Hartlepool Deadlypool 2025

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So, yes, our limp noodle of a deadpooling year known as 2024 finally encroaches to a close, and it's time to look forward with another go around at the ol' HPDP. Surely Carter, Chomsky, and Ruth langsford mother all can't have another year in their tanks?

 

I've already submitted all my teams for deadpools with a Jan 1 start date so will be good to look at PMs ASAP.

 

Rules

 

Points are scored according to the following highly complex scoring system:

 

Competitors are awarded points according to the order in which their candidates die.

 

The starting positions are as follows:

 

•     Candidate 1: 50 points
•     Candidate 2: 45 points
•     Candidate 3: 40 points
•     Candidate 4: 35 points
•     Candidate 5: 30 points
•     Candidate 6: 25 points
•     Candidate 7: 20 points
•     Candidate 8: 15 points
•     Candidate 9: 10 points
•     Candidate 10: 5 points

 

When the first candidate dies, points will be awarded as above, and the remaining potential scores will slide up or down one position. If candidate 1 dies first, the team gets 50 points and the points below all increase by 5, so candidate 2 will get 50 points if he or she is the next to go.

 

If a celebrity departs further down the list before the ones above are gone, the scores above are reduced by 5, causing the highest remaining score on the list to disappear. Those below will increase by 5 as before.

 

This will often cause two celebrities to have the same number of points next to their names, but the order in which they die will still influence subsequent scores.

 

Additionally, the player is allowed up to two substitutes. The substitutes will still count as part of the player's team, but use a fully different scoring system: 25 points if one substitute dies, 50 if the second substitute dies. Bonuses do not apply to substitute hits - this likewise means that subs will not take away a name's unique bonus if only one team has said name in their main ten.

 

If a name on the player's team dies before the pool opens, they will not receive points for the death (barring a minuscule consolation point or two). They will be allowed to put a new name on their main team, either from the subs bench or a new name entirely. If a sub is promoted, they are entitled to name a new sub.

 

Note that premature deaths are the only circumstances in which changes to a team are allowed. Otherwise, teams will be entered as originally submitted. If Ryan Buell announces hospice care after you've submitted, tough luck. I'm doing you a favor with that one, after all. As the host receives an email copy of any PMed teams as originally submitted, each email will be cross-checked before a team is entered - discrete edits to your PMed team will not sneak by!

 

If a celebrity has unambiguously died within the deadpooling year, but a specific date of death is not provided, the latest plausible date of death will be used. This follows the precedent set by Leah Bracknell, who was a popular hit in 2019, but for many months her date of death was never elaborated beyond being in September. By the time her exact date of death was known, the 2019 HPDP was long-concluded and it would not have changed the winner anyway. I ultimately treated her as the last September hit, and any future hits in that vein will have a similar logic applied. Note that if details later emerge giving a person a specific date of death before the year's game is concluded, the scores will be adjusted accordingly.

 

The Bonus System:

 

• Candidate not picked by any other competitor +2
• Candidate under 18 years old -2
• 25th or less in line to the throne of Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark +2
• Been on Celebrity Squares (or Hollywood Squares) +3
• Death of candidate in spite of extremely high improbability or unlikeliness of same. +5
• US Baseball or Basketball player -3
• Former or present UK Prime Minister +3
• Drummer +2
• Former or present US president +3
• Guilty (in Notapotato's opinion) of crimes against humanity +3 (with Notapotato rarely appearing, host Death Impends will use her own judgement for such cases)
• Both of the above +6
• Has played in a pantomime +2
• Has performed Morris dancing +3
• Found dead in a Swimming Pool +3
• Died in a farming or gardening accident +2
• Death worthy of a Darwin Award +2
• Murder, Suicide, Lightning +2
• Dies on Notapotato's birthday (16th of May) +2
• Death by Fire +2
• Death by Water +2
• Death by Bongo +6

 

The bonus is calculated according to the following simple formula:

 

Bonus x (score gained from death divided by 5)

 

Multiple bonuses multiply so a bonus of 3 and a bonus of 2 give together a bonus of 6. This makes negative bonuses extremely unattractive.

 

So a bonus of 2 on a score of 40 gives you 2*(40/5)=16

 

Additionally, there will be a bonus of 50 points for coming in in 13th place in the Hartlepool Deadlypool. Unless there are only 13 or fewer entries. then there won't be.

 

Nothing could be simpler.

 

Oh yes, and there's an extra bonus of unspecified size payable on the first hit of the team which has the most interesting and unusual selection of celebrities.

 

The host also reserves the right to reward further, minuscule bonuses to teams - often less than a point!

 

1. Dead means dead. No longer living:

 

• A bit like William Holden who having just been fished out of Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, died drunk and impoverished a mere 31 years later.
• Eligible for a death certificate. (A Munchkin is optional but may get a bonus)

 

2. For the purpose of the game a "celebrity" is someone well-enough known to get their death mentioned in one of the news sources host Death Impends deems qualifying for this pool:

 

• Anything that qualifies for the Derby Dead Pool
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The Scotsman
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• The Australian
• The Sydney Morning Herald
• Stuff.co.nz
• Le Monde
• Le Figaro
• Der Spiegel
• Die Zeit
• El Pais
• El Mundo
• Corriere della Sera
• la Repubblica

 

3. Only human beings may be submitted as candidates. Animals may take part in the dead pool, but may be ridiculed for doing so, and may not get any points. Unless they are cats with a long history of doing dead pools. Team names which sound like an animal such as "Donkey from Hell" or "Dead as a Parrot" are allowed, I suppose, but may be ridiculed.

