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Damn, it wasn't anywhere on twitter, their Facebook or their webpage...

Congratulations Mr. Skunk to your silver DDP jubilee, by the way!

Neither Rainier nor Hussain are part of the ...uhh... European interbreeding bunch of families though. Just look at all the usual families, Simeon of Bulgaria, King Michael of Romania, all the recently deceased or still living scandinavian monarchs. I kind of think that the breeding problem (+ the best health care money can buy and having a pretty stress-free life) helped with their life expectancy.

My pick Chas Wetherbee, a music teacher with a Wikipedia page in german, but not english, has died: https://www.thestrad.com/news/violinist-charles-wetherbee-dies-aged-57/15958.article

Just to explain what I meant with the list age, nowadays every european monarch seems to reach 90 or get close to it. While I didn't systematically check it, he might be the youngest monarch to die since King Baudoin of Belgium?

William Consovoy, a prominent american lawyer for extremely conservative causes, has died at 48 of brain disease: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/prominent-conservative-lawyer-william-consovoy-dies-48-2023-01-10/ Hare's pool pick for me, but the immediate obit makes me think I should have picked him in the DDP.

My pick William Consovoy has died: A whopping nine points for me: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/prominent-conservative-lawyer-william-consovoy-dies-48-2023-01-10/

Joan Bakewell has colon cancer; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11620779/Broadcaster-Joan-Bakewell-opens-colon-cancer-diagnosis-picked-routine-check.html They got most of it out though. Some "cleaning up is left to do".

If true, wow, he just gave that interview a week ago.

83 would be pretty young for a European Royal, wouldn't it? They all now seem to reach ages of 85 and older.

As far as I know, you're not allowed to spread rumours about the royal family because of the lese majesté laws. All the info about her has to be taken with grains of salt. She may die tomorrow or in a couple of years. Maybe she's a new Ariel Sharon, or a Jessica Falkholt.

Irenaios, the former greek-orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem has died at 83: https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/01/10/patriarch-of-jerusalem-irenaios/

Ian Mills, professor at the University of Reading has died at 92: https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-01-09/internationally-renowned-scientist-who-redefined-the-kilogram-dies-aged-92 He redefined the unit of kilogram, away from a certain amount of atoms of a certain element, to a more mathematical definition.

Anne Elizabeth Jenkins, Iron Lung survivor, has died at 71: https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-01-09/a-polio-victim-who-survived-iron-lung-as-a-child-has-died-aged-71

New season, new avatar, I coincidentally watched a few gaming videos lately. Also Kandinsky gave me some very close misses recently.

Yes, really good for not going down the rabbit hole of obsessive research into insanity!

It's probably the biggest one-person-pool right now, but then I don't do "real obits", or pictures, or my own website. Thank God. We have 520 teams in the DDP? I -still- haven't looked at the file. But that's a neat increase. After the historic peak of around 600 teams in the early 2010s, we've hovered roughly around 500 since then. 498 teams the last time (one withdrawal, one or two late entry rejections). I have to assume with many pools increasing in size this year, that this is not random movement, but an increase in interest.

Yes, thanks, formula in the spreadsheet corrected, thank you!

Alright, let's call it a wrap! I am unaware of any late hits that impact the scoreboard. I also checked for the possibility year-end obits, especially Sonny Caldinez and Arno, for some late points - but came up empty! So the previous scoreboard should actually be the final one. Which means Banana is the winner of 2022, well done! Those were some impressive 12 months of deadpooling. It was not a start-to-finish walk, Banana never really ran away from the field, only in Decembre did a 2 hit-advantage crystallize. I could always imagine that, say An FearBeag, or Salmon Mousse might still make it close. For example, I regarded Jeanette Lee as a possibly threat. Especially An Fear Beag had collected, in my opinion, the strongest team "on paper", meaning lots of official stage 4 cancer names, even though not close to death. But with a stage 4 diagnosis, you never know.... Personally, I'll probably never pick Shannen Doherty, and probably never Linda Nolan. But they can always have a downturn.... though last year, they didn't. And so Banana sniffed out the "real" targets 1-2 times where others didn't. SalmonMousse was in contention for the first half of the year, and then An Fear Beag and Predictor had some 2nd half of the year cinderella runs. Also worth mentioning is msc's podium place. Some of the gambles didn't pay off, so there was no occasion for him to shine at any point in the competition. But the end result is still impressive. The tweaking of the formula is heading into the right direction. Also nice to see that everyone ended up comfortably in the triple digits. And we covered a lot of names, especially those in the lower region of the scoreboard who nevertheless caught a few nuggets, like Bibliogryphon's hit of MeatLoaf. Gooseberry Crumble's Michael Barratt, Annami's Margaret Keane, and the like. A good first showing from MariNisia, too, at no. 14, well done! It's a difficult pool, you need to collect names over time and then fire them off at the right time - not easy! GuyFrom Future is at no. 16. I suspect we'll see some more of them in 2023. Thanks for playing!

Alright, here's hoping we're off to a good start. I have hopefully adjusted the masterlist and game files according to your clarifications and late developments. So let's get a first scoreboard up. Gianluca Vialli and Frank McGarvey were the huge names in this first update. Vialli especially received some joker love, a mid-sized joker bonus for him, but some players preferred the absolute certainty. It does at least give them the no. 1 spot in this first update. Fay Weldon was another hit for a few players. Bill Campbell is the first unique hit of the game, for JoeyRuss, well done! I still have to comb through all the new names and add them to my personal list, It's about 300 new names, so I am not yet familiar with all the picked names. If I missed an early death, feel free to tell me, I should find them eventually in anycase. We have 61 players in the game, and 3049 individual picks. That number is now higher than the AltObits Deadpool. That's... something. Rank Team Score 1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 184 1 Perhaps 184 1 Banana 184 4 The Spinosaurus 128 4 TheUnknownMan 128 4 Wormfarmer 128 7 gcreptile 120 7 Famous6Eva 120 7 Funeralopolis 120 7 wannamaker 120 7 Etushipushingupdaisies 120 7 RadGuy 120 7 Death Impends 120 7 Drol 120 7 Predictor 120 7 Grim Up North 120 7 Book 120 7 msc 120 7 Salmon Mousse 120 20 Torva Messor 95 20 TheOldLady 95 20 Toast 95 23 CalebH 64 23 chilean way 64 23 DeathBecomesThem 64 23 GuyFromFuture 64 23 TheQuimReaper 64 23 Joltin Joe 64 23 Nick 64 23 YoungWillz 64 23 Diego 64 23 The Old Crem 64 23 Buffalo Phil 64 23 tracy 64 23 Sean 64 23 Mr. Wonderful 64 23 sam081 64 23 The Daredevil 64 23 MariNisia 64 23 An Fear Beag 64 23 Lady Fiona 64 23 Thatcher 64 23 etib80 64 23 Cpt. Chorizo 64 23 JoeyRuss 64 23 Hell 64 23 DevonDeathTrip 64 23 Pedro67 64 23 Annami 64 23 Summer in Transylvania 64 23 Mr. Custard 64 52 Gooseberry Crumble 31 53 JoeMoneypenny 0 53 Liz Lemon 0 53 Bibliogryphon 0 53 MortalCaso 0 53 John Key 0 53 Cpt. Hemlock 0 53 Charles De Gaulle 0 53 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 53 Ghostofchristmaspast 0

The greek version is called gyros.

As I said, recent pictures have looked pretty ominous. On Christmas, my mother saw the pictures and suspected he's going to die soon. I also think there's a substantial probability. The cancellation of the trip came after that. He's been ill for quite some time, but that could have been because of a corruption trial. It was hard to figure out what was going on.

According to greek sources, he's now marking one month in intensive care.

I'll join, thank you!

Before this thread gets too cluttered I would like to suggest the creation of separate threads for Meghan and Prince William, maybe also Catherine.