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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
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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.

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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

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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.

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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. ;)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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?

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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?

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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.

 

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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

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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.

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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.

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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
 
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Out:

Bob Dylan

Tori Black

Nichelle Nichols

Robbie Coltrane

Ted Turner

 

In:

Rob Burrow

Pervez Musharraf

Wendy Williams

Tina Louise

Michael Gambon

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Out:

Ghislaine Maxwell

Tim Wilson

Janey Godley

Simon Cowell

Wilfred Emannuel_Jones

 

In

 

Andy Goram

Don West

Pervez Musharraf

Mark Fleishman 

Vicky Phelan

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

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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 

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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.

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

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