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Advent Avalanche 2020

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Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules:

25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day.

And those Rules in Full:


1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN.

2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant.
A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death.


3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist.

4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2020.

5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate.

6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing.

6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others.

7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 

8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required.

9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes Joey Russ's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties.

10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win.

10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day.

11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 

12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs.


13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement.
AND FINALLY...
On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion.

Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates:

 

  1. Sean - Dai Davies

  2. The Daredevil - Gerd Muller

  3. Sir Creep - Floyd Little 

  4. gcreptile - Hubert Auriol

  5. Spade_Cooley - Zafarullah Khan Jamali

  6. drol - Saleh Ajery

  7. The Old Crem - James Whale 

  8. theoldlady - Larry King 

  9. CaptainChorizo - Litsa Menounous 

  10. Perhaps - Tommy Lasorda 

  11. msc - Divya Bhatnagar

  12. Toast - Mairead Philpott

  13. Bibliogryphon - Rush Limbaugh 

  14. Banana - Rob Orkies

  15. chilean way - Leon Spinks 

  16. The Quim Reaper - Yoko Ono

  17. The Mad Hatter - Valery Giscard d’Estaing 

  18. HDS - Susan Bayh

  19. YoungWillz - Tom Smith

  20. Grim Up North - Nick Hitchon

  21. Book - Ged Stokes

  22. Death Impends - Renee Simonot 

  23. En Passant - Prince Philip

  24. ThereWillBeDeaths7 - Leslie Phillips 

  25. Joey Russ - Sylvain Sylvain 

 

Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now

 

2016

  

Death Impends 

  

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2017 

 

Sean

 

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2018

 

Banana

 

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2019

 

gcreptile

 

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Good luck everyone. :) 

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Advent Avalanche Guide #1: 

 

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Everybody’s favorite twat has now been diagnosed with Covid-19. Nobody would be missing him if he dies, but it would be a damn shame that he wouldn’t be the winning pick if he does die before December 1st...

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1 hour ago, Joey Russ said:

Advent Avalanche Guide #1: 

 

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Everybody’s favorite twat has now been diagnosed with Covid-19. Nobody would be missing him if he dies, but it would be a damn shame that he wouldn’t be the winning pick if he does die before December 1st...


Yeah when is the fucking twat going to finish the GOT books!?!

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #2:

 

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In a Rush to win, anyone?

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So do I set the alarm for midday on Nov. 30 now?

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #3

Eugenia Cooney

 

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The youtube star is literally starving herself to death

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On 08/11/2020 at 01:35, Dying Probably said:

So do I set the alarm for midday on Nov. 30 now?

If you do you might be too late

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #4: Glynis Johns

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Long-time DeathList favourite Glynis Johns, here pictured in her days as a fetish model for the original OnlyFans mailing list (2/– for full access) is still going strong, despite COVID sweeping through her retirement home earlier this year, and the death of fellow inhabitant Helen Reddy. Fun (not really fun) fact: "Sister Suffragette" was written in under an hour after a misunderstanding meant Johns thought she was going to be cast as Mary Poppins herself, and Walt Disney had to think on his feet to not offend her. Probably should have tried doing that with some of the blacks and Jews you met Walt, but hey. Anyway, is The Sundowner going to have her lights go out this December?

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #5

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

 

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He ain't got no home, so perhaps you could give him one with your Advent Avalanche slot. As it stands, he copes with his homelessness by singing like a girl and a frog. Will he croak like a frog too this December?

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Advent Avanlanche Form Guide #6

Bob Dole

 

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Losing vice-presidential nominee 1976, losing Republican candidate for president in 1996 and a man with a history of recent health problems. Oh aye, and...turned 97 earlier this year. Highly regarded and his bankability into old age is down to, amongst other things, a well-respected sense of humour. Whether he'd see the grim mirth in this post is another question. 

 

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On 10/11/2020 at 11:28, CaptainChorizo said:

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #3

Eugenia Cooney

 

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The youtube star is literally starving herself to death

The skull and cross bones tights seem very apt.

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #7

 

Leslie Phillips

 

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Veteran ding donger Leslie Phillips hasn`t been pictured in public in 4 years and had a stroke and cancer several years ago and was so ill his wife had to resuscitate him.At 96 will it be Carry on Up the Crem for Leslie this December?

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #8

Ryan O`Neal

 

Newsflare - Mom living with Alzheimer's gets stunning FaceTime call with  her favorite actor, Love Story's Ryan O'Neal

 

At 79 with a long history of ill health and with a complexion paler than Caspar the ghost O`Neal probably should refrain from asking "What`s Up Doc?"

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #9 

 

Noam Chomsky

 

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Is this 91 year old cunning linguist winding down or auditioning to be Santa Claus at the local mall?

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #10

 

Jake "The Snake"Roberts

 

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Recently hospitalised with COPD complications on Oxygen and is  in the US where the pandemic is out of control.Not a good combination.

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #11

 

Dianne Feinstein

 

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The 87 Year Old California Senator has shown a true BiPartisan Spirit(of disregard for safety) by frequently walking through the corridors of Congress without a mask during the Pandemic. A Covid-19 diagnosis could make her your winning candidate

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #12 

 

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Kane Tanaka 

 

Assuming she doesn't help some lucky dead pooler cash in on the Advent Avalanche the world's oldest living individual can look forward to festivities on 2 Jan to mark her 118th birthday. If - perchance - she sees 22 July next year she can celebrate two full years since she became the oldest verified living person on the planet. Either way, for those dead pools that don't penalize age in the points system, she's A list talent!

 

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Advent Avalanche Form Guide #13

 

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Encarna Hernandez

 

This Pioneer of Women's Basketball in may have conquered her jump shot in Franco's Spain,but if she can't lace it up to her 104th birthday in January she might be a Slam Dunk choice for your team

 

 

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Feck me, advent Avalanche pickings is actually tomorrow? Time really flies by fast

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So many great picks around this year. It will be fast and brutal.

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Advent Avalanche Guide #14

 

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Mark Kelly is scheduled to replace Martha McSally as senator from Arizona tomorrow, but is there a chance he gets killed not long after? Only time will tell...

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Advent Avalanche Guide #15

 

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Whitey Von Nieda

 

The shotclock is almost out for the oldest living NBA Alumnus. He might not have won a Purple Heart for his WW2 Service,but he just might win a place in yours if he leads you to an Advent Avalance victory

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Floyd Little

 

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