Death By Numbers 2022

[gcreptile 10,979]

Let's have an update...

 

Not the biggest four weeks in deadpooling, but a surprising amount of surprising unique hits.

Jack Higgins, the crime writer, was a unique hit for the Daredevil. Already a bit ago, only now in the score. Teresa Berganza, the opera singer, was a unique hit for Great Uncle Bulgaria, well done. As mentioned by Willz, Walter Abish is a unique hit for Doulton. Destined for the DDP list of the lost, he gets the New York Times obit here. Boris Pahor was a unique hit for Kenny. 13 points are better than zero. Roger Angell, the eminent baseball writer is a unique hit for Torva Messor, well done as well! Even Lester Piggott was a unique hit, this time for theoldlady, who sadly, I haven't seen in quite a while... keltos31 gets another unique hit with former Ukranian president Leonid Krawchuk. 

 

A couple of names who are probably not going to get an obit: Dominique Marcas, Josef Abrham, Ciriaco De Mita. keltos31 suffers two non-obits in one update. Our QO sources don't really like those continental names.

 

One score removal: Unfortunately, I think the last update gave JoeyRuss points for Natty Wailer? I have unchecked that box, so, sorry...

 

The resulting scoreboard is this, and I hope this is everything. Next time, I'll have a more exhaustive check. And I kind of feel that the next update will have some bigger names.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Salmon Mousse	858
2	Banana	853
3	Joey Russ	755
4	msc	752
5	An Fear Beag	714
6	Cpt. Chorizo	664
7	Book	655
8	Predictor	635
9	Death Impends	630
10	gcreptile	600
11	drol	577
12	DevonDeathTrip	553
13	Guy From Future	429
14	MariNisia	422
15	Kenny	414
16	Theoldlady	387
17	Toast	383
18	YorkshireBanker	365
19	Great Uncle Bulgaria	344
20	JoeMoneypenny	318
21	Baby Blue	296
22	JohnKey	280
23	Torva Messor	275
24	The old crem	274
25	Annami	256
26	Buffalo Phil	249
26	The Daredevil	249
28	CalebH	248
29	The Unknown Man	244
30	Sean	221
31	Bibliogryphon	206
32	Famous6Eva	181
33	Liz Lemon	169
34	Pedro67	146
35	Wormfarmer	137
36	YoungWillz	130
37	Doulton	88
37	keltos31	88
39	markb4	84
40	Gooseberry Crumble	61
41	Hell	57
42	chilean way	49
43	The Spinosaurus	34
44	Captain Hemlock	0

[gcreptile 10,979]

And this is your reminder: Replacement day is soon.

On the 1st of July you may replace five of your old names, with five new ones.

 

Your discarded names need to still be alive, no switching out of dead non-obiting names.

You may PM them to me, or post in this thread.

 

Fame rules apply then just as well. Very marginal names will not be accepted.

As written in the rules, I will pick my two replacements the day before and make them public. They will be widely known names presumed to be universal replacements.

[Captain Hemlock 745]

2 hours ago, gcreptile said:

And this is your reminder: Replacement day is soon.

On the 1st of July you may replace five of your old names, with five new ones.

 

Your discarded names need to still be alive, no switching out of dead non-obiting names.

You may PM them to me, or post in this thread.

 

Fame rules apply then just as well. Very marginal names will not be accepted.

As written in the rules, I will pick my two replacements the day before and make them public. They will be widely known names presumed to be universal replacements.

Since I have zero hits, can we change that number to 50? Lol

[The Immortal 636]

20 hours ago, gcreptile said:

And this is your reminder: Replacement day is soon.

On the 1st of July you may replace five of your old names, with five new ones.

 

Your discarded names need to still be alive, no switching out of dead non-obiting names.

You may PM them to me, or post in this thread.

 

Fame rules apply then just as well. Very marginal names will not be accepted.

As written in the rules, I will pick my two replacements the day before and make them public. They will be widely known names presumed to be universal replacements.

Ignore my post here, maybe delete it if you can.

Edited June 8, 2022 by TheSpinosaurus

[MariNisia 4,202]

Yes, @TheSpinosaurus, I understand you.

Well, I'm sorry, but according to the @gcreptile's rules:

Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2022 GTM.

You'll have to wait a little longer. 

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,290]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/05/13/teresa-berganza-sultry-voiced-mezzo-soprano-revered-portrayal/

 

Forgot I had Teresa Berganza here, posted obit in DDP thread at the time but not here.

[The Immortal 636]

2 hours ago, MariNisia said:

Yes, @TheSpinosaurus, I understand you.

Well, I'm sorry, but according to the @gcreptile's rules:

Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2022 GTM.

You'll have to wait a little longer. 

In that case, my bad.

[gcreptile 10,979]

Well, I guess I will allow an early replacement, BUT: substitutions will only score from July 1st on, whereas the replaced names will immediately stop scoring even if they die in the next 22 days. So if you want the maximum use of all your names, do it on the 1st of July.

[Toast 16,155]

1 minute ago, gcreptile said:

Well, I guess I will allow an early replacement, BUT: substitutions will only score from July 1st on, whereas the replaced names will immediately stop scoring even if they die in the next 22 days. So if you want the maximum use of all your names, do it on the 1st of July.

 

That seems very sensible.

[gcreptile 10,979]

3 hours ago, TheSpinosaurus said:

Ignore my post here, maybe delete it if you can.

