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I think your game will be the highlight of round two, it's evenly matched - if I may say so. It's very rare that a new player already shows a team that could be worthy of a title contender. But it can happen in football tournaments, too. If a sheikh buys some fifth-league team and gets a couple of world class players, any Cup draw that is supposed to avoid top matchups in the first round will have such a game. I suspect that a different kind of random draw would have led to more such imbalances.

BBC presenter Mari Grug has befriended her chemo meds: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68158160 Metastatic breast cancer. Initially, she was to be put in palliative care only, but then they decided to fight it after all.

"In good spirits even though her health is not what it was": https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/02/03/suu-kyi-in-good-spirits-despite-ailing-health

Heh, Cup and DeathByNumbers.... full-time job... Alright, let's do this while we're at it. All purposes QO for Kurt Hamrin: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25709016/kurt-hamrin-dead-world-cup-pele/ Occasionally, Sweden becomes a surprise title contender at the Football World Cup, though admittedly, they only did so once in the past 60 years. Their biggest achievement was the 2nd place in 1958 though and Hamrin seems to have been the most prominent name of that team only stopped by the Brazilian team that began to shape itself around a young Pelé. Famous6eva was the only one to pick Hamrin and gets richly rewarded with a double-digit lead. livingbygrace 0-3 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-10 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 0-6 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-7 max bossetti Wormfarmer 3-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-0 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-3 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue

Where were we? Ah yes, well, no more DeathList names but Jonnie Irwin. One of the most popular names this year and a safe and sound joker pick for ten teams. I don't have the statistic available, but he's probably the most popular joker, and possibly the most popular pick. Then, the two names above, thanks for mentioning. Aston Barrett was a member of Bob Marley's reggae troupe and quite the big name in his own right. The forum knew of his health problems but the question was if it was actually that bad or whether the gofundme was a scam. Well, Perhaps knew better than anyone else (except for the spelling ;), but if you write the name like that Google suggests Aston instead....) Charles Osgood was a traditional US TV host and voice actor, a career in radio, the army, then friendly shows like CBS News Sunday Morning. He's Cpt Hemlock's first unique hit of the year. Let's see how often I am going to mention unique hits for Cpt Hemlock and Gooseberry Crumble this time.... Don Murray was another traditional US figure but he extended his career up to the Twin Peaks revival in 2017, 61 years after his breakout role in Bus Stop. That's a LONG time. He's a unique hit for Torva Messor. Next hit is Stuart Gray, and I simply assume that everybody who picked this name meant the 1973 born Scottish player and DDP hit. 8 teams score. Roger Donlon is the next hit, going back through the DDP pages... A military history footnote for his Vietnam War Medal of Honor. Three teams score. Now Jason Smith.... not the US congressman currrently in the news, but the local British councilman who was in the BBC news two times, for his cancer diagnosis. I'm not going to lie.... for the DeathList Cup rules I added that I would allow elected politicians on every level because I wanted to give the "permission" to pick Jason Smith. In this competition, he would have also fallen under the rule that BBC coverage in every form will make marginal picks legit. That's what he was, a marginal pick, but one that falls on the legit side of the fence. And I think this is it. The scoreboard shows that the top 4 spots are unchanged. Funnily, RadGuy and me are still on the same score even with different hits. Only two teams are left without points now. This game seems to be moving at a faster speed so maybe we can finally surpass the years-old score record of DevonDeathTrip? Rank Team Score 1 Perhaps 463 2 gcreptile 436 2 RadGuy 436 4 Cpt. Chorizo 431 5 Banana 428 6 Funeralopolis 401 7 Book 376 8 msc 355 8 wannamaker 355 10 Toast 331 11 The Immortal 295 12 Baby Blue 282 13 Caleb H 276 14 Etushipushingupdaisies 264 15 DeathBecomesThem 258 15 Pedro67 258 15 tracy 258 18 Mr. Wonderful 254 19 The Unknown Man 232 20 Salmon Mousse 221 21 Thatcher 213 22 The old lady 207 22 Death Impends 207 24 Summer in Transilvania 197 25 Imelda 185 26 Liz Lemon 169 27 Lady Fiona 163 28 Yorkshire Banker 157 29 Bibliogryphon 146 30 An Fear Beag 142 31 The Old Crem 141 31 The Daredevil 141 33 ThereWillBeDeaths7 140 33 Diego 140 33 John Key 140 33 MariNisia 140 33 Buffalo Phil 140 33 Wormfarmer 140 39 Cpt. Hemlock 126 40 Charles De Gaulle 118 41 TQR 96 42 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 42 Young Willz 73 42 Predictor 73 45 arghton 67 45 Sean 67 47 Torva Messor 29 48 Hell 23 48 chileanway 23 48 Annami 23 51 Gooseberry Crumble 0 51 Sod's Law 0

The bracket has been drawn..... proof above. Seeds were determined by the order on the first page of this thread, and the ten current games were seeded in order of the scoreboard in the previous post. Some matchups were too long for the fields I guess. So the next round will be: AltObitsGuy vs. theoldlady or BabyBlue Perhaps vs. The Killing Time Spade_Cooley vs. GuyFromFuture or LizLemon Hell vs. Gooseberry Crumble or Famous6eva Grim Up North vs. Yorkshire Banker or Death By Arsenic Captain Chorizo vs. arghton wannamaker vs. Wormfarmer or Thatcher MariNisia vs. JoeMoneypenny Banana vs. GreatUncleBulgaria or Mortal Caso Annami vs. Sideik deadsox vs. CalebH or Bibliogryphon msc vs. livingbygrace or Therewillbedeaths7 DevonDeathTrip vs. The Immortal or justonecornetto Sir Creep vs. diego An Fear Beag vs. Dying Probably or max bossetti Captain Hemlock vs. The Old Crem And future rounds will go from there... Edit: Well, I just noticed that the brackets aren't really random. It's simply 1vs32, 2vs31, 3vs 30 and so on.... It ensures that the top-seeded numbers 1 and 2 are on different halves of the board etc.... However, I will keep it as it is, lest it turns into an order that I "feel" is right. I'll try to go for something more random next year, I guess. And I am not mad with what it turned out to be.

The field had to be either completely empty or completely full. Just putting in a year didn't work because that's not what constitutes a birth date for the program. I ..think... that a wrong formatting in Excel translated to 1905 in Access. It has happened each year a couple of times. Could happen again if an old name is picked again after a few years of absence.

TV famous home renovator Jonnie Irwin has died and is a hit for three teams - so yes, Mike Martin was a more popular hit this round than Irwin. But then, even though Irwin was almost universally picked for 2024 deadpools, he wasn't expected to die in February. His final instagram post was on January 26th in which he still had plans for working on his home. But the clock runs down and eventually his time ran out, it must have been an emergency situation. Bibliogryphon scores joker points. Max Bossetti scores the first unique hit of the year with Spanish politician Lorenzo Olarte. The former less-than-one-term president of the Canary Islands seems more suited for the "Not gone yet, but still forgotten" team on the DDP, but news of his hospitalization in late January made him a target here, being already 91 years old. And yes, El Mundo is a QO here. livingbygrace 0-3 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-6 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 0-6 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-7 max bossetti Wormfarmer 3-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-0 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-3 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue

George Benson has to cancel his tour on doctors' orders. They advise him not to tour internationally anymore: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/jazz-icon-cancels-upcoming-sold-28562665

"Funny" how he went from business as usual to death within just 5 days.

He was just in the Mandalorian... surprising. My favourite role of his is being himself on Arrested Development though.

Congrats DoorSlammer!

Dead at 50, like Bryan Barczyk and Stuart Gray.

I'd like to contribute.

That's the US version though. It doesn't translate to .co.uk. Same with the Sun.

They should all be there. Are you looking at the site on mobile? Some teams might be far to the right. I will re-arrange the teams soon

Some notes: I was forced to turn the first pick of one team into a joker because they didn't choose one and didn't get back to me in time. My favourite game of this round: The Immortal vs. justonecornetto aka Frank & Bean vs. Paul and Barbara. I ... think .... I am going to draw the brackets for the rest of the game this weekend. I currently have to do these things on the weekends and might not get to do it later this month.

I think I'll have to work on the formatting, but will not do so today. OF COURSE, the first hit of the game is a basketball hockey baseball coach. Former Florida State coach Mike Martin dies of complications of Lewy body dementia at 79. He did us all a favor lasting just barely into the month of February after entering hospice two weeks ago. He kicks off the season with a bang, scoring for multiple people, including a couple of joker bonus points. livingbygrace 0-0 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-6 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 0-0 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-3 max bossetti Wormfarmer 0-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-0 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-3 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue

livingbygrace vs Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble vs Famous6eva GuyFromFuture vs Liz Lemon 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 1 Sven-Goran Eriksson (Joker) 1 Anthony Kennedy 1 Mike Martin joker 1 Mike Martin(joker) 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 2 Ethel Kennedy 2 Jimmy Carter 2 Betty Webb (joker) 2 Bernardo Ruiz 2 Alice Munro 2 Joanne Woodward 3 Jack Hanna 3 Jim Lovell 3 David Winnick 3 Brigitte Auber 3 Eleanor Collins 3 Steve McMichael 4 Frank Caprio 4 Ralph Puckett 4 Duane Eddy 4 Du Daozheng 4 Jamal Yunos 4 Ruth Buzzi 5 Tom Brokaw 5 Noam Chomsky 5 Earl of Elgin 5 Gaositwe Chiepe 5 Jimmy Carter 5 Ethel Kennedy 6 Bess Meisler 6 Charlie Bird 6 Fred Rumsey 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Richard Rohmer 6 Noam Chomsky 7 Pricilla Pointer 7 Jonnie Irwin 7 Grace Slick 7 Jirna Bodhalova 7 Selim Hoss 7 Roberta Flack 8 Bob Newhart 8 Wilson Fittipaldi 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Kurt Hamrin 8 Silvia Pinal 8 Mike Martin 9 Peter Marshall 9 Seiji Ozawa 9 June Spencer 9 Lizzy Musi 9 Sonja de Lennart 9 Yoko Ono 10 Patricia Routledge 10 Daniel J. Evans 10 Maria Riva 10 Mollie Lentaigne 10 Thea Musgrave 10 Frank Field 11 Ruth Westheimer 11 Erik Jensen 11 Phil Donahue 11 Selma van de Perre 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Dick Button Dying Probably vs max bossetti Wormfarmer vs Thatcher Yorkshire Banker vs DeathByArsenic 1 Caren Marsh Doll - joker 1 Cat Janice (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter - joker 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter(joker) 1 Jimmy Carter-Joker 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Sean Wallace 2 ethel caterham 2 Steve McMichael 2 Antonia Fraser 2 Alexander Mitta 3 Ethel Kennedy 3 Jamal Yunos 3 marita camacho quiros 3 Sophia Loren 3 Charlotte Raven 3 David Graham 4 Eva Marie Saint 4 Jimmy Carter 4 lloyd geering 4 Noam Chomsky 4 Dick Taverne 4 Geneviève Callerot 5 Frank Field 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 cat janice 5 Peter Angelos 5 Jane McAlevey 5 Madeleine Riffaud 6 Hamako Mori 6 Mike Martin 6 james whale 6 Kathy Brown 6 Joseph Fritzl 6 Philippe de Gaulle 7 Ian Sinclair (politician) 7 Wayne Eddy 7 jonnie irwin 7 Theodore McCarrick 7 Lynne Reid Banks 7 Princess Mikasa 8 Jean-Marie Le Pen 8 Tep Vong 8 paul ignatius 8 Emilio Fede 8 Mike Martin 8 Seiji Ozawa 9 Jimmy Carter 9 Steve McCoy 9 josep manolic 9 Frank Caprio 9 Phyllida Law 9 Tep Vong 10 June Spencer 10 Lorenzo Olarte 10 shannen doherty 10 Michael Tilson Thomas 10 Waris Hussein 10 Wilson Fittipaldi 11 Sven-Göran Eriksson 11 Bobby Hehir 11 esther rantzen 11 Denis Law 11 Willie Mays 11 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat GreatUncleBulgaria vs Mortal Caso theoldlady vs BabyBlue CalebH vs Bibliogryphon 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter *Joker* 1 David Graham 1 Jimmy Carter Joker 1 Jimmy Carter-joker 1 Agnes Keleti 2 Terry Jon Martin 2 Mike Martin 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Brenda Milner 2 Ángeles Flórez Peón 2 Roberta Flack 3 Joe Brown (UK singer) 3 Sven-Göran Eriksson 3 Jimmy Carter JOKER 3 César Luis Menotti 3 Biljana Plavšić 3 Frank Field 4 Jean Marie Le Pen 4 Noam Chomsky 4 Joe Bugner 4 Craig Maxwell 4 Craig Maxwell 4 William Russell 5 Tony Thorpe 5 Thomas P. Stafford 5 John Ashton 5 Eleonora Giorgi 5 Ion Iliescu 5 Linda Nolan 6 Dennis Skinner 6 Frank Caprio 6 Joseph Fritzl 6 Ivan Krasko 6 Irene Camber 6 Jonnie Irwin (joker) 7 Esther Rantzen 7 Jamal Yunos 7 Nigel Starmer-Smith 7 Johnny Mathis 7 Micheline Lannoy 7 Esther Rantzen 8 Nigel Starmer-Smith 8 Richard Scolyer 8 Noam Chomsky 8 Jose Sarney 8 Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 8 June Spencer 9 Maria Branyas Morero 9 Jim Lovell 9 Rob Burrow 9 Luis Pascual Dri 9 Rob Burrow 9 Sven-Goran Eriksson 10 Ethel Caterham 10 Wilson Fittipaldi 10 Sonny Rollins 10 Peggy Parnass 10 Seiji Ozawa 10 Nigel Starmer-Smith 11 Frank Field 11 Antero Laukkanen 11 Thomas Stafford 11 Sven-Olof Sallstrom 11 Wayne Eddy 11 John Woodvine The Immortal vs justonecornetto 1 Sean Bean 1 Colin McDonald 2 Rowan Atkinson 2 Paul Di'Anno 3 Charles Bean (economist) 3 Dario G 4 Gene "Bean" Baxter 4 Paul Sturrock 5 Beans (rapper) 5 Paul Willson 6 Frank Field 6 Barbara Babcock 7 Frank Caprio (joker) 7 Barbara Barrie (JOKER) 8 Frank Sedgman 8 Barbara Leigh-Hunt 9 Frankie Avalon 9 Barbara Rush 10 Francois Cheng 10 John Cruickshank 11 Frank Murkowski 11 John Tinniswood

Oh, quick preview: Mike Martin was a popular pick.

I got back from work, about 50 minutes ago. Now I'll go to the swimming pool... I will allow Great Uncle Bulgaria's team. There doesn't seem to be any unfair advantage gained, and there've been some (hopefully) unique circumstances.

That's very funny.

Yes exactly, but I don't dare to look at it again.

Bulgarian actor Ivan Ivanov has died at 72: https://m.novinite.com/articles/223909/Bulgarian+Film+Icon+Ivan+Ivanov+Passes+Away+at+72 Very, very likely a former DDP pick...

I have to go to sleep now. We'll find out tomorrow.