Death Impends

Some copy and paste whoopsies, will remedy shortly. In my pick masterlist, I can open the celeb picked to display who picked them, and I must have copy pasted while some of them were open. EDIT: Removed teams from the pick masterlist

The Teams and Picks masterlists are now up on Page 1. Consolation points to the pickers of gun-jumpers Jimmy Carter, Johnnie Walker, Arnold Ruutel, and Tomiko Itooka have been dished out with the points values corresponding to the cadaver's age divided by 100 (1 point for Carter, .79 for Walker, .96 for Ruutel, 1.16 for Itooka). And the first proper 2025 casualty is Agnes Keleti, the Hungarian Olympic gymnast who won various gold medals in the 50s. She survived the Holocaust and was the longest-lived gold medal Olympian, and in a final sign of her stern stuff she was initially on the mend from a critical condition before the gravity of being a critically ill 103-year-old kicked in. Several teams vault upward: Book 45 points, Banana and drol 40, Toast 30, and Bobytomi and Perhaps their first sub for 25. Additionally, Jytte Abildstrom and Richard B. Hays are also picks but I've yet to see QOs. Should they come, they'll be in the next update. A very early first scoreboard already has over half the competition on the scoreboard, even if a lot of it is peanuts in value courtesy of the peanut man: 1. Book 45 2. drol 41 3. Banana 40 4. Toast 30 5. Bobytomi 26.98 6. Perhaps 26 7. justonecornetto 2.16 8. theoldlady 1.79 =9. arghton 1 =9. Bibliogryphon 1 =9. BuffaloPhil 1 =9. diego 1 =9. Dying Probably 1 =9. Famous6Eva 1 =9. livingbygrace 1 =9. LizLemon 1 =9. MalePoster 1 =9. markb4 1 =9. msc 1 =9. RadGuy 1 =9. Sean 1 =9. Thatcher 1 =9. The Unknown Man 1 =9. Trome 1 =9. WEP 1 26. Grimgrass 0.96 =27. An Fear Beag 0.79 =27. Funeralopolis 0.79 =27. GuyFromFuture 0.79 =27. Imelda 0.79 =27. Pedro67 0.79 =27. The Old Crem 0.79 =33. Everyone else 0

I love how the Ruth Langsford Mother guy was banned over a year ago yet the meme is as strong as ever.

I'm generous, it's only one team, and it's early so you can name a new sub, but please do so within 24 hours.

Can't easily search all the DDP teams just yet, but I found a team who picked him... as first sub. And no one on the team jumped the gun, oof. Gimme Little Sign is definitely a choon though, RIP.

Director's note: Sir Creep lost points years back for picking a basketball player.

Very sorry to hear

And that's a wrap on the 2024 DDP. Congrats to Thatcher!

No. A QO would've needed to arrive on New Year's Day at the latest for him to count.

Sean listed her on his publicly posted MPs theme team.

Got it, where will the Donald be placed on your team?

If they die and aren't a DDP pick, they're List of the Missed regardless of obit status. Cheers, updated both, I had actually mistakenly listed Leigh-Hunt in the "those we never picked" section on my year in review funny enough.

Got it, I've moved Denis Law to the 10th spot on the team, if you want him higher let me know. You can also name a new second sub as deaths from your subs bench can still score in this game.

And for thoroughness, here's a list of the 2024 deaths in my database, albeit it does include those who were picked in earlier HPDPs but not in 2024. And also includes NQOs. Nevertheless, you can cross check in case you have someone who died that doesn't appear below and you can let me know within the week if so.

Penultimate update ahead June Spencer - Bibliogryphon gains 45 points, GuyFromFuture 35, diego, markb4, and John Key 30, DevonDeathTrip 25, chilean way 20 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa - JoeMoneypenny gains 45 points, arghton 35 Silvia Pinal - Famous6Eva gains 49 points (35 + unique bonus), CaptainChorizo 25 sub points Arnold Yarrow - ThereWillBeDeaths7 gains 40 points, justonecornetto 35, and diego 30 Jimmy Carter - US President bonus. Great Uncle Bulgaria gets 80 points, BabyBlue, LizLemon, and WEP 72, An Fear Beag, Charles De Gaulle, gcreptile, GuyFromFuture, justonecornetto, livingbygrace, RadGuy, Sean, ThereWillBeDeaths7 64, arghton, Book, BuffaloPhil, Captain Hemlock, DeathBecomesThem, diego, drol, Famous6Eva, Grimgrass, Imelda, markb4, Prophet 56, CaptainChorizo, chilean way, Funeralopolis, MariNisia, maryportfuncity, Pedro67, Thatcher, The Unknown Man, Toast 48, Hell, msc, Perhaps, Torva Messor 40, John Key 32, and Banana and JoeMoneypenny 25 sub points. Herewith the second-to-last scoreboard, where Torva Messor's bandwagoning of Jimmy Carter parried off the chasing pack and she appears all set for victory. As usual, I will allow a week and then grant the 13th place and Most Interesting Team bonuses, and with them, short of a bombshell discovery, crown Torva winner. 1. Torva Messor 356.19 2. diego 280 3. chilean way 264 4. Perhaps 255.19 5. theoldlady 254.19 6. BabyBlue 246.19 7. Thatcher 239.19 8. MariNisia 239 9. livingbygrace 229 10. CaptainChorizo 219.84 =11. Charles De Gaulle 217 =11. markb4 217 13. drol 216.19 14. wannamaker 216 15. BuffaloPhil 213 16. msc 209 17. John Key 202.19 18. Banana 198 19. ladyfiona 196.19 20. Book 191.19 21. arghton 189 =22. justonecornetto 188 =22. Toast 188 24. maryportfuncity 178 25. Pedro67 173.19 26. Famous6Eva 172 =27. An Fear Beag 169 =27. ThereWillBeDeaths7 169 29. YorkshireBanker 164.19 30. Hell 160.19 31. Sean 154.19 32. Captain Hemlock 151.19 33. RadGuy 150 34. Funeralopolis 148.19 35. CalebH 147 36. GuyFromFuture 144 37. DevonDeathTrip 143 38. gcreptile 140.47 39. Grimgrass 139 =40. Imelda 138.19 =40. The Unknown Man 138.19 42. Prophet 121.19 =43. Bibliogryphon 120 =43. Etushispushingupdaisies 120 45. YoungWillz 119 46. DeathBecomesThem 111 47. WEP 100 48. The Old Crem 90 49. Great Uncle Bulgaria 80 50. LizLemon 79 51. JoeMoneypenny 75 52. DeathByArsenic 56.98 53. Joey Russ 45 54. MalePoster 25 =55. Death Impends 0 =55. Gooseberry Crumble 0 =55. TheKillingTime 0 =55. time 0 =55. WillyWonka422 0