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Aye, so when I said I thought he might be Number one this year, I was close!

Wouk.

I think this is a bad pick. Linda will see 2019.

I'm stunned. Brackers lead from 2 vote.... until 5pm yesterday! And her lead over Bush at Christmas was around 250 points!

Yeah but I don't think he'll have much chance to get comfy on it.

Read the list out from 50 to 1 to the wife (as is our wee tradition). Her response? "What? Stanley Baxter is STILL ALIVE?"

I said in the chat: "one of Sean's threads is an official Deathlist thread - he'll be so happy!"

Big name politician in the UK. Also seriously ill. Good pick.

Hah, he did get...a Mail reference I think. Anyhow, I didn't pick him in the end.

Yer joker was on my shortlist till very late on the day. Wound up a sub for one of the teams!

Hope you are on the mend soon. Take care!

Well done Drol!

CAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!! I am happy you are alive.

Aye, and if OoO is right, a hit this year.

Ok, I thought for a moment this morning Deathray had come up with the same exact idea, but alas, no. What I'd like to propose is a Deathlist Forum version of the FA Cup, a straight knockout tournament between forum members, in which, over several months, we crown the winner of the first Deathlist Cup. This is an idea which works well in many fantasy football games and prediction games across the internet, so with a wee bit of tweaking, should work for deadpooling. I know MPFC mooted the idea several years ago, and I was waiting for someone to suggest the idea, but no one has. So I have. All you need to do right now is post in this thread with a declaration of interest in taking part in the tournament. The deadline for that is midnight on the 20th January. And the deadline slams shut like the transfer window on Sky Sports News! No need to put a team together before then. A simple "Aye that sounds like fun, count me in" will suffice. On the 21st January, I will do a random draw of the people who are taking part to determine The First Round, and from that point, you have ten days to put together your First Eleven for the match. Some Basic Rules which I've tried to explain as simply as possible, but which are open for questions about how obvious things I've forgotten work. The Deathlist Cup This will be a knockout tournament featuring one on one matchups between Deathlist forum posters. These matches will be determined by use of a random draw, using Random.org. Players, on receiving their randomly drawn opponent, will have a ten day period to send the Referee their First Eleven for the match by PM, and one sub in case of an early death. These eleven picks can be very low hanging fruit if you so wish, as the point of the game is to score as many “goals” during the month a match is played. Each match will take place over the course of a single month. For example, a February match would take place from February 1st to February 28th (or 29th on a leap year), a March match from March 1st to March 31st and so on... Games will be scored in the following manner: A person in your team dies = 2 point A person famously only for dying dies = 1 point (ie 1 point penalty) A unique person in your team dies = 1 more point (ie 1 bonus point) At the end of the month, the player in the match with the highest score wins that game, and will advance to the next round. The player who doesn’t have the highest score will lose, and be eliminated. In the event of a draw, the following tiebreaks will be used: 1st tiebreak = number of hits 2nd tiebreak = average age of hits 3rd tiebreak = flip of a coin 4th tiebreak if needed = asking my child which team has the cooler name (heh) A player is only held to one team for a single match. If they win their match and advance to the next round, they may pick eleven entirely different people for the next round. In this way, folk who announce their terminal illness in, say, May, can be put to good deadpooling use. Qualifying obits? Every single English language newspaper in the universe. Also Le Monde and the biggest selling newspaper in Germany (Die Zeit?). As KO tournaments run in the following pattern 2/4/8/16/32/etc, then, if we have an uneven number of competitors, the remaining spots in the First Round will be taken by BYEs, and again, the people who get byes into Round 2 will be random. Example Spade, msc, Deathray and JoeyRuss hypothetically take part. Random.org gives us these matches: Spade Cooley v msc (feck) Deathray v JoeyRuss This draw takes place in Month 1 (ie January) and is for matches taking place in Month 2 (February). After the draw, each player sends The Referee (ie msc) a team of Eleven Celebrities they think will snuff it in Month 2. Then, for the results: Joey scores in Month 2 with a cancer mum, a big name celebrity and a unique world leader. Deathray gets a unique big name celebrity. The score is 6-3 to Joey, who advances to the next round. Well, it's worth a shot. Unless we get over 64 competitors - highly unlikely - we should be able to crown a winner well before December.

The Entire List for 2018 1. George Bush Sr 1246 (3, 15th) 2. Leah Bracknell 1219 (2, 1st) 3. John McCain 1133 (NEW) 4. Kirk Douglas 931 (3, 2nd) 5. Rev Billy Graham 915 (3, 7th) 6. Olivia Newton John 747 (NEW) 7. Prince Philip 720 (3, 5th) 8. Nobby Stiles 712 (2, -) 9. Robert Mugabe 712 (3, 10th) 10. Vera Lynn 652 (3, 19th) 11. Leslie Philips 612 (3, 17th) 12. Clive James 600 (3, 24th) 13. Herman Wouk 598 (3, 26th) 14. Charlotte rae 582 (NEW) 15. Glynis Johns 563 (2, 23rd) 16. Olivia de Havilland 561 (3, 16th) 17. Dilip Kumar 535 (NEW) 18. Barbara Bush 531 (NEW) 19. Tessa Jowell 523 (NEW) 20. Stefan Karl Stefansson 515 (2, 29th) 21. Denis Norden 482 (3, 33rd) 22. Jill Gascoine 463 (2, 48th) 23. Former Pope Benedict 462 (3, 18th) 24. Jimmy Carter 458 (3, 22nd) 25. Franco Zeffirelli 427 (NEW) 26. Sidney Poitier 423 (2, 32nd) 27. Greg Gilbert 370 (NEW) 28. Mikhail Gorbachev 367 (3, 37th) 29. Fernando Ricksen 360 (2, -) 30. Lord Carrington 358 (NEW) 31. John Hume 336 (NEW) 32. Linda Nolan 324 (NEW) 33. Montserrat Caballe 306 (NEW) 34. Stan Lee 305 (NEW) 35. Joanne Woodward 301 (2, 40th) 36. Jean of Luxembourg 290 (NEW) 37. Diana Athill 278 (NEW) 38. Jacques Chirac 272 (2, 11th) 39. Alberto Fujimori 267 (NEW) 40. Valerie Harper 264 (2, -) 41. Bob Dole 260 (2, -) 42. Pearl Carr 259 (NEW) 43. Liam Miller 254 (NEW) 44. Beverly Cleary 242(NEW) 45. Monica Vitti 241 (2, 45th) 46. Mary Wilson 233 (NEW) 47. Diana Serra Cary 230 (NEW) 48. Yoko Ono 224 (NEW) 49. Val Kilmer 226 (NEW) 50. Morgan Tsvanigari 208 (NEW)

And your top three for 2018! 3rd John McCain NEW ENTRY 1133 points Senator 2nd Leah Bracknell 2nd appearance, last year = 1st 1219 points Miss Tate 1st George Bush Sr 3rd appearance, last year = 15th 1246 points US President/Ladies Man

25th Franco Zeffirelli NEW ENTRY 427 points Director 24th Jimmy Carter 3rd appearance, last year = 22nd 458 points President 23rd Former Pope Benedict 3rd appearance, last year = 18th 462 points Pope 22nd Jill Gascoine 2nd appearance, last year = 48th 463 points Actress 21st Denis Norden 3rd appearance, last year = 33rd 482 points My Word 20th Stefan Karl Stefansson 2nd appearance, last year = 29th 515 points We Are (not) Number One 19th Tessa Jowell NEW ENTRY 523 points Blair Babe 18th Barbara Bush NEW ENTRY 531 points Scary Old Lady 17th Dilip Kumar NEW ENTRY 535 points Indian Royalty 16th Olivia de Havilland 3rd appearance, last year = 16th 561 points Fan of TV show Feud 15th Glynis Johns 2nd appearance, last year = 23rd 563 points Suffragette 14th Charlotte Rae NEW ENTRY 582 points Facts of Life 13th Herman Wouk 3rd appearance, last year = 26th 598 points Author 12th Clive James 3rd appearance, last year = 24th 600 points Science Lover 11th Leslie Philips 3rd appearance, last year = 17th 612 points Ding Dong! 10th Vera Lynn 3rd appearance, last year = 19th 652 points Forces Sweetheart 9th Robert Mugabe 3rd appearance, last year = 10th 712 points Deathlist Forum Legend 8th Nobby Stiles 2nd appearance 712 points World Cup winner 7th Prince Philip 3rd appearance, last year = 5th 720 points Comedian 6th Olivia Newton John NEW ENTRY 747 points Nuclear Scientist 5th Rev Billy Graham 3rd appearance, last year = 7th 915 points Jesus Dude 4th Kirk Douglas 3rd appearance, last year = 2nd 931 points Spartacus

