gcreptile

It was a very anticlimactic previous round, kind of disappointing to all (except to those who survived I guess!). In the end, our game was decided by the Mufti three hours into the new month. I expected more carnage. Good luck to you, msc! Seems like I have more late-stage cancer people, you have more critical ones. It's a bit unpredictable. You have a unique joker, which I also saw, but kind of ignored. That could be an advantage.

Former first lady of Indiana, not Susan Bayh, but Pat Whitcomb, has died at 91: https://www.mywabashvalley.com/top-news/former-indiana-first-lady-patricia-pat-whitcomb-passes-away/

@Great Uncle Bulgaria @Toast I see you replaced two people. But you can actually replace up to five people if you want to. The two people is my disadvantage as host.

Donald Rumsfeld is a hit for me.... so for me he was a known unknown, or something like that.

Switzerland 2-4 Spain Belgium 2-3 Italy

But the main attention goes to me, opening up the replacement period. As an example, I will now exchange two (living) names on my team with two new ones. As the host, my new names will be two widely known names who can be expected to be picked frequently by others as well. So I drop: Suzy Friton Constantino Chiwenga And replace them with: Deborah James (Bowelbabe) James Michael Tyler. You may now also replace up to five names on your team, and you may do so until the end of tomorrow GMT. You can replace a bad joker, but not pick a new one by the way. You cannot replace dead but non-obiting people. Neither can I .... :sigh:

Alright, just two new hits in the last days, Jon Hassell for me and Enrique Bolanos for the crafty Salmon Mousse - who is so close to the top he can taste it: Rank Team Score 1 JoeyRuss 907 2 Cpt. Chorizo 906 3 Salmon Mousse 847 4 gcreptile 766 5 Banana 730 6 Death Impends 717 7 Book 610 8 An Fear Beag 597 9 msc 585 10 drol 522 11 DevonDeathTrip 508 12 Wormfarmer 507 13 theoldlady 467 14 Lynchian 435 15 The Unknown Man 387 16 The Quim Reaper 361 17 Kenny 332 18 Annami 328 19 Joe Moneypenny 324 20 The Daredevil 291 21 Etushipushingupdaisies 261 22 The Old Crem 247 23 chilean way 223 24 Sean 222 25 Baby Blue 220 26 markb4 205 27 Yorkshire Banker 183 28 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 160 29 mr.whit 156 30 Toast 124 31 Charles De Gaulle 119 32 Bibliogryphon 93 33 Gooseberry Crumble 75 34 etib80 68 35 Guyfromfuture 33

Noel Furlong, main event winner of 1999, has died at 83: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2021/06/1999-wsop-main-event-champ-noel-furlong-passes-away-39404.htm

People on the internet trying to guess his type of cancer: https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/is-mark-hoppus-dying-blink-182-vocalist-chemotherapy-update-fans-worried-cancer-terminal

Three hospitalisations in two months. Could it....

Well, now I can finally stop giving a shit! Our team did lack the oomph though. England not unclever, but they will fall against genuine enthusiasm.

Singer, songwriter and slide guitarist, the blues musician Ellen McIlwaine has died at 75: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/singer-writer-slide-guitarist-ellen-mcilwaine-dies/

England 1-2 Germany Sweden 2-0 Ukraine

Who guesses a 3-3??? I didn''t have a win in a week or so..WTF... Oh, and yesterday's Netherlands - Czechia game... the Dutch were leaderless, uninspired, harmless, and so on, and on. After the first half, I already thought the Czechs were better, before the red card. They had plan and the skill. The Dutch had pretty much nothing. Such a sad display. And then after they had nothing, and lost a man, they even got worse. Bad, bad, bad, bad, I felt insulted watching them.

Croatia 1-2 Spain France 1-0 Switzerland

River, the dog model for your canine companion in the video game Fallout 4, has died: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-4-dogmeat-river-death/ I still occasionally play that game, as I am often about 5 years behind new games. The dog did a good job.

Reuven Bulka, London-born Rabbi of Ottawa, with pancreatic cancer, has died: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-s-rabbi-reuven-bulka-passes-away-1.5487479

Was he gravely ill? Edit: Eh, I see it had been done before.

QO for all the pools I sadly had to pick him for: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/27/jon-hassell-avant-garde-us-composer-dies-aged-84

Netherlands 3-1 Czechia Belgium 2-2 Portugal

That would have been a great call. Former Skid Row frontman Johnny Solinger has died at 54: https://bravewords.com/news/johnny-solinger-former-skid-row-vocalist-passes-away

Awww, very sad (but not that unexpected). A highly original voice has gone. Some of his stuff takes getting used to, some of it is just absolutely beautiful. I'll listen to him today and in the coming days, a lot.

Hmm, what's the reason for the difference?

Scottish journalists? Would have been another unique pick for you.

I have submitted, good luck to everyone! I doubt I have the time to find more names in the next 5 days - so I had to submit early. Some of the names are on my current Cup team, so you know, there's still time to lose a few names.