gcreptile

"I literally had one foot in the grave!" http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/i-literally-one-foot-grave-11368477

Interview with Johnny Johnson: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5026421/Surviving-Dambuster-hits-revisionist-historians.html

Robert Mugabe receives an honorary doctorate in food security. Some are not amused: http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/mugabes-food-security-doctorate-is-a-thoroughly-ill-and-not-funny-joke-20171031

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_(given_name)

There's a recent video of her out there which I had almost posted yesterday. Not sure she's going to last decades... It's sad to watch, but it's out there. Edit: Grim Up North's team also has potential. This is far from over.

Joey is 161 pts behind me, and his differentials are Gilbert, Elias and Francis. If I get Ami Brown, it's mathematically impossible for him to catch up. He might beat others though.

Thank you, Bibliogryphon, added... Personally, I believe msc is my biggest danger. Elias + Lorimer...

Meh, that was my most likely unique hit I spoke of in the research thread (the "replacement" for Simon Fitzmaurice)

Ok, here is a preliminary scoreboard. I cannot calculate the complete scores of DDT and Cpt. Chorizo since I don't know their teams.... Also, apparently there's no bonus for unique hits? Some comments by Sean sounded differently, but I couldn't find anything specific. 1. gcreptile (997) 2. msc (908) 3. Death Impends (892) 4. Grim Up North (854) 5. Joey Russ (836) 6. Drol (772) 7. The Dead Cow (750) 8. Sean (648) 8. Phantom of the Midway (596) 9. Handrejka (576) 10. Toast (568) 11. Rotten Ali (539) 12. Book (520) 13. JiroemonKimura (512) 14. MorbidKid (507) 15. The Unknown Man (451) 16. Bibliogryphon (441) 17. Young Willz (342) 18. Rockhopperpenguin (260) 19. Gooseberry Crumble (28) 20. 21. Edit: Calculation in the previous page, feel free to point out errors...

@msc: Ok, I'm going for speed at the moment, but now I checked and Sean wanted to let the more obscure names count as well, so I'll add their score for you and JiroemonKimura. I wasn't sure if only yahoo.uk counted. But apparently not (the obits are yahoo.ca). So unless Sean says any different.... I have to guess some birth years. Yes, I assumed McGiffin's birthday was yet to come, so she would have turned 54 in 2017 => 2017-54=1963. I also assumed Matt Callander already had his birthday. What about Darren Sawchuk?

