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No new articles for much of 2017, even his die hard fans are beginning to lose faith in any new Clive James stuff now. Surely he's 24 hours and a bit off returning to the Deathlist.

Roger Moore being a huge miss for the Deathlist was a big one until someone evil put up the entire voting record for the 2017 Deathlist, in which not a single point had been given to the former Bond.

Yep in about 24 hours the complaints will start! "They missed X?" "I can't believe they missed X either!" "All this talk of X. What about the letter Q? That got snubbed too!"

Hmmm. I wouldn't put a bet on it, sorry.

You've been added!

No problems, I will go add it. Does anyone else want their Shadow list added to the 2018 Crowdsourced Deathlist? (That hasn't put a list in already of course) Last call, in a manner of speaking.

Is that the list you want to put towards The Crowdsourced as suggested earlier?

Ah it works and I'm even still signed in. Brilliant work, Death Impends! Controversial breaking news on the 2018 Deathlist there, too.

So, question: is the annual Deathlist New Years chat around the reveal of the new Deathlist 50 happening, and if so, how, given we don't have a chat function anymore? iirc (and i probably don't), DI set up some chat thingy last Hogmanay?

^ No offence Joey, but that sounds needlessly complicated?

I think Joey and Rad have a bet on what will have more entries, Deathrace or Crowdsourced... (It's close)

^ Maybe 2018 is Sister Wendy's year to make a Deathlist appearance.

I am aiming to follow that one in 2018, though I figured 6 points is close enough to 5...

No worries Sean, looking forward to it. 12 hour shifts sound hellish, tbh.

It's an evolution of sorts. There was a deadpool. It got won with 20 points once. Then there was Ali, who used early number crunching, but couldn't upset the "pick all the old dying dudes" people under the standardised 5 points per hit system. Then the rules changed to what we know today. Then DDT showed up, with his ability to sniff out those about to snuff. (Is it good research skills, or is he actually the Reaper? I prefer the latter explanation, his off years in the DDP are meant to put us off the trail..) Then Spade came along: equally good research game, but with more specialist know how (ie what papers obit what types of celeb, how to look for folk off the radar entirely) and blew away the rest of the field. So the rest of the field decide to learn from Spade... Now we're waiting for someone to take the next step and outperform all the Spade clones. Which is a bit of a nuisance for those of us who just twigged how to get to 90 points when that's no longer enough!

I think people should be wise and pick all 3 to be on the safe side.

It really was one of those "little chance of seeing 2018, but just in case" Deathrace picks. It happens.

Yep, luckily MPFC has a sub joker from me as I didn't expect her to reach January 1st. In fact, that I said the 3 wouldn't make it, and 2 are gone now, doesn't really speak confidence for those who picked the Home and Away star.

That'll shorten the shortlist.

Good overall point with one tiny flaw. Not only did Ahmad get a Qualifying obit, he was on Spade's winning DDP team that year! And yes, I am going to post this even if the Captain ninja-replied.

Bored waiting for Muhammadu Buhari to get ill? Why not take a punt on his son instead?

This Woody Harrelson terminal cancer thing is really mucking up a lot of my last minute search terms.

I mean it's not great, but still better than anything written by Simon Armitage at least...

Aye, like Prince Edward!