gcreptile 11,290 Posted Wednesday at 11:35 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 21,459 Posted Wednesday at 12:13 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 16,305 Posted Wednesday at 14:27 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 11,290 Posted Wednesday at 15:03 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 1,327 Posted Wednesday at 16:26 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 974 Posted Wednesday at 16:57 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 1,327 Posted Wednesday at 17:00 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 11,290 Posted Wednesday at 17:53 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 Wednesday at 20:43 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 21,459 Posted Thursday at 19:12 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 Friday at 01:11 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 21,459 Posted yesterday at 00:40 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 11,290 Posted yesterday at 15:41 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 9,698 Posted yesterday at 17:33 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
