Joey Russ

We're back in February, so, if the first round draw happens on the 20th January, this gives everyone 18 days or so to decide if they want to enter the Cup or not. In 2017, deadsox beat Spade, he beat DDT and he beat Death Impends to win the first ever Deathlist Cup. In 2018, Sir Creep got to the final in swashbuckling form, only to find wily old DDT too much. And in 2019, Spade Cooley proved why he is one of the GOATs, dominating every single match he was in like it was nothing. Bou made a nice run in the cup too. Last year, rookie An Fear Beag blew it out of the park and beat every opponent he faced, including Death Impends in her second finals appearance. Will An Fear Beag make it 2 for 2? Or will anyone win? DeathByArsenic had a wonder run that lasted them all the way to the quarterfinals. It's a Cup, skill is good but so is luck. Come one, come all, and look at the rules... Some Basic Rules which I've tried to explain as simply as possible, but which are open for questions about how obvious things I've forgotten work. The Deathlist Cup 1. This will be a knockout tournament featuring one on one matchups between Deathlist forum posters. These matches will be determined by use of a random draw, using Random.org. 2. If we have an odd number of players ie 30 like in 2017, then certain players will get byes to the Second Round. This will be based on results from the 2019 Cup ie Winner first, then Runner up, semifinalists, etc etc. 3. Players, on receiving their randomly drawn opponent, will have a ten day period to send the Referee their First Eleven for the match by PM, and one sub in case of an early death. These eleven picks can be very low hanging fruit if you so wish, as the point of the game is to score as many “goals” during the month a match is played. ie, a perfect team would look like this 1. Alan Alda (joker) 2. Jeb Bush 3. George Bush Jr 4. Bill Clinton 5. Hilary Clinton 6. Barack Obama 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Walter Mondale 9. John Major 10. Tony Blair 11. Donald Trump subs 12. Melania Trump 13. Dick Cheney 14. Sarah Palin As an example. Though in reality, that team would be shit for actually scoring points... 4. PROHIBITIONS – The following picks will be PROHIBITED ie NOT ALLOWED: death row prisoners, anyone who is a prisoner of ISIS or similar terrorist groups, people solely famous for being ill and nothing else, animals, no kids (that’s anyone under the age of 18), no one missing in action who blatantly died already. 5. For clarification, my views on Famous for Being Ill are extremely lenient by forum standards. Is your pick an obscure in their own field type, like a historian from Trinidad? They’re fine. Is your pick someone who is in coma due to a heart attack, or a dad on his last Christmas, or the like, the type no one would have heard of for anything? Don’t pick them, there’s PLENTY of other better options. There’s enough Kate Bowler (published academic, cancer) types in the world that you don’t need Kate Cancer Mum of the Mirror Sob Story. Thank you. NOTE: If they are rejected for the DDP, they will also be automatically rejected here as well just FYI. 6. If in doubt, submit a pick, but the decision of the ref (me) is final and is not open to any court of appeal. If you think it’s a dodgy pick, it probably is. If you think the ref is a grumpy teenager, well, he is. 7. Each match will take place over the course of a single month. For example, a February match would take place from February 1st to February 28th (or 29th on a leap year), a March match from March 1st to March 31st and so on... 8. Games will be scored in the following manner: A person in your team dies = 3 points A unique person in your team dies = 1 more point (ie 1 bonus point) Fatality – Your joker. Double points Someone famous only for being ill dies – 0 points because not in the team (hah, bet you thought I wasn’t paying attention here) 9. Here is what happens in the case of a team member dying prematurely (ie on 28th Feb for the March game). If you discover this before the 3rd of the month, your top sub will automatically go into place. If it is discovered on the 3rd or after, sorry about your luck. If it turns out the person was dead and known to be (this is determined via a reference in a newspaper or magazine, not social media) then subs don’t come into play. This was a bone of contention in 2017, 2018, AND 2019 and I hope this clears that up. If it bloody well doesn’t I’m instituting a Hewlett Rule in 2022! 10. At the end of the month, the player in the match with the highest score wins that game, and will advance to the next round. The player who doesn’t have the highest score will lose, and be eliminated. 11. In the event of a draw, the following tiebreaks will be used: 1st tiebreak = number of hits 2nd tiebreak = average age of hits 3rd tiebreak = flip of a coin 4th tiebreak if needed = A little game of eenie meenie miny mo (hehe) 12. A player is only held to one team for a single match. If they win their match and advance to the next round, they may pick eleven entirely different people for the next round. In this way, folk who announce their terminal illness in, say, May, can be put to good dead pooling use. 13. Qualifying obits? Every single English language newspaper or magazine (ie Bleeding Cool for example) in the universe. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais and El Mundo. If you still can’t get a QO, well, really… The referee (Joey Russ) may make a judgement call based on what he is provided with, and that call will be final. Forum posts on Deathlist, and your own blog don't count, sorry. 14. For the removal of any doubt, any players who do not send in their team before the deadline will be DQ'd and replaced by the highest scoring loser. No matter how many sad PMs you send afterwards. Apologies aren’t allowed either Example Death Impends, Joey Russ, YoungWillz and msc hypothetically take part. Random.org gives us these matches: 1. Death Impends v Joey Russ (feck) 2. YoungWillz v msc This draw takes place in Month 1 (ie January) and is for matches taking place in Month 2 (February). After the draw, each player sends The Referee (ie Joey Russ) a team of Eleven Celebrities they think will snuff it in Month 2. Then, for the results: msc scores in Month 2 with a big name celebrity and a unique but obscure punk music historian. Young Willz gets a unique big name celebrity. The score is 7-4 to msc, who advances to the next round. Good luck!

Nisbet was a complete error on my end I’ll admit, I think I misread a recent article that made me think he was more dire than he clearly was. As for Ashton, I kept him mainly because I remember being really mad at dropping Sylvain and didn’t want to risk dropping another me pick, and I still feel he’s sooner rather than later. But yeah, I think my chances of winning really relies on calling 2/3 of Ashton/Hilland/Taylor correctly as well as having some other differentials from other teams not working like Robert Zimmer not getting a QO…

Decided to give Jeff Bridges a thread after his lymphoma diagnosis. As the dude would say, this diagnosis ain’t cool man.

From the front page obit, very rare humor from their obits: In the later parts of career, rumours had started to spread that Harris had a dark secret. It started to become clear that the clues had been there for years and then people started to come forward to substantiate the claims. Finally, it was revealed that Harris was indeed an Australian…

I remember him in research back in 2020. Keller was 100% known to everyone by the time he first showed up on your cup squad

I think that was before it was known how the yahoo change would actually impact the ddp at large. In the past, unless you were a best selling author like Ravi Zacharias a lot of these smaller Christian fundamentalist types were very much QO risks

His wife asks for prayers, blah blah blah blah blah…

It’s the well known hoax site. People still fall for it. Sigh…

You know, if somebody tries to accuse someone of being sexually repressed then it’s obvious that they’re truly the sexually oppressed person

Somehow she looks even better than Feinstein

5/5/2023 52 Del Shannon – Runaway 52 The Shadows – Apache 43 Roy Orbison – Only The Lonely 41 The Marcels – Blue Moon +4 38 Helen Shapiro – Walkin´ Back To Happiness 38 Petula Clark – Sailor 37 Jimmy Jones – Good Timin´ 35 John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me 32 Shirley Bassey – Reach For The Stars/Climb Ev'ry Mountain 32 Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight 29 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates – Shakin´ All Over 29 Johnny Tillotson – Poetry In Motion 25 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name Of) His Latest Flame/Little Sister 24 Helen Shapiro – You Don´t Know 21 The Everly Brothers – Temptation 19 Elvis Presley – It´s Now Or Never 18 Anthony Newley – Do You Mind 17 Michael Holliday – Starry Eyed 15 Eden Kane – Well I Ask You 10 Adam Faith – Poor Me 9 Johnny Preston – Running Bear  2 Floyd Cramer – On The Rebound -6

04 May 41 The Shadows – Apache 40 Del Shannon - Runaway 40 Roy Orbison – Only The Lonely 36 The Marcels – Blue Moon +4 32 Jimmy Jones – Good Timin’ 31 Petula Clark – Sailor 31 Helen Shapiro – Walkin´ Back To Happiness 30 John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me 29 Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight 28 Shirley Bassey – Reach For The Stars/Climb Ev'ry Mountain 26 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates – Shakin´ All Over 24 Helen Shapiro – You Don´t Know 24 Elvis Presley – It´s Now Or Never 22 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name Of) His Latest Flame/Little Sister 21 The Everly Brothers – Temptation 20 Michael Holliday – Starry Eyed 20 Johnny Preston – Running Bear 20 Anthony Newley – Do You Mind 20 Cliff Richard & The Shadows – I Love You 20 Johnny Tillotson – Poetry In Motion 18 Eden Kane – Well I Ask You 16 The Temperance Seven – You´re Driving Me Crazy 16 Floyd Cramer – On The Rebound 15 Elvis Presley – Surrender 14 Adam Faith - Poor Me 13 Eddie Cochran – Three Steps To Heaven 10 Andy Williams – Moon River 11 The Highwaymen – Michael 0 The Shadows – Kon-Tiki -6

24 The Marcels – Blue Moon +4 24 Shirley Bassey – Reach for the stars/Climb ev'ry mountain 20 Emile Ford & the Checkmates – What do you want to make those eyes at me for 20 Michael Holliday – Starry eyed 20 Anthony Newley – Why 20 Adam Faith – Poor me 20 Johnny Preston – Running Bear 20 Lonnie Donegan – My old man´s a dustman 20 Anthony Newley – Do you mind 20 The Everly Brothers – Cathy´s clown 20 Jimmy Jones – Good timin´ 20 Johnny Kidd & the Pirates – Shakin´ all over 20 The Shadows – Apache 20 Ricky Valance – Tell Laura I love her 20 Roy Orbison – Only the lonely 20 Elvis Presley – It´s now or never 20 Cliff Richard & the Shadows – I love you 20 Johnny Tillotson – Poetry in motion 20 Elvis Presley – Are you lonesome tonight 20 Petula Clark – Sailor 20 Everly Brothers – Walk right back/Ebony eyes 20 Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart 20 Floyd Cramer – On the rebound 20 The Temperace Seven – You´re driving me crazy 20 Elvis Presley – Surrender 20 Del Shannon – Runaway 20 The Everly Brothers – Temptation 20 Eden Kane – Well I ask you 20 Helen Shapiro – You don´t know 20 John Leyton – Johnny remember me 20 The Shadows – Kon-Tiki 20 The Highwaymen – Michael 20 Helen Shapiro – Walkin´ back to happiness 20 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s the name of) His latest flame/Little sister 20 Frankie Vaughn – Tower of strength 20 Danny Williams – Moon River 14 Eddie Cochran – Three steps to heaven 14 Cliff Richard & the Shadows – Please don´t tease -6

Should’ve probably taken more note of this

May 1 2023 40 White Town – Your Woman 31 No Doubt — Don’t Speak +4 28 Fatboy Slim — Praise You 26 Madonna — Vogue -6

Right, an uninspired lineup for this round Jimmy Carter Daniel Ellsberg Christy Dignam Steve McMichael Patrick Murray Carl Yarborough Linda Nolan Johnnie Irwin Denny Crum Esther Rantzen Frank Field James Whale Gloria Molina Graham Cavaney Joanne Woodward Rolf Harris Johnny Ruffo Simon Cowell (wildlife) John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs) Roberta Flack Mutulu Shakur Subs Teresa Taylor Michael Tilson Thomas Nigel Starmer Smith

68 No Doubt – Don’t Speak +4 42 White Town – Your Woman 35 Madonna — Vogue -6 27 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 7 Shakespears Sister – Stay 

53 Madonna – Vogue 51 No Doubt – Don’t Speak +4 39 White Town – Your Woman 29 Fatboy Slim — Praise You 25 The Fugees – Killing Me Softly 25 Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay 24 Adamski – Killer -6

Boo

48 Adamski – Killer 41 No Doubt – Don’t Speak +4 40 White Town – Your Woman 38 Madonna — Vogue 38 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 31 The Fugees – Killing Me Softly 26 Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay 20 Ace Of Base – All That She Wants -1 20 Coolio ft. L.V. – Gangsta´s Paradise 0 Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite -5

My mediocre team takes the lead once the racist lady’s QO comes…

Died the day before my birthday but I’m not complaining she didn’t live an extra day