The Hartlepool Deadlypool

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Posts above noted and...I'll be back!

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

I'll be playing next year, keeping up my ever present run. One day I'll win it, I know I will.

 

I think it might only be myself and fellow deadpooling desperados Rotten Ali and MPFC who have taken part in all of the HDPs. Anyone else?

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

I'll be playing next year, keeping up my ever present run. One day I'll win it, I know I will.

 

I think it might only be myself and fellow deadpooling desperados Rotten Ali and MPFC who have taken part in all of the HDPs. Anyone else?

 

Tbh I don't think I've done every one.

[Death Impends 7,953]

I'll be joining in for this year.

[Toast 16,129]

When are the official starting/finishing dates, because this year's comp was accepting teams up to the 6th or 7th of January?

 

Personally I would welcome a late start, as pondering over candidates would be something to enliven those first dull days of the new year.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

These are the newest Rules I could find. Scoring System to follow in due course:

 

The Rules According to Notapotato

 

The object of the game is to predict the deaths of celebrities and in particular the order in which they will die in the year 2013

Each competitor submits a list of ten celebrities in the order in which he believes they will die in 2013. No. 1 being the first to die up to No. 10 who has to hang on until all the others are gone. The more deaths correctly predicted in the most accurate order will win the most points and thus the competition.

 

Here are the Detailed Rules:

 

 

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 the UK national press or on the BBC news website. Or anywhere else Notapotato's heavily-prejudiced mind considers a reliable, respectable source of international news. In the event of disagreement as to the celebrity of any individual or the validity of an obituary, Notapotato's word is final.

 

3. Only human beings may be submitted as candidates. Animals may take part in the deathpool, but may be ridiculed for doing so, and may not get any points. Unless they are cats with a long history of doing deathpools. 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 deadpools he doesn't win the competition automatically. He 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 2013, 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 reccommend asking beforehand.

 

5. Anyone selecting tender-aged sufferers of terminal diseases or anyone under sentence of death or highly likely to be sentenced to death at the start of the year will be summarily ridiculed and very likely penalised in an arbitrary and unpleasant way should their candidates actually die or be killed.

 

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.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

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.

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

Incumbent or recent US president +3

Guilty (in Notapotato's opinion) of crimes against humanity +3

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. This is also the reason why some bonuses have been increased this year, because 2*2 is the same as 2+2.

 

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.

[msc 18,434]

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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

Incumbent or recent US president +3

Guilty (in Notapotato's opinion) of crimes against humanity +3

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. This is also the reason why some bonuses have been increased this year, because 2*2 is the same as 2+2.

 

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

 

So the ideal candidate is a unique pick member of the Belgian royal family, better known for crimes against humanity, who once appeared both on Celebrity Squares and pantomine, and is unlikely to die but was found murdered by a bongo in a swimming pool on Notapotato's birthday.

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So the ideal candidate is a unique pick member of the Belgian royal family, better known for crimes against humanity, who once appeared both on Celebrity Squares and pantomine, and is unlikely to die but was found murdered by a bongo in a swimming pool on Notapotato's birthday.

 

And has been a Morris dancer.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

When are the official starting/finishing dates, because this year's comp was accepting teams up to the 6th or 7th of January?

 

Personally I would welcome a late start, as pondering over candidates would be something to enliven those first dull days of the new year.

 

The finishing date for 2012 is the 31st of December. The new game starts on the 1st of January and lasts until 31.12.2013.

 

I think we decided in previous years to accept late entries as long as all the names on the list were alive at the time of submission. No more entries will be accepted after the first hit of the year. That seems to me to be nicely arbitrary and very much in the spirit of the game.

 

Entries should be sent by PM to Rotten Ali.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

Well I never understood a word of all that.

I shall give RA ten names in due course.

[the_engineer 1,415]

When are the official starting/finishing dates, because this year's comp was accepting teams up to the 6th or 7th of January?

 

Personally I would welcome a late start, as pondering over candidates would be something to enliven those first dull days of the new year.

 

The finishing date for 2012 is the 31st of December. The new game starts on the 1st of January and lasts until 31.12.2013.

 

I think we decided in previous years to accept late entries as long as all the names on the list were alive at the time of submission. No more entries will be accepted after the first hit of the year. That seems to me to be nicely arbitrary and very much in the spirit of the game.

 

Entries should be sent by PM to Rotten Ali.

 

I'm confused how many people shall you pick 10 or 1 for each month ? LFN has 12 in his signature?

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

When are the official starting/finishing dates, because this year's comp was accepting teams up to the 6th or 7th of January?

 

Personally I would welcome a late start, as pondering over candidates would be something to enliven those first dull days of the new year.

 

The finishing date for 2012 is the 31st of December. The new game starts on the 1st of January and lasts until 31.12.2013.

 

I think we decided in previous years to accept late entries as long as all the names on the list were alive at the time of submission. No more entries will be accepted after the first hit of the year. That seems to me to be nicely arbitrary and very much in the spirit of the game.

 

Entries should be sent by PM to Rotten Ali.

 

I'm confused how many people shall you pick 10 or 1 for each month ? LFN has 12 in his signature?

Looks like ive fucked that up before we have started!!!

I shall remove two candidates and the months etc so that i will just have 10 bloody candidates over a twelve month period or summat..

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Just an idea, like, wouldn't the scoring be easier all round if everyone just moved up when someone dies? It still rewards those who get the right order, and it's way simpler than the current system. So, if your ninth pick dies, only one pick moves up the points ladder, if your first pick dies EVERYONE moves up one place.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

Just an idea, like, wouldn't the scoring be easier all round if everyone just moved up when someone dies? It still rewards those who get the right order, and it's way simpler than the current system. So, if your ninth pick dies, only one pick moves up the points ladder, if your first pick dies EVERYONE moves up one place.

And what would be confusing and complicated about that?

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Just an idea, like, wouldn't the scoring be easier all round if everyone just moved up when someone dies? It still rewards those who get the right order, and it's way simpler than the current system. So, if your ninth pick dies, only one pick moves up the points ladder, if your first pick dies EVERYONE moves up one place.

And what would be confusing and complicated about that?

 

Nowt, as things stand there's a more complicated system whereby a death in the middle of the pack prompts people to move UP and DOWN and leaves some surviving candidates on the same points. I'm just saying, if all the potential changes occured in one direction only - i.e. upwards - things might be easier to follow. Obviously, I'll enter however it's scored, as I always have, just thought I'd stick an opinion in.

[grobler 35]

Entered this year...sent to RA

[the_engineer 1,415]

I entered too. Still not 100% percent sure i got it right.

 

Does RA PM you or just confirm you on the thread ?

[CaptainChorizo 1,977]

team sent

[Tuber Mirum 125]

I entered too. Still not 100% percent sure i got it right.

 

Does RA PM you or just confirm you on the thread ?

Don't know, but I believe he's just popped out for a few days so you're unlikely to hear anything immediately.

[the_engineer 1,415]

I entered too. Still not 100% percent sure i got it right.

 

Does RA PM you or just confirm you on the thread ?

Don't know, but I believe he's just popped out for a few days so you're unlikely to hear anything immediately.

 

Cheers man thanks . I sent RA too messages because i forgot to add my team name.

[Toast 16,129]

Sent my team in too.

[Madame Defarge 21]

Mr Notapotato's (*cough*) taste in Wallpaper was indeed occasionally somewhat inclined to vividity.

 

 

Somewhat.

 

And with that in mind I think this thread deserves its very own decorations. I have selected these for your review:

A wallpaper:

 

And these borders:

[Godot 149]

Since this remains a deadpool way beyond my understanding I shall enter a team today as soon as I've finished my soup. Most impressed that RA has threadified it. Amazing what you can do on the web.

[Rotten Ali 600]

Hardly... Anyway "back in the office tomorrow" so to speak. Coming back up to speed with various news items. Holding details on ten team entries (mine, LFN, Dead Cow, Grobler, The Unknown Man, The Engineer, Captain Chorizo, DDT, Toast & Godot) and three intentioned team entries (Maryport, NAP & Death Impends)

Would be nice to have some more.