gcreptile

Yeah, it's between him and Hawk Tuah girl.

It must be a terminal, but (so far) manageble kind of cancer. Chronic leukemia, bladder cancer, or prostate cancer.

Hello Everyone, here we are again. Time for a new round, are you up for it? Do you think we can ever surpass the score record of 1838 by DevonDeathTrip in the Death By Numbers of 2016? Well, I guess it's time you try! The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from now on until Dec 31st 2023, 23:59 GMT. You can choose one joker who gives you double points. Submission form: Just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format Please don't number them, don't give any added data, like birthdays. And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Simon Cowell (plastic surgery victim) Simon Cowell (wildlife conservator) The scoring is [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2001 will get 101 points in case of death You may submit the following people: living, not knowing their precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on January 1st, 2023, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a nationwide campaign, a more than just self-published book, or a notable court case. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage will usually convince me. Also, please, no football player in a non-professional league, who is totally obiting only because of tragedy, and not because the club just so happens to also have a wikipedia page - or any other name that kind of exploits the rules, like Dave Marsh. Anybody that gets rejected in the DDP would also be rejected here! Sometimes maybe after the game even starts. However: "Oldest Person of XYZ" will always be allowed - even a completely irrelevant person (in the grand scheme of things) will be accepted if they are the oldest person of their country, or last survivor of World War II, Korean War, etc... Usually those people do not give many points, but maybe 5 pts is better than zero? Often, they are also of a certain "historic relevance", you know President Tyler's grandson, and such. Anyway, I will allow them. You can submit up to 10 substitutes. It was a little stressful for me to ask for substitutions in case of disqualifications. So, if you think that some of your names stretch the fame definition, just put in some more subs. I will make use of them automatically. Once you have submitted your team, it's the final submission. Substitution phase: Up until the beginning of the 1st of July 2024 GMT you may switch 5 old people still alive for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. You can make use of the 5 substitutions whenever you like, until July starts. But once you decide to switch out picks, they cannot score anymore. And the new names cant score before 1st of July, so ideally you'd want to keep that window as small as possible, but we know that life sometimes gets in the way. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2024 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2024 or the first seven days of 2025. The QO rules are: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2024 plus The New York Times. Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so below before Christmas and hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. Main reason for not already submitting right now is that I want to avoid the situation of 2019, when I ran out of subs and then filled the gaps with "new" names. I will also make use of the substitution window, but only use 2 names. After all, there's always a pretty broad consensus of a couple of names (example 2019: Ivan Milat, Michael Sleggs, Tom Long), so I wouldn't steal anyone's names by picking those who are universally known anyway. Also, I will substitute comfortably before the end of the deadline, so you can see my two names. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. So if I'm unsure about a name of yours, I will talk to you in the first week of January. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread! Players: gcreptile Baby Blue Lady Fiona Caleb H The Immortal ThereWillBeDeaths7 Yorkshire Banker Diego DeathBecomesThem Imelda The Unknown Man Hell The old lady John Key Charles De Gaulle TQR arghton Cpt. Hemlock Bibliogryphon Great Uncle Bulgaria Thatcher Death Impends Gooseberry Crumble Young Willz Liz Lemon RadGuy Book The Old Crem Predictor msc Etushipushingupdaisies Toast Sod's Law Torva Messor The Daredevil Mr. Wonderful MariNisia chileanway Salmon Mousse Banana Perhaps Cpt. Chorizo An Fear Beag wannamaker Buffalo Phil Sean Funeralopolis Wormfarmer Pedro67 tracy Summer in Transilvania Annami

Latest Craig Maxwell video I could find: https://x.com/Velindre/status/1859946151656505423 Involved in a fundraiser in January. Looking not too bad actually.

I'm always happy to see you play. If your goal is to get a higher score you need a few good names though. To improve your score you probably need about 10 hits. I think the forum itself has some pretty good suggestions, easily good enough for that. But I also predict that next year this competition will not be won by secret young names, but rather by a bunch of 60-70 year olds. Especially in this competition that would mean that the scores will be lower.

