Joey Russ

Joshi does lead to a lot of interesting scores for different ties, in different ways of course. For GreatUncleBulgaria and Grim Up North, well, I can only say sometimes a team doesn’t stand a chance as Banana and Spade are now 17 and 12 points behind respectively. In fact, Banana’s score of 23 points might be an individual record for the most points scored in one match (although I’m not certain about this). Meanwhile, An Fear Beag had Joshi on his team. Unfortunately for him so does Book, so the tie is still effectively the same with Book moving on to round 3 unless Fear Beag gets another differential hit. Annami does get to claw back some of his 11 point deficit against DDT but it might be a little bit too late to make a comeback. That doesn’t mean a comeback isn’t possible though. Take a look at Clorox here. Early on it seemed like he might’ve been doomed to be on the sidelines for round 3 with HDS’ early hits of Jim Crockett Jr and Luis Palau. However, Clorox first had the racehorse trainer Wayne DaCosta to close up his 6 point deficit. Now he gets his second hit with Joshi, and because the older of his two picks (DaCosta at 65) is younger than the younger of HDS’ two picks (Crockett at 76), Clorox has now taken the lead! Of course, there’s still a few days to go, but as it is, definitely a great job by him. YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 7 Grobler vs msc 0 - 12 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 6 - 9 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 12 - 6 Book vs An Fear Beag 12 - 12 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 6 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 6- 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 12 - 12 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 6 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 17 - 9 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 13 - 3 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 6 - 9 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 23 - 6 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 21 - 9 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

Bill Brock, former US Senator from Tennessee and one of the Secretary of Labors under Ronald Reagan has died at 90

Was listening to a song by Pharoah Sanders today, and I thought surely he must be dead by now given most jazz artists of his era are dead by now. Turns out he’s still living

Also I’m pretty sure this is who YOUREOUT meant to pick in the DDP given the usual picks they make, not the singer

Yankee great Bobby Brown is dead at 96

See Grim, what did I tell you? You don’t have the biggest squonking of this round. Unfortunately for GreatUncleBulgaria, they are now down a whopping 14 points against Banana. That’s just the way it goes sometimes though. YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 7 Grobler vs msc 0 - 12 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 6 - 9 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 12 - 6 Book vs An Fear Beag 9 - 9 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 6 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 6- 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 12 - 9 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 6 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 17 - 6 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 13 - 3 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 6 - 9 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 20 - 6 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 18 - 9 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

Yeah, Spade vs Grim isn’t really much of a horse race now, isn’t it? Spade’s already up by 9 which really seems to dampen Grim’s chances of moving on. If he has one consolation, it’s that he currently doesn’t have the biggest squonking of the round. Meanwhile, Clorox is actually making a bit of a comeback, though he’s still behind in his match. Still, it’s not over until it’s over... YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 7 Grobler vs msc 0 - 12 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 6 - 9 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 12 - 6 Book vs An Fear Beag 9 - 9 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 6 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 6- 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 12 - 9 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 6 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 17 - 6 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 13 - 3 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 6 - 9 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 16 - 6 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 18 - 9 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

Yep, that was my only off radar cup name before I submitted my team...

BBC obit

Lee Noble is out for the count now, and he might end up being a very decisive hits for multiple people. For starters, BuffaloPhil and Chorizo are no longer in a tie, and Chorizo takes a lead in that match. Meanwhile, Perhaps takes a 6 points lead against ThereWillBeDeaths7, and DDT gets his 11 points lead up against Annami. The most consequential matchup might be Book vs An Fear Beag. Their match is tied scorewise. However, because they both had Lorimer joker and Noble is younger than Jim Crockett Jr, Book now takes the lead. Honestly being a cup finalist isn’t a statistically a good thing for the following cup. Indeed, of the 6 finalists from 2017 - 2019, only one made it past round 2 the next year. It could be that An Fear Beag just could not avoid that curse either. YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 7 Grobler vs msc 0 - 12 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 6 - 9 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 12 - 6 Book vs An Fear Beag 9 - 9 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 6 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 6- 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 12 - 6 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 6 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 17 - 6 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 13 - 3 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 6 - 9 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 16 - 6 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 15 - 9 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

Btw, entries for the cup are now open since I sent in my (likely unneeded) team for April to safe keeping.

Ah, but if Tom Parker ends up dying this month, and nobody else on your team dies, then markb4 would advance to round 3

Lorimer was an extremely popular pick unsurprisingly. Indeed, a whopping 20/32 folk in this round chose Lorimer as their joker. So instead of explaining every single matchup that scores, I’ll just go through the one where there’s actually a bit of a shakeup. We begin with Yorkshire vs CalebH, where originally it looked like the banker might scrape on through with a classy Trevor Peacock hit. However, Yorkshire didn’t have Lorimer on him, which allowed CalebH to take the lead in that match. Msc was one of the few that didn’t joker Lorimer, but since grobler didn’t pick him, msc actually expands his lead to 12 points. Then, it looked like with none of the popular picks going, markb4 might have been able to last another round. However, Lorimer dying really dampens his chances as maryport takes a 6 points lead. He’s not the only draw that significantly changed though, as Wormfarmer and myself are also now behind 6 points and are really hoping for a miracle to last another round now. Finally there’s the two matchups of Reptile vs BabyBlue and DDT vs Annami, where in both matches both of them score, but they didn’t both joker him. For the former, Reptile expands his lead even more to a 10 point lead. The latter has Annami claw back a bit of DDT’s 11 points lead, though that lead is still 8 points. Because of Lorimer’s popularity, only two matches remain scoreless now, that being oldlady vs deadsox and Bibliogryphon vs Etush (although BuffaloPhil vs Chorizo are still in a draw as well) YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 7 Grobler vs msc 0 - 12 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 6 - 9 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 9 - 6 Book vs An Fear Beag 6 - 9 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 6 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 6- 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 12 - 6 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 6 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 14 - 6 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 13 - 3 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 6 - 6 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 16 - 6 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 15 - 9 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

Kent Taylor, founder and former CEO of Texas Roadhouse has died

Dead: EDIT: Have the mirror as a QO

I had Sylvain Sylvain here

Well there goes a potential sneaky pick for future dead pools

Honestly I think Covid is something that will never really go away completely but will probably be a lot like the flu for now on. IE we’d have to get vaccines every year for different strands of covid

Btw, if anyone wants a hint about who might be ill, Iain claimed that Douglas Hurd doesn’t have very long to live. I mean, he was so spot on with Vera Lynn back in late February of 2019 so surely he’s right now...

Turns out she nearly died of sepsis when she was diagnosed and was in a two week coma

Well look on the bright side. If things hold as they and someone doesn’t submit for round 3, you’re first up for the return of the lucky loser

He is a hit for msc, as well as DDT. Hopefully grobler and Annami hasn’t lost any good will for this round though, as they are now 9 and 11 points behind in their matches respectively. YorkshireBanker vs CalebH 4 - 0 Grobler vs msc 0 - 9 Djemba Djemba vs alt obits guy 0 - 3 Theoldlady vs deadsox 0 - 0 Perhaps vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 3 - 0 Book vs An Fear Beag 0 - 3 Markb4 vs maryportfuncity 0 - 0 Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer 0 - 0 HDS vs Clorox Bleachman 6 - 0 DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ 0 - 0 DevonDeathTrip vs Annami 11 - 0 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue 7 - 0 BuffaloPhil vs CaptainChorizo 0 - 0 Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria 10 - 0 Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North 9 - 3 Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies 0 - 0

So Vicky Phelan seems to be hospitalized for treatment side effects. Hm...

Can’t say this post aged very well, Palau gets a Mail obit easily