 

3a. Strictly only one team per participant. The submission of teams in the name of domestic animals in an attempt to circumvent this rule is doomed to failure. And ridicule.

 

4. If a participant dies during the competition, unlike in some dead pools, they don't win the competition automatically. They may, however, get awarded a few extra points by way of consolation. And next year, a bonus will be named after you, perhaps. If you do die during the course of 2025, do drop us a line and let us know where you went wrong so others can avoid making the same mistake.

 

4a. For legal reasons, we are unable to actively encourage participants to murder or otherwise accelerate the deaths of their chosen celebrities. There is however no penalty in the Hartlepool Deadlypool for doing so. Your Procurator Fiscal or local alternative may see this differently though, so we recommend asking beforehand.

 

5. Anyone selecting the following types of names will be summarily ridiculed and very likely penalised in an arbitrary and unpleasant way should their candidates actually die or be killed:

 

• Famous For Being Ill names. The penalty incurred will be decided upon a name dying and obiting, and is dependent on the host's opinion of the degree of a name's FFBI-ness. A very select few, like Kate Granger to use a past example, I feel have transcended their illness to become a legitimate pick, and will receive no penalty. Those known for longevity are also not considered FFBI and will receive full points. Names who are proactive with their illness, but of a lower profile than the Granger types, will receive a moderate-to-severe penalty. If a name is "famous" solely for reasons such as an "inspiring" deathbed marriage or being in a coma, they will receive no points or perhaps even negative points!
• Fringes of Fame names are similarly subject to a penalty. I will likewise judge these names on a case by case basis upon death. If a name has some claim to fame independent of their relationship, I will likely be lenient - think Rayya Elias, whose news coverage in her final years was largely about Liz Gilbert's partnership with her, but was a published author in her own right. I will also be lenient with fringey names who have received a reasonable amount of media coverage prior to ill health - for instance, Roberta McCain was only noteworthy as John McCain's mother, but was a familiar media presence during his 2008 presidential campaign and had a standalone Wikipedia page since 2007. But if a Hollywood star makes a tearful post to Instagram about how their sister is terminally ill? If the sister never got much media attention pre-cancer, don't expect to gain a lot should she become a hit.
• Anyone under sentence of death or highly likely to be sentenced to death at the start of the year, unless they die by means other than execution
• Anyone missing in action at the time of entry submission, unless said MIA name is discovered to be alive, and dies later in the year

 

5a. And you won't be getting the extra bonus points for original and unusual picks if you don't come up with something a bit more original or unusual.

 

6. The deadline is 23:59 GMT on December 31. However, unlike most dead pools, teams may still be submitted post deadline - with the catch that any teams submitted January 1st and beyond are limited to 9 picks (plus two substitutes), and the highest-ranked name on your team starts with a value of 45 points. In fairness to those who entered in a timely manner, I will also forbid late entrants from including any currently unique names on their main team. Names that are entirely unpicked, only on subs benches, or on multiple main teams are fair game for inclusion. Because the subs bench has no impact on a pick's uniqueness, any name is fair game for inclusion on a late team's subs bench.

 

7. Though only deaths occurring up to December 31, 2025 are able to count as hits, the 2025 HPDP will officially close 23:59 GMT on January 7, 2026, to allow some breathing room for late-year deaths that might take a few days to accrue a proper obit.

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Masterlist of Picks

 

Agnes Keleti

Aileen Kars

Aimi MacDonald

Alan Derschowitz

Alan Greenspan

Alexander Butterfield

Alexander Mitta

Amanda Barrie

Andy Ranken

Annabel Goldsmith

Anne Baker

Anne Dickson

Annette Crosbie

Antonia Fraser

Arlene Alda

Arvo Part

Asma al-Assad

Barrie Rutter

Beatrice Picard

Bela G. Lugosi

Bereket Mengisteab

Bernadette Chirac

Biljana Plavsic

Black Bart

Bob Woodward

Bobby Czyz

Bobby Fulton

Bowie Wu

Brian Murphy

Brigitte Bardot

Bruce Willis

Buzz Aldrin

C. J. de Mooi

Caren Marsh Doll

Carl Bernstein

Carlos Bilardo

Carlton Fisk

Carol Burnett

Carroll Baker

Catherine, Princess of Wales

Cecile Richards

Charlotte Raven

Charly Garcia

Chavalit Yongchaiyudh

Chris Hoy

Christina Crawford

Christina Pickles

Chuwit Kamolvisit

Cindy Birdsong

Cleo Laine

Clint Eastwood

Clive Davis

Colin Fox

Cornbread Harris

Craig Maxwell

Dai Henwood

Daniel Barenboim

Dave Blunts

David Attenborough

David Gergen

David H. Murdock

David Irving

David J. Linden

David Young (Watergate)

