gcreptile 11,381 Posted January 1 52 players - same as last year. Thank you for the continued interest. My team has been revealed. Masterlist will be up soon-ish. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted January 1 Unzips and flops out my fifty most possible for 2025. They can thank me later for saving their hides come January 2026! David Attenborough Amanda Barrie Stanley Baxter Alan Bennett Harry Benson (Photographer) Tony Blackburn Sepp Blatter Chris Bonington Tom Brokaw Lyndsey Buckingham Ruth Buzzi Petula Clark Phil Collins Billy Connolly Bill Cosby Eileen Derbyshire Marianne Faithfull Roberta Flack Barry Gibb Julie Goodyear (JOKER) Melvyn Hayes Douglas Hurd David Jason Stacy Keach Penelope Keith Denis Law Richard Lester James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern Lee Majors Imelda Marcos Miriam Margolyes Liza Minnelli Joni Mitchell Nana Mouskouri Linda Nolan Yoko Ono Ozzy Osbourne Joan Plowright Linda Ronstadt Patricia Routledge Prunella Scales Nigel Starmer-Smith Norman Tebbit Dick Van Dyke James Whale John Williams (Composer) Bruce Willis Richard Wilson Peter Yarrow Michael York 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,339 Posted January 1 My team is on page 1 where I added it to an early post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,381 Posted January 1 12 hours ago, MrWonderful said: Still only about 6:40 PM in California, so I hope I can still get this entry in. So, without further ado... Sorry, didn't see you there, yes - I allow it. Welcome, and good luck! Next time, please submit a day before or before midnight UK. However, this now means that we actually have one more team than last year - which, after the somewhat tired 2024, I didn't expect. The masterlist is posted, optical improvements will follow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,349 Posted January 1 21 hours ago, gcreptile said: My teams are all in, so I am entering the PM'ed teams. @Great Uncle Bulgaria You can choose a new joker. If I don't hear from you it will be the 2nd name on the list, Noam Chomsky (not the 1st, because that was Carter). Chomsky is fine thanks. I see my sub is now no 1 (where Carter was). I assume this is obligatory and I don't have the option of moving everyone else up one and putting my sub in at the bottom instead? Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuffaloPhil 997 Posted January 1 30 minutes ago, Great Uncle Bulgaria said: Chomsky is fine thanks. I see my sub is now no 1 (where Carter was). I assume this is obligatory and I don't have the option of moving everyone else up one and putting my sub in at the bottom instead? Thanks. Position on the list doesn't make a difference in this one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,349 Posted January 1 2 minutes ago, BuffaloPhil said: Position on the list doesn't make a difference in this one. sorry you're right, I was getting it mixed up with another one where it does (Windy City, I think?) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,381 Posted January 1 Lady Wildenstein unfortunately needs to be subbed. She wasn't picked in 2024. In that game, there seem to be no big upheavals to the scoreboard, but there are a few days left for obits to arrive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrWonderful 497 Posted January 1 5 hours ago, gcreptile said: Sorry, didn't see you there, yes - I allow it. Welcome, and good luck! Next time, please submit a day before or before midnight UK. However, this now means that we actually have one more team than last year - which, after the somewhat tired 2024, I didn't expect. The masterlist is posted, optical improvements will follow. I sincerely appreciate it, thank you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted January 2 Wayne Osmond a hit for @Bibliogryphon on this game. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/32583741/wayne-osmond-dead-brothers-donny-family-singers/ New Year's Day death. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 285 Posted January 3 I DMed gcreptile my list, and present it here: Ágnes Keleti 02.01.2025 Alan Greenspan Alan Oppenheimer Alexander Butterfield Alfred Brendel Cindy Birdsong David Irving Dick Button Douglas Hurd Elias James Corey Georg Koch George Schlatter Gilles Vigneault Gloria Steinem Hans Blix Harvey Weinstein Ida Lewis "Queen Ida" Guillory Imelda Marcos Ion Iliescu J. William Middendorf Jane Gardam Jane Morgan Jim Lovell John Astin José Mujica Judith Viorst Linda Nolan Mark Rydell Martin Cooper (inventor) Michael Tilson Thomas Nigel McCrery Paul Dooley Peter Yarrow Petula Clark Quentin Blake Richard 'Black Bart' Harris Richard Lester Robert Wagner Roberta Flack Ruth Buzzi Sandy Gall Sonny Rollins Steve McMichael Ted Turner Theo Burrell Tom Brokaw Violeta Chamorro William Smithers Yayoi Kusama Yoko Ono Substitutes Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Lalo Schifrin Rupert Murdoch William H. Webster 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted January 4 Going to assume this is good enough for Brenton