The Hartlepool Deadlypool

[Joey Russ 7,226]

Hi. Hopefully Rotten Ali decides to run this again, cause I got a brand new team this time, and I hope that this team will actually win this time...

 

1. Leah Bracknell 

2. Betty White

3. Nobby Stiles 

4. Jill Gascoine 

5. Bