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Not just Australia y'know.

Pretty much underway at last. Good luck to the small number of participants!

I'm keen

Email sent. Will be awful due to being on holiday, using a phone and having left any info at home. Poor planning on my part it would seem.

Hey hey. Haven't posted in a while and trying to put together three teams on a phone using patchy hotel wifi. Is it still 20 team members and up to 3 teams?

David Storey also died back in March.

Jim Anderton, former NZ Deputy PM is apparently in declining health. Perhaps just about known enough in the UK to get a Grauniad obit.

Here here. Congratultions to DeadSox! Great tournament, well run and interesting to boot. Good stuff.

Good luck to all involved.

I've got 3 teams. I think that's your maximum.

Yes. I had noticed I forgot to post my team, but as I'd missed the deadline and failed to share it with anyone in advance I thought it best to quietly forget my team for this year. Far from ideal, I realise.

Wow. I came (a distant) second? Go team Kiwi!

I don't think I went particularly well. Most of my hits had small majorities in the first place. Should have just picked 25 SNP seats at random.

Oh. And aren't you overdue for a new PM?

I vaguely followed the long drawn out painful process of the Australian election on abc.com.au last time around. Seriously, you guys have some real problems that haven't hit us in NZ yet. Why do you bother with state legislatures which are as incompetent as they are volatile and bloody expensive to boot. Surely the equally volatile federal parliament could do it all. I mean, a separate state parliament for Tasmania? Bloody Norah. And while you're at constitutional reform, could you remove NZ from your constitution? Cheers bro!

Crickey. You get more than your fair share of nutters over the ditch. I think my favourite Aussie nutter is the Liberal Democrat libertarian nutbar Leyonheym (sic.)

Ipswich? I'd have thought such shenanigans would go down well with his electorate.

For the terminally angry and embittered, perhaps so.

More notable names for whom? I would have thought your anti-FFBI rules would be enough to ensure notable names without needing to exclude overseas obits. Ah well, your game - your rules.

DDP obit rules are in force, so that means only the standard UK-type sources are in the field? Shame. I liked the more global aspect of the Deathlist Cup obit sources.

I'll have a stab. Apologies if any of these names are out of date. Hopefully about right. Banking on a ~5% swing to Tory, with some local adjustments in favour of Labour and some bigger swings where large UKIP vote shifts to Tory. 1. City of Chester (CON gain) 2. Ilford North (CON gain) 3 Southampton Itchen (LAB gain) 4. Morley and Outwood (LAB gain) 5. Vale of Clwyd (LAB gain) 6. Dudley North (CON gain) 7. Thurrock (LAB gain) 8. Mansfield (CON gain) 9. Blackpool South (CON gain) 10. Brighton Kemptown (LAB gain) 11. Bristol NW (LAB gain) 12. Derby North (LAB gain) 13. Berwickshire (CON gain) 14. Dumfries and Galloway (CON gain) 15. Sheffield Hallam (LAB gain) 16. Carshalton and Wallington (CON gain) 17. Norfolk North (CON gain) 18. Clacton (CON gain) 19. Richmond Park (CON gain) 20. Hove (CON gain) 21. Plymouth Moor View (LAB gain) 22. Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (LAB gain) 23. Bolton North East (CON gain) 24. Birmingham Erdington (CON gain) 25. Darlington (CON gain)

Well, it looks like my cup run will come to an end. Our fans have enjoyed their run outs to some of the more illustrious teams in the draw, but sadly our line up of slightly-too-fit players were too lively to truly take down one of the death pooling Titans. I guess this is how Bulgaria felt as the clock ticked down in the semi final of USA '94. Much like Hristo Stoichkov was unable to pull it off with a second goal against Italy, I don't expect George HW Bush to tuck one away in the dying seconds. Good luck to the finalists, and all who sail in the,.

Did we decide that there would be a third/fourth playoff or not? Not sure I see a great deal of point, other than perhaps a few more hits in June.

Noriega a hit for both DI and I. Obviously doesn't change much.

I'll not be happy if I'm beaten off the back of a Kiwi. G'wan, DI, rack up a few more hits would you?