Joey Russ

Well, let's look at the top four after Christie's death, shall we? Golden Slumbers is still in the lead with a total of 120 points. David Quantick Showbiz Pals is in 2nd with 113 points in total. Then a new person hits the podium for the first time this year (or at least for a long while, as he might've been a podium placer when Barrett unique died until John Wetton died or all the Sims jokers were played), as the Perez Christie joker one-two puts Thomas Jefferson Survives at 107 points. Finally in fourth place, we have To Kill A Gabor Sister with a total of 105 points at the moment. All four of them are ahead of Shameless, who is still at 101 points due to the nature of their team (they obviously couldn't make an exception for Christie). Well, let's look at two potential deaths that seem to be coming sometime soon, Paul Van Zandvliet and Rayya Elias. If Zandvliet dies first, then it will be Golden Slumbers at 129 points with Death Impends at second with 116 points. If Rayya Elias dies first, it'll be David Quantick Showbiz Pals first at 122 points, Golden Slumbers second at 120 points, and Thomas Jefferson Survives third at 116 points. They all would be in touching range of each other. If however, both Elias and Zandvliet dies, then the scoreboard will look like this: Golden Slumbers: 129 Thomas Jefferson Survives: 125 David Quantick Showbiz Pals: 122 RadGuy's best hope to catch up to them (and win) is for Loughlin to die, and Byrne to have a worse cancer than expected, as well as Spiridinov to die and obit and Salmon to be legit and Nevin to be fraud (as she doesn't affect the position of the top 3 at all). Loughlin and two others basically for RadGuy to have a fighting chance. I think the biggest game changer, however, will lie in 2 particular picks: Simon Ricketts and Stefan Karl Stefansson (Greg Gilbert is also an important candidate as well, but not necessarily as crucial imo). Any of the four of them can win if the combination falls into the following ways: Bert can win if either none of those picks die or Simon Ricketts dies, but not Stefan Karl Stefansson or Greg Gilbert. He also has Bruce Forsyth, which looks like a 50/50 gamble, and Patrick Cryne, but while he is terminal, we don't know how long he's been ill for. Oh, Meads needs to survive as well. Spade can win if either Gilbert or Stefansson dies, and Forsyth, Cryne, and Booth doesn't die, or if none of them die, but the Jagraj Singh gamble works (and he doesn't have the advantage of social media presence unlike Julia Perez, so that's something to note). RadGuy: Can win if neither of Nevin or Meads dies as well as getting all of Stefansson, Gilbert, and Ricketts, or having Nevin and Meads die, but get Loughlin and someone else of the other three I've mentioned. Death Impends needs all of Meads, Ricketts, and Stefansson to die to beat Bert, but Booth also needs to die to beat RadGuy if scenario #2 happens, minus potentially Greg Gilbert. I know these are the top 4 right now, but I must also note of gcreptile's team. It certainly looks a dark horse in this competition, and could be the Spade 2013 type sneak up I mentioned in the Rolling Probability thread (though he put's his team up there, his team is pretty low at the moment in comparison to the other contenders). I'm going to make a bold prediction and say the current top 4 plus The Love Boat will be the top 5 in the end. Sorry if this review sounded kind of complex, but there are so many possibilities for a win with so few who could actually win it at this point imo.

Tbf, I thought he was going to die earlier in the year...

Well, if the person is dead, then it isn't really a waste of a spot now, is it?

Actually can I replace Mutrie's replacement (whoever they are) with Dean Francis?

Again for me.

I'm sure if we did, Maryport would not hand us the victory. Still, your strategy of picking seventh really seem to help you a lot.

Very sad case for sure. RIP

David Rockefeller is crying in his grave now, not that anyone really gives a fuck.

David Prowse, cause I'm a fucking rebel.

Nice one.

She's probably one of the worst picks on the list tbh. Not as bad as David Prowse or Gay Byrne, but she's certainly up there.

Harry Belafonte: the one who did The Banana Boat Song. It'll get stuck in your head once you hear it.

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Well done Rover for your first victory on a game. I wonder if should do one on the 2018 midterm US election, if anyone else would like to participate (not that it's coming any time soon, but its an idea that came to my head). I didn't participate in this cause I had no idea what the U.K. Parliament was like, but I might try next time. Anyways, once again, well done Rover.

I'm as confident of her not dying on this year's list as my ability to nominate Ben Suisala as my joker.

It was her social media presence that got her an obit in the end. Ah, at least she was an actual celebrity, unlike the shameless fodder that receives a mirror obit...

^

Yeah, but while did say that he would give his account, the question is will he actually testify. I'm not a hundred percent sure if that'll happen or not.

I know this thread is very U.K. politics based, and I don't want to start a thread just focused on US Politics, so I want to try to bring a very thing that happened the same day as the U.K. snap election, the testimony of James Comey. It's really hinted to a lot of people that Trump is really a liar, and really a much different person than other presidents in the past (both democratic and republican). It also notes that Trump tried to lightly pressure director Comey to hold off the investigation. Now, is that enough for the impeachment of Trump, as many far left people are saying? Absolutely not. In fact, I think I can safely say that he won't get impeached for at least six months, and that's likely to be much longer than that. I think Trump will eventually resign or get impeached, when there are enough clear signs and conclusions that Trump did in fact commit obstruction of justice, but that won't happen for a long while yet. Anyways, what are your thoughts on this? (PS, if an admin decides that there should be a thread that is just focused on American politics, then by all means, they can make the thread).

That was more of a why didn't I take a punt on her disappointment, not mad at Death Impends for taking advantage of her obitality. That was a good, well done punt.

Ah fuck...

Even if it is true, we need to here a confirmation from both sides...

Your right. It's going to be Christie (he's in hospice care with over 100 tumors).

Wow. I never thought 2 trolls would ever come in contact. That's absolutely amazing.