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Jerry O'Donnell, one of my picks and the stadium announcer for the Dow Diamond, home of the Great Lakes Loons baseball team.

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I was a little sceptical about allowing Jerry O'Donnell at first, but if you piece it all together, he's had a couple of claims to fame that add up to something, announcer of the Midland, Michigan football team (the Great Lakes Loons), popular advertising voice on the radio, having had his own radio shows, and writing special interest books.

DDT punches the ticket for the next round:

 

DevonDeathTrip 11-0 SirCreep

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Last day to submit your teams! Most are still missing.

 

One thing, there currently is a tie between @GuyFromFuture and @Hell.

 

I just tried to do something on mobile with no real success. So I have to do the tie-break after today. Meaning, you might both want to submit a team, but one will have to go after the tie-break.

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Team sent. I had no time to do any research to find any dying not mentioned on the forum this time around, so it may be where I bow out!

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1 hour ago, wannamaker said:

Pravrajika Anandaprana a hit for arghton. 

 

Assuming that's the latest ever swap of leads in a Cup round? I remember taking a late late lead with a US college football coach but even then that was with two days to go instead of a few hours.

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Oh, indeed, a bitter defeat for DeathByArsenic, but Arghton seems to make his way through this competition with hospitalised centenarians, greek acting couples, and, in this case, Indian founders of obscure monastic orders:

 

DeathByArsenic 3-4 arghton

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23 minutes ago, Captain Hemlock said:

Congratulations @max_bossetti. I wish you success the rest of the way.

Thank you @Captain Hemlock, it has been a tough clash. I've been lucky that many corpses in your squad decided to hold on a bit more...

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Congratulations @Perhaps! Well done! Best of luck to you in the next round. 

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On 01/03/2024 at 07:20, Death Impends said:

Until Wayne Eddy dies I'm going to keep thinking for a split second that something's wrong with the early rock-n-roll guitarist.

 

I should've spent more than a split second thinking there.

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@DevonDeathTrip excellent shutout!  Best of luck in May and going forward to the championship.  

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Congratulations, @wannamaker.

I was absolutely sure of your victory when the score was 0-7, because you're a sensational player.

Good luck for your next round, you deserve the best.

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Okay, I am back at home and well begin work on the next round now. The coin toss will take place within the next hour.

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Disqualified:

Heather McNamara - "honored for her will to survive" - not enough for this competition

 

Coin toss:

GuyFromFuture vs Hell 5-0

 

Sorry Hell, I'm sure it will flip the other way on some other occasion.

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Was hoping for some funnier tabs tbh, are we really too old for the "how do i take a screenshot" gag?

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Masterlist - quarter-finals:

 

  Perhaps vs   GuyFromFuture
1 Steve McMichael   1 Jane McAlevey-Joker
2 Esther Rantzen   2 Alice Munro
3 Susana Baca   3 David Irving
4 Frank Caprio   4 Du Daozheng  
5 Terry Jon Martin   5 Frank Caprio
6 Jimmy Carter   6 James Clayton Flowers
7 Jane McAlevey (joker)   7 Manmohan Singh
8 Jayapataka Swami   8 Paul Harrell
9 Princess Mikasa   9 Richard Rohmer
10 Maguni Charan Kuanr   10 Violeta Chamorro
11 David Irving   11 Wayne Eddy
         
Sub:     Sub:  
1 José Mujica   1 Michelle Harrison
2 Cesar Luis Menotti   2 Kaiti Grey
3 Emily Willis   3 Try Sutismo
         
         
  arghton vs   wannamaker
1 Esther Rantzen (Joker)   1 Jan Nicolay (JOKER)
2 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi   2 Jane McAlevey
3 Linda Masarira   3 Jimmy Carter
4 Jimmy Carter   4 André Ferreira (Volleyball)
5 Jayapataka Swami   5 Wayne Eddy
6 Lena Venieri   6 Chuwit Kamolvisit
7 Manolis Mavrommatis   7 David Elmore Smith
8 Carl I. Hagen   8 Maguni Charan Kuanr
9 Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem   9 TyAmongAnimals
10 Necro Butcher   10 Esther Rantzen
11 Silvio Luiz   11 Terry Jon Martin
         
Sub:     Sub:  
1 Rafiqul Islam Miah   1 Julian Munoz
2 Guy Warren   2 Robert Mailman
3 Nelson Acosta   3  
         
         
  Banana vs   msc
1 Jane McAlevey (JOKER)   1 Frank Caprio - joker
2 Paul Harrell   2 Braulio Musso
3 Craig Cobane   3 Arnold Yarrow
4 Brian Dayett   4 Cleo Laine
5 Sven-Goran Eriksson   5 Bill Dundee
6 Jimmy Carter   6 Jimmy Carter
7 Tony Ogola   7 Nelson Acosta
8 Bette Nash   8 David Irving
9 Dylan Willows   9 Michael Tilson Thomas
10 David Irving   10 Esther Rantzen
11 Wayne Eddy   11 Sean Wallace
         
Sub:     Sub:  
1 Steve McMichael   1 Dimitris Kokotas
2 Sean Wallace   2 Simon Cowell (SOS)
3 Corey Williams   3 Pete Murray
         