Delia Casanova

Denis Law

Dennis Skinner

Dennis Taylor

Dick Carlson

Dick De Benedictis

Dick Duff

Dick McTaggart

Dick Smothers

Dick Van Dyke

Dino Zoff

Don King

Donald J. Harris

Donald Segretti

Donald Trump

Dwight Chapin

Eddie Jordan

Edith Cresson

Eleonora Giorgi

Emilio Fede

Emilio Laguna

Emilio Lledo

Emily Willis

Enrique Collar

Erik Jensen

Esther Rantzen

Esther Shapiro

Ethel May Caterham

Eva Marie Saint

Federico Garcia Moliner

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fionnula Flanagan

Francois Cheng

Francoise Fabian

Frank Caprio

Frank Gehry

Frank Langella

Frankie Valli

Fumihiko Maki

Gali Atari

Garry Chalk

Gary Burghoff

Gary Myers

Gayla Peevey

Gene Hackman

Gene Shalit

Geoffrey Boycott

Georg Koch

George Chuvalo

George DiCaprio

George Lazenby

George Soros

Gerard Kennedy

Giorgio Armani

Graeme Garden

Graham Caveney

Griselda Gambaro

Guillermo Rodriguez

Gus Trikonis

Hamako Mori

Hans Blix

Harald V of Norway

Harry Edwards

Harvey Weinstein

Helen Merrill

Helene Ahrweiler

Hugh W. Sloan Jr.

Ian McKellen

Ian Smith

Ildiko Retjo

Imelda Marcos

Ion Iliescu

Isabel Peron

Isabel Veloso

Jack Hanna

Jack Thompson

Jacqueline White

Jake "The Snake" Roberts

James Baker (drummer)

James Carter Cathcart

James Van Der Beek

James Whale

Jane Morgan

Javier Lamban

Jean Marsh

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jim Dale

Jimmy Tarbuck

Jiro Ono

Joan Plowright

Joanna Paul-Robie

Joanne Woodward

Joe Brown

Joe Bugner

Joe Doering

John Astin

John Cruickshank

John Dean

John Hemingway

John Kirkpatrick

John Williams

Johnny Ball

Johnny MacLeod

Johnny Mathis

Jordi Pujol

Jorge Lanata

Jorge Reynolds Pombo

Jose Mujica

Josef Fritzl

Joseph Kony

Joseph McGrath

Judy Hoback Miller

Judy Loe

Julie Goodyear

Julie Walters

Jurgen Habermas

Jytte Abildstrom

Kaiti Grey

Kat Bjelland

Kate Harcourt

Katherine Jackson

Kay Granger

Ken Rosewall

Kim Seong-Min

King Albert II of Belgium

King Charles III

Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Larisa Latynina

Lech Walesa

Lee Adams

Lee Meriwether

Len Deighton

Lennart Carleson

Lesley Saweard

Leslie Caron

Linda Nolan

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Tirado

Liza Minnelli

Lloyd Honeyghan

Lord Nicholas Monson

Ludek Miklosko

Luis Anson Oliart

Madonna

Maggie Kirkpatrick

Mahathir Mohamad

Marcel Sabourin

Margaret Barton

Maria Elena Holly

Maria Galiana

Maria Gladys

Mariano Ozores

Marita Camacho Quiros

Martha Argerich

Marvin Kalb

Mary O'Hara

Mel Brooks

Menzies Campbell

Michael Bollner

Michael Bolton

Michael Schumacher

Michael Tilson Thomas

Miguel Pinera Echenique

Mike Ditka

Mike Rinder

Millicent Martin

Mira Spivak

Mirtha Legrand

Mitch McConnell

Nadine Trintignant

Naina Yeltsina

Nana Mouskouri

Neil Horan

Nick Gandon

Nigel Latta

Nigel McCrery

Nigel Starmer-Smith

Nina Iliescu

Noam Chomsky

Noddy Holder

Norman Foster

Oliviero Toscani

P. J. Proby

Pam Ferris

Paquito Cano

Pat Buchanan

Patricia Greene

Patricia Routledge

Paul Biya

Paul Hogan

Pete Murray

Peter McParland

Peter Yarrow

Phil Collins

Phyllida Law

Pierre Richard

Pope Francis

Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma

Princess Alexandria

Princess Bajrakitiyabha

Princess Desiree of Sweden

Princess Irene of Greece

Princess Katherine of Serbia

Priscilla Pointer

Prunella Scales

Queen Camilla

Queen Margrethe II

R. Spencer Oliver

Rafael Cruz

Randy Moss

Raphael

Raul Castro

Rebecca Pan

Renny Lister

Richard B. Hays

Richard Dunn

Richard Shelby

Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Kuok

Roberta Flack

Rodion Shchedrin

Ron Paul

Rosalind Miles

Russ Tamblyn

Ruth Buzzi

Saalumarada Thimmakka

Sam Neill

Sandy Gall

Sergio Corona

Seymour M. Hersh

Sheila Hancock

Shirley Chung

Shirley MacLaine

Shiu Ka-Chun

Sidney Cooke

Song Ping

Sonny Rollins

Sophia Loren

Sophie Kinsella

Stanley Baxter

Stefka Kucan

Steve McMichael

Syd Little

Takashi Ono

Ted Kotcheff

Ted Turner

Terry Cox

The Wizard of New Zealand

Thea Musgrave

Theo Burrell

Tim Bilton

Tippi Hedren

Tofiga Fepulea'i

Tom Baker

Tom Brokaw

Tom Lehrer

Tomiichi Murayama

Tommy Aldridge

Toni Hilland

Tony Blackburn

Tony Snell

Torsten Wiesel

Trisha Goddard

Tsai Chin

Ursula Andress

V. S. Achuthanandan

Valerie Andre

Valerie Perrine

Vanessa Redgrave

Vernon L. Smith

Violeta Chamorro

Vladimir Putin

Vytautas Landsbergis

Waltraut Haas

Wanda Ventham

Wilfred Benitez

Wink Martindale

Yayoi Kusama

Yoko Ono

Yu Miu-Lin

Zhu Rongji

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Masterlist of Teams

 