Work in progress: Going through the list as people submitted their teams: Gooseberry Crumble: 28pts (Adam West) Young Willz: 99+34+71+47+71+5pts for Noakes+10pts for Joost +5pts for Skellern = 342 pts (Morano, Noakes, Tomkinson, Skellern, Westhuizen) The Unknown Man: 55pts (Xiaobo) + 77pts (Johnson) + 63pts (Christie) + 10pts (Christie) + 64pts (Downie) + 10pts (Downie) + 36pts (Campbell) + 10pts (Campbell) + 36pts (Meads) + 5pts (Meads) + 31pts (Booth) + 10pts (Booth) + 39pts (Dawn) +5pts (Dawn) = 451pts MorbidKid: 74+52+41+73+24 (Soares)+41+55 (Sumner)+46+49 (Wetton)+5 (Wetton)+47 (Allman) = 507 pts (Downie, Skellern, Meads, Christie, Soares, Booth, Sumner, Campbell, Allman, Wetton) GrimUpNorth: 198pts (Morano joker)+81+71+74+73+48+54+52+44 (Liz Dawn)+41+46+24+48 (Hart) = 854pts (Morano, Westhuizen, Fawkes, Downie, Christie, Coward, Wetton, Skellern, Dawn, Meads, Campbell, Soares, Hart) Drol: 198+73+48+43 (Snuka) +5 (Snuka)+48+54+74+41+52+81+55 = 772pts (Morano, Christie, Hart, Snuka, Coward, Wetton, Downie, Meads, Skellern, Westhuizen) Bad luck with Jessi Zazu. The Dead Cow: 55 (Xiaobo)+72 (???) (Callander)+48 (Hart)+55 (Van Der Laan)+198+73+74+66 (Van Zandvliet)+55+54 = 750pts (Xiaobo, Callander, Hart, Van Der Laan, Morano, Christie, Downie, Van Zandvliet, Sumner, Wetton) Sean: 55 (Van Der Laan)+55 (Xiaobo)+74 (Downie)+198+24+39+41+41 (Sarstedt) +48+73=648pts (Van Der Laan, Xiaobo, Downie, Morano, Soares, Noakes, Booth, Sarstedt, Coward, Christie) Toast: 198+68 (Berkowitz)+73+74+74+81=568pts (Morano, Berkowitz, Christie, Downie, Fawkes, Westhuizen) Handrejka: 74pts (Downie) +198+73+68+44 (Bennett)+48+71 = 576pts (Downie, Morano, Christie, Berkowitz, Bennett, Coward, Tomkinson) Rotten Ali: 41+46+73+198+36 (Moore)+10 (Moore) +81+54= 539pts (Booth, Campbell, Christie, Morano, Mary Tyler Moore, Westhuizen, Wetton) Rockhopperpenguin: 76 (Forsyth joker = (28+10)*2)+41+31 (Kohl)+81+21 (Sallis) + 10 (Sallis) = 260pts (Forsyth, Sarstedt, Kohl, Westhuizen, Sallis) Phantom of the Midway: 48 (Hart) + 55 (Xiaobo) + 38 (Brady) + 10 (Brady) + 73+74+198+52+48 = 596pts (Hart, Xiaobo, Brady, Christie, Downie, Morano, Skellern, Snuka) msc: 55(Xiaobo)+198+48+73+74+63+52+48+81+71 (Lakovic)+80 (Letele)+65 (Sawchuk) = 908pts (Xiaobo, Morano, Coward, Christie, Downie, McGiffin, Skellern, Snuka, Van Zandvliet, Lakovic, Letele, Sawchuk) No obit for McGill JoeyRuss: 72 (??? Callander) + 55 (Xiaobo) + 198+73+74+81+63 (??? McGiffin)+54+66+48+52= 836pts (Callander, Xiaobo, Morano, Christie, Downie, Westhuizen, McGiffin, Wetton, Van Zandvliet, Coward, Skellern) Book: 74+54+68+73+46+30+46+81+48 = 520pts (Downie, Wetton, Berkowitz, Christie, Campbell, Kohl, Moore, Westhuizen, Coward) JiroemonKimura: 99+74+41+52+73+48+54+71 (Lakovic)= 512pts (Morano, Downie, Meads, Skellern, Christie, Snuka, Wetton, Lakovic) No obit for Hofer? gcreptile: 55 (Xiaobo)+48 (Hart)+198+81+82 (Kobayashi)+80 (Perez)+66+58 (Pfeifer)+74+82+96 (Lyson)+77= 997pts (Xiaobo, Hart, Morano, Westhuizen, Kobayashi, Perez, Van Zandvliet, Pfeifer, Downie, Magill, Lyson, Johnson) DeathImpends: 74 (Downie)+80 (Irwin)+ 82 (Johnson)+74+48+71+53 (Long)+198+48+55+55+54= 892pts (Downie, Irwin, Johnson, Christie, Coward, Lakovic, Long, Morano, Snuka, Strader, Sumner, Wetton) Bibliogryphon: 81+44+198+44+48+26 (Rickles) = 441pts (Westhuizen, Bennett, Morano, Dawn, Brady, Rickles) CaptainChorizo: 497pts at last update... DevonDeathTrip: 320pts at last update... People who lost with their swaps so far: Me, JoeyRuss, GrimUpNorth, drol People who are even: Bibliogryphon People who gained: The Dead Cow and msc (about 50-60 pts each), Sean (!), DeathImpends, The Unknown Man

Is there a bonus for unique hits? I'm trying to calculate a scoreboard.

