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Masterffull and Wormfarmer win the other two coin tosses, so no more LizLemon or grobler in this tournament - unless there's a gamechanging hit within the next 4.5 hours. This means, just so I can get things straight here, the current fixtures for round 2 are: DeathByArsenic vs Captain Hemlock BabyBlue vs Predictor Banana vs Masterffull HDS vs The Old Crem YorkshireBanker vs Wormfarmer maryportfuncity vs Famous6Eva Pop_Zeus vs Perhaps gcreptile vs SpadeCooley MariNisia vs msc Book vs Sir Cunto Grim Up North vs Salmon Mousse Bibliogryphon vs Annami CaptainChorizo vs TQR Sideik vs alt obits guy  deadsox vs Joey Russ  DevonDeathTrip vs CalebH

With both teams having liked the upthread post, I have tossed a coin for GuyFromFuture/Captain Hemlock and can confirm.... Captain Hemlock will be playing round 2 if there are no more relevant deaths in the next seven hours.

Anyone who got the bounce from my inbox feel free to resend, just deleted a bunch. Work's going to be hectic so don't expect to much in the way of responses from me until 7pm GMT.

Marietta Giannakou was the former Greek education behind a botched move to get the country to recognize private universities, leading to widespread student protests and a hastily curtailed career in parliament. Then she had a leg cut off. wannamaker draws equal with Famous6Eva in their tie, but will not be seeing round 2 at this point due to the average age rule. LizLemon 0 v. Masterffull 0 Sir Cunto 6 v. theoldlady 0 Salmon Mousse 20 v. MortalCaso 3 Wormfarmer 0 v. grobler 0 TQR 6 v. Gooseberry Crumble 0 HDS 13 v. Pedro67 3 wannamaker 3 v. Famous6Eva 3 JoeMoneypenny 0 v. Sideik 3 GuyFromFuture 0 v. Captain Hemlock 0 Annami 15 v. Hell 0 ThereWillBeDeaths7 6 v. MariNisia 6 Grim Up North 9 v. the_engineer 0 Predictor 6 v. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0  YoungWillz 0 v. Pop_Zeus 7 BabyBlue 18 v. An Fear Beag 12

MC Skibadee, probably the guy you think of when it comes to doubletime on drum & bass tracks, being reported dead on Twitter. Can go here thanks to his vocals on Shy FX and T-Power's seminal "Don't Wanna Know," a favourite of football highlight package soundtrackers back in the day, which got to #19 in 2002.

LizLemon 0 v. Masterffull 0 Wormfarmer 0 v. grobler 0 GuyFromFuture 0 v. Captain Hemlock 0 If both teams from any of these ties like this post, I will publicly post the results of the coin toss for their match.

OK, Death Impends now has my very hastily thrown together Round 2 team, so I can begin dealing with any messages sent to my account now without being accused of cheating.

11:59pm GMT on February 28th.

Listening through now, also getting namechecked and still alive: Pele Sepp Maier Hayley Mills Daniel Boone (not sure if this is the long-dead frontiersman or the still-living one-hit wonder) Kelvin MacKenzie The aforementioned Nicholas Witchell Francis Lee (the ginger footballer not the gay film director) Julie Andrews Bradley Dredge Not too much in the way of obscure names, with the exception of journeyman golfer Dredge.

Indeed, Jane Austen mentions it Northanger Abbey.

Christian Today won't help my DDP aspirations but it'll suffice here. DigitalNun Sister Catherine Wybourne, who stood firm against Vatican suggestions that nuns shouldn't use social media, has been hit with the biggest banhammer of all. Predictor and Grim Up North are both nun the wiser. LizLemon 0 v. Masterffull 0 Sir Cunto 6 v. theoldlady 0 Salmon Mousse 20 v. MortalCaso 3 Wormfarmer 0 v. grobler 0 TQR 6 v. Gooseberry Crumble 0 HDS 13 v. Pedro67 3 wannamaker 0 v. Famous6Eva 3 JoeMoneypenny 0 v. Sideik 3 GuyFromFuture 0 v. Captain Hemlock 0 Annami 15 v. Hell 0 ThereWillBeDeaths7 6 v. MariNisia 6 Grim Up North 9 v. the_engineer 0 Predictor 6 v. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 YoungWillz 0 v. Pop_Zeus 7 BabyBlue 18 v. An Fear Beag 12

While we await a QO for Cathy, mildly interesting factoid: she wrote a book with Cary Elwes' great-uncle, who was a monk himself.

My assumption was always on a Guardian obituary rather than a "breaking news" Sun splash. We shall see. Very sorry to lose her, some of her final tweets were quiet poetic in a way. Still, points.

Can he not go in the "Strictly...." thread being as he won the 2006 series of Ukraine's Dancing with the Stars?

And as for next round: so the 0-0 ties will be decided by a variant of coin-toss. If required, I can draw these coin tosses now so currently tied teams can know if they should think about submitting a team. If any team in the next round doesn't submit a team then the best-scoring team from this round will have a slot, but it's unlikely at this stage we'll have any non-entrants. It may be worth our best-scoring loser (An Fear Baeg, by some distance) throwing together a "Frank Field, George Perez and nine others" side quickly just in case, but I wouldn't spend hours on it if I was him.

Hockey Hall of Fame member Emile "The Cat" Francis has been put out for the night, and HDS claims four points as a unique hit.  LizLemon 0 v. Masterffull 0 Sir Cunto 6 v. theoldlady 0 Salmon Mousse 20 v. MortalCaso 3 Wormfarmer 0 v. grobler 0 TQR 6 v. Gooseberry Crumble 0 HDS 13 v. Pedro67 3 wannamaker 0 v. Famous6Eva 3 JoeMoneypenny 0 v. Sideik 3 GuyFromFuture 0 v. Captain Hemlock 0 Annami 15 v. Hell 0 ThereWillBeDeaths7 6 v. MariNisia 6 Grim Up North 6 v. the_engineer 0 Predictor 3 v. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 YoungWillz 0 v. Pop_Zeus 7  BabyBlue 18 v. An Fear Beag 12

Oldest living professional baseball player

Did we have a thread for objectively bad music? Because if so, Cilla Black and Bryan Ferry duetting on a Lesley Gore cover needs posting there:

I was just thinking the other day about how celebrities don't die in house fires anymore and then this shows me up.

Ah, the tweeter in question directed a production of The Vagina Monologues starring Karen, which makes this a lot more logical. She dead.

Does seem odd that there's only one tweet about Anna Karen and it's that one, from an author who doesn't seem to have any real showbiz connections. Could be true though, can't imagine TMZ will be breaking the news of her death. Was going to suggest that we keep an eye on Facebook's Anna Karen Fans page, but....

Corrections time: Ilikena Talebulamaineiilikenamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau was posthumously inducted into the Fijian Sports Hall of Fame in 2005, so he beat his Scrabble score a long time ago. Edit: didn't notice that on the talk page discussion on Wikipedia, questions about Ili's living status were being asked by a Canadian Paul. Our Canadian Paul?

Americans be calling their kids "Porter Bibb".

Led the scab subbing desk during the Wapping strikes iirc, won't be missed.