Who Gets The Chop For 2021

[QTips 24]

Pick the names that will get dropped by the committee for 2021 Season. 
 

As things stand that’s at least eight names. 
 

So label your names 1-8 

 

Correct predictions score as follows;

No. 1 Scores 8 points
No. 2 Score 7 points
No. 3 Scores 6 points 

No. 4 Scores 5 Points

No. 5 Scores 4 Points

No. 6. Scores 3 Points

No 7. Scores 2 Points

No 8. Scores 1 point

 

If you pick someone who dies before between game start and end game end you lose 5 points.

 
Please add one sub in case a pick dies before start of tournament. I will add sub into spot of deceased. 
 

Tournament starts 1st December and ends 31st December.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[QTips 24]

My names;

1 Willie Nelson

2 Angela Lansbury 

3 Shane McGowan

4 David Crosby 

5 Dick Cheney

6 Sir David Attenborough 

7 Willie Nelson 

8 Lester Piggott

 

 

[The Daredevil 1,192]

1. Willie Nelson

2. John Edrich

3. Shane MacGowan 

4. Dick Cheney 

5. Lester Piggott 

6. David Crosby

7. General Pervez Musharraf 

8. Abdelaziz Bouteflika

 

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,310]

Surely just perm 8 from 10 or 11 here, lots of similar if not identical answers..anyway

 

1. Edrich

2. Piggott

3. Nelson

4. McGowan

5. Akihito

6. Musharraf

7. Spinks

8. Crosby

 

sub Cheney

Edited November 19, 2020 by Great Uncle Bulgaria
add sub

[The Unknown Man 592]

For me, i would drop:

 

1. Willie Nelson

2. John Edrich

3. David Attenborough

4. Pervez Musharraf

5. David Crosby

6. Lester Piggot

7. Shane McGowan

8. Akihito

[Joey Russ 7,255]

1. John Edrich

2. Shane MacGowan

3. Emperor Akihito

4. Pervez Musharraf 
5. Lester Piggott 

6. Dick Cheney

7. Imelda Marcos 

8. Prunella Scales

 

I think dropping Crosby and Nelson would be a mistake. 

[Banana 859]

I assume I can't pick people who are already dead

[theoldlady 2,336]

1. Dick van Dyke

2. Betty White

3. Angela Lansbury

4. Tony Bennett

5. Desmond Tutu

6. Dick Cheney

7. Abdelaziz Bouteflika

8. David Attenborough

 

Sub. Henry Kissinger

[JMB98 7]

1. Bob Dole

2. Henry Kissinger

3. Norman Lloyd

4. Marla Gibbs

5. Anne Buydens Douglas

6. Bob Barker

7. Loretta Lynn

8. Norman Lear

[QTips 24]

5 hours ago, Banana said:

I assume I can't pick people who are already dead

Spot on!

[arghton 6,829]

1. Pervez Musharraf

2. John Edrich

3. Tom Smith

4. Shane MacGowan

5. Emperor Akihito

6. Prince Philip

7. Desmond Tutu

8. van Dyke

[msc 18,512]

1John Edrich

2 Shane McGowan

3 Pervez Musharraf

4 Dick Cheney

5 Lester Piggott

6 Imelda Marcos

7 Prunella Scales

8 Tony Bennett

[GWB_ 9]

1. Prince Philp

2. Bob Dole

3. Dick van Dyke

4. Murray Walker

5. Valery Giscard d'Estaing

6. Betty White

7. Bob Barker

8. Jimmy Carter

[Grim Up North 3,766]

10 minutes ago, GWB_ said:

1. Prince Philp

2. Bob Dole

3. Dick van Dyke

4. Murray Walker

5. Valery Giscard d'Estaing

6. Betty White

7. Bob Barker

8. Jimmy Carter

 

11 hours ago, JMB98 said:

1. Bob Dole

2. Henry Kissinger

3. Norman Lloyd

4. Marla Gibbs

5. Anne Buydens Douglas

6. Bob Barker

7. Loretta Lynn

8. Norman Lear

 

maybe I don't understand the rules but:-

 

GWB looks more like a guess for top 8 of Death List next year and

JMB98 - well it's hard to get dropped from the Death List when you're not on it and never have been on it in some cases.

[msc 18,512]

2 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

 

 

maybe I don't understand the rules but:-

 

GWB looks more like a guess for top 8 of Death List next year and

JMB98 - well it's hard to get dropped from the Death List when you're not on it and never have been on it in some cases.

 

I assumed GWB was speaking for the Bill Gates's Dad Fan Club and thought those 8 were far too famous...

[GWB_ 9]

18 minutes ago, msc said:

 

I assumed GWB was speaking for the Bill Gates's Dad Fan Club and thought those 8 were far too famous...

...

[Genfærd 452]

1. Dick Cheney

2. Abdelaziz Bouteflika

3. General Pervez Musharraf

4. Valery Giscard d'Estaing

5. Willie Nelson

6. Shane MacGowan

7. David Attenborough

8. Lester Piggott

 

Sub: Emperor Akihito

[3trosso 5]

1. Prince Phillip

2. Angela Lansbury

3. Henry Kissinger 

4. Jimmy Carter

5. Larry King

6. Dick Cheney

7. Ernest Angley 

8. Michael J. Fox

[CaptainChorizo 1,990]

1.Edrich
2.MacGowan
3. Pervez Musharraf  
4.Piggott
5.Akihito
6.Cheney
7.Marcos
8.Nelson

 

[Joey Russ 7,255]

Aren't the idea of subs pointless for this pool? Cause if we get another hit, the number then goes down to 7, and if we get one after that, it'll be 6, etc

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,310]

9 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Aren't the idea of subs pointless for this pool? Cause if we get another hit, the number then goes down to 7, and if we get one after that, it'll be 6, etc

Doesn't that only apply if as many stay on as possible? 

If there are lots of  'oven ready' people to go on who are considered better bets than what we have already then we could still wave goodbye to at least 8, in which case there is still a possibility that one of your choices goes and you need a sub to make it up to 8. I agree it seems unlikely but still possible.

[msc 18,512]

They always keep 25 though, apart from 2011 when they kept 26 due to one of the long forgotten unwritten rules about dropping Al Megrahi.

[Bibliogryphon 9,614]

1. Shane McGowan

2. Lester Piggott

3. Dick Cheney

4. Pervez Musharraff

5. John Edrich

6. Willie Nelson

7. Prunella Scales

8. Alan Greenspan

[QTips 24]

17 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Aren't the idea of subs pointless for this pool? Cause if we get another hit, the number then goes down to 7, and if we get one after that, it'll be 6, etc

The idea of the sub is to ensure that if someone makes a pick who dies before the game starts all players keep eight people and the scoring remains fair and straightforward.  If only seven names are dropped the eight positioned name won’t score. I guess there are alternative ways of doing it and if the game goes well and I run it again I can fine tune it for next time.

 

Which reminds me I forgot to add my sub, so I’ll say Henry Kissinger. 

 

 

 

 

[QTips 24]

On 19/11/2020 at 15:35, Grim Up North said:

 

 

maybe I don't understand the rules but:-

 

GWB looks more like a guess for top 8 of Death List next year and

JMB98 - well it's hard to get dropped from the Death List when you're not on it and never have been on it in some cases.

I think the rules are clear? 

We’re looking for eight names that remain living that are on this years list and won’t be picked by the committee for next years list. 
 

Plenty of time to resubmit if I wasn’t clear!

 

Thanks for the interest and entries so far received!