Oh God, I forgot about the bonuses... but then it's only 20 pts, 10 for Downie, 10 for Van Der Westhuizen.... so I'm at 926 points. Edit: For GrimUpNorth: Liz Dawn was not on the Drop 40. The same fate as Berkowitz. Edit: I must have forgotten to count a person. Corrected score below...

Hmm, 14 hits so far. Plus 2 non-obits. I managed to replace two would-be hits (Daisy Berkowitz and Kevin Murray) and got two hits in return (Liu Xiaobo and Smith Hart). Bad decision actually. I count 906 points for me, currently.

Form guide # 10: Aimee Bond Cancer mum picked in the DDP for the past three years. She was known as Aimee Willett and got in the news with the typical mum/surprise terminal cancer/wedding story. Was doing ok ever since the first article in November 2014 appeared, Had a bit of surgery in between. But now I think it's all going down. She hasn't been active on social media in months and the last messages showed her in a hospital. So I think she's a good pick....but will she get the requisite obit? That is the real question.

Heh, if I had stayed one more round I would have been in the lead with 4 hits (not even counting the non-QO Aundrea Bannatyne and Sally Major whose obit I gave up on just before it came). Anyway, just a reminder, you're free to take my names.

Something I still wanted to say RE: Joey's post, I currently don't have any cancer mum in my rosters. I have a feeling that this year doesn't yield quite as much in that department. Now Anna Irwin is gone as well (was on the B-Team sub bench for 2018). I have a couple of fringe people though. Mothers of, wife of, and a husband of (Bobby Zarin, of course).

Anna Irwin is a hit for me here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4796634/sgt-anna-irwin-loses-lung-cancer-battle/

Just a quick thought. If the Deathlist needs a new mascot - why not Trump? He's a name too huge to miss.

He had a fall 10 days ago and was left with a black eye, says this German article and cites a tweet of a bavarian bishop: http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.papst-benedikt-xvi-ex-kirchenoberhaupt-hat-blaues-auge-nach-sturz.e5af9555-06a5-42c9-a672-792cb9a01d12.html Is he running out of power?

It happens. Those you lose now are at least still replaceable. December deaths are much harder. I could imagine 4-5 obvious people still going until then. I mean, Matt Callandar's death opened a slot for Rayya Elias on my shortlist. I didn't have her on, because I kind of thought it wasn't worth it. For me, it helps having a second roster for my reserve team. So I always have possible replacements. But then you might end up separating them falsely. The day Simon Fitzmaurice died I found an interesting replacement. Most likely unique. Definitely obitable. But maybe not terminally ill. Would be worth 11 points compared to his 10 (8+3). I'm also still going through my longlist, which I originally wanted to do in December. Then I started in my 2 weeks off this month and still haven't finished. It helped me elevate three more people into my teams, one for the main team (a generally known name), one as a sub (cult pick mentioned on here), one for the Theme Team (likely unique, Daily Mail or bust). But now I'm going through the low-priority names (age-based). They are only worth picking if they are unique. And even then, they really have to be close to death.

Now Kevin Spacey...another open secret in Hollywood. More to come...

Death Race Form Guide #15 Richard Arvine Overton Third member of the holy trifecta of hospitalizations. The oldest living (American) World War II veteran. He'll get the whole board of QO's while the actually oldest WW II veteran, German soldier Gustav Gerneth will not receive any attention outside of Germany. Anyway, Overton is a descendant of a 700-year old British noble family. He likes to smoke cigars and not even three hospitalizations because of pneunomia within one year can stop him. Well, at that age (111), why still care?

Death Race Form Guide #13 Dilip Kumar Bollywood legend and method actor before method acting was a thing. Nexto to Sri Sri Sri Srishvdasamwasiaw he is the second member of the holy trifecta of hospitalizations. Supposedly active on Twitter, but like BIlly Graham's newspaper sermons, it's probably all ghost-written. They've stopped dyeing his hair and eyebrows, it seems.

Death Race form guide #11 Sri Sri Sri Shivakamura Swami 110 year old regularly hospitalized oracle. They call him "The Walking God" but he hasn't been seen walking in a long time. Close to death a couple of times already. How much longer can he last?