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Reaper takes archbishop, and many teams are no doubt chagrining this Yuletide surprise of the death of the great Desmond Tutu. Indeed, the highest-ranked teams to not pick him, BabyBlue and machotrouts, now rise to joint first, and it forces me to dust the cobwebs off the rulebook and see how to break a tie again!

 

"If two or more teams are tied at the end of the year, the tie will first be decided by who has less hits."

 

machotrouts has 5 hits (Walker, Lloyd, Harding, King, Philip) to BabyBlue's 2 (Bayh, Sang-chul).

 

As stands, BabyBlue will win in an exciting end to my final hosted Inverse if the remnants of the year don't have another surprise in store.

 

=1.

BabyBlue

18

=1.

machotrouts

18

3.

Pedro67

19

4.

drol

20

5.

Sir Creep

23

=6.

Grim Up North

28

=6.

Sideik

28

8.

Toast

29

=9.

The Quim Reaper

30

=9.

YorkshireBanker

30

11.

deadsox

32

=12.

Spade_Cooley

34

=12.

The Old Crem

34

14.

Bibliogryphon

35

15.

Charles De Gaulle

36

=16.

Annami

37

=16.

Book

37

=16.

JoeMoneypenny

37

=16.

Perhaps

37

20.

BuffaloPhil

39

21.

gcreptile

40

=22.

An Fear Beag

41

=22.

Banana

41

=22.

Great Uncle Bulgaria

41

25.

Death Impends

46

=26.

CaptainChorizo

47

=26.

Funeralopolis

47

=26.

ThereWillBeDeaths7

47

29.

msc

49

=30.

En Passant

50

=30.

Newjack

50

32.

theoldlady

57

33.

Salmon Mousse

59

34.

Joey Russ

60

35.

YoungWillz

61

36.

maryportfuncity

68

37.

LizLemon

75

38.

machotrouts' mum

81

39.

GuyFromFuture

83

40.

chilean way

86

41.

The Unknown Man

93

 

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8 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

"If two or more teams are tied at the end of the year, the tie will first be decided by who has less hits."

 

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And that's me now making a tiny edit to the opening page before I hand it over to macho :ninja:

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I poo-pooed Tutu

I had forgotten Tutu was part of this AARRGGHH 

:( :grave:

 

However hope springs eternal and if Sir David Attenborough drops over in 48 hours Sir Cunto can still prevail.

Now Sir Cunto would NEVER root for a person to die….. but…

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50 minutes ago, Sir Cunto said:

I poo-pooed Tutu

I had forgotten Tutu was part of this AARRGGHH 

:( :grave:

 

However hope springs eternal and if Sir David Attenborough drops over in 48 hours Sir Cunto can still prevail.

Now Sir Cunto would NEVER root for a person to die….. but…

I think Rob burrow could serve your purpose as well

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And one more last-minute twist. But it only reinforces the Tutu-induced narrative. Everyone's expectations Betty White would see 100 were quashed by mere weeks, but newly-minted leader BabyBlue tempered their expectations enough to attain a solitary lead.

 

1.

BabyBlue

25

2.

machotrouts

28

3.

YorkshireBanker

30

=4.

drol

34

=4.

Spade_Cooley

34

6.

Sir Creep

36

=7.

Pedro67

37

=7.

Charles De Gaulle

37

=7.

JoeMoneypenny

37

=7.

Perhaps

37

=11.

Toast

39

=11.

Book

39

=11.

BuffaloPhil

39

14.

Grim Up North

40

15.

Sideik

41

=16.

The Quim Reaper

42

=16.

Banana

42

=18.

deadsox

44

=18.

An Fear Beag

44

=20.

The Old Crem

48

=20.

Bibliogryphon

48

=22.

Great Uncle Bulgaria

51

=22.

En Passant

51

24.

CaptainChorizo

55

25.

Annami

56

26.

gcreptile

59

27.

YoungWillz

61

=28.

Funeralopolis

63

=28.

msc

63

=28.

Joey Russ

63

31.

Death Impends

65

32.

ThereWillBeDeaths7

66

=33.

Newjack

68

=33.

maryportfuncity

68

=35.

theoldlady

78

=35.

Salmon Mousse

78

37.

LizLemon

88

38.

machotrouts' mum

91

39.

GuyFromFuture

96

40.

chilean way

108

41.

The Unknown Man

111

 

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Thanks Betty, by not picking her I've jumped up the table substantially.

 

Makes me feel a lot better. ;)

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A mere couple of days ago, I was up in the podium positions. Then Tutu and White happened.

 

Poo, bum, shit and piss.

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Well that's that. The Inverse Dead Pool has closed its curtains for another year and it was a classic season with @BabyBlue Artie Shaw/Sadhana-ing their way to the top in the last week of the year. Not bad at all for a team that was joint 38th in early February when Susan Bayh died! But what seemed like a costly mistake then (Bayh was worth 15 points) ultimately survived the "marathon not a sprint" aspect of most dead pools, with BabyBlue only further scoring two further hits - Yoo Sang-chul in June, and Betty White on New Year's Eve. They gradually climbed up the leaderboard thanks to avoiding landmines like Murray Walker, Sarah Harding, and Greg Gilbert, but it was the dramatic last-week death of Desmond Tutu that allowed them to take the lead, in a tiebreaker with machotrouts, which soon became a solitary lead as macho placed Betty White higher than BabyBlue.

 

And said machotrouts is a name who you'll be getting very familiar with in the sphere of the Inverse Dead Pool. He won in 2018, considerably outpaced his mum with a podium place in 2021, and starting this year will be the Inverse Dead Pool's new host. Yep, after four years of keeping everyone's favorite live pool ticking, my new co-hosting of the DDP meant sacrifices had to be made, and thus it was time to pass the Inverse baton. As the man himself admits, macho continues the time-honored tradition of our pool being hosted by someone who is alive, so we're undoubtedly in good hands.

 

Play us out, BabyBlue...

 

 

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Very happy to hand my crown to @BabyBlue. Grats! :champagne:

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Well done baby blue

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Congratulations BabyBlue on a well deserved victory.:clap:

 

I decided this year to gamble on the young cancer types surviving the year, while avoiding the oldies that seem healthy enough but are liable to drop without warning.

Sarah Harding and Greg Gilbert proved that this was a somewhat sub-optimal strategy!

 

Thanks DI for hosting what is definitely my favourite pool, and thanks to Macho for taking it on. 

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Well done Baby Blue!

Tricky pool this one.

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Post-match analysis of my 2021 "hits":

 

On 17/01/2021 at 23:49, machotrouts said:

Preemptive congratulations to the following 25 people for seeing 2022. My 2021 survivors squad:

  1. Queen Elizabeth II
  2. David Attenborough
  3. Billy Connolly
  4. Donald Trump
  5. Dick Van Dyke
  6. Angela Lansbury
  7. Jerry Lee Lewis
  8. Paul Gascoigne
  9. Bobby Charlton
  10. Shannen Doherty
  11. Rob Burrow
  12. Doddie Weir
  13. Bill Turnbull
  14. George Alagiah
  15. Olivia Newton-John
  16. Betty White
  17. Rolf Harris
  18. Henry Kissinger
  19. Prunella Scales
  20. Murray Walker
  21. Norman Lloyd
  22. Sarah Harding
  23. Tom Parker
  24. Larry King
  25. Prince Philip

 SUB: Sidney Poitier

 

I'm not a great picker – but I'm a pretty good ranker.

 

1. Larry King, 2 points.

There's no such thing as a guaranteed Covid death, right? Even extremely ill people often end up getting a symptomless lucky break. If he'd been a popular pick, I'm not sure I'd have bothered, but nobody else picked him – so, in the spirit of contrarianism, I simply had to. It's quite satisfying to start the game in sole last place and slowly rise up the ranks! Makes me feel like I'm playing against rubberbanding AI opponents.

 

2. Murray Walker, 6 points.

Old guy who died. It happens.

 

3. Prince Philip, 1 point.

I just quite liked the symmetry of him and his ball-and-chain flanking the list from either side. And he wasn't that old, was he? 99 in royal years is like 27 in normal human years. He's basically Kurt Cobain. No wonder all the British internet went greyscale to mourn the tragic death of this young boy. 

 

4. Norman Lloyd, 5 points.

I have a sort of rule that anyone who's in the Inverse 50 on age grounds alone must make at least one appearance on my team – even if, statistically speaking, that age is Holy Shit How Can You Possibly Not Be Dead Already years old.

 

5. Sarah Harding, 4 points.

Quite a speedy cancer turnaround – I thought I was pessimistic expecting her death to cancel a Girls Aloud 20th anniversary reunion in 2022, when actually, she's died so far in advance, the rest of them now have enough time to plan a Sarahless reunion without it seeming insensitive.

 

6. Betty White, 10 points.

Well, me and People Magazine both.

 

 

On 31/12/2021 at 19:44, Death Impends said:

 

2.

machotrouts

28

 

   

 

36 places above my mother? I'll take it!

 

(The Inverse Dead Pool 2022 – hosted by your reigning runner-up – is now open, if any of you haven't noticed. Team submissions close in 24 hours! Don't miss it!)

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