Death Impends	Alexander Butterfield		Joey Russ	Pope Francis		arghton	Geoffrey Boycott
	David Gergen			Patricia Routledge			P. J. Proby
	David Young (Watergate)			Clint Eastwood			Jiro Ono
	Judy Hoback Miller			Gene Hackman			Takashi Ono
	John Dean			Hans Blix			Yoko Ono
	Pat Buchanan			Julie Walters			The Wizard of New Zealand
	Hugh W. Sloan Jr.			Tom Brokaw			Jake "The Snake" Roberts
	Dwight Chapin			Daniel Barenboim			John Kirkpatrick
	Donald Segretti			Esther Rantzen			Bereket Mengisteab
	R. Spencer Oliver			Roberta Flack			Joseph Kony
Sub	Bob Woodward		Sub	Josef Fritzl		Sub	Zhu Rongji
Sub	Carl Bernstein		Sub	Brigitte Bardot		Sub	Tony Snell
livingbygrace	Black Bart		time	Jean Marsh		Bobytomi	Noam Chomsky
	Peter Yarrow			Gerard Kennedy			Joanne Woodward
	Ian Smith			Tsai Chin			Vernon L. Smith
	Kaiti Grey			Ian Smith			Imelda Marcos
	Steve McMichael			Russ Tamblyn			Jane Morgan
	Jean-Marie Le Pen			Barrie Rutter			Mahathir Mohamad
	Caren Marsh Doll			Wanda Ventham			Stanley Baxter
	Eva Marie Saint			Gary Burghoff			Raul Castro
	Alan Greenspan			Aimi MacDonald			Sandy Gall
	John Astin			Terry Cox			Sidney Cooke
Sub	David Attenborough		Sub	Gus Trikonis		Sub	Agnes Keleti
Sub	Priscilla Pointer		Sub	Fionnula Flanagan		Sub	Alan Greenspan
GuyFromFuture	Jose Mujica		YoungWillz	Pete Murray		The Unknown Man	Steve McMichael
	Black Bart			Brian Murphy			Mahathir Mohamad
	Beatrice Picard			Cleo Laine			Isabel Peron
	Maria Galiana			Joe Brown			Emily Willis
	George Chuvalo			Denis Law			Sophie Kinsella
	Peter McParland			Jimmy Tarbuck			Esther Rantzen
	Naina Yeltsina			Jim Dale			Roberta Flack
	Mira Spivak			Graeme Garden			Ian Smith
	Valerie Andre			Tony Blackburn			Peter Yarrow
	Marcel Sabourin			Syd Little			Noam Chomsky
Sub	Dick Duff		Sub	Dennis Taylor		Sub	Tom Brokaw
Sub	Buzz Aldrin		Sub	Amanda Barrie		Sub	Jean-Marie Le Pen
TheKillingTime	Arlene Alda		markb4	Harvey Weinstein		Bibliogryphon	Tom Lehrer
	Bela G. Lugosi			Noam Chomsky			Pete Murray
	Rafael Cruz			Queen Margrethe II			Stanley Baxter
	Christina Crawford			Jack Hanna			Patricia Routledge
	Maria Elena Holly			Mitch McConnell			Harald V of Norway
	Katherine Jackson			Clint Eastwood			Princess Alexandria
	Maria Gladys			Gene Hackman			Ian McKellen
	Nadine Trintignant			Don King			Ian Smith
	Dick Carlson			Alan Greenspan			Sam Neill
	Donald J. Harris			Lee Adams			Sheila Hancock
Sub	George DiCaprio		Sub	Katherine Jackson		Sub	Johnny Ball
Sub	Krystyna Zachwatowicz		Sub	Dick Van Dyke		Sub	Annette Crosbie
YorkshireBanker	Antonia Fraser		Trome	Nigel Starmer-Smith		theoldlady	Noam Chomsky
	Anne Dickson			Vanessa Redgrave			James Whale
	Cleo Laine			Steve McMichael			Cindy Birdsong
	Phyllida Law			Tom Brokaw			Dave Blunts
	Dick Smothers			Tippi Hedren			Tom Brokaw
	Margaret Barton			Gene Hackman			Theo Burrell
	Millicent Martin			Yoko Ono			Raul Castro
	Pam Ferris			Noam Chomsky			Jean-Marie Le Pen
	Christina Pickles			David H. Murdock			James Van Der Beek
	Roberta Flack			Lee Meriwether			Peter Yarrow
Sub	Dick McTaggart		Sub	Jean-Marie Le Pen		Sub	Josef Fritzl
Sub	Wilfred Benitez		Sub	Ted Turner		Sub	Marita Camacho Quiros
msc	Black Bart		diego	Peter Yarrow		DeathByArsenic	Daniel Barenboim
	Roberta Flack			Eva Marie Saint			Jean-Marie Le Pen
	Peter Yarrow			Harald V of Norway			Larisa Latynina
	Esther Rantzen			Raphael			Esther Shapiro
	Ian Smith			Noam Chomsky			Francois Cheng
	Noam Chomsky			Paul Biya			Nana Mouskouri
	Bobby Fulton			Esther Rantzen			Linda Nolan
	Stanley Baxter			Mel Brooks			Giorgio Armani
	Tom Brokaw			Cleo Laine			Theo Burrell
	Asma al-Assad			Steve McMichael			Leslie Caron
Sub	David Irving		Sub	Nigel Starmer-Smith		Sub	Pierre Richard
Sub	Renny Lister		Sub	Caren Marsh Doll		Sub	Francoise Fabian
Sean	Steve McMichael		LizLemon	Joanne Woodward		justonecornetto	Frank Caprio
	Peter Yarrow			Ruth Buzzi			Nigel McCrery
	Black Bart			Esther Rantzen			Georg Koch
	Chavalit Yongchaiyudh			Peter Yarrow			Ted Turner
	Chuwit Kamolvisit			Ian Smith			Graham Caveney
