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What happened here??? Well... to get back on topic, one of my picks has been ruled out for the DDP and will be replaced by my first sub. The pick might have qualified on paper, but in reality, it was still just famous for being ill.

Well, there's a (cheap) article now: https://www.sapeople.com/2022/12/19/dying-scientists-last-tweet-prompts-outpouring-of-love-and-reflection/ So I guess nobody's unique pick would have been stolen. And not just because he might not see 2023.

How can such a tweet get over 300k likes? He only has a bit more than 20k followers. This is a weird case.

Congratulations Diego, that was impressive! I tried to smugly play this without watching a single game, you know, in full boycott mode. It worked for the first... 4 days, or so. But after that, I didn't get a single game right. So I guess, you do have to watch to know what's going on.

I agree, timing-wise it will be hard to beat Pelé.

According to Wikipedia, Xi Xi has died, a favourite here. Lets see if she obits.

She just had really terrible plastic surgery, maybe it's a cover-up story.

There are probably a lot of non-german articles about this but Berlusconi says that the reason why he wasn't made a minister in the current government was his health: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/silvio-berlusconi-ein-wunder-dass-ich-noch-lebe-a-b4dcde54-a0e7-4419-8602-2a1ee83256a2 The doctors think it's a miracle he's still alive.

Edit: nevermind, old story https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11547287/Pete-Doherty-hospitalised-biting-Christmas-lights.html

Sickest suggestion this year, maybe in this century: A woman who is prohibited from aborting her miscarriage in the state of Idaho has been documenting her declining health: https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/16/woman-denied-abortion-even-though-shes-miscarrying/

So the Iranian cleric they just added to Wikipedia's deaths of 2022 page, he's List of the Missed, picked last year by that cleric theme team: https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1401/09/25/2822377/آیت-الله-روحانى-دار-فانی-را-وداع-گفت

Nick Berry update... he died: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/17/can-you-solve-it-nick-berry-data-dude It happened in Octobre and the Guardian kept up, impressive.

Tony Claypole died in November, so far without QO: https://www.ntfc.co.uk/news/2022/november/tony_claypole/ I think he's been unpicked mostly, he was The Love Boat's first sub. I had him in the Death By Numbers though. A possible year-end obiter.

Forgot about the game for 3rd place: Croatia - Morocco: 1-2 yellow cards: 2

Paul Kitching, Michelin-winning scottish chef dies suddenly: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/paul-kitching-edinburgh-chef-behind-one-of-capitals-best-restaurants-21212-dies-suddenly-3955881

Ah! Very helpful update.

Grammy-winning songwriter Shirley Eikhard has died at 67: https://zoomerradio.ca/news/2022/12/15/grammy-winning-canadian-songwriter-shirley-eikhard-dead-at-67-publicist-eric-alper/

Argentina-France 1-2

Not sure how serious, but according to the linked tweet, YouTuber Kwite has a brain tumour: https://mobile.twitter.com/Kwite/status/1603081856240570368

My team has been posted in XXXX-ed form. Now watch them die off one by one before the starting line. I tried my best to anticipate the fame qualifications of the DDP because the fame rules also apply to me, if a name gets disqualified from the DDP they also get disqualified here. But for now, the "Tracy Kashi of 2023" is in.

Article from this month about how al Qaeda have still not confirmed the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri which would be needed to give out the points: https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-al-qaeda-die-ayman-al-zawahiri

I'll be trying to send a team. Not sure I can get it done before Christmas though.

Argentina-Croatia 1-1 4 yellow cards

Amir Nasr Azadani, Iranian footballer, sentenced to death: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/12/13/iranian-footballer-amir-nasr-azadani-sentenced-execution-campaigning/ The claim is that he stabbed two security officers during the recent uprisings.

Jean-Claude van Damme is currently in Ukraine and was hospitalised for unknown reasons. He also looks a bit haggard to me, but then, he's 62 years old now: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/12/11/hollywood-hospital-ukraine-feeling-unwell/