academy material, but considering how iconic it has become, it’s surprising...

Congrats John Key for winning this.

I think your politics team is currently tied for first along with a theme focusing on football called Sudden Death as I checked the overall leaderboard. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong though.

Get some good rest msc. You are definitely a great host for this, and I honestly can’t think of anyone who can do this better.

Congrats on your trio with Roger Bannister Toast.

I don’t think he’s that big of a miss tbh. No doubt that he’s notable, but people do often last a while with Parkinson’s disease. Apart from Nobby Stiles when he goes this year (I think he probably will), I don’t think there will be a true miss this year, even though I know people will argue that Liam Miller and Morgan Tsvangirai are big misses...

I hope that you’re ok Dead Cow...

Chris Betancourt is aiming to have the world record of the most bone marrow transplant sign up.