	Jean-Marie Le Pen			Steve McMichael			Aileen Kars
	Noam Chomsky			Roberta Flack			Richard Dunn
	Buzz Aldrin			Michael Tilson Thomas			Joseph McGrath
	Randy Moss			Dick Van Dyke			Craig Maxwell
	King Charles III			Tom Brokaw			Cindy Birdsong
Sub	Michael Bolton		Sub	Cecile Richards		Sub	Dino Zoff
Sub	Asma al-Assad		Sub	Sonny Rollins		Sub	Denis Law
Gooseberry Crumble	Jorge Reynolds Pombo		JoeMoneypenny	Black Bart		Thatcher	Black Bart
	Johnny MacLeod			Zhu Rongji			Jean-Marie Le Pen
	Ken Rosewall			Nigel McCrery			Georg Koch
	Ursula Andress			Rebecca Pan			Daniel Barenboim
	Gary Myers			Yayoi Kusama			Steve McMichael
	Tommy Aldridge			Saalumarada Thimmakka			Pete Murray
	George Lazenby			Tsai Chin			Noam Chomsky
	Linda Nolan			Yu Miu-Lin			Ted Turner
	Carlton Fisk			Bowie Wu			Emilio Fede
	C. J. de Mooi			Robert Kuok			Lech Walesa
Sub	Sophia Loren		Sub	Mahathir Mohamad		Sub	Shirley MacLaine
Sub	Rosalind Miles		Sub	Imelda Marcos		Sub	Harald V of Norway
drol	Black Bart		Dying Probably	Tom Lehrer		WEP	Buzz Aldrin
	Chuwit Kamolvisit			Kay Granger			Griselda Gambaro
	Agnes Keleti			Noddy Holder			Federico Garcia Moliner
	Steve McMichael			Noam Chomsky			Waltraut Haas
	Asma al-Assad			Imelda Marcos			Emilio Lledo
	Roberta Flack			Eva Marie Saint			Jurgen Habermas
	Harvey Weinstein			Hamako Mori			Francois Cheng
	Jean-Marie Le Pen			Dick Van Dyke			Luis Anson Oliart
	Georg Koch			Caren Marsh Doll			Lennart Carleson
	Garry Chalk			Carol Burnett			Rodion Shchedrin
Sub	Alexander Mitta		Sub	Guillermo Rodriguez		Sub	Tomiichi Murayama
Sub	Anastasios of Albania		Sub	Richard Shelby		Sub	Fumihiko Maki
MalePoster	Isabel Veloso		BuffaloPhil	Marita Camacho Quiros		Famous6Eva	Black Bart
	Thea Musgrave			Peter Yarrow			Julie Goodyear
	Vytautas Landsbergis			Georg Koch			Brian Murphy
	Stefka Kucan			King Albert II of Belgium			Len Deighton
	Martha Argerich			Isabel Veloso			Mary O'Hara
	Buzz Aldrin			Black Bart			Ildiko Retjo
	Jean-Marie Le Pen			Frank Caprio			Sergio Corona
	Marita Camacho Quiros			Ludek Miklosko			Delia Casanova
	John Williams			Ian Smith			Edith Cresson
	Ian Smith			Esther Rantzen			Gayla Peevey
Sub	Arvo Part		Sub	Emily Willis		Sub	Helen Merrill
Sub			Sub	Eddie Jordan		Sub	Georg Koch
RadGuy	Black Bart		Perhaps	Black Bart		ThereWillBeDeaths7	Peter Yarrow
	Peter Yarrow			Peter Yarrow			Black Bart
	Georg Koch			Lord Nicholas Monson			Georg Koch
	Jean-Marie Le Pen			Ian Smith			Noam Chomsky
	Cecile Richards			Steve McMichael			Torsten Wiesel
	Eleonora Giorgi			Raphael			Violeta Chamorro
	Joanne Woodward			Jean-Marie Le Pen			Buzz Aldrin
	Tippi Hedren			Linda Tirado			Jose Mujica
	Ruth Buzzi			Nigel McCrery			Princess Alexandria
	Paul Biya			George Chuvalo			David Attenborough
Sub	David Irving		Sub	Agnes Keleti		Sub	Pope Francis
Sub	James Whale		Sub	John Cruickshank		Sub	Dick Van Dyke
Imelda	Steve McMichael		DeathBecomesThem	Peter Yarrow		Sod's Law	Menzies Campbell
	Black Bart			Black Bart			Alan Derschowitz
	Dai Henwood			Jose Mujica			Princess Desiree of Sweden
	John Hemingway			Cindy Birdsong			Frank Langella
	Pete Murray			Ian Smith			George Soros
	Anne Baker			Shirley Chung			Ron Paul
	Judy Loe			Nigel McCrery			Johnny Mathis
	Andy Ranken			Valerie Perrine			Norman Foster
	Ludek Miklosko			Sophie Kinsella			Noam Chomsky
	Denis Law			Alan Greenspan			Michael Schumacher
Sub	Song Ping		Sub	Ian Smith		Sub	Roberta Flack
Sub			Sub	Jacqueline White		Sub	Don King
CalebH	Biljana Plavsic		WillyWonka422	Maggie Kirkpatrick		Toast	Black Bart
	Carlos Bilardo			Cornbread Harris			Peter Yarrow
	Nina Iliescu			Madonna			Noam Chomsky
	Ion Iliescu			Raphael			Bernadette Chirac
	Ludek Miklosko			Bruce Willis			Agnes Keleti
	Patricia Greene			Carroll Baker			Tom Baker
	Colin Fox			Gali Atari			Sidney Cooke
	Antonia Fraser			Jack Thompson			Ted Turner
	Princess Katherine of Serbia			Kate Harcourt			Bruce Willis
	Fernando Henrique Cardoso			Annabel Goldsmith			Charlotte Raven
Sub	Paul Hogan		Sub	Linda Ronstadt		Sub	James Whale
