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As there's no decent Judgement Call gifs, here's Robert Kilroy-Silk:

Some picks were also left to a sort of educated guessing game for the Cmme. One or two picks I took the educated guess they meant the person still alive and not the one dead for twenty years...

For new theme teams I quite like Oscar Strikeouts (nominated for one of the big prizes, didnt win), Sweeney Todd Dying Squad and The Curse of Late September (for sheer wtf). 1st Jan - Mark Eden - Deathray/Grobler 1st Jan - Yazdi/Little - DDT 2nd Jan - Westphal - Prophet The changes at the top in 2021 so far...

I refer you to the previous comments about the teams page getting updated as it goes along. I thought I'd caught all of them earlier but the font on the excel is very small. Needless to say, if they've been vetoed as a theme team - which the above has - they wont be in the theme league even if gremlins in the system tried to force our hand!

Also nice to see Big Iain (the DDP's founder) playing again after a few years absence.

tbh I just assumed Crem had uncovered some horrific historical facts about beloved celebs...

Hey, if de Gaulle dies before the 28th December - sounds likely - he's worth 9 points for you.

Incidentally, the "surprise" Drop 40 name (eye of the beholder stuff, I know) was Gerd Muller. From nowhere to a top pick.

Years ago there was another Salmon Mousse and the system got confused. Those bits are fixed manually so shall be in good time.

Scoreboard still to be updated, and a few niggly things to be improved when there's time but: we're up, basically. DDP 2021

All good guesses - the Big Yin made the Drop 40 last year but only just. Made it far easier this time round. Charlton I thought would make the Drop 40 but... he finished ONE TEAM OFF! (33 teams, 34 was the cut off) We've also seen the rarity of a living Drop 40 pick falling off the list too.

Reading loose translations elsewhere - Stage IV pancreatic, operation failed, no more treatment, palliative/hospice care, in the days/weeks left mode. Might not even make the Cup by sounds of it.

Ah soon you'll get to see the new Drop 40 name that genuinely shocked the entire Cmme. As in they're properly notable and not well but without obvious downturn in health, forum championing or being on a top twenty team last year, they've suddenly jumped into the Drop 40 from never being on more than ahandful of teams before now.

Give it a week or so before I start trying to bribe successors. The front page bit takes up a fair bit of time away from my actual career throughout the entire year so I think 2 years is the most any sensible person can do before taking a break.Aiming to sort out the rest of that to do list this year so that for my sucessor the bulk of the job is basically "write some brief obits every other weekend".

2 different John Howards picked but no Howard Johns(on)!

You've been a delight to work with and absoute legend dealing with all these teams.

Objection. If this guy's from the future that's an unfair advantage.

Although in a bad news/good news sort of way, I can confirm that even if Carlos Menem outlasts the Deathrace 2021, he is worth eight whole points on the DDP if he dies before next January 1st.

Yes, relive the madness of 26th September 2017 here: Read page 5 here for Liz Dawn dying, and then go to the bottom of Page 3 here for the reaction to 2 DL hits announced in the same hour:

Although as much as the two time champ would like to make it a hattrick (hey, not out till its over...), alas, I didn't joker Little or Shaidle like a sensible person. I jokered that wanker Menem. Possibly a DR losing decision. So I'm only on 720 points, not four figures.

Not sure he made it into the top 65 either tbh.

Donald Trump Paul Gascoigne Olivia Newton John Murray Walker Queen Elizabeth II Henry Kissinger Billy Connolly Angela Lansbury Bobby Charlton Prunella Scales Dick van Dyke Betty White Gerd Muller David Attenborough Bob Barker June Brown Willie Nelson Carlos Menem Leslie Philips Pope Benedict XVI Linda Nolan Shannen Doherty Jimmy Greaves Prince Philip Sarah Harding subs Greg Gilbert

Olivia Harrison in hospital with covid, according to Twitter and her instagram.

There is currently a Kate Granger rule for picks who expand beyond FFBI by process of their activism/fundraising/whatever going well beyond the normal. Its a, imo, considerably rare event however. Phelan is covered by it going by her near nightly appearances on the Six O'Clock News a year or two ago. Others have different views. Like I said before, first year ban was focused directly on the 20 picks a year which can be summed up as "dying nobody with kids has sob story in The Mirror/Mail/Sun about Stage IV cancer". Its picked up some non-notables who might have skipped by on the way but again, if folk demand a judgement call... In future years the rule might be tweaked. Joey's fame criteria for the Cup is far higher than the one I originally set (first FFBI ban on the forum FTR!), but then, that's sort of my role - the Mazzini of FFBI bans awaiting a Cavour...

And Yaphet Kotto is the only main villain pre-FYEO alive now, after Lonsdale's death.