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Statistically, you and Sean have the best defence so far. 0 conceded in 2 rounds so far. DDT has 0 in 1 round. Most Conceded 1. Dead Cow 13 2. Heef 9 3. Sir Creep 6 4. Joey 6 5. Deadsox 6 6. Sean 0 7. DDT 0 8. YWillz 0 Most Scored 1. Dead Cow 26 2. Sir Creep 17 3. Joey 13 4. Heef 10 5. Sean 9 6. Deadsox 7 7. DDT 6 8. YWillz 4 So The Dead Cow is basically Klopp's Liverpool here.

Oh yeah, one more thing! Well done, @deadsox. I avoided the 20-0 thumping, but the superior team won out over the month. Best of luck in the next round.

Finally for now, here's the Semifinal Draw: Heef OR DDT vs Deadsox (reigning champ) OR Young Willz Sir Creep OR Joey Russ vs The Dead Cow OR Sean

Quarterfinals draw 1. The Dead Cow vs Sean 0-0 2. Heef vs DDT 0-0 3. Deadsox (reigning champ) vs YWillz 0-0 4. Sir Creep vs Joey Russ 0-0 The Dead Cow (Da-Ren, Manan, Tiwari, Silsbee, Shore, Wilkins, McCormick, Skripal, Stefansson, Remigino, Anzaki) Vs Sean (Butts, Bracknell, Ricketts, Skripal, Cappotelli, Gleason, Parrikar, Francis D, Clegg J, Bosbach, Ryder N) ** Heef (Vervoort, Reid JR, Bracknell, Anzaki, Nash D, McCormick, Bighetty, Moss, Skripal, Da Ren, Wilkins) Vs DDT (Foley Bishop, Wilkins R, Jose, Skripal, Steffanson, McCormick F, McCain J, Blanco, Tin Oo, Willesee, Kirubi) ** Deadsox (Anzaki, Belcher, Da Ren, Jose, Mack, Shore, Stefansson, Tajima, Thacker, Vento, Vervoort) Vs YWillz (Jowell, Stefansson, Kumar D, Shore, Hume, James C, Benedict XVI, Stiles, McCain J, Cepeda, Poitier) ** Sir Creep (Thibodeau, Hileman, Manan, Vento, Thacker, Tajima, Da-Ren, Foley Bishop, DMcE, Lijuan, Tiwari) Vs Joey (Wilkins, Da-Ren, Abbas, Anh LD, Lorimer, Rae, Bracknell, Obayashi, Manan, Odelein, VADER TIME)

Quarterfinals masterlist 2018 1. Mahmoud Abbas – Joey 2. Le Duc Anh - Joey 3. Satoru Anzaki – Dead Cow, Heef, Deadsox 4. Pope Benedict XVI – Ywillz 5. David O Belcher - Deadsox 6. Leonard Bighetty – Heef 7. Wolfgang Bosbach - Sean 8. Kathleen Blanco – DDT 9. Leah Bracknell – Heef, Sean, Joey 10. Colin Butts – Sean 11. Matt Cappotelli - Sean 12. Orlando Cepeda – Ywillz 13. Johnny Clegg - Sean 14. Fu Da-Ren – Sir Creep, Dead Cow, Heef, Deadsox, Joey 15. Bishop David Foley – Sir Creep, DDT 16. Dean Francis - Sean 17. Steve Gleason - Sean 18. John Hileman – Sir Creep 19. John Hume – Ywillz 20. Clive James – Ywillz 21. Jose Jose – DDT, Deadsox 22. Tessa Jowell – Ywillz 23. Chris Kirubi - DDT 24. Dilip Kumar - YWillz 25. Li Lijuan – Sir Creep 26. Peter Lorimer - Joey 27. Ted Mack - Deadsox 28. Azreen Manan – Sir Creep, Dead Cow, Joey 29. John McCain – Ywillz, DDT 30. Fergie McCormick – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef 31. D Mc3w3n – Sir Creep 32. Stirling Moss - Heef 33. Dennis Nash – Heef 34. Nobuhiko Obayashi – Joey 35. Lyle Odelein - Joey 36. Manohar Parrikar - Sean 37. Sidney Poitier – Ywillz 38. Charlotte Rae - Joey 39. John R Reid - Heef 40. Lindy Remigino – Dead Cow 41. Simon Ricketts – Sean 42. Nanci Ryder - Sean 43. Mitzi Shore – Ywillz, Dead Cow, Deadsox 44. Doug Silsbee – Dead Cow 45. Sergei Skripal – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef, Sean 46. Stefan Karl Stefansson – Ywillz, DDT, Dead Cow, Deadsox 47. Nobby Stiles - YWillz 48. Nabi Tajima – Sir Creep, Deadsox 49. Ernie Thacker – Sir Creep, Deadsox 50. Gary Thibodeau – Sir Creep 51. U Tin Oo - DDT 52. ND Tiwari – Sir Creep, Dead Cow 53. Ray Wilkins – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef, Joey 54. Mike Willesee – DDT 55. Vader - Joey 56. Joe Vento – Sir Creep, Deadsox 57. Marieke Vervoort – Heef, deadsox

Right, then. The Penalty Shootout Sean (Heads) vs Charon (Tails)- - Tails, Charon goes 1-0 up. - Heads, Sean levels it. - Heads, Sean goes 2-1 up - Heads, Sean wins 3-1. - Bad luck to Charon. Joey Russ (heads) v Grim Up North (tails) - Joey heads, Grim tails - Tails, Grim leads 1-0 - Heads, Joey equalises 1-1 - Tails – Grim leads 2-1 - Heads, 2-2. - Next flip wins it. - Heads, Joey wins 3-2 - Bad luck to Grim. Commiserations to Rad, charon, Grim Up North, Death Impends, Roverandout, Gcreptile, Chorizo and, err, me. Better luck next year?

For some of us, Dimensions was the first new Who we were old enough to appreciate. Not everyone was lucky enough to get Rose or the Pertwee era! So it counts, for good or bad. Mostly bad. (PS Best era is 1970-4, though I'd stretch that to 68 to include the Yeti stories, Enemy of the World and War Games...)

It's random, you! Anyhow, THAT has been decided already. You and Joey are heads in any coin toss, Charon and Grim are tails.

Anyhow on the topic of Doctor Who, I do hope @themaninblack comes back at some point.

The era of Doctor Who was 1963-89, 1993, 1996, 2005-present day, but anyhow...

From general experience 65-75 seems to be the average alcoholic tipping point. Not meaning your George Best boozers, I mean your normal day to day ones. Mind you, my grandad lived to 73 on the whisky and Guinness diet, and outlived all of his teetotal friends. Non-drinking is clearly bad for your health.

There's been an on-going debate about how steroid use in Hollywood and baseball was healthier than your pro-wrestlers because the fatality rates aren't there yet. Barry Bonds is only 53 though. Bit like these "how did Lemmy last so long? when he made it to 70 like a normal alcoholic.

Oh btw Rad, TDC got his team in, so that lamb will need to wait till 2019 short of a 4 point hail mary in the next...76 minutes.

Good news, DDT's team is in!

If neither send their team in, well... Heef and Death Impends play each other again in the Quarterfinals. Going to assume that's not going to happen though. I crawled out of my sick bed earlier to take some painkillers and send DDT a PM reminder. (Ok, and 5 other people...) Another big favourite is yet to get a team in, too. EDIT - I may install "lucky loser" element to deal with this from 2019 onwards should it happen.

Perhaps the twist this month is the lack of twist!

(Left to right for non-fans: Arn Anderson (60),Tully Blanchard (64), Ric Flair (69), JJ Dillon (76), Barry Windham (58) - with ages those reached this year in true Deathlist fashion...) Nice pic from January. Barry Windham appears to have recovered from that near fatal HA by eating some other HOFers. Tully Blanchard looks older than Flair. JJ Dillon is the oldest in that pic but he might well outlive a few of the others.

Certainly a swiftly improving player imo. The Cup is a harder beast to negotiate though. Look at that Sean/Charon game. There's a good chance half the picks involved will be dead by Christmas, but none of them were dead in March. Well, I say the Cup's a harder beast - Sir Creep is making it look easy so far!

Noted. Hoping someone wins, I dislike the coin toss. Might need two again later.

So, reminders going out. At this point I'll sub any dodgy picks with peoples first sub. Also, I am bloody ghastly today so might be slow...er than usual.

Great juxtaposition of stories in that article "Dying woman sees daughter married.." "Former model Jodie Kidd wears sexy lingerie to boost her mood."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Willz one of the biggest pro-Brexit voices on here at the time? He just also doesn't really like politicians. Admittedly probably more from a Tony Benn POV from UKIP, but so it goes.

He is a terrible actor, tbf. He did still have a good exit from the show. Which was originally scheduled for Nyssa, but as actress Sarah Sutton was Peter Davison's good good good personal friend, he argued for Adric to get the chop instead.

With 48 hours left, looks like those excited for a msc-YWillz "derby" (read - only 2 people on the entire forum) will be disappointed. Only 3 teams in so far, and I've just named two of them! Lots of folk presumably expecting a last minute twist somewhere, but where? Heef has a narrow advantage in the fight to likely face DDT next (sorry Rover), but remember DI got a very very late winner at this stage in 2017. Sir Creep looks all but in the Quarterfinals. There seems to be something about Gcreptile that induces other players to substantially up their game when playing him! I'd take it as a compliment myself. Anyhow, 5 of the 8 ties can change winners even now with a single hit. Tightest round in Cup history so far?