gcreptile 10,979 Posted June 11, 2021 12 hours ago, gcreptile said: This might work for Philip Mickenbecker, an inconsequential hit: https://www.brytfmonline.com/philip-mickenbecker-†-23-youtuber-is-dead/ Die Zeit is definitely a QO: https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fnews%2F2021-06%2F11%2Fthe-real-life-guys-youtuber-philipp-mickenbecker-ist-tot (Google news proves it without the paywall) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted June 17, 2021 A potential victory now relies upon Carl Bean, Rick Laird and/or Chhang Song as Jayanta Mahapatra now COVID-free Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted June 17, 2021 We caught the tail end of that India wave - just as they were getting it back under control. If I had to guess, Azam Khan survives, too. And Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was a bad pick from the beginning, I should have gone with my first sub, Nacho Laun instead. Stan Swamy was a latter half of the month hit anyway - well, let's see. But I think the ventilator shortages and so on are over. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted June 17, 2021 2 hours ago, gcreptile said: If I had to guess, Azam Khan survives, too. Well, maybe not, let's see: https://english.newstracklive.com/news/azam-khan-wife-tanjeen-fatima-gave-information-on-his-health-mc25-nu764-ta325-1165892-1.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted June 17, 2021 Stan Swamy still critical and in intensive care: https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-stan-swamy-bhima-koregaon-elgar-parishad-caste-based-violence-case-175854 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted June 27, 2021 Hadn't updated Mickenbecker yet as this round has really been so slow. But yeah, here’s an inconsequential update. Spade_Cooley vs msc 6 - 9 Gcreptile vs Banana 13 - 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted June 27, 2021 18 minutes ago, Joey Russ said: Hadn't updated Mickenbecker yet as this round has really been so slow. But yeah, here’s an inconsequential update. Spade_Cooley vs msc 6 - 9 Gcreptile vs Banana 13 - 12 Youre just rubbing it in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted June 30, 2021 Well, it’s time. There will be a new cup champion after this round. One is a constant underachiever in past cups. The other is a former cup host. But only one can win. Who will it be? We’ll see at the end of the month, but for now, the Masterlist. Bob Dole - msc David Gulpilil - Reptile Alan Igglesden - Reptile Sasha Johnson - msc Axel Kahn - Reptile Rick Laird - msc, Reptile Terry Lubbock - msc, Reptile Sakti Mishra - Reptile Gary W Moore - Reptile Andre Rademan - msc Soulaimane Raissouni - msc Sandra Richardson - Reptile Jehan Sadat - msc Saranya - msc, Reptile* MakSim - msc* Susie Steiner - msc, Reptile Catherine Wybourne - msc, Reptile 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,060 Posted June 30, 2021 I haven't really been following this at all. (I mean, I stepped out this year, so no need). Now we have hot DDP Committee on DDP Committee action? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted June 30, 2021 Commiserations Spade, I genuinely thought you'd win right up to, well midnight right there. Bit surprised my somewhat lax Googling has lucked me into a final. And that we suddenly have the DDP Co-host derby too, best of luck to Reptile. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted June 30, 2021 1 minute ago, YoungWillz said: I haven't really been following this at all. (I mean, I stepped out this year, so no need). Now we have hot DDP Committee on DDP Committee action? No idea how it happened Willz, I think the genuine contenders all tripped on a Banana skin somewhere! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted July 1, 2021 Another unfortunate semis outing for myself Good luck to gc heading into the finals Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted July 1, 2021 It was a very anticlimactic previous round, kind of disappointing to all (except to those who survived I guess!). In the end, our game was decided by the Mufti three hours into the new month. I expected more carnage. Good luck to you, msc! Seems like I have more late-stage cancer people, you have more critical ones. It's a bit unpredictable. You have a unique joker, which I also saw, but kind of ignored. That could be an advantage. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted July 1, 2021 Here's my Cup longlist, i.e. the people not necessarily on my DDP longlist, who at various times were considered for Cup purposes - and then occasionally checked up on again - in other words, the regret list: Mick Bates (Leeds) (12.07.2021) Dilip Kumar (07.07.2021) Albert Raboteau (18.09.2021) Kabir Suman Nadia Chaudhri (05.10.2021) Michael Bishop 9/11 (14.02.2022) Spiriman Matt Loede (29.09.2021) Mwai Kibaki Dan Campbell (coach) Campbell Little Louis De Zoysa John "Zip" Connolly Nahne Marsters (27.01.2022) Sonia Hoey Tony Jacome (03.10.2021) Jonathan Tjarks Rex Graham (Councillor) Joop Van der Laan (10.03.2022) Guy Thomas (track coach) (13.07.2021) Orlando Drummond (27.07.2021) Tom Ridge John Gwynne Jhala Nath Khanal Mohammad Sharif "Chacha" Josh Falconer (local musician) Rae Spoon Antonio Inoki Jaya Sawant Artur Garcia Da Silva (back in April) Bobby Kirkness (30.09.2021) Mike Boyle (12.09.2021) Tetsuro Ozawa (01.06.2021) Zeba Begum Naila Jaffery (17.07.2021) Archie Roach Yu Mo-Lin Mussab Ali Ron Mozart Tim Shadley Keith Ape Bappi Lahiri (15.04.2022) Ivan Arenas Bob Valvano SP Muthuraman Peter Tobin Brutus Beefcake John Mutorwa Gary Corbett (KISS) (15.07.2021) Samaresh Majumdar Mike Bailey (Weatherman) dead in June already R R Soares Terry Roles dead in late June Juiz Jeronimo Roberto (17.06.2021) Jeffrey Veregge Brendan Sweeney Elyana Emrizal V Hanumatha Rao Kanam Rajendran Ali Humar (29.06.2021) Muhammad Mahbubur Raman Jamil Mukulu Dwight Watson Anvar Iqbal (01.07.2021) Prafulla Mahanta Alfio Basile Susana Gimenez Lou Ligouri (08.07.2021) Ines Prieto Madan Krishna Shrestha Alan Melinek Agatha Mainarska Yusuf al-Qaradawi Harry Greenway State Sen. Tom Brewer Dalal Abdel Aziz (07.08.2021) Sheldon Silver (22.01.2022) Mark S. Geyer (NASA) (07.12.2021) Rene Juarez Cisneros (26.07.2021) Vin Welch (28.09.2021) Kat Bjelland Anthony Wameli Sasha Johnson Gerald Pizzuto Jr. Dean Peter Todd Joseph Estrada Fritz Wepper Bob Dole (05.12.2021) Joanna Mamombe Steve Schoeny Schoenfelder (13.08.2021) Carlos Reutemann (07.07.2021) Julia Holz Salah Aougrout Ousmane Gaoual Diallo Joy Goswami Alfredo Cornejo Beverly Tate (24.10.2021) Gil Silgado LA Parka Drew Dhabalt (24.10.2021) William Booth Scott Hargett Bill Miller (New London) (31.08.2021) Khaleda Zia Gina Barilone Azam Khan Stan Swamy (05.07.2021) Carl Bean (07.09.2021) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted July 1, 2021 8 hours ago, msc said: Commiserations Spade, I genuinely thought you'd win right up to, well midnight right there. Bit surprised my somewhat lax Googling has lucked me into a final. And that we suddenly have the DDP Co-host derby too, best of luck to Reptile. Congrats, never really got started in that round. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted July 1, 2021 3 hours ago, gcreptile said: Here's my Cup longlist, i.e. the people not necessarily on my DDP longlist, who at various times were considered for Cup purposes - and then occasionally checked up on again - in other words, the regret list: Peter Tobin x 2 Bob Dole x 2 And the only reason I was looking closely enough to spot duplicates is this game is a complete mystery to me so thank-you for the insight. I now know it will remain a mystery to me and won't be troubling any scorer with an entry. Ever. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted July 1, 2021 12 minutes ago, En Passant said: And the only reason I was looking closely enough to spot duplicates is this game is a complete mystery to me so thank-you for the insight. I now know it will remain a mystery to me and won't be troubling any scorer with an entry. Ever. Heh, well, the duplicates indicate that I basically just throw them all together into an Excel list as the names appear. I already see that I hadn't noticed that Mike Bailey (weatherman) had since passed away. And that's the problem - you can collect, but you also need to prioritize. I posted this here because I know that most of these names are kind of useless, and will never be needed again in the future. All these moments will be lost....like tears in the rain. This year, COVID did its work for us though. Just look for Covid people on google news, especially in combination with oxygen support. This ballooning of names will not happen again the future (hopefully). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted July 1, 2021 11 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Well, it’s time. There will be a new cup champion after this round. One is a constant underachiever in past cups. The other is a former cup host. But only one can win. Who will it be? We’ll see at the end of the month, but for now, the Masterlist. Bob Dole - msc David Gulpilil - Reptile Alan Igglesden - Reptile Sasha Johnson - msc Axel Kahn - Reptile Rick Laird - msc, Reptile Terry Lubbock - msc, Reptile Sakti Mishra - Reptile Gary W Moore - Reptile Andre Rademan - msc Soulaimane Raissouni - msc Sandra Richardson - Reptile Jehan Sadat - msc Saranya - msc, Reptile* MakSim - msc* Susie Steiner - msc, Reptile Catherine Wybourne - msc, Reptile Well done msc and Reptile - I think most money was on the losing semi finalists being the finalists. Also delighted to see 5 of my Poker picks on the pitch in the Cup Final. Encouraging. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted July 1, 2021 18 minutes ago, gcreptile said: All these moments will be lost in time....like tears in the rain. I think. which shows just how fuckin' sad I can be on occasion. He's definitely gone though. Brings a certain degree of piquancy to that scene I guess. Pity he was never in anything else of any moment really, some blind monk thing iirc but it was crap. Mind you neither was Harrison Ford really.... star wars and indiana both yawnfests for me. Horses for courses. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,146 Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, En Passant said: And the only reason I was looking closely enough to spot duplicates is this game is a complete mystery to me so thank-you for the insight. I now know it will remain a mystery to me and won't be troubling any scorer with an entry. Ever. Same here. There are only four people I've heard of on that list, and two of those I'm only aware of from posts on here (Kumar and Bjelland). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted July 1, 2021 Looks like Keith Ape's name is now out there for those of us trying to work out how famous he is within the k-pop sphere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted July 1, 2021 My team Bob Dole - American political, presidential candidate, DLer, etc. Sasha Johnson - The BLM leader in the UK who got shot. Famous enough to have a loud BBC regular profile for years before that. Rick Laird - original guitarist from Mahavishnu Orchestra, although he did leave before their most famous song (Planetary Citizen which is sampled in Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy). Terry Lubbock - campaigner about his sons death and against Michael Barrymore for 20 odd years now. Andre Rademan - a rugby executive. He's only here because he's not well tbh. Soulaimane Raissouni - Editor/journalist from Morocco whose current jail term and hunger strike has caused mass government protests. Jehan Sadat - the widow of the Egyptian President who got assassinated in the 80s, and a popular feminist icon in Egypt. Saranya - Highly popular actress... in India where she's the equivalent of a Patsy Kensit type. MakSim - One of the better selling artists in Europe, but somewhat obscure here (or indeed nearly everywhere) as nearly all of those sales are in her native Russia. Susie Steiner - the crime novelist Catherine Wybourne - the Digital Nun. She and the rugby guy are the most obscure names on my team, but she passed the Willz test on notability (to my surprise tbh). Obscure but influential 70s bands, anti-government demonstrations, how parochial chart fans get (I now picture a 90s Russian music fan going "Who is this Wet Wet Wet?") - I love finding out about this sort of stuff. But mostly they're there because I think they're ill! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,060 Posted July 1, 2021 30 minutes ago, msc said: Catherine Wybourne - the Digital Nun. She and the rugby guy are the most obscure names on my team, but she passed the Willz test on notability (to my surprise tbh). Well, she's a columnist on a weekly newspaper (wrong foot for me but hey ho) plus I'd say she's THE digital nun. I mean, Sister Wendy would have killed for the following she's got, and Sister Wendy was no slouch with admirers. I didn't really have to rule out many this year for the Poker - mainly because after 5 years folk are beginning to realise what they can get away with! I check everyone whose name I don't know, make my judgement call and that's it. Also, fewer fallers this year before the end of entries - Kaunda and Miscavige and that's it I think. I'm guessing some folk are still on tenterhooks to find out whether a pick has died yesterday or before. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted July 1, 2021 11 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Well, she's a columnist on a weekly newspaper (wrong foot for me but hey ho) plus I'd say she's THE digital nun. I mean, Sister Wendy would have killed for the following she's got, and Sister Wendy was no slouch with admirers. I didn't really have to rule out many this year for the Poker - mainly because after 5 years folk are beginning to realise what they can get away with! I check everyone whose name I don't know, make my judgement call and that's it. Also, fewer fallers this year before the end of entries - Kaunda and Miscavige and that's it I think. I'm guessing some folk are still on tenterhooks to find out whether a pick has died yesterday or before. Aye, wasn't a criticism, more that passing your criteria is a seal of approval. Fair point about her fame (although I'm old enough to just remember Sister Wendy's TV show in the early 90s?). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted July 1, 2021 First regret from my huge list, Anwar Iqbal: https://www.geo.tv/latest/357908-veteran-tv-actor-anwar-iqbal-passes-away 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