         
  DevonDeathTrip vs   max_bossetti
1 Jan Nicolay (joker)   1 Brian Dayett (joker)
2 Frank Caprio   2 Rudy Moreno
3 Jane McAlevey   3 Jamal Yunos
4 Jimmy Carter   4 Jimmy Carter
5 Cocoa Tea   5 Steve McMicheal
6 Wayne Eddy   6 Paul Harrell
7 Muhammad Ssegirinya   7 Wayne Eddy 
8 Maguni Charan Kuanr   8 Frank Caprio
9 Paul Harrell    9 Steve McCoy
10 Yahya Sinwar   10 Jane McAlevey
11 David Irving   11 Craig Cobane
         
Sub:     Sub:  
1 Esther Rantzen   1 Noam Chomsky
2 Lin Muyizere   2 Sean Wallace
3 Katherine Jackson   3 Rob Burrow
         

 

Jan Nicolay is an "educator", but qualified as a state representative in South Dakota (and former head of the appropriations committee).

Jan Nicolay and Brian Dayett seemed to me the needles in the haystack, or something like that. Nobody found them both. I wonder if I could have done so, I only knew of the former.

 

The DDT vs. max_bossetti matchup looks like an unstoppable force vs. unmovable object.

Also, is this the month that Wayne Eddy dies?

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1 minute ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Was hoping for some funnier tabs tbh, are we really too old for the "how do i take a screenshot" gag?

Heh... well... the coins flip as soon as you open the page, and I didn't want to mess it up, especially as the result was so definite.

Btw, this was also the reason I couldn't do the flip on mobile, because the coins just kept flipping and I couldn't take the screenshot without the result already changed....

I was probably extremely clumsy with this... but one of these "mobile results", was also heads by 5-0. No chance in/for Hell.

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On 02/05/2024 at 11:48, gcreptile said:

Masterlist - quarter-finals:

 

         
         
         
  arghton vs   wannamaker
1 Esther Rantzen (Joker)   1 Jan Nicolay (JOKER)
2 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi   2 Jane McAlevey
3 Linda Masarira   3 Jimmy Carter
4 Jimmy Carter   4 André Ferreira (Volleyball)
5 Jayapataka Swami   5 Wayne Eddy
6 Lena Venieri   6 Chuwit Kamolvisit
7 Manolis Mavrommatis   7 David Elmore Smith
8 Carl I. Hagen   8 Maguni Charan Kuanr
9 Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem   9 TyAmongAnimals
10 Necro Butcher   10 Esther Rantzen
11 Silvio Luiz   11 Terry Jon Martin
         
Sub:     Sub:  
1 Rafiqul Islam Miah   1 Julian Munoz
2 Guy Warren   2 Robert Mailman
3 Nelson Acosta   3  
         
         

 

 

 

So Robert (Bobby) Mailman has been on the radar of some teams since January due to his terminal diagnosis. So when reading this news - https://torontosun.com/news/national/wrongfully-convicted-n-b-man-dies-four-months-after-exoneration - it is with great surprise it's actually the other half of the wrongfully jailed duo - Walter Gillespie - that's died. Can't see Mailman making 2025.

 

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It does look like those of you who submitted their teams with a warning that there weren't many super good picks around were right....

 

Starting on friday, I will have another absence, this time for a whole week. But it will not interfere with any deadlines.

 

If you ask me, we can expect 2-3 hits in that time. 

 

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On 07/03/2024 at 09:42, Grim Up North said:

One week - two deaths - we’re losing our touch!

One week- zero deaths - that’s even worse

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I am aware that Alice Munro is a hit. Official update will happen next saturday.

Greetings from Bukhara.

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Alright, let's do this.

Rudy Moreno was a stand-up comedian and behind-the-scenes figure in the L.A. area, which then also means, Hollywood. They call him "the godfather of Latino comedy" for his mentoring of young talent and who am I to criticize that classification. He didn't quite make it to Wikipedia levels of fame (yet?). He had a sepsis and a stroke a couple of weeks ago and succumbed after some weeks of suffering. max_bossetti scores a unique hit.

Alice Munro was another unique hit, this time for GuyFromFuture who has managed to always sneak in some well-known old/frail person who becomes a hit for him. Munro herself doesn't need a lot of description as she got the universal coverage a literature Nobel Prize winner usually receives. She was a master of the short story. She had been silent for a couple of years and was a deadpooling staple for a while.

Silvio Luiz scores a QO here, for example: https://777score.com/news/football/910336-legendary-brazilian-sports-broadcaster-silvio-luiz-dies-at-89. He was a Brazilian soccer commentator who never used the word "goal" to describe what was happening. Well, in media you need something to stand out.... ...which he also did by suffering a stroke on air. Arghton's ambulance chasing pays off greatly.

Now, wannamaker also has a dead person on their team as influencer "Ty among animals" has died according to https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/tyler-powell-obituary?id=55041379

But I cannot see an obit! I'll keep looking, as I am just barely getting back to normal business after my trip.

 

But so far, we have this:

Perhaps 0-4 GuyFromFuture

arghton 4-0 wannamaker

Banana 0-0 msc

DevonDeathTrip 0-4 max_bossetti

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