Joey Russ

Where I live, if there was even two inches of snow on the ground, school would be canceled (though we rarely receive snow that is more than 6 inches tbf). The place I lived before now I still had to go to school when there was between 2 - 3 feet, but the climate is used to that...

Again, see my above comment and others. In other news with him, he's being brought up to the US for treatment... EDIT: Oh. Don't think it was ever explicitly mentioned though...

Hm. That source doesn’t sound very reliable tbh...

That’ll be a pisser for those hoping for a party pooper bonus...

I don’t doubt that he’ll get a QO. Worst case scenario is that he’s get on hold for a week before a Guardian or Telegraph nod happens, though I expect much more...

Confirmed to be hospitalized due to pancreatic cancer. Not surprised that he had relapsed at all...

Gut feeling is Jose Jose, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see them both dead by the end of the month...

Hopefully that’s also a good sign for a certain Australian rock guitarist who’s currently battling lung cancer...

Kudos msc for the gamble. I was too unsure of an obit for him to punt on my team, so congrats on the gamble...

Yeah, it kind of has the feel of a calm before the storm. I expect another big wave of deaths to come soon tbh (though it hasn’t been completely quiet, as the former lead singer of the temptations and John Mahoney went during the last week)...

We begin the real update number one with a nobody. That's right, Sara Chivers is the very first hit of the year. All three of the shameless begins with one base point, one first hit of the year point, and one for every person they guess in order until they jump back points. However, they also lose a point since they have chosen a shameless type on their team. I felt like increasing it to two cause of my annoyance of a shameless type being first, but I'm not that mean. msc gets an extra point for having her at spot 45. The second (and final) hit for this update is Paul Alcock. Everyone gets 1 starting point, and everyone except RadGuy and drol gets an extra point for guessing every pick in order till they jump back, though I can guarantee that it's the last time msc will be getting that. Chorizo gets an extra point for having him at spot #2 as well as Phantom, msc gets an extra point for having him at spot 50, drol gets an extra point for having him at spot #1, and CastAway gets an extra point for having him at spot number 2. Here are the scores! 1st - The Dead Cow - 7 points 2nd= - drol - 5 points 2nd= - Toast - 5 points 4th= - CaptainChorizo - 4 point 4th= - CastAway - 4 points 4th= - Phantom of the Midway - 4 points 7th= - Book - 3 points 7th= - Gooseberry Crumble - 3 points 7th - Msc - 3 points 7th= - Pedro67 - 3 points 7th= - Torva Messor - 3 points 12th - FixedBusiness - 2 points 13th= - Bibliogryphon - 1 point 13th= - Death Impends - 1 point 13th= - Heef - 1 point 13th= - Joey Russ - 1 point 13th = - Unknown Man - 1 point 13th= - YoungWilz - 1 point The Dead Cow is still in the lead after this update, but it's early days though. Drol and Toast share the remaining podium places. Kudos to msc though, started out with negative 3 points, and now he jumped up to positive 3 points. As for me, I currently share the same place as Death Impends...

And here’s the sun giving him a QO (not the best source, but the first UK one to give the obit. I personally expect much more for him)...

I know not everyone is a fan of the black lives matter movement, but in the terrorist thread, really? What terrorist acts have they even done? I could see someone seeing them as a bigot, and I wouldn’t argue as much even though I would disagree, but they are definitely not for the terrorists thread...

I think I was wrong of rejecting him from my deathlist cup team at last minute...

Appoints an acting leader till he returns. Tbh, I’m not certain that he will return with the health problems he’s constantly facing...

Peter Falk clearly...

Probably less than the 35 posts you made in the past two days...

First update is coming tomorrow, featuring Sara Chivers and Paul Alcock. Thinking Barys Kit might be list of the lost I'm afraid, which would unfortunately be to the annoyance of 8 teams hoping to score points with him...

Now this is the tweet that I assume that the above newspaper quotes. However, while I don’t expect him to gain all the followers in the world, are we sure that an account with only 6,000 followers is really him?

I’m not sure what to believe...

It’s looking like the first Crowdsource hit will also be #50 on the list...

No doubt this would’ve received a lot of criticism if this was released today.

@Prophet Definitely a very good and long list. Though surely you meant John Cocks when you said Paul Cocks on your list...

So, about 1 month from the beginning of the year, I have unhighlighted Patrick Cryne back to black, as well as adding Jessica Falkholt in place of Tapie (I just chose to remove a random 7 pointer) as I slowly evolve this into a team that you could've made with 20. I'm not sure if Falkholt will be in the final 20 at the end of the year as car crashes are always 50/50, and I felt this should be more faced on known illness rather than the most likely to die. I have also thought about adding Mark E Smith and Paul Alcock, but decided against them since they didn't receive that much publicity and are only worth 8 points whereas Bobby Zarin already received a lot of public attention at least on these forums. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve this so I could put out the best possible team by the end of the year... Leah Bracknell Patrick Cryne Rayya Elias (still joker) Jessica Falkholt Dean Francis Greg Gilbert Vanessa Goodwin Clive James Tessa Jowell Devin Lima Peter Lorimer John McCain Liam Miller Olivia Newton-John Fernando Ricksen Nobby Stiles Stefan Karl Stefansson Morgan Tsvangirai Marieke Vervoort Bobby Zarin