Advent Avalanche 2024

[arghton 6,771]

As no-one objected, I will try to run this this year. If I fuck up big time, feel free to execute me or summat. Same rules as always, copypasted from the previous year's thread.

 

 

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 2024.

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 arghton 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 arghtons 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 Arghtons 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:

1. YoungWillz - Billy Connolly

2. drol - Jimmy Carter

3. theoldlady - Jean-Marie Le Pen

4. Steve - Chuwit Kamolvisit

5. Captain Hemlock - James Butts

6. Book - Steve McMichael

7. polar duck - Manouchehr Bakhtiari

8. Commtech Sio Bibble - Marilyn Hagerty

9. livingbygrace - Kaiti Grey

10. Ali - Raul Castro

11. CaptainChorizo - James Clayton Flowers

12. Funeralopolis - Barry Urban

13. The Immortal - José Mujica

14. Summer in Transylvania - Donald P. Bellisario

15. Bibliogryphon - Noam Chomsky

16. Lafaucheuse - Álvaro Noboa

17. Death Impends - Cindy Birdsong

18. Toast - Jean Marsh

19. maryportfuncity - Ethel Caterham

20. MariNisia - George Chuvalo

21. gcreptile - Mary Schmucker

22. chilean way - Eva Marie Saint

23. time - Dick Van Dyke

24. Yvonne - Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat 

25. arghton - Jayapataka Swami

 

 

 

 

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

2023 - gcreptile

 

 

Good luck everyone.  

[YoungWillz 21,071]

Check the dates - this is 2024. 

[Clorox Bleachman 2,455]

Also, can we call it Advent Avalanche? I don't know why it changed to Advent Game, but Avalanche just sounds more whimsical and over-the-top and that's the energy we need.

[livingbygrace 367]

Thank you for hosting.  pretty simple and maybe even quick, but fun.

[Bibliogryphon 9,592]

One of the few games I have actually previously won

[arghton 6,771]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #1

 

 

Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin

 

100-year-old overweight and frail Scottish peer. He very recently outlived his wife of 65 years, making him a decent contender to beat "yesteryear sportsman with terminal cancer" and "Indian MLA with multiple organ failure" by dying right at the start of December.

[Steve 608]

Thank you so much for hosting this pool this year @arghton. 

[Toast 16,155]

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6a Because he has forced his own entry msc  arghton guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others.

 

FTFY.  Needs amending. not fair on msc otherwise.

[Joey Russ 7,229]

Yeah, good call. I’m kinda slowly moving away from dead pooling and focusing on fixing my own life atm so I don’t really have as much time anymore 

[gcreptile 10,979]

Oh I'm still in the USA for this one, and might be on a car ride that day. Might be one I sadly have to sit out, but I'll enter if I get internet access and there's still a free slot.

 

Edit: I forgot that this means that I wouldn't attempt to defend my title - damn, but I can't change it.

[Sean 6,337]

 

Death list form guide....never mind I forgot Columbo`s real name

 

I know he has Alzheimer`s though.

[Sean 6,337]

7 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Yeah, good call. I’m kinda slowly moving away from dead pooling and focusing on fixing my own life atm so I don’t really have as much time anymore 

I wish you luck Joey but fixing your life and deadpooling are not mutually exclusive.You have to do what is good for you.I hope we don`t lose you on here but if we do it has been a pleasure Sir.

 

As I have always said deadpooling as a game of prediction not of wishful thinking if done correctly.We all live and we all die.As a society we are so squirmish about death and I think deadpooling and sites like this help put that into perspective.

 

 

I have come across many toxic people in my life but none with the exception of trolls on this forum are anything other than good decent and supportive men and women from across the globe .I hope you reconsider Joey but if you don`t then I wish you well

[Sean 6,337]

I think I speak for all of us on here in saying you will always be welcome here JoeyRuss !

[Joey Russ 7,229]

I’ll probably always have some presence on the forums, I just may not participate in the activities that are run, that’s all

[Lafaucheuse 4,052]

I’ll join. Can you give the previous hit for every winner of this Game ? 

[arghton 6,771]

7 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

I’ll join. Can you give the previous hit for every winner of this Game ? 

2016: Ken Helcher

2017: King Michael of Romania

2018: Chris Bradley

2019: Karl Kiefer

2020: Zafarullah Khan Jamali

2021: Anthony Sher

2022: Nick Bollettieri

2023: Juan Pablo Adame

 

As you can't find that much info on the winners of 2018 and 2019 online and they have no Wikipedia pages: Bradley was an Ohioan (WBNS) Chief Meteorologist with leukemia. Karl Kiefer was a local US football coach who'd been in hospice following a heart attack. 

[arghton 6,771]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #2

 

 

Archbishop Irenaios of Crete

 

The 91-year-old Eastern Orthodox Church cleric has been suffering from motor neurone disease (+ mild dementia) for more than 4 years. He has proven to be tough, but respiratory infections are on the rise this season. Back in 2022 Irenaios' successor said he "daily educates us with his holy patience and exemplary determination in his illness". Will he conveniently run out of holy patience and exemplary determination at the beginning of December?

[CaptainChorizo 1,986]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #3

 

 

Brian Dayett

 

The former Pro Baseball Player was diagnosed with Parkinson's in the year 2000. He also has been in Hospice since earlier this year and  dealing with heart,lung and cognitive issues as well as requiring 24/7 Oxygen tubes.  The Reaper is getting ready for him in the Bullpen,only question now is does Dayett strike out or the person who picks him.

[ladyfiona 2,604]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #4

 

 

Nigel McCrery

 

Silent Witness Creator revealed on 2nd November reveals that he got told a month ago he has a terminal illness but didn't specify what. I'm guessing some type of stage four cancer. BBC News

[Captain Hemlock 745]

Well, there goes my pick for this game.

 

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/42680658/alabama-lb-medrick-burnett-jr-dies-head-injury

 

 

[CaptainChorizo 1,986]

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #5

 

Mitsuye Yamada

 

All things considered the Centenarian Japanese-American Poet is in excellent health for someone her age.But it's possible she could have had a bungee jumping or jet skiing incident over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

[drol 11,980]

oops, too early.

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,071]

Billy Connolly.

[drol 11,980]

Uninspired Jimmy Carter.

[theoldlady 2,313]

Jean Marie Le Pen