TQR 14,404 Posted February 1, 2022 36 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: I take it you mean Apfel not Apple! No no, I was just being clever and translated the name from German to English! Or it was a bleary-eyed early morning gaffe on my part…I’ll leave it to you to judge which one 36 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Do you anticipate that it might go something like this very bitchy catfight between Alexis and Krystal in Dynasty especially in the event of a draw?! I won't speculate too much on which one of us is Joan Collins (Alexis) or Linda Evans (Krystal)!! I was so ready to claim Joan, then I watched the fight…actually my track record in the cup isn’t dazzling, it’s probably a fair enough comparison 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted February 1, 2022 Spade just for info you’ve got a mixture of Jane Marcewski and Nightbirde across the teams. Cheers, GUN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Spade just for info you’ve got a mixture of Jane Marcewski and Nightbirde across the teams. Cheers, GUN Already spotted as I was working on the masterlist. Which reminds me... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 Abdullah The Butcher GFF* Agnes Keleti POP* Akuku Danger GUN, SIR, ANN, SID Alexandre Do Nascimento BBL Amy Pieters MAR, GUB, TWB Amy Price GUB Andrey Voynich HEM* Angela Lansbury HEL Anita Pointer GOO Anne Baker YOR Antoni Vadell Ferrer BBL* Arnold Yarrow POP Art Rupe GRO Barbara Walters LIZ, MAS Benedict XVI GRO Billy Bingham YWZ Bob Barker ENG, GUB, PRE, HEL Bob Newhart YWZ Bob Vasha OLD Bobby Caldwell JRU Bobby Shantz YWZ* Boris Pahor POP, TWB, GRO Carlos Bilardo BBL Carmen Herrera POP Catherine Wybourne YOR, PRE, GUN Charley Trippi HEL Cheng-ning Yang JMP Chris Rea OLD Christos Sartzetakis TOC, MAR Cilly Dartell GFF Clare Marx TOC Colette Maze POP Dagny Carlsson YOR Dan Lacey GUN, SAL, JRU* David Graham GFF David McCallum MAS Deborah James HDS Denis Law HEL Derek Draper WAN* Derek Martin GOO Diane Berberian GUN Dick Button YOR Dick McTaggart YOR Doddie Weir WFM Don January F6E Don O'Leary SIR Don West HDS Eduardo Romero SAL Eleanor Collins GFF Elton John HEL Emile Francis HDS Emilio Fede BBL Esben Dalgaard Andersen JMP Eva Marie Saint BBL Fabio Restrepo WAN Francois Hardy PED, SID, MAR Frank Field ENG*, HEM, LIZ, GOO, WFM, OLD, TOC, MAR*, GUB, PED, TWB*, GRO*, WAN, MCO*, PRE*, GUN, SAL, HEL*, JRU, ANN, SID, HDS, AFB, TQR* Frank Field (meteorologist) HEM Gail Halvorsen POP, PRE General Pervez Musharraf HEL George Alagiah ENG George Elder GRO George Perez YOR, WFM*, TOC, GUB, PED, GRO, MCO, ANN, SID, HDS, TQR Gianluca Vialli WFM, F6E Giorgio Napolitano YWZ Giuliano Ferrara TWB Greg Mears GUN* Guido Gorgatti BBL Guy Lafleur WFM Harry Belafonte HEL Harry E. Goldsworthy MAR Hazel Mccallion GFF Henry Kissinger LIZ Inga Tobiasson YOR Ingrid Arvidsson F6E Iris Apfel GOO, POP, HEL Isabel Torres BBL, TQR, MCO, GUN, SAL, ANN, HDS*, AFB Jack Thomas SAL James C. Floyd MAR James Lovelock POP James Rodney Jones SIR James Whale ENG, WFM Jan Englert F6E Jane Marczewski MAR, ANN, HDS, F6E Jean Louis Trintignant GRO, ENG, LIZ, TQR, ANN Jeff Burkett WAN, JRU, AFB Jerry Lee Lewis YWZ, OLD, HEM Jet Black YWZ Jiang Zemin MCO Jimmy Carter ENG, MCO, HEL, MAS Jimmy Lydon PRE Joanne Woodward LIZ Joni Mitchell MAS Jorge Spedaletti MAR, WAN, GUN, SAL, AFB*, TOC*, JRU Jose Maria Marin GFF Joyce Randolph PRE Julia Reichert TQR, SID June Spencer POP Kane Tanaka ENG, JMP*, LIZ, POP, TQR, TOC, PED, TWB, WAN, MCO, ANN Kang Hyun JMP Kat Bjelland HDS Kenneth Anger GOO, PRE Kenneth Copeland HEL Khaleda Zia WFM, MCO, ANN King Harald V PED, WAN Larry Pressler OLD* Lata Mangeshkar TQR, TOC, PED, TWB, SID Lech Walesa OLD Leland Christensen SAL, JRU, ANN*, AFB Leonard Hayflick GOO* Leslie Phillips F6E, GUB, TWB, MAS Linda Nolan ENG, LIZ, WFM Loretta Lynn MAS Lucile Randon POP, SID, TOC, SIR Ludmila Ferber YOR Luis Antonio Rivera GFF Luis Echeverria PED Luka Binniyat HEM Madeline Cain SAL* Mahathir Mohamad JMP, TWB, MCO, PED, SIR Marco Cornez F6E Margaret Stuart Barry YOR* Margarita Terekhova BBL Marietta Giannakou WAN, JRU Marsha Hunt ENG Masood Akhtar SID, AFB Melvin Hulse SID* Michael Aspel GUB Mike Mora PED Mikheil Saakashvili WAN Mildred Kornman PRE Milos Zeman OLD Mino Raiola WAN Monica Vitti BBL Mumia Abu-jamal WFM Nas Blixky SIR*, AFB Nasser Abu Hmeid SIR Natty Wailer JMP Nichelle Nichols HEM, MCO, MAS Nigel Starmer Smith GRO, GFF, GUB, HDS Nirmala Uppuganti GUN Olivia Newton John MAS Olsen Filipaina TOC, TWB, SIR, JRU, ANN, AFB Parnelli Jones BBL Paul Ray MAR Pele HEM, YWZ, JMP, LIZ*, OLD, GRO, HDS, WAN, MCO, TQR Peter Tobin OLD Peter Procter GRO Phyliss Dalton GOO Princess Mikasa JMP Queen Ratna Of Nepal GOO Radovan Radaković F6E Ricou Browning PRE Rob Bolland TWB Roberta Flack YWZ Rosalynn Carter MAS Sacheen Littlefeather LIZ Sandhya Mukherjee BBL, SAL, SIR, JRU, AFB Sandra Day O'connor LIZ Sandy Nelson SAL Shannen Doherty WFM Shintaro Tsuji GFF, GUB Silas Alexander MCO Sinead O'Connor MAS* Socorro Cancio Ramos JMP Susie Steiner HEM, GFF, OLD, TQR, TOC, MAR, GUB, GRO, PRE, GUN, ANN, PED* Tammy Slaton F6E*, SIR Ted Kaczynski LIZ Teddie Chinery GOO Timothy Keller SIR Tom Smith ENG Tom Weiskopf YWZ, WFM, OLD, F6E Tony Brown HDS Uwe Seeler YWZ Vanessa Redgrave MAS Vava Suresh SAL, SID, AFB Vic Elford GFF, TQR, PED, SID Vicky Phelan TQR, TOC, MAR, GUB*, PRE, GUN, JRU, AFB Victor Alfonso Cedeno HEM Vin Scully GOO Violeta Chamorro HEM Vito Perillo HEM Vittorio Cecchi Gorro JRU Wendy Playfair YOR William Heseltine GOO Willibrord Frequin TWB Winnie Ewing YWZ, YOR Yayoi Kusama F6E Yoko Ono ENG Yoon Jeong-hee JMP Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab JMP 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 Frank Field reaching Salah-in-double-gameweek levels of selection here. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 And here are the fixtures for round 2, as drawn by Barry Cryer and Miss USA 2019 Chelsie Kryst. Teams due in midnight February 28th. Probably don't bother submitting until the end of the month though, yeah? DeathByArsenic vs winner of GuyFromFuture v. Captain Hemlock winner of BabyBlue v. An Fear Beag vs winner of Predictor v. Great Uncle Bulgaria Banana vs winner of LizLemon v. Masterffull winner of HDS v. Pedro67 vs The Old Crem YorkshireBanker vs winner of Wormfarmer v. grobler maryportfuncity vs winner of wannamaker v. Famous6Eva winner of YoungWillz v. Pop_Zeus vs Perhaps gcreptile vs SpadeCooley winner of ThereWillBeDeaths7 v. MariNisia vs msc Book vs winner of Sir Cunto v. theoldlady winner of Grim Up North v. the_engineer vs winner of Salmon Mousse v. MortalCaso Bibliogryphon vs winner of Annami v. Hell CaptainChorizo vs winner of TQR v. Gooseberry Crumble winner of JoeMoneypenny v. Sideik vs alt obits guy deadsox vs Joey Russ DevonDeathTrip vs CalebH 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 Again, I did not enable the #narrative function, but we have a round 2 clash of former champions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted February 1, 2022 I mean, he's a pal, someone I co-ran the DDP with and genuinely one of the nicest people on the forum, but still, it would really help my meagre Cup chances if you could KO @gcreptile, thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted February 1, 2022 Oh dear, well, guess I have to dive into the swamp that is Facebook. Edit: It is our first match-up though. Eventually, it had to happen. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted February 1, 2022 51 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: Abdullah The Butcher GFF* Agnes Keleti POP* Akuku Danger GUN, SIR, ANN, SID Alexandre Do Nascimento BBL Amy Pieters MAR, GUB, TWB Amy Price GUB Andrey Voynich HEM* Angela Lansbury HEL Anita Pointer GOO Anne Baker YOR Antoni Vadell Ferrer BBL* Arnold Yarrow POP Art Rupe GRO Barbara Walters LIZ, MAS Benedict XVI GRO Billy Bingham YWZ Bob Barker ENG, GUB, PRE, HEL Bob Newhart YWZ Bob Vasha OLD Bobby Caldwell JRU Bobby Shantz YWZ* Boris Pahor POP, TWB, GRO Carlos Bilardo BBL Carmen Herrera POP Catherine Wybourne YOR, PRE, GUN Charley Trippi HEL Cheng-ning Yang JMP Chris Rea OLD Christos Sartzetakis TOC, MAR Cilly Dartell GFF Clare Marx TOC Colette Maze POP Dagny Carlsson YOR Dan Lacey GUN, SAL, JRU* David Graham GFF David McCallum MAS Deborah James HDS Denis Law HEL Derek Draper WAN* Derek Martin GOO Diane Berberian GUN Dick Button YOR Dick McTaggart YOR Doddie Weir WFM Don January F6E Don O'Leary SIR Don West HDS Eduardo Romero SAL Eleanor Collins GFF Elton John HEL Emile Francis HDS Emilio Fede BBL Esben Dalgaard Andersen JMP Eva Marie Saint BBL Fabio Restrepo WAN Francois Hardy PED, SID, MAR Frank Field ENG*, HEM, LIZ, GOO, WFM, OLD, TOC, MAR*, GUB, PED, TWB*, GRO*, WAN, MCO*, PRE*, GUN, SAL, HEL*, JRU, ANN, SID, HDS, AFB, TQR* Frank Field (meteorologist) HEM Gail Halvorsen POP, PRE General Pervez Musharraf HEL George Alagiah ENG George Elder GRO George Perez YOR, WFM*, TOC, GUB, PED, GRO, MCO, ANN, SID, HDS, TQR Gianluca Vialli WFM, F6E Giorgio Napolitano YWZ Giuliano Ferrara TWB Greg Mears GUN* Guido Gorgatti BBL Guy Lafleur WFM Harry Belafonte HEL Harry E. Goldsworthy MAR Hazel Mccallion GFF Henry Kissinger LIZ Inga Tobiasson YOR Ingrid Arvidsson F6E Iris Apfel GOO, POP, HEL Isabel Torres BBL, TQR, MCO, GUN, SAL, ANN, HDS*, AFB Jack Thomas SAL James C. Floyd MAR James Lovelock POP James Rodney Jones SIR James Whale ENG, WFM Jan Englert F6E Jane Marczewski MAR, ANN, HDS, F6E Jean Louis Trintignant GRO, ENG, LIZ, TQR, ANN Jeff Burkett WAN, JRU, AFB Jerry Lee Lewis YWZ, OLD, HEM Jet Black YWZ Jiang Zemin MCO Jimmy Carter ENG, MCO, HEL, MAS Jimmy Lydon PRE Joanne Woodward LIZ Joni Mitchell MAS Jorge Spedaletti MAR, WAN, GUN, SAL, AFB*, TOC*, JRU Jose Maria Marin GFF Joyce Randolph PRE Julia Reichert TQR, SID June Spencer POP Kane Tanaka ENG, JMP*, LIZ, POP, TQR, TOC, PED, TWB, WAN, MCO, ANN Kang Hyun JMP Kat Bjelland HDS Kenneth Anger GOO, PRE Kenneth Copeland HEL Khaleda Zia WFM, MCO, ANN King Harald V PED, WAN Larry Pressler OLD* Lata Mangeshkar TQR, TOC, PED, TWB, SID Lech Walesa OLD Leland Christensen SAL, JRU, ANN*, AFB Leonard Hayflick GOO* Leslie Phillips F6E, GUB, TWB, MAS Linda Nolan ENG, LIZ, WFM Loretta Lynn MAS Lucile Randon POP, SID, TOC, SIR Ludmila Ferber YOR Luis Antonio Rivera GFF Luis Echeverria PED Luka Binniyat HEM Madeline Cain SAL* Mahathir Mohamad JMP, TWB, MCO, PED, SIR Marco Cornez F6E Margaret Stuart Barry YOR* Margarita Terekhova BBL Marietta Giannakou WAN, JRU Marsha Hunt ENG Masood Akhtar SID, AFB Melvin Hulse SID* Michael Aspel GUB Mike Mora PED Mikheil Saakashvili WAN Mildred Kornman PRE Milos Zeman OLD Mino Raiola WAN Mollie Walker GRO Monica Vitti BBL Mumia Abu-jamal WFM Nas Blixky SIR*, AFB Nasser Abu Hmeid SIR Natty Wailer JMP Nichelle Nichols HEM, MCO, MAS Nigel Starmer Smith GRO, GFF, GUB, HDS Nirmala Uppuganti GUN Olivia Newton John MAS Olsen Filipaina TOC, TWB, SIR, JRU, ANN, AFB Parnelli Jones BBL Paul Ray MAR Pele HEM, YWZ, JMP, LIZ*, OLD, GRO, HDS, WAN, MCO, TQR Peter Tobin OLD Phyliss Dalton GOO Princess Mikasa JMP Queen Ratna Of Nepal GOO Radovan Radaković F6E Ricou Browning PRE Rob Bolland TWB Roberta Flack YWZ Rosalynn Carter MAS Sacheen Littlefeather LIZ Sandhya Mukherjee BBL, SAL, SIR, JRU, AFB Sandra Day O'connor LIZ Sandy Nelson SAL Shannen Doherty WFM Shintaro Tsuji GFF, GUB Silas Alexander MCO Sinead O'Connor MAS Socorro Cancio Ramos JMP Susie Steiner HEM, GFF, OLD, TQR, TOC, MAR, GUB, GRO, PRE, GUN, ANN, PED* Tammy Slaton F6E*, SIR Ted Kaczynski LIZ Teddie Chinery GOO Timothy Keller SIR Tom Smith ENG Tom Weiskopf YWZ, WFM, OLD, F6E Tony Brown HDS Uwe Seeler YWZ Vanessa Redgrave MAS Vava Suresh SAL, SID, AFB Vic Elford GFF, TQR, PED, SID Vicky Phelan TQR, TOC, MAR, GUB*, PRE, GUN, JRU, AFB Victor Alfonso Cedeno HEM Vin Scully GOO Violeta Chamorro HEM Vito Perillo HEM Vittorio Cecchi Gorro JRU Wendy Playfair YOR William Heseltine GOO Willibrord Frequin TWB Winnie Ewing YWZ, YOR Yayoi Kusama F6E Yoko Ono ENG Yoon Jeong-hee JMP Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab JMP Hi Spade - only 32 jokers - I've checked and it's Sinead O'Connor, Masterfull's joker, is not asterisked. Cheers, GUN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,404 Posted February 1, 2022 45 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: CaptainChorizo vs winner of TQR v. Gooseberry Crumble 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted February 1, 2022 A bit of analysis from the picks list. 191 picks of which 142 were unique including 13 unique jokers. Most popular pick was obviously Frank Field picked by 24 of the 33 teams. Most popular joker was again Frank Field picked by 8 of those 24 teams. The only other joker picked by more than one team was Jorge Spedaletti. Most popular unjokered pick was Olsen Filipaina picked by 6 teams. The full top 9 most popular picks (there were 4 in a tie for 10th place) were as follows Name Picks Frank Field 24 Susie Steiner 12 George Perez 11 Kane Tanaka 11 Pele 10 Isabel Torres 8 Vicky Phelan 8 Jorge Spedaletti 7 Olsen Filipaina 6 With all those uniques and unique jokers there is plenty of scope for some wild results. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,540 Posted February 1, 2022 Yeah, far too lazy to do analysis and stats to go with this so the above is much appreciated. The field does strike me as very fitting for some shock results - no slam dunks immediately visible and a lot of people who could drop dead tomorrow or could go on December 31st. Should be an interesting round. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted February 1, 2022 8 hours ago, TQR said: No no, I was just being clever and translated the name from German to English! Or it was a bleary-eyed early morning gaffe on my part…I’ll leave it to you to judge which one I was so ready to claim Joan, then I watched the fight…actually my track record in the cup isn’t dazzling, it’s probably a fair enough comparison Time will tell which one of us is Alexis and Krystal I would add that although Krystal won the physical fight in my opinion Alexis overall had the best witty one liners! I'm not sure if that assists us in deciding which of us is which person! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 1, 2022 9 hours ago, msc said: The problem is the host has to have their team in before anyone else sends their team in. I used to send mine to Cat but that is no longer possible, alas. Yes but he doesn’t have to look at any emails until a couple days out. That will allow him to have a puncher’s chance, not that the great Spade Cooley needs it. I trust him not to look and frankly most of those turned in early wouldn’t be very helpful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,404 Posted February 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Time will tell which one of us is Alexis and Krystal I would add that although Krystal won the physical fight in my opinion Alexis overall had the best witty one liners! I'm not sure if that assists us in deciding which of us is which person! Right, how about whoever loses this round changes their avatar to Alexis for at least the duration of the cup? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 1, 2022 5 hours ago, Grim Up North said: Most popular pick was obviously Frank Field picked by 24 of the 33 teams. I always feel like I’ve missed something when this happens. He eluded my searching. Time will tell but usually the hoi poloi are correct. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted February 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, TQR said: Right, how about whoever loses this round changes their avatar to Alexis for at least the duration of the cup? I'm very tempted! I'm a bit rubbish with technology though so it will take me a while to shrink a Joan Collins picture and upload it in the unlikely event I lose but that's a deal! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,995 Posted February 1, 2022 13 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: I always feel like I’ve missed something when this happens. He eluded my searching. Time will tell but usually the hoi poloi are correct. It was a tricky find tbf, I think a lot of Cup players remembered when Willz almost won the entire Cup due to him and double checked his health ahead of this season 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,404 Posted February 1, 2022 11 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: I'm very tempted! I'm a bit rubbish with technology though so it will take me a while to shrink a Joan Collins picture and upload it in the unlikely event I lose but that's a deal! The bet is on! None of your SC-style “5 pounds of (shit) coffee” bollocks, this is how we do wagers in the United Queendom. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 2, 2022 10 hours ago, TQR said: The bet is on! None of your SC-style “5 pounds of (shit) coffee” bollocks, this is how we do wagers in the United Queendom. Please note that SC isn't making a wager, he is making a guarantee. It doesn't require another party to the transaction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 2, 2022 On 01/02/2022 at 01:26, YoungWillz said: I think having seen @Pop_Zeus team, their entrance music should be Justified And Ancient by The KLF. There shall be no shame in going out to a bunch of supercentenarians/centenarians. I'm already considering my exit music... Haha, I’m not convinced that picking a bunch of old farts was the best idea. Low hanging fruit they may be, doesn’t mean any of them are more likely to kick the bucket though. A lot of centenarians seem to go on, and on, and on. I had to look up all but 4 of your team. Game on! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,535 Posted February 2, 2022 17 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said: Yeah, far too lazy to do analysis and stats to go with this so the above is much appreciated. The field does strike me as very fitting for some shock results - no slam dunks immediately visible and a lot of people who could drop dead tomorrow or could go on December 31st. Should be an interesting round. I would definitely put my tie with BabyBLue into the category of potential upsets (assuming I was favourite for that match!). As expected, BabyBlue has a team full of old, mostly European, celebrities who could go at any time. Most importantly, most of them are uniques which makes it a very dangerous team. Only takes a couple of them to hit, and I am already in a big hole in what may well be a relatively quiet month. Not a single unique on my team which makes me think that either people are getting better at this game, or I did not scrape nearly hard enough at the bottom of that barrel. I will be very happy to scrape through this one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sideik 236 Posted February 2, 2022 1 hour ago, An Fear Beag said: European, celebrities who could go at any time. Speaking of which...QO 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted February 2, 2022 Ooh, first hit, game is on! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