I will ignore it. See my previous post. If you want to replace early, you can do it, but it's a bit of a loss.

[The Immortal 636]

Jean-Louis Trintignant a hit for me and countless others.

[gcreptile 10,979]

Let's have a quick update, because REMINDER: Replacement day is 1st of July. It's coming up. You can also replace now already, but the hits will only count from July 1st on.

 

In other news, we have the big hit Jean-Louis Trintignant, picked by a lot of people. We also have the hit Peter Scott-Morgan, picked here and there. Especially meaningful though because the new leader has picked him. There's also Hugh McElhenny, the American football player who is a unique hit for Wormfarmer. I also had to add some points to Doulton because I didn't mark Walter Abish as dead, sorry!

It all results in a new leader, Banana, well done!

Half-time is apporaching, and because Banana picked both Jean-Louis Trintignant and Peter Scott-Morgan, there's now a bit of a gap to Salmon Mousse.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Banana	941
2	Salmon Mousse	858
3	msc	782
4	Joey Russ	755
5	An Fear Beag	714
6	gcreptile	688
7	Predictor	665
8	Cpt. Chorizo	664
9	Book	655
10	Death Impends	630
11	drol	577
12	DevonDeathTrip	553
13	Guy From Future	459
14	MariNisia	422
15	Kenny	414
16	Theoldlady	387
17	Toast	383
18	YorkshireBanker	365
19	JoeMoneypenny	348
20	Great Uncle Bulgaria	344
21	Baby Blue	326
22	JohnKey	310
23	The Daredevil	309
24	Torva Messor	305
25	CalebH	278
26	The Unknown Man	274
26	The old crem	274
28	Annami	256
29	Sean	251
30	Buffalo Phil	249
31	Bibliogryphon	206
32	Liz Lemon	199
33	Wormfarmer	195
34	Famous6Eva	181
35	Doulton	149
36	Pedro67	146
37	YoungWillz	130
38	keltos31	88
39	markb4	84
40	The Spinosaurus	64
41	Gooseberry Crumble	61
42	Hell	57
43	chilean way	49
44	Captain Hemlock	0

[Predictor 1,018]

On 08/05/2022 at 11:57, gcreptile said:

And Mosharraf Hossain was also picked by a player who I'm not sure is still in the game (also picked by that person was Michel Bouquet).

Hey. My intention was to withdraw here too, but I might as well let it continue actually. I am surprised that I'm so high up on the list, most of my hits have been big names that I assumed everyone had. I count up to 664 rather than 665, could you double-check please?

[Captain Hemlock 745]

I have a weird question. I came across someone who might get a QO who announced that they would commit suicide on July 13. Would it be against the rules to pick them?

[Death Impends 8,004]

Reptile's rules have a clause against that:

 

On 04/12/2021 at 14:54, gcreptile said:

 living, not expecting or knowing their precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on the beginning of January 1st, 2021, and being somewhat notable.

 

[Captain Hemlock 745]

5 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

Reptile's rules have a clause against that:

 

 

That’s what I thought. I’m not sure they would QO anyway

[gcreptile 10,979]

Yeah I thought of a dignitas thing... if they are only thinking about it, like Alain Delon, they're fine, but if there's already a date, then they cannot be accepted.

[gcreptile 10,979]

1 hour ago, Predictor said:

Hey. My intention was to withdraw here too, but I might as well let it continue actually. I am surprised that I'm so high up on the list, most of my hits have been big names that I assumed everyone had. I count up to 664 rather than 665, could you double-check please?

Hello Predictor, hope you're doing well. Yes, you are right. I had Jana Bennett a year younger than she actually was. Must have been because when I first heard of her, and entered her into my lists, I only knew the age, not the year of birth.

This score change of 1 has that effect on everyone who picked her. You'll see it next time.

[The Immortal 636]

Posting my replacements today

 

Replacing Michael Schumacher with Rob Burrow

Replacing Brian Johnson (AC/DC) with Bernadette Chirac 

Replacing Julia Bradbury with Tom Stafford (astronaut)

Replacing James Earl Jones with Pervez Musharraf

Replacing Jack McKeon with Frank Field

 

Edited June 30, 2022 by TheSpinosaurus

[The Unknown Man 587]

Out:

Bob Dylan

Tori Black

Nichelle Nichols

Robbie Coltrane

Ted Turner

 

In:

Rob Burrow

Pervez Musharraf

Wendy Williams

Tina Louise

Michael Gambon

[Sean 6,337]

Out:

Ghislaine Maxwell

Tim Wilson

Janey Godley

Simon Cowell

Wilfred Emannuel_Jones

 

In

 

Andy Goram

Don West

Pervez Musharraf

Mark Fleishman 

Vicky Phelan

[Sean 6,337]

Ah Fleishman disallowed.Cant remember if I came up with that rule.I will pick John Cannan instead.

[Sean 6,337]

On 25/06/2022 at 17:34, Captain Hemlock said:

That’s what I thought. I’m not sure they would QO anyway

He will 

[gcreptile 10,979]

Alright, as you have started posting and its now the 30th in Germany my two replacements are, unsurprisingly, Andy Goram and John Cannan for Khaleda Zia and Milos Zeman.

[Salmon Mousse 473]

Subs submitted via PM.  Rushed effort, and one almost certainly won't get a QO, but they're in.