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Hmm, Oregonians (more like Ore-gone-ians, AM I RITE?) with cancer: Sarah DuBois, cheerleader: https://www.dailyemerald.com/2018/01/08/resilient-cheerleader-final-four-chemotherapy/ Pastor Joel Royce: http://oregonfaithreport.com/2018/01/pastors-terminal-brain-cancer-journey/ J.J. Hanson -no, already dead: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5224165/J-J-Hanson-opponent-assisted-suicides-dies-age-36.html Oregon senator Jackie Winters: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/08/oregon_state_sen_jackie_winter.html Portland commissioner Nick FIsh: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/08/portland_commissioner_nick_fis_3.html Ted Winn, NIKE executive and picked for the Deathrace by some odd fellow named GCReptile: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2017/11/ted_winn_fighting_cancer.html

Ugh... sorry, already turning into a DeathList MUST for 2019...

Mitt Romney is surprisingly old. And surprisingly many old men have prostate cancer.

A Sith LORD?

Ritchii Kara...

Sometimes people are actually ill, but are lucky to survive. I would count John Wicks among them. One might replace him with Shannen Doherty? I always thought she exaggerated.

Larry Pickering Edit: Oh, and the OPEC lady, Alison Mbukele-something-something.

Congratulations Mr. GUN. This title won't be the last one.

Congratulations DI!

What about the Theme Team league :-p

Next year I'm going to submit a C-Team. It will be full of cancer mums and Australians.

Ha, you're right, I'm sorry.... I thought he looked appropriately wrinkled enough to be D'estaing.

Here is a recent photo of him and his reaction to the death of Jean D'Ormesson: https://fr.news.yahoo.com/lettre-ouverte-valéry-giscard-d-214546744.html

I am in the process of including all those new names from other people for the team score calculations into my longlist. I do the same for the new DeathList candidates... Now the 2000th member of my longlist (including people dead and alive) is..... Valery Giscard D'estaing. Edit: In 2015 I added a bit more than 600 names to the list. In 2016 about 800. In 2017 only about 500 - the well is running dry?

With a slightly different angle, they could start with Kevin Spacey and end with Harvey Weinstein.

I once had the idea of a "safe" main team, and a "risky" main team, when I thought to myself that last year's B-Team could have won if I had replaced some of the fringier names with Leah Bracknell or Errol Christie. There would have been an overlap between the two of about 10 names. But then it didn't feel right. Needless to say, neither team would have won anything because Leah Bracknell would have been the joker on all of them.... I also briefly considered submitting one safe team WITH Stefan Karl Stefansson and Greg Gilbert, and one without them, mostly the one you see now. But I decided against it as well... Still, the rules are the rules (and the non-rules). I think there's no need to withdraw, even if Patrick Cryne's possible entry into the Drop 40 hurts my main team's chances.

Ok, I can post a first Top Ten, but this is all very preliminary. Many good teams are probably still missing (Bucket of Blood, Crossing The Styx, etc....) And the Drop 40 and unique hits aren't out yet. Once they are all out and Spade has it all set up, I'll expand the Top Ten to a Top Twenty, but I first need to include these new teams. Hopefully, they don't have a lot of completely new names... 1. Still Life - 155,488 2. The Love Boat - 153,931 3. Thomas Jefferson Survives - 152,023 4. To Kill a Gabor Sister - 150,915 5. Day in the Death - 150,369 6. GUN away - 147,5025 7. GUN fishing - 146,6905 - hmm... 8. Drollercoaster - 146,5655 9. The Living End - 146,275 10. Poochie Died on the Way Back to his Home Planet - 145,5165 At this early stage, the scores are higher than they were at the same stage last year, by about 10 points.

As I am going through the teams already posted, I wonder who is going to make the Drop 40. Well, the obvious entries are in. I did not expect Linda Nolan to make it, but it seems she will. Possibly Dean Francis and Patrick Cryne as well. But there is a difference between the active forum members (posting their teams) and the other DDP players. Out of a bit more than 30 teams I've calculated scores for, Rayya Elias was picked 21 times. But who outside of our circle knew about her? A Drop 40 member will need to be on about 35 teams. That will be interesting to see. Same goes for Patrick Cryne with 16 people who have picked him so far. A bit of a fringe name. Similar situation though a bit less extreme for Dean Francis, also picked 16 times, but at least a bit more well-known. Tessa Jowell was picked 17 times, so I guess she will be in. And I have Marieke Vervoort at 22. She will make it.

If I cheat, and count all my teams together, then Rayya Elias and Thomas Monson are hits 64 and 65 for me. The Love Boat in its 4th year is now at 31 hits.

He gets a visit from the Crocodile: https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/pics-zimbabwes-new-president-visits-ailing-opposition-chief-20180105

Charlie Panigoniak, "legendary" Inuit singer/songwriter, has Parkinson's and "pre-dementia": http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/legendary-but-ailing-inuit-singer-pleads-for-help-to-keep-heat-lights-on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Panigoniak

This article from yesterday mentions Cas Willow by name but fails to mention that she's dead: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/wedding-industry-gears-up-for-boom-in-samesex-marriages/news-story/e7b8ccd54c42efc1f9f6210998bfa959

Well, then.... Italian jockey Daniele Porcu, dead after a short cancer fight at 34: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/225433/cancer-takes-italian-jockey-daniele-porcu-at-34

Dutch/Kiwi former 5000m world record holder and silver medal winner at the 1976 Olympic games who then turned local politician and also became an internet meme, Dick Quax, has throat cancer since 2013, has undergone all kinds of treatment already, and it's currently being managed after it had initially spread to lungs and brain: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11962735 He got his cancer Michael Douglas-style.