Sub	Peter Yarrow		Sub	Michael Bollner		Sub	Clive Davis
Etushispushingupdaisies	Georg Koch		John Key	Nigel Latta		earl	Noam Chomsky
	Erik Jensen			Tofiga Fepulea'i			Princess Irene of Greece
	Esther Rantzen			Dai Henwood			Tippi Hedren
	Dai Henwood			Ian Smith			Charly Garcia
	Bruce Willis			Chris Hoy			Mariano Ozores
	Sophie Kinsella			David J. Linden			Paquito Cano
	Chris Hoy			James Whale			Mirtha Legrand
	Ian Smith			Michael Tilson Thomas			Joan Plowright
	Peter Yarrow			Kat Bjelland			Emilio Laguna
	Roberta Flack			Harvey Weinstein			Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma
Sub	James Carter Cathcart		Sub	Nigel McCrery		Sub	Gene Hackman
Sub	Harvey Weinstein		Sub	Linda Ronstadt		Sub	Jordi Pujol
The Old Crem	Esther Rantzen		Grimgrass	Black Bart		Torva Messor	Steve McMichael
	James Whale			Peter Yarrow			Peter Yarrow
	Linda Nolan			Noam Chomsky			Tom Brokaw
	Roberta Flack			Yoko Ono			Ian Smith
	Dennis Skinner			Tom Brokaw			Pete Murray
	Bruce Willis			Roberta Flack			Robert Jay Lifton
	Ian Smith			Esther Rantzen			Wink Martindale
	Chris Hoy			Denis Law			Ted Kotcheff
	Denis Law			Prunella Scales			Dick Van Dyke
	Joe Bugner			Ian Smith			Frank Gehry
Sub	Trisha Goddard		Sub	Joanne Woodward		Sub	Mel Brooks
Sub	Liza Minnelli		Sub	Ludek Miklosko		Sub	Marvin Kalb
Book	Black Bart		An Fear Beag	Black Bart		gcreptile	Black Bart
	Agnes Keleti			Peter Yarrow			Peter Yarrow
	Peter Yarrow			Ian Smith			Richard B. Hays
	Nigel McCrery			Theo Burrell			Nick Gandon
	Oliviero Toscani			James Baker (drummer)			Georg Koch
	Steve McMichael			Linda Nolan			Shiu Ka-Chun
	Nigel Latta			Esther Rantzen			Kim Seong-Min
	Theo Burrell			Julie Goodyear			James Baker (drummer)
	Georg Koch			Pete Murray			Mike Rinder
	Esther Rantzen			Phil Collins			Bobby Czyz
Sub	Noam Chomsky		Sub	Nigel Starmer-Smith		Sub	Oliviero Toscani
Sub	Michael Tilson Thomas		Sub	Steve McMichael		Sub	Harry Edwards
Funeralopolis	Black Bart		Pedro67	Black Bart		maryportfuncity	Black Bart
	Richard B. Hays			Noam Chomsky			Peter Yarrow
	Peter Yarrow			Peter Yarrow			Noam Chomsky
	Georg Koch			Ian Smith			Steve McMichael
	Chuwit Kamolvisit			Nigel McCrery			Yoko Ono
	James Baker (drummer)			Steve McMichael			Theo Burrell
	Joanna Paul-Robie			Theo Burrell			James Whale
	Miguel Pinera Echenique			Jack Hanna			Tim Bilton
	Nigel McCrery			Eddie Jordan			Nigel McCrery
	Jytte Abildstrom			Esther Rantzen			Ethel May Caterham
Sub	Ludek Miklosko		Sub	Craig Maxwell		Sub	Lloyd Honeyghan
Sub	Ian Smith		Sub	Ludek Miklosko		Sub	John Hemingway
wannamaker	Black Bart		Hell	Black Bart		Prophet	Black Bart
	Peter Yarrow			Ian Smith			Georg Koch
	Mike Ditka			Steve McMichael			Ian Smith
	Theo Burrell			Theo Burrell			Peter Yarrow
	Joanna Paul-Robie			Roberta Flack			Steve McMichael
	Nigel Latta			Chris Hoy			John Cruickshank
	Ian Smith			Esther Rantzen			Cecile Richards
	James Baker (drummer)			Michael Tilson Thomas			Marita Camacho Quiros
	Linda Tirado			Peter Yarrow			Ludek Miklosko
	Raphael			Tom Brokaw			Noam Chomsky
Sub	Frankie Valli		Sub	Nigel Starmer-Smith		Sub	Joe Doering
Sub	Buzz Aldrin		Sub	Geoffrey Boycott		Sub	V. S. Achuthanandan
MariNisia	Black Bart		DevonDeathTrip	Neil Horan		Banana	Richard B. Hays
	Peter Yarrow			Donald Trump			Black Bart
	Ian Smith			Lesley Saweard			Agnes Keleti
	Tom Brokaw			Dennis Skinner			Georg Koch
	Enrique Collar			Helene Ahrweiler			Peter Yarrow
	Antonia Fraser			Princess Bajrakitiyabha			Eleonora Giorgi
	Dick De Benedictis			Esther Rantzen			Theo Burrell
	Gene Shalit			Patricia Greene			Cecile Richards
	Seymour M. Hersh			King Charles III			Roberta Flack
	Javier Lamban			Catherine, Princess of Wales			Esther Rantzen
Sub	Jose Mujica		Sub	Queen Camilla		Sub	Steve McMichael
Sub	Theo Burrell		Sub	Vladimir Putin		Sub	Toni Hilland
CaptainChorizo	Black Bart
	Peter Yarrow
	Jose Mujica
	Chuwit Kamolvisit
	Lord Nicholas Monson
	Noam Chomsky
	Georg Koch
	Lee Meriwether
	Craig Maxwell
	Cleo Laine
Sub	Denis Law
Sub	Eleonora Giorgi

