Sean 6,314 Posted March 30, 2022 I am back from joint 10th to 6th place.My best final position was 18 so think I will beat that.Top 10 might be a stretch though. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,423 Posted March 30, 2022 Quite happy with my current 5th place spot, I highly doubt I'll be able to creep any further up this year. Although I would be in joint 2nd(?) place if Dan Lacey scraped an obit which would've been lovely to see, and no I won't shut up about it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eesti 151 Posted March 31, 2022 Back on podium with 2 quick hits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,282 Posted March 31, 2022 1/60 across 3 teams (and a DNQO). Matches last year's total for the year. Both deaths have been in theme teams rather than my supposedly serious attempt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted March 31, 2022 Looking at it, and I didn't realise this at the time, my team this year does resemble a classic DQSP lineup from the glory years: guaranteed QO young joker, two or three well-picked uniques, and a reliance on low-owned names rather than Drop 40 essentials. No "old-as-fuck five-yard tap-in five-pointer" though, so if I lose this year's DDP based on not picking Leslie Phillips, I may be slightly annoyed at myself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted March 31, 2022 Picking Parker rather than losing faith in him was a nod to the modern DDP style of playing where it's basically a version of game theory (which was what Salmon effectively won with last year): the damage gained by not picking him and him dying was far greater than the damage caused by picking him and him staying alive. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 473 Posted March 31, 2022 21 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: Picking Parker rather than losing faith in him was a nod to the modern DDP style of playing where it's basically a version of game theory (which was what Salmon effectively won with last year): the damage gained by not picking him and him dying was far greater than the damage caused by picking him and him staying alive. Wish Salmon would've remembered that this year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,957 Posted April 2, 2022 C. W. McCall's got a great big QO - https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/18146652/cw-mccall-dead-convoy-country-singer/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,644 Posted April 2, 2022 35 minutes ago, Death Impends said: C. W. McCall's got a great big QO - https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/18146652/cw-mccall-dead-convoy-country-singer/ Aye, Radio 4 mentioned him in the six o' clock round up. I mean, there's a war on in Europe FFS, why blather about him and play a snatch of Convoy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted April 5, 2022 Bobby Rydell QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10689783/Volare-singer-Bobby-Rydell-teen-idol-starred-Bye-Bye-Birdie-dead-79.html Died In Jefferson, Philly from suspected pneumonia, according to reports. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted April 6, 2022 On 16/01/2022 at 08:16, Death Impends said: Mike Edwards - His football club is too minor a level Mike Edwards died last week. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-told-amazing-lad-30-26595661 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,423 Posted April 6, 2022 Nehemiah Persoff QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/18187425/nehemiah-persoff-dead-yentl-actor-twilight-zone-stroke/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 6, 2022 42 minutes ago, Perhaps said: Nehemiah Persoff QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/18187425/nehemiah-persoff-dead-yentl-actor-twilight-zone-stroke/ Finally my first hit in here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prowler0000 8 Posted April 6, 2022 21 minutes ago, Pop_Zeus said: Finally my first hit in here You & me both! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Exu 250 Posted April 6, 2022 Tom Smith: Former Scotland and British and Irish Lions prop dies - BBC Sport Must be a hit for some, myself included 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,957 Posted April 6, 2022 On 30/03/2022 at 16:32, Death Impends said: He's the type of name I'd likely have overthought and dropped if I was still playing competitively. Instead he stayed. There's probably always going to be a hit or two for me like that each year. ...and hit two like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted April 6, 2022 Despite keeping like 5 survivors it looks like I did a poor job of choosing which of those survivors I kept. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted April 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Prowler0000 said: You & me both! I knew he would die in a year I didn't have my Hitchcock theme. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted April 6, 2022 98 hits in not even 96 days. This has been an avalanche lately. Stanislaw Kowalski will probably only make the List of the Lost. But otherwise, it's been a very busy year, and with the DeathList now at 4 hits, the somewhat quiet February and March are compensated. An interesting year, and Tom Smith widens the competition. Other paths to victory become possible. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,957 Posted April 6, 2022 1 minute ago, gcreptile said: 98 hits in not even 96 days. This has been an avalanche lately. Stanislaw Kowalski will probably only make the List of the Lost. But otherwise, it's been a very busy year, and with the DeathList now at 4 hits, the somewhat quiet February and March are compensated. An interesting year, and Tom Smith widens the competition. Other paths to victory become possible. Times like these I'd be all "great " but most of this week's batch interest me personally, which does make it easier. Except for the poor CBBC lady but it only took 5 minutes to write two sentences about her to discretely cloak under another obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted April 6, 2022 Tom Smith's death has me in 9th place, solo. Now if Peter Tobin will only do us the service of his demise (and should a miraculous Dan Lacey QO appears out of thin air), I might actually have a shot at glory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,423 Posted April 7, 2022 David McKee QO - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/david-mckee-death-cause-books-mr-benn-b2052834.html 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted April 7, 2022 24 minutes ago, Perhaps said: David McKee QO - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/david-mckee-death-cause-books-mr-benn-b2052834.html Unique hit for my DDP Theme team 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted April 7, 2022 David McKee died in Nice if that helps, @gcreptile. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites