Advent game 2023

[msc 17,762]

Hello Joey asked me to open this up so doing it before I forget. Same rules as always. The host only needs to do three things and this is one of them so fingers crossed I don't screw up hah.

 

Joey's bit copied:

 

 

Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules:
 
25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day.

And those Rules in Full:

1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN.

2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant.
A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death.

3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist.

4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2023.

5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate.

6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and the host who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing.
 
6a Because he has forced his own entry msc guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others.

 

6b - hot selections? No idea why people are picking Karen Gillan tbh...

7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 

8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required.

9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes mscs decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties.

10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competitionand in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win.

10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day.

11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite MSc half assed efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of mss and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 

12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs.


13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement.
AND FINALLY...
On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion.

Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates:

 

 

Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now

 

2016 - Death Impends 

2017 - Sean

2018 - Banana

2019 - gcreptile

2020 - Spade_Cooley

2021 - Bibliogryphon 

2022 - drol

 

 

Good luck everyone.  

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #1

 

 

As the former host of this pool I would strongly advise people to look into Rick Davies. He would really be an excellent pick for these games

[Death Impends 7,373]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #2

 

 

Yoshiro Nakamatsu

 

Part Edison, part Barnum, all Dr. NakaMats. Still hellbent on seeing 144, but if it turns out he's deflated his current age by 49 years could make for inspired picking.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #3

 

There are 295 people current listed on Wikipedia's list of notable living centenarians, and random.org picked #28 who is....

 

 

Sir Lloyd Geering

 

A New Zealand theologian who faced charges of heresy in 1967 for declaring that Christ wasn't resurrected from the dead and his remains laid undisturbed somewhere in modern-day Palestine. Well they won't still be undisturbed after the last few weeks, Lloydy-boy.

[wannamaker 1,068]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #4

 

 

Jimmy Carter

 

The peanut farmer turned 99 last month. Although he seems to be immortal, one must remember that not everyone makes it to 100 (or is beyond 100).

[gcreptile 10,236]

Death comes for us all, and considering that our lifetime of roughly 100 years is nothing compared to infinity, basically any pick is as good as anyone else...

 

So, picking a random celebrity....

 

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #5:

 

 

Kristen Bell

 

You may know her better as Veronica Mars, the world's sexiest vegetarian of 2006 and 2013 was already born at the gates of hell, i.e. Detroit. No wonder she reported treatment for depression and anxiety in 2016.

Her plant-based baby toy brand Hello Bello also filed for bankruptcy in 2020.

This year, she finally had enough and started to learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so you know that bones will break and backs will snap.

 

Is she going to turn from nerdy love interest #1 into top deadpooling material?

[CaptainChorizo 1,906]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #6

 

  Jabba The H     Boogie2988

 

One Heart attack away from giving someone victory in Advent Avalenche 2023

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #7

 

 

Chef Tony

 

Long-time cooking utensil pitchman still finding himself on your TV screen whenever a channel doesn't have enough programs to run 24 hours a day. Looks like someone drowned Sgt Slaughter and left his body bobbing the ocean waves for three weeks.

[arghton 6,124]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #8

 

Jayapataka Swami

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami is the highest-ranking leader of controversial Hindu religious organization ISKCON. Born Gordon John Erdman II into an upper-class family in Milwaukee in 1949, he joined newly-founded ISKCON in the late 1960s around the same time George Harrison started funding the growing organization. Jayapataka, quite soon after joining, became one of the highest Swamis. The founding guru died in 1977, leaving Jayapataka and other still very young gurus to lead ISKCON. Some of them died, others were kicked out leading to Jayapataka becoming the "guru in charge" of ISKCON.