 

[Joey Russ 7,323]

Let’s see if 2024 Deathlist’s poor performance carries over to this Hartlepool squad this year.

 

1. Pope Francis

2. Patricia Routledge

3. Clint Eastwood

4. Gene Hackman

5. Hans Blix

6. Julie Walters

7. Tom Brokaw

8. Daniel Barenboim

9. Esther Rantzen 

10. Roberta Flack

Subs:

1. Josef Fritzl

2. Brigette Bardot 

[arghton 7,059]

Thank you for running this again, here's my mess of a team. Once again with the Wizard of New Zealand, but this time with a third Ono too.

 

Jimmy Carter

1. Geoffrey Boycott

2. P. J. Proby

3. Jiro Ono

4. Takashi Ono

5. Yoko Ono

6. The Wizard of New Zealand

7. Jake "The Snake" Roberts

8. John Kirkpatrick

9. Bereket Mengisteab

10. Joseph Kony

 

Subs

Zhu Rongji

Tony Snell (poet)

[livingbygrace 538]

1.Richard Harris (Black Bart)                                         Jimmy Carter 1pt

2.Peter Yarrow 2nd hit 40pts

3.Ian Smith

4.Kaiti Grey

5.Steve McMichael

6.Jean Marie LePen 1st hit 25pts

7.Caren Marsh Doll

8.Eva Marie Saint

9.Alan Greenspan

10John Astin

 

Subs:

1.David Attenborough

2.Pricilla Pointer

With Jimmy's Death everyone moves up a spot. John Astin in 10th spot and I will have Pricilla Pointer as my new sub.

 

 

 

[time 8,726]

My team has been submitted I've sent it via PM so I don't reveal my picks

 

Edit: Now we're underway, I can post the team.

 

Jean Marsh

Gerard Kennedy

Tsai Chin

Ian Smith

Russ Tamblyn

Barrie Rutter

Wanda Ventham

Gary Burghoff

Aimi MacDonald

Terry Cox

SUBS

Gus Trikonis

Fionnula Flanagan

 

[Bobytomi 156]

1. Noam Chomsky
2. Joanne Woodward
3. Vernon L. Smith
4. Imelda Marcos
5. Jane Morgan
6. Mahathir Mohamad
7. Stanley Baxter
8. Raul Castro

9. Sandy Gall

10. Sidney Cooke

Subs:
Agnes Keleti
Alan Greenspan

Edited December 30, 2024 by Bobytomi
replaced Jimmy Carter and Charles Dolan for Sandy Gall and Sidney Cooke

[Death Impends 8,212]

5 hours ago, arghton said:

Thank you for running this again, here's my mess of a team. Once again with the Wizard of New Zealand, but this time with a third Ono too.

 

1. Jimmy Carter

2. P. J. Proby

3. Jiro Ono

4. Takashi Ono

5. Yoko Ono

6. The Wizard of New Zealand

7. Jake "The Snake" Roberts

8. John Kirkpatrick

9. Bereket Mengisteab 

10. Joseph Kony

 

Subs

Zhu Rongji

Tony Snell (poet)

 

Wiki brings up two nonagenarian Takashi Onos, can you clarify which one? I'm guessing the Olympian, but just making sure.

