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The 2025 Crowdsourced Deathlist

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With 2024 heading into its final 2 months, in keeping with tradition, it seems about the right time to start making the preparations for next year's Crowdsourced Deathlist. Your 2024 list has, so far, absolutely smashed the official list out of the water, let's see if we can do it again. 

 

This is my first year fully hosting, the only change to the rules that I will be making is making entries close a few hours earlier. The rules are below, in case you need a refresher or want to check the new closing time. 

 

THE RULES

 

1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Commtech Sio Bibble (myself), before the deadline. The list must have a minimum of 12 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Yes, this means we are open now.

 

Please send them by either PM or via Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! Private messaging is preferred. Any entry in the shadow list thread must have myself tagged in it so I know to include your entry.

 

2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. This is true even if you only send in 12 names, or 13 names, or 49 names. 

 

3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List.

 

4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2024. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute.

 

4b) Anyone who wishes to avoid a Pope Benny the Fuckwit Meltdown and just says "oh put my subs in at the number of the person who died" gets 10 post quotes from Comped. 

 

5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Buffy Sainte-Marie, less Joan Langsford, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets.

 

6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2024 at 4 pm GMT (or your equivalent local time) This earlier deadline is so everything can be organised and ready for January 1st and so I don't have to sort out submissions whilst drunk/hungover (it is new years eve after all).

 

7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test.

 

8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course.

 

9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Although I have no intention of taking any of them. Plus if they're unique in the DDP they're hardly gonna score big here.

 

10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrities from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2024 survivors will be used, this is something for me to worry about, not you...

 

10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule.

10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2023 survivors, then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on...

10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. If you really want to you can include all of the survivors in your entry, it will just reflect poorly on you in my eyes.

 

 

11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January (that's what subs are for), but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas.

 

Thank you for participating.

 

jimmy carter | PBS News

Surely Ar Jimmy can't make it long enough to make his 10th appearance.

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Crowdsource Form Guide 1:

Tomasz Schafernaker

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/annual j

As for the /srs...

 

Crowdsource Form Guide 2:

Chris Hoy

Who is the real Chris Hoy, legendary British cyclist and family man | The  Standard

Diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer last year and recently stated it was terminal (2-4 years left to live, very sad that he's only 48).

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Crowdsource Form Guide 3:

 

Joan Plowright

 

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Retired from acting in 2014,her fellow Dame the Late Maggie Smith in an interview several years ago said she was worried about Joan's health.

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Just remembered to send my entry for this as I was submitting my Hares and Numbers entry this one was missing

 

 

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Crowdsource Form Guide 4: 

 

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Violeta Chamorro

 

The perennial immortal, former Nicaraguan President and two-time Crowdsourced-ee (pictured laughing at deadpoolers with Juan Carlos I) has a health history of spinal infections, osteoporosis, injuries, brain tumors and a massive stroke. Now 95, bedbound and in incredibly delicate health for some years with advanced dementia, surely 2025 will be the year she finally dies? 

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Here is my list and the first public one on this thread 

1) Chris Evert 

2) John Kander 

3) Christina Crawford 

4) Princess Alexandra 

5) Aung  San Suu Kyi

6) Lord Jopling 

7) Vera Miles 

8) Sally Jesse Raphael

9) Joan Bennett Kennedy 

10) Shirley Maclaine 

11) Queen Margrethe 

12) Gerald Seymour 

13) Sidney Cooke 

14) Engelbert  Humperdinck 

15) Salman Rushdie 

16) Roman Polanski 

17) Lee Majors 

18) Ken Livingstone 

19) James D Watson 

20) King Juan Carlos 

21) Alexander  Lukashenko 

22) Bernadette Chirac 

23) Bruce Willis

24) Violeta Chamorro 

25) Marianne Faithfull 

26) Gerald Scarfe 

27)  John  Howard (aussie pm)

28) George Carey 

29) James Van Der Beek 

30) David Steel

31) Geoffrey Boycott 

32) Deirdre Sanders 

33) Alex Ferguson 

34) Fiona Phillips 

35)  Quentin Blake 

36)  Yoko Ono 

37) Imelda Marcos 

38) Denis Law 

39) Angie Dickinson 

40) Akihito (former Japan monarch)

41) Hans Blix 

42) Cleo Laine 

43) Eileen Derbyshire 

44) Douglas Hurd 

45) Julie Goodyear 

46) Sophia Loren 

47) Linda Ronstadt

48)  Ozzy Osborne 

49) Joanne Woodward 

50)  Rupert Murdoch 

 

Subs

 

Linda Nolan 

The Duchess of Kent 

Joan Bakewell 

 

Thank you for your efforts in organising this.  @Commtech Sio Bibble

 

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