50th Morgan Tsvangirai NEW ENTRY 208 points Bobby’s Pal 49th Val Kilmer NEW ENTRY 226 points Batman 48th Yoko Ono NEW ENTRY 226 points Beatle 47th Diana Serra Cary NEW ENTRY 230 points Baby Peggy 46th Lady Mary Wilson NEW ENTRY 233 points Pan Breed favourite 45th Monica Vitti 2nd appearance, last year = 45th 241 points Actress 44th Beverly Cleary NEW ENTRY 242 points Children’s Author 43rd Liam Miller NEW ENTRY 254 points Celtic Player 42nd Pearl Carr NEW ENTRY 259 points Eurovision singer 41st Bob Dole 2nd appearance 260 points Bob Dole Likes This 40th Valerie Harper 2nd appearance 264 points Actress 39th Alberto Fujimori NEW ENTRY 267 points Peruvian dictator 38th Jacques Chirac 2nd appearance, last year = 11th 272 points French 37th Diana Athill NEW ENTRY 278 points Memoirist 36th Jean of Luxembourg NEW ENTRY 290 points A Duke and Grand 35th Joanne Woodward 2nd appearance, last year = 40th 301 points Actress 34th Stan Lee NEW ENTRY 305 points Comics Honcho 33rd Montserrat Caballe NEW ENTRY 306 points Barcelona 32nd Linda Nolan NEW ENTRY 324 points In the Mood for Dancing 31st John Hume NEW ENTRY 336 points Nobel Prize winner 30th Lord Carrington NEW ENTRY 358 points Old Tory 29th Fernando Ricksen 2nd appearance 360 points Jordan’s Ex 28th Mikhail Gorbachev 3rd appearance, last year - 37th 367 points Russian leader 27th Greg Gilbert NEW ENTRY 370 points Delayed 26th Sidney Poitier 2nd appearance, last year = 32nd 423 points Mr Tibbs

WHAM! WE’RE SHUT!!!! Thanks to all the voters. DROPPED – Desmond Tutu, Gina Lollobrigida, Queen Elizabeth II, Ian St John, Sumner Redstone, Nanette Fabray DQ’d due to 25 from previous year rule – NO ONE! Near misses: Aretha Franklin, Javier Perez de Cuellar (oh you witty people!), Stephen Hawking, Kamala, Anne Hamilton-Bryne, Norman Lloyd, Stirling Moss, IM Pei, Sean Connery, Doris Day, Gina Lollobrigida

Alas, 2017 deaths still arrive, and one late is Dr Gavin Stamp, architectural historian. Top dude, fought to preserve some of Glasgow's older architecture. Pal of mums. 69.

You are in time afaik but there's no jokers as its based on order of death. Also, two subs max (you have three). I think Fringes of Fame folk (ie Tosh's son) are OK but might be worth less points. Good lack of US sports stars though, so negative points! Good luck.

It's 10.54PM if that helps ie still the 31st.

I'd like to say I'm taking note, but really, it's this thread that is. I count 9 entries before it's even opened though, which is cool.

^ Reading that password retrieval link above, "we reply within 5 days" might NOT be the advice Joey was looking for...