Wood as a pick for Yorkshire Banker: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brenton-wood-oogum-boogum-song-001841015.html I'll guess the Mail has it before I awake tomorrow though. Maybe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,381 Posted January 4 Okay, next one. Yes, a couple of picks needed to be replaced, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Jimmy Carter, Johnnie Walker, Tomiko Itooma. Funeralopolis is waiting for obits for Richard B. Hays and Jytte Abildstrom. I have a feeling only one of these obits will come... Bibliogryphon scores a unique hit with Wayne Osmond. Have to admit I only skimmed the thread, he died twice? Yorkshire_Banker gets a hit with Brenton Wood. I made the joke about him in the 2024 game, but it would have been better placed here, I was confused. Torva_Messor and Perhaps share a hit with Agnes Keleti. The impressive olympian was a centenarian and so does not give huge points, but I am still surprised she wasn't picked more often here - even if this pool discriminates for age more than the DDP. For the Steve DiMeglio case, see the 2024 thread. We need definitive information. Shirley Chung would be a hit for Banana though if she died. First scoreboard, I have a feeling it's the calm before the storm: Rank Team Score 1 Bibliogryphon 51 2 Yorkshire Banker 41 3 Perhaps 21 3 TorvaMessor 21 5 gcreptile 0 5 LadyFiona 0 5 Neol Edmunds 0 5 Bobytomi 0 5 Joe Moneypenny 0 5 Gooseberry Crumble 0 5 Steve 0 5 Arghton 0 5 Lord Insomnio 0 5 The Unknown Man 0 5 The Immortal 0 5 Trome 0 5 Sean 0 5 BuffaloPhil 0 5 Charles DeGaulle 0 5 Imelda 0 5 Thatcher 0 5 tracy 0 5 Sod's Law 0 5 therewillbedeaths7 0 5 etib80 0 5 Summer in Transylvania 0 5 MariNisia 0 5 Cpt. Hemlock 0 5 livingbygrace 0 5 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 5 Death Impends 0 5 theoldlady 0 5 Wormfarmer 0 5 Liz Lemon 0 5 Diego 0 5 Death Becomes Them 0 5 Banana 0 5 Book 0 5 msc 0 5 YoungWillz 0 5 theoldcrem 0 5 Toast 0 5 etushipushingupdaisies 0 5 Dying Probably 0 5 wannamaker 0 5 RadGuy 0 5 Funeralopolis 0 5 An Fear Beag 0 5 Cpt. Chorizo 0 5 Pedro67 0 5 Hell 0 5 DevonDeathTrip 0 5 Mr. Wonderful 0 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,758 Posted January 4 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: 1 Bibliogryphon 51 2 Yorkshire Banker 41 Stop the count 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted January 7 Peter Yarrow a hit for me (possibly others): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/07/peter-yarrow-of-folk-trio-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-aged-86 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 737 Posted January 7 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: Peter Yarrow a hit for me (possibly others): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/07/peter-yarrow-of-folk-trio-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-aged-86 Peter Yarrow is a hit for me as well as being my joker 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 737 Posted January 10 A slam dunk 2nd hit for me and possibly others in this pool following the death of Black Bart (Richard Harris). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted Wednesday at 12:59 On 07/01/2025 at 17:24, YoungWillz said: Peter Yarrow a hit for me (possibly others): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/07/peter-yarrow-of-folk-trio-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-aged-86 Linda Nolan becomes my second hit here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ezlgzj4vvo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,314 Posted Wednesday at 13:11 I tend not to drop names here, even if I get bored with them. So she's still a hit for me here, but not anywhere else. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livingbygrace 584 Posted Wednesday at 13:30 16 minutes ago, Death Impends said: I tend not to drop names here, even if I get bored with them. So she's still a hit for me here, but not anywhere else. Same.. I figured she would be a big hit amongst all the pools, but I had other people I wanted in other pools and my Shadow List. I'm happy with the one hit here for her 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 737 Posted Wednesday at 15:34 Linda Nolan a third hit for me in this pool Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,771 Posted Thursday at 18:44 David Lynch is a hit for me as well as Linda Nolan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 737 Posted Thursday at 18:53 David Lynch a fourth hit for me in this pool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 737 Posted Friday at 09:54 Dame Joan Plowright a fifth hit for me in this pool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,705 Posted Friday at 10:06 On 15/01/2025 at 12:59, YoungWillz said: Linda Nolan becomes my second hit here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ezlgzj4vvo Joan Plowright my third hit here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyppre55gyo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
