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If Betty White was a ching-chong China woman, she would be a 2022 death.

Well, what can I say? Everybody moves up a slot. 50th place to Peter Tobin.

I thought she had drastically reduced public appearances in recent months, just before her 100th birthday. Seemed strange. But well, those two more weeks would have been nice I guess.

Seems like he will not be leading the NYE mass on extremely short notice: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/papst-franziskus-verzichtet-kurzfristig-auf-leitung-von-silvestermesse-im-petersdom-a-e0a38129-dba7-4c38-b8d6-2d255880c137 He will be sitting beside the speaking cardinal. The hits are now coming more and more often...

Dove Windsor

Richard Horton, chief editor of medical journal The Lancet. Was he hiding the truth about the Coronavirus lab leak? Is somebody or something going to remove him?

Time is ticking..... you have a few hours left to get your team in. As I will be away from the keyboard over midnight, you might want to get your team in early, mostly if you want to be sure about immediate disqualifications. After midnight, they will be replaced by your subs. And remember the rules, if your picks get disqualified in the DDP, they also get disqualified here., However, we already have a record participation! Great work to all of you.

Year-end obit for LG Petrov: https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/28/who-died-in-2021-all-the-celebrities-weve-lost-this-year-15656689/ Counts for DDP but also Death By Numbers and I guess some other places.

BBC entertainment year-end list, but probably without new obits, as yahoo now acts as a QO of last resort in this area. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55528360

Oh well, okay DDP: Title defender now barely making the Top 20. However, with three non-obits, two of them rather surprising, and quite a few names on my team who are almost dead but not quite, I conclude that I was a little unlucky not to make Top Ten again, which I guess is the balance to my obit luck in the last year. The C-team did quite well with 10 hits. The B-team sadly a disappointment. Overall C+ Deathlist Cup: I won it, it was tons of work - and yet, I only won each round just barely, never really getting those Banana/Spade scores. Still, I defeated a lot of A-listers. A-- The other games: Just second place in Poker? So close, yet so far away. I should have waited with the joker conversion. That's really the difference, self-inflicted error. ABC pool looks good. Let's see... Inverse pool was a flop. Hartlepool disappointing. I won the six months, six hits pool. That was nice. Centenarian pool apparently only second to drol. That one and the poker one I REALLY wanted. Second place has to be enough for now I guess. Windy City was/is bad. Death By Numbers a little below what I want. Overall a C+ I guess. Oh, and Alt Obits was another personal best, the third in a row I think. For a short time, I was up there, but I ran out of juice in the summer. I still need some development there.

I hope you stay around. Interests change though. Sometimes a break is good. And well, death never goes away.

I haven't even looked at your team (that only happens after tomorrow), but I bet you will.

ddp[add]derbydeadpool.co.uk.

Okay, the problem right now is that we have our competitions starting, too. So people might not necessarily be willing to share them. But you can look around the forum, you might find some.

Ah, but do you need our help when you already know how to win?

Welcome @BuffaloPhil! You are entry number 30. 30 hours left to enter.

I got nine rejections yesterday. All got through this morning - I wish I had had one rejection for that name I missed. Too many lists...

She could have had it all.... ... wait a second, she did!

@Bibliogryphon @Famous6Eva @Hell You may pick a joker for twice the points. You can either tell me, tell here, or simply add it to your team. If I don't hear from you until the new year, your first name will be the joker. Edit: That's for the publicly posted teams. If the pm'ed teams miss their joker, I will tell you in the pm.

Alright, I have submitted all the teams that I am going to submit for 2022 (except for my not super-competitive shadow list, which already exists in my excel file). So I am now going to add the already submitted teams to my 2022 database, starting with the publicly posted ones. Depending on my speed and headache intensity, I will probably reply to the PMs tomorrow.

Alright, I want in, though it's probably not amounting to much. 1. Frank Field 2. Dennis Skinner 3. Nigel Lawson 4. José Mujica 5. Mikhail Gorbachev 6. Martti Ahtisaari 7. Francisco Morales Bermudez 8. Bill Hayden 9. Jose Sarney 10. Selim Hoss Subs: Guillermo Rodriguez Thanks for hosting!

Nancy Worley, former chair of the Democratic party of Alabama, has died at 70: https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/former-alabama-democratic-party-chair-nancy-worley-dies.html @Grim Up North My team needs a sub.

US state judge Mary Fairhurst dead after a loooong cancer fight at 64: https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/obituaries/former-wa-supreme-court-justice-mary-fairhurst-dies-at-64/article_dc9a3030-7c1c-560b-aa04-1dde7a11894a.html Also a unique DDP pick. Let's see if there's a yahoo obit.

I have submitted my teams, best of luck to you all, and me!