Hello Everyone, here we are again. Time for a new round, are you up for it? Do you think we can ever surpass the score record of 1838 by DevonDeathTrip in the Death By Numbers of 2016? Well, I guess it's time you try! The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from now on until Dec 31st 2024, 23:59 GMT. You can choose one joker who gives you double points. Submission form: Just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format Please don't number them, don't add any data, like birthdays. And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Simon Cowell (plastic surgery victim) Simon Cowell (wildlife conservator) The scoring is [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2001 will get 101 points in case of death You may submit the following people: living, not knowing their precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on January 1st, 2025, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a nationwide campaign, a more than just self-published book, or a notable court case. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage will usually convince me. Also, please, no football player in a non-professional league, who is totally obiting only because of tragedy, and not because the club just so happens to also have a wikipedia page - or any other name that kind of exploits the rules, like Dave Marsh. Any name that gets rejected in the DDP would also be rejected here! Sometimes maybe after the game even starts. However: "Oldest Person of XYZ" will always be allowed - even a completely irrelevant person (in the grand scheme of things) will be accepted if they are the oldest person of their country, or last survivor of World War II, Korean War, etc... Usually those people do not give many points, but maybe 5 pts is better than zero? Often, they are also of a certain "historic relevance", you know President Tyler's grandson, and such. Anyway, I will allow them. You can submit up to 10 substitutes. It was a little stressful for me in previous games to ask for substitutions in case of disqualifications. So if you think that some of your names stretch the fame definition, just put in some more subs. I will make use of them automatically. Once you have submitted your team, it's the final submission. Substitution phase: Up until the beginning of the 1st of July 2025 GMT you may switch 5 old people still alive for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. You can make use of the 5 substitutions whenever you like, until July starts. But once you decide to switch out picks, they cannot score anymore. And the new names cant score before 1st of July, so ideally you'd want to keep that window as small as possible, but we know that life sometimes gets in the way. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2025 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2025 or the first seven days of 2026. The QO rules are: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2025 plus The New York Times. Yes, let's hope that fringe Yahoo names feature a little less prominently - though admittedly, there weren't a lot! Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so below before Christmas and hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. I will also make use of the substitution window, but only use 2 names. After all, there's always a pretty broad consensus of a couple of names (example 2025: Sven-Göran Eriksson, Johnnie Walker), so I wouldn't steal anyone's names by picking those who are universally known anyway. Also, I will substitute comfortably before the end of the deadline, so you can see my two names. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. So if I'm unsure about a name of yours, I will talk to you in the first week of January. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread! Players:

My pick no. 32, Mark Spain, has died. Sub no. 1 jumps in.

Well, no reason to pick the next local TV guy with pancreatic cancer has Mark Spain has died: https://wset.com/news/local/mark-spain-beloved-abc13-anchor-and-community-figure-dies-after-battle-with-cancer

Another update: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/itv-loose-womens-ruth-langsford-9804677 She did not break her hip, she did so last year though, and now she is healing and resting.

Beandri Booysen, another internet star with progeria, like Sammi Basso, dies at 19: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32392571/tiktok-beandri-booysen-dies-aging-disease/

Hawk Tuah girl has disappeared - is she dead? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/viral-star-crypto-scapegoat-haliey-welch-dead-going-tuah-prison-lying-low-1729548

"90 Day fiancé"-star dead.... it's David Murphey at age 66, TMZ is on it: https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/18/90-day-fiance-star-david-murphey-dead/

I think this might be the last update before the game concludes... The trigger was the belated obit for Rupert Keegan, a popular replacement pick. Keegan had a couple of years in the Formula One but no great successes there. Hence, we had to wait months for the obit, but luckily, the BBC covers a whole lot of ground. Banana picked him, for example, Cpt. Chorizo did not... But Cpt. Chorizo did pick Silvia Pinal, as did Baby Blue. The legendary mexican actress had been plagued by ill health for a while, but still made it to a grand age of 93. Torva Messor scores a classy unique hit with Helen Gallagher - a veteran US actress most successful on Broadway, but also the recipient of three daytime Emmy Awards. chileanway and the_daredevil share the honors of having picked Earl Holliman. Holliman was a bit of an all-around entertainer, which in the 50s and 60s weren't all that rare. Mostly TV acting, but also a bit of singing and some stage productions. He recieved a Golden Globe Award and a star on the Walk of Fame. Also, I might have missed to give the points for June Spencer in the last update? It's done now. Three players await an obit for Antero Laukkanen. I'm afraind these players will be waiting a loooong time. The scoreboard shows a nerve-wrecking situation at the top, where Banana can't quite catch up to Cpt. Chorizo but the next hit will be the 'golden goal', so to say. It won't be "Black Bart" Harris, as both players have him. But otherwise, it's like, the next hit wins: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1368 2 Banana 1354 3 gcreptile 1217 4 wannamaker 1157 5 Book 1126 6 RadGuy 1090 7 msc 1082 8 Funeralopolis 1080 9 Perhaps 1060 10 Summer in Transilvania 961 11 Salmon Mousse 950 12 Mr. Wonderful 923 13 Buffalo Phil 880 14 The Immortal 829 15 Toast 827 16 Liz Lemon 821 17 Torva Messor 811 18 An Fear Beag 786 19 Pedro67 765 20 The Unknown Man 758 21 tracy 745 22 Wormfarmer 729 23 MariNisia 703 24 The old lady 694 25 Baby Blue 692 26 Thatcher 681 27 Etushipushingupdaisies 663 28 Imelda 626 29 Predictor 615 30 Death Impends 607 31 DeathBecomesThem 601 32 Lady Fiona 584 33 Cpt. Hemlock 583 34 Charles De Gaulle 552 35 Caleb H 537 36 TQR 526 37 The Daredevil 525 38 The Old Crem 523 39 ThereWillBeDeaths7 516 40 John Key 504 41 Diego 476 42 arghton 473 43 Sean 469 44 Yorkshire Banker 459 45 Annami 409 46 Bibliogryphon 398 47 Young Willz 352 48 Great Uncle Bulgaria 279 49 chileanway 272 50 Hell 240 51 Sod's Law 202 52 Gooseberry Crumble 59

About 20 years later than expected... a true original.

Oh... Former german Ski jumping coach Wolfgang Steiert has died at age 61: https://www.sportschau.de/regional/swr/swr-ex-bundestrainer-wolfgang-steiert-gestorben-100.html He also coached the Russian team for a while. He was co-coach during Germany's successes in the late 90s/early 00s, so he was known to the audience, like me, who spent the Sunday watching winter sports.

Our number 49, Didi Constantini, has died at age 69: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/didi-constantini-ist-tot-trainerlegende-aus-oesterreich-gestorben-a-85f38153-f215-4675-8813-54ab58adc323 Former national football coach of Austria. Our hit no. 9 this year.

Julen Lopetegui's father José Antonio Lopetegui, dead at 94: https://www.footboom1.com/en/news/football/2196157-jose-antonio-lopetegui-known-as-aguerre-ii-passes-away-at-94 José Antonio was also a prominent weightlifter and courted to become a heavyweight boxer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Antonio_Lopetegui

That's DDP hit Scott Thorson for you!

John Marsden, Young Adult author of the Tomorrow series dies at 74: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-legendary-australian-author-john-34321803

No, but my quotation marks are meant to slightly mock the usage of the word "aggressive".

So, Randy "I have something internal and don't you dare say it's cancer" Moss, does indeed have cancer: https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/13/randy-moss-cancer/ While I haven't really known him, those in the know seem to agree that he is in the running for being among the best players of all time in their position. His cancer is in the bowel duct (?), right between pancreas and liver - sounds ... not so good. But for now surgery has been done and it seems to have been successful.

Sallie Krawcheck was once called "the most powerful woman on Wall Street": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Krawcheck She recently resigned from her job because of some diagnosis. Maybe it's a return of the breast cancer she once survived. https://citywire.com/pro-buyer/news/ellevest-ceo-sallie-krawcheck-steps-down-after-medical-diagnosis/a2456375

There's no recent death or news item to create this thread, but there are a couple of really old, really rich people worth watching: Warren Buffett, 83, 4th richest person alive, has been in the news for choosing his successor at Berkshire Hathaway. Charles and David Koch, 78 and 74, 6th richest people alive, CEOs of Koch Industries, have massively funded conservative politicians in favor of fossil fuels. Bernie Ecclestone, 83, under corruption charges and threatened as boss of Formula 1 racing. George Soros, 83, 26th richest person alive, massive supporter of The Democratic Party, doesn't look too healthy but there are no bad news so far. Ingvar Kamprad, 88, Founder of IKEA, very secretive. DEAD Sheldon Adelson, 80, Las Vegas casino magnate, another guy who spends millions of dollars on politicians to ensure that society will go on in a way he thinks is best even after his death Karl Albrecht, 94, 23rd richest person alive, Germany's richest guy and co-founder of ALDI, his brother died last year. When will it be his turn? DEAD Liliane Bettencourt, 91, 11th richest person alive and richest french person, owner of L'Oreal, was involved in a corruption scandal and legal trouble with her daughter. DEAD Also worth watching: The Walton Family, owners of Wal-Mart and maybe even Bill Gates who is still only 58, but looks much older, in my opinion.

Former Juventus player Simone Muratore has been forced to retire after an "aggressive brain tumor": https://www.footboom1.com/en/news/football/2187139-the-heartbreaking-letter-of-a-player-retiring-at-26-due-to-an-aggressive-brain-tumor

Justus Frantz clarifies that he does not have a tumour, just an aneurysm in his aorta that could explode under too much strain: https://www.bunte.de/stars/star-life/stars-privat/justus-frantz-ich-fuehle-mich-wie-mit-18.html Otherwise he feels like 18, and recently announced that he lives together with his 27-year old male manager (as one parallel with Michael Tilson Thomas goes away, other one appears): https://schwulissimo.de/klatsch/neue-liebe-mit-80-jahren-star-dirigent-justus-frantz-ist-verliebt