Joey Russ

Bogdanoff’s QO for those who need it

Well that was quick

Pretty sure updating lists aren’t allowed

If you missed all the times his name was mentioned on forum where people were praying he’d see January 1st, that’s on you

Reminds me while I was running the crowdsourced list a few years back I actually accidentally marked down Godard as Jean Luc Picard

7 billion

Pretty sure his cancer was prostate cancer so yeah, unlikely to score this year

Only 11 similar picks with Banana. Yeah I’m not winning this year lol…

The thing is that Turner’s obituary was released on the 31st when he died. As such despite being a Turner picker myself I think I lean towards him not counting for Raymond Hewlett points

He’s already on msc’s team as well so he’s not unique

Probably not cause of IRL stuff, but if anyone else wants to takeover I’m more than willing to approve

Guess she didn’t have a lot to say then…

I approve of the Rick Davies pick.

We Fare Thee Well to Townes Van Zandt, who finished waiting around to die 25 years ago today aged 52

If you’re on mobile sometimes the list ends up being wonky

Oh, Tim Curley. Yeah, he’s such a bastard

Had Alexander under consideration for a bit but then a colleague of his died in December without any QO coverage. So yeah, assumed he was no hoper

And will probably stay that way for all eternity

Alrighty, besides Phelan and Nightbride here’s my other list of probable regrets: Don West - cancer returned pretty quickly, just was unsure enough if this was gonna be a case where it is quick or is something that could last multiple recurrences in the end Milos Zeman - earlier this month he seemed poised to take Arap Moi/Menem mantle, but after thinking about it his health was nowhere near as dire as those previous Rob Burrow - something seems off about him. Not in a frauding sense, but his case just confuses me all around Francoise Hardy - fascinating name, the lack of knowing what illness she has ultimately lead me to sidelining her Tim Keller - still not entirely sure on religious QO chances, my guess is more likely to not obit than obit Chris Croucher/Joe Exotic - classic case of frauding their extent of illnesses imo Gianluca Vialli - saw his cancer return after I feel that I was pretty satisfied with how my team turned out. Plus even with its return the cancer does seem slightly stable. Natty Wailer - not really a member of the Wailers and residing in Ireland? Yeah, that’s not really a good combination for getting a QO. Reminds me of Fergie Fredriksson Dwight Watson - would’ve been a Yahoo obit gamble but already had one with NBA ref Tony Brown, don’t need another one Alyson Williams - another one that came in too late. Also had Bobby Caldwell on my team and didnt need more than one hospitalized musician on my team. Antonio Inoki - ditto minus the music part Tom Weiskopf - similar to Phelan never looked too deep into him. Probably another regret Rob Bolland - no room really Yeah, as you might tell not too in-depth research this time…

Alright, reject list time. Already mentioned Gary Beikirch, here were my four other names that ended up being a no: 1. Chris Croucher 2. Steve Lieberman 3. Kenneth Mitchell (this one legit stunned me) 4. Natty Wailer

Please no

Always at least one major names/update I miss, this time it’s the news that Vicky Phelan is in palliative. I’m not expecting to win, I’m just hoping that this team will go far better than my abysmal performance last year: Gary Burgess (joker) Pele John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs guitarist) George Perez Frank Field Linda Nolan Steve Lieberman Russell Bishop Susie Steiner Gavin Robertson Jana Bennett Tony Brown Julia Reichert James Whale Larry Pressler Vic Elford Kenneth Mitchell Jake “The Snake” Roberts George Alagiah Bobby Caldwel

Man, time flies by really fast, doesn't it? Well, we are on the cusp of a new record for 2020 with 21 dead so far. The question then becomes will the 2021 edition be able to top our current list? We will see, but for the time being let's go over the rules, shall we? THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Joey Russ, during the time period of 27th November to the 31st December 2020. The list must have a minimum of 20 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Please send them by either PM or the Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2021. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and less Dewayne "Monsanto Man" Johnson, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2020 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier dead line is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrites from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2020 survivors will be used: Alex Trebek, Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Alagiah, David Gulpilil, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Beverly Cleary, Betty White, Henry Kissinger, Leslie Phillips, Bob Barker, Glynis Johns, Larry King, Rosalynn Carter, Sidney Poitier, Pope Benedict, Dilip Kumar, Tom Smith, Willie Nelson, Harry Reid, Lata Mangeshkar, Joanne Woodward, Jimmy Greaves, Prunella Scales, Eva Marie Saint, Clarissa Eden, Desmond Tutu Some names there I don’t think anyone expected to be in contention for 2021, but there’s still time in 2020 yet. 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2020 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. Anyhow, enjoy. Or not.