[GuyFromFuture 72]

1.Jose Mujica
2.Black Bart
3.Johnny Walker
4.Beatrice Picard
5.Maria Galiana
6.George Chuvalo
7.Peter McParland
8.Naina Yeltsina
9.Mira Spivak
10.Valerie Andre

subs
Dick Duff
Buzz Aldrin

 

[arghton 7,059]

5 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

Wiki brings up two nonagenarian Takashi Onos, can you clarify which one? I'm guessing the Olympian, but just making sure.

The olympian

[YoungWillz 21,543]

Team sent by PM.

 

*sigh* more NotAWinner rather than NotAPotato!

[The Unknown Man 604]

1. Steve McMichael

2. Jimmy Carter

3. Isabel Peron

4. Emily Willis

5. Sophie Kinsella

6. Esther Rantzen

7. Roberta Flack

8. Ian Smith

9. Peter Yarrow

10. Noam Chomsky

 

Subs:

1. Mahathir Mohamad

2. Tom Brokaw

[TheKillingTime 21]

 

 1.Arlene Alda
2.Bela G. Lugosi
3.Rafael Cruz
4.Christina Crawford
5.Maria Elena Holly
6.Katherine Jackson
7.Maria Gladys
8.Nadine Trintignant
9.Dick Carlson
10.Donald J. Harris
 

Subs.

1.George DiCaprio
2.Krystyna Zachwatowicz

 

[markb4 940]

Here's my entry for the Hartlepool Deadlypool 2025:

 

SCORE: 1 pt

 

Jimmy Carter (died before pool started) [1 pt]
1) Harvey Weinstein
2) Noam Chomsky
3) Queen Margrethe II
4) Jack Hanna
5) Mitch McConnell
6) Clint Eastwood
7) Gene Hackman
8) Don King
9) Alan Greenspan

10) Lee Adams

 

SUBS:
A - Katherine Jackson

B - Dick Van Dyke

[Bibliogryphon 9,706]

1. Tom Lehrer
2. Pete Murray
3. Stanley Baxter

4. Patricia Routledge
5. Harald V of Norway

6. Princess Alexandria

7. Sir Ian McKellen 

8. Ian Smith

9. Jimmy Carter

10. Sam Neill

 

subs
Sheila Hancock
Johnny Ball

[YorkshireBanker 173]

1.Antonia Fraser
2.Anne Dickson
3.Cleo Laine
4.Phyllida Law
5.Dick Smothers
6. Margaret Barton
7.Millicent Martin
8.Pam Ferris
9.Christina Pickles
10.Roberta Flack

 

subs
Dick McTaggart
Wilfred Benítez

[theoldlady 2,384]

I have now PM’d my list!

 

Thanks for doing this game again!

[Trome 147]

1. Nigel Starmer-Smith

2. Vanessa Redgrave

3. Steve McMichael

4. Tom Brokaw

5. Tippi Hedren

6. Gene Hackman

7. Yoko Ono

8. Noam Chomsky

9. David H. Murdock

10. Lee Meriwether

 

Substitutes:

1. Jean-Marie Le Pen

2. Ted Turner

[DeathByArsenic 49]

1.Daniel Barenboim
2.Jean Marie le Pen
3. Larisa Latynina
4.Esther Shapiro
5.François Cheng
6. Nana Mouskouri
7.Linda Nolan
8.Giorgio Armani
9.Theo Burrell
10.Leslie Caron

 

subs
 Pierre Richard
Francoise Fabian

 

[Sean 6,566]

1)Peter Yarrow

2)Black Bart

3) Chavalit Yongchaiyudh

4)Chuwit Kamolvisit

5)Jimmy Carter

6)Jean Marie Le Pen

7)Noam Chomsky

8)Buzz Aldrin

9)Randy Moss

10)King Charles III

 

Subs:

1)Steve McMichael

2)Michael Bolton

 

[LizLemon 73]

After a remarkably poor showing this year, hoping for a better performance in 2025.

 

1- Jimmy Carter

2- Joanne Woodward

3- Ruth Buzzi

4- Esther Rantzen

5- Peter Yarrow

6- Ian Smith

7- Steve McMichael

8- Roberta Flack

9- Michael Tilson Thomas

10- Dick Van Dyke

 

Subs:

1- Tom Brokaw

2- Cecile Richards

[justonecornetto 1,001]

My Team for 2025 :

 

1	Frank Caprio
2	Nigel McCrery
3	Georg Koch
4	Jimmy Carter Ted Turner
5	Graham Caveney
6	Aileen Kars
7	Richard Dunn
8	Joseph McGrath
9	Craig Maxwell
10	Cindy Birdsong
Sub Sub	Tomiko Itooka Denis Law

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,451]

Just sent mine in private message. 

Fingers crossed that this time two of my picks aren't revealed to have died the year before again but months after this pool has  started!! (Cheryl Murray,  Noeline Donaher!) 

[JoeMoneypenny 60]

1.Black Bart

2.Zhu Rongji

3. Nigel McCrery

4.Rebecca Pan

5. Yayoi Kusama

6. Saalumarada Thimmakka

7.Tsai Chin

8.Yu Miu-Lin

9.Bowie Wu

10.Robert Kuok

subs

Mahathir Mohamad

Imelda Marcos