In October 2008 he suffered a massive brain stem stroke, putting him into coma and "very critical" conditions for weeks or months. Since then his health has been quite bad, or as ISKCON says, "compromised": Already before his stroke he had cirrhosis (apparent complication from a blood transfusion in 1989 following an attack on a Madrid airport) finally leading to liver & kidney failure some years later. Skipping the waitlist he got new kidneys and a new liver in 2018 but as usual that didn't help much. He's been hospitalised a number of times since with heart problems, kidney problems, pneumonia, leg infections, covid, blood clots, skin cancer, UTIs, an "extended spectrum multi-resistant bacteria", pulmonary edema, ascites, skin lesions, trachea compression and other ailments, while he's survived his previous illnesses very well, this year he seems to have had more ailments than in the past ten combined. He's been in hospital twice within the last month and dedicated, educated ambulance chasers/corpse hounds know that pulmonary edema tends to return, and while he's a Swami, he's only half-Indian. He also looks like what I'd imagine the drowned ocean corpse version of Chef Tony would look like.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Change the thread name please.  Advent AVALANCHE.  I thank you in advance.  @Death Impends

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Was Advent Avalanche Form Guide #9

 

 

Morante de la Puebla

 

Considered the top active matador on the bullfighting circuit, it goes without saying Morante’s next bullfight could be his last.  He is also Spain’s #1 Mickey Mouse impersonator, so he says. Best not to argue with him or you could find yourself in the wrong end of his banderilla.

Preferring his moniker ‘de la Puebla’, he doesn’t say which puebla, making him another in a long list of performers ‘from parts unknown‘. Hopefully this Advent his will reside in de la Muerte.

Toro, toro, toro!

 

[The Old Crem 3,181]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #10

 

 

 

Rosalynn Carter 

This dementia suffering First Lady is coming to the end of her life but will she go first instead of her hospice care receiving husband. 
 

[drol 10,064]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #11

 

 

Zhang Lixiong

 

Long March veteran, founding major general of PLA, deputy in the 70s, moderate political dissident, supercentenarian. Zhang Lixiong had an out-of-ordinary life and his death is being even more extraordinary. Suffering from dementia, in ICU for months in 2021, on nasal cannula for years, in ICU six months in 2023 from which he bounced back. Now only him and his nemesis Wang Fuzhi (doing an ICU stunt himself) left among the more than 1000 founding major generals of PLA. How long will this medical miracle carry on?

[CaptainChorizo 1,906]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #12

 

Vija Vētra

 

If you pick only 1 Latvian classical Indian Dancer for your deathpool teams next year it might as well be her,she turns 101 in a few months.

 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #13 

 

 

 

Shane  MacGowan 

 

What most of us call hospital he's been calling home for a substantial part of 2023, a steady stream of visitors suggests some final visitations and that's recently included former bandmates.His missus is openly talking about loss, and would appreciate prayers. In other news, it's 15 days to kick off of Advent Avalanche competition and Shane's demise is a q/o shoo-in as and when!

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #14

 

 

Steve Wells
 

You can’t spell Deathlist or Avalanches without A-L-S.  So it’s fitting that someone will give Steve Wells a spin.  Wells has survived the longest with the disease, an astounding 43 years.  So which is more likely, someone surviving 44 years after an ALS diagnosis, or 14 days?  Exactly. 

[arghton 6,124]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #15

 

 

Biljana Plavšić

 

There are many women named Biljana in Slavic countries. You might've seen some of them in those "Meet the woman of your dreams" ads on shady download sites, crappy ad-filled celebrity gossip internet forums, the Daily Mail website etc. However, not many Biljanas are 93, notable, in failing health and convicted war criminals. If you're thinking of picking a Biljana here, she might turn out to be the woman of your dreams.

[CaptainChorizo 1,906]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #16

 

Ryan Minor

 

 

 

The former college baseball/basketball star turned Coach at Oklahoma University was Diagnosed with Stave IV Colon Cancer in 2022,and is now in Hospice Care. He might have gone undrafted as a Pro, but he is Major contender to be an early pick for the 2023 Advent Avalanche.

[msc 17,762]

A reminder that this game opens tomorrow at noon British time, or midday. Which is 7am New York time.

 

First come first served etc. You all know the rules.

[TQR 12,189]

Shite. My planned pick dies NINE MINUTES before the start.

[TQR 12,189]

Second choice then...Jimmy Carter

[The Scottish Evangelist 15]

Ryan Minor, basketball player.

 

[Captain Hemlock 641]

Ryan Minor

[Bibliogryphon 8,662]

Jimmy Carter

[drol 10,064]

Rohit Bal.