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Obviously an attractive pick. I can't quite bring myself to approve of it though. A repeat of Pervez Musharraf maybe?

Honestly, the "you can only pick what is left unpicked" rule is pretty bad for this.

Here's my team: Ghislaine Maxwell (joker) Jimmy Greaves Brian Reader Bobby Charlton Carlos Bilardo Dennis Skinner Andrew McDonald Abdelaziz Bouteflika Dilip Kumar Cpt. Tom Smith Benedikt XVI Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Carter Johnny Ruffo Yoko Ono Michael McKevitt Stan Bowles Brian Henderson Ernie Moss Litsa Menounos

Yeah, a little too high?

Voted for Rush. He's also my only Deathrace pick out of these, so...

Yes, I like his addition and stopped short of asking for him in the recently created Michael Dukakis thread. I mean, I kind of thought he would eventually occupy Jimmy Carter's spot - who has proved to be very resilient (oldest US president ever!), but will most likely die this year.

I kind of think that this is the only pick the Committee definitely had to add, and they did it. Well Done!

You people are fast. 22.

Yeah! I knew it! I even picked him in the "Deathlist prediction game", albeit a little lower than he is.

Sorry, but... Walter Mondale?

Well done to both!

Shadow List 2021, as always, trying to err on the side of notability: 1 David Gulpilil 26 Cpt. Tom Moore 2 Tom Parker 27 Tommy Lasorda 3 Dennis Skinner 28 Stan Bowles 4 Larry King 29 Dilip Kumar 5 Tom Smith 30 Leslie Phillips 6 Rush Limbaugh 31 Abdelaziz Bouteflika 7 James Whale 32 Sandra Day O'Connor 8 Jean-Louis Trintignant 33 Michael McKevitt 9 Rosalynn Carter 34 Ernie Moss 10 Josu Ternera 35 Alan Dean Foster 11 Bill Turnbull 36 Bernard Tapie 12 Gerd Müller 37 Donald Trump 13 Uwe Seeler 38 Liz Sheridan 14 Catherine Wybourne 39 Hamilton Smith 15 Leon Spinks 40 Carlos Bilardo 16 Mikhail Gorbachev 41 Carlos Menem 17 Jimmy Carter 42 Brian Henderson 18 Brendon Ormsby 43 Tom Weiskopf 19 Dai Davies 44 Jake "The Snake" Roberts 20 Yoko Ono 45 Floyd Little 21 Bob Newhart 46 Tunch Ilkin 22 Ghislaine Maxwell 47 Julia Reichert 23 Bobby Charlton 48 Phyllida Law 24 Phil Read 49 Anne Buydens 25 Benedikt XVI 50 Jon Hassell Subs: The Duke of Kent, Sidney Poitier (17/50)

On it. AP is a fairly reliable source for a quick and dirty obit. We still have the whole day of tomorrow for obits. At this rate, you know, one notable death per hour, we might look at 30 more obits.

Yes he did :). He's already in the scores.

Hello Sean, you have picked Tom Smith twice. Do you want to add a different name? (Otherwise, I will add the first sub by midnight)

German olympian official Walther Tröger, who also negotiated with the terrorists at the Munich Olympics, dead at 91: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/olympia/walther-troeger-nachruf-auf-den-letzten-olympioniken-a-6ac16ff9-01fb-4044-bfcc-41f8599ab6a9

We need the qualifying obits, and have today and tomorrow to find them. Colin Withers, Arnold Wolfendale, Geoffrey Robinson, now Ronnie Atkins.

Last call for entries, all the teams sent to me are in - I hope! The entry list is updated.

Oh no, I am sorry! Your team is in my game files though, just not in that post.

You may choose a joker that gives you double points.

Alright, 18 teams in by now. Apart from the pm'ed teams, I can also confirm that the publicly posted teams are okay (unless there's a DDP surprise still coming). And I would like to thank you for making it easy so far with the fame requirements - it's looking good!

Hmm,

Well, that's one future DDP spelling horror resolved.

Ha! Yes, that's another source of deadpooling knowledge currently being made impossible, right next to the concert/event cancellations, and the "I visited so-and-so and they looked horrible" stories.

Thanks for the answer! Well, that was helpful then.. 1. Carlos Menem 2. Benedict XVI 3. Mahmoud Abbas 4. Jimmy Carter 5. Violetta Chamorro 6. Alvaro Colom 7. Luis Echevarria Alvarez 8. Josip Manolic 9. Rodrigo Duterte 10. Bob Dole Subs: Raul Castro