Joey Russ

Think we’re done for the year. Disappointing, I know

Yeah, he was an alt obits reject pick for me but I too thought he was a no chance of getting an obit

Just bringing it up that hosting position is still open. I know someone said they were willing to do it, but still need an official confirmation from them…

I see Bob Fass still hasn’t been noted as LOTL

Weirdly my joke Bobby Caldwell suggestion from last year might end up being fruitful after all.

Do you have a Floyd Little shaped hole in your shortlist you want to fill? Then don’t fear, Curley Culp can fit as he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Weirdly the New York Times got an obit out for Eden before the BBC did.

I believe this was one of those survival games, which means book would be out.

Ah darn, I was hoping she’d be a unique DDP pick for me.

Probably a smart choice, otherwise he would face the reality of losing his brain like what happened to Chuck Grassley and Diane Feinstein…

Well guys, it’s that time of year again where we go on to suggest our favorite Pokemon Gamer from Virginia and co that will ultimately be ignored by the committee once again. So who do you think should make the list come 2021? I’ll start out by saying that Larry King better return to the list...

I'm not sure if a thread like this has been done before, but after doing some research on another topic, this idea popped into my head. So I wonder, what decisions in dead pooling have you made in the past that you regret making? I'll start with a few of my own: 1. Picking Alan Aspin and Ben Suisala in the DDP last year. There's a couple of reasons I regret this, one being of course that they died and didn't obit, but it's more due to the fact that a. I gambled on a FFBI type (and jokered one of them), and b. later realizing that, in hindsight, this type of FFBI were never going to obit afterwards (which is partly why I steered clear of Ian Toothill despite all of his coverage when he did his amazing feat). It did make me realize though that FFBI types aren't really worth picking, and steered completely away from them, even if the last person dropped did die and obit (Sara Chivers). 2. Linda Nolan, this DDP pick is embarrassing to me because I never even considered her till the final days of last year, and she replaced, imo, an even stronger DDP pick that I could've chose (Nobby Stiles). 3. Going away from the realm of the DDP, probably my biggest dead pooling regret thus far has to be choosing Pete Sampras in Windy City 2017 - 2018. While replacing him with another sub wouldn't have changed my ranking in the pool, I should've at least done some research on him before submitting my Windy City team (although, iirc, there was another major life event that happened the same day I submitted, so I have a small bit of leeway I think).

She must’ve been killed by her boyfriend injecting the vaccine in her then.

You know, in case anyone is struggling for potential picks, there’s always choose Ryan Buell. I mean look at that face, your telling me nobody wants to punch him so badly?

While true, they went quite experimental in 2017 after a mediocre 2016 and Mario Soares was not picked. Which puts even more doubt into them picking Zeman

Since I’m no longer a crowdsourced host… Y’all better get Ozzy Osbourne on the list this year.

Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual 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 not being executed within that month 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 2020. 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 organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations 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 Joey Russ'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 their choice of candidates: Sean - Dai Davies The Daredevil - Gerd Muller Sir Creep - Floyd Little gcreptile - Hubert Auriol Spade_Cooley - Zafarullah Khan Jamali drol - Saleh Ajery The Old Crem - James Whale theoldlady - Larry King CaptainChorizo - Litsa Menounous Perhaps - Tommy Lasorda msc - Divya Bhatnagar Toast - Mairead Philpott Bibliogryphon - Rush Limbaugh Banana - Rob Orkies chilean way - Leon Spinks The Quim Reaper - Yoko Ono The Mad Hatter - Valery Giscard d’Estaing HDS - Susan Bayh YoungWillz - Tom Smith Grim Up North - Nick Hitchon Book - Ged Stokes Death Impends - Renee Simonot En Passant - Prince Philip ThereWillBeDeaths7 - Leslie Phillips Joey Russ - Sylvain Sylvain Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016  Death Impends  2017 Sean 2018 Banana 2019 gcreptile Good luck everyone.

Gary Burgess should be a hit this year for me which would make up more ground to Chorizo, but outside of him no idea where I can sneak that win. If only that LG Petrov Yahoo obit translated to the UK…

Twitter is reporting that Pat Martino is dead. Awaiting more info of course… Well, there’s also this

Just the enigma that is David Gulpilil left for Reptile…

Haven’t really done too much research tbh, but I suppose I can bring two fascinating names that have never been mentioned before that I’ve also been listening to lately. Admittedly both are a QO risk but they definitely can be useful for smaller pools. First is Alain Goraguer, who worked with Serge Gainsbourg previously. He also composed film soundtracks such as Fantastic Planet (La planete sauvage) since the 1970s. Second is Gil Trythall, who is a classical pianist. However he is more known for his ventures into electronic music, particularly the album that uses country songs entirely with a moog synthesizer.

Make that married now

I’m sure folk are wondering about whether Amani Liquat (Also mentioned in the article) is DDP worthy. They only have about 500 subscribers on YouTube though, which might be a bit under the YouTube threshold…

Rob Halford had a cancer diagnosis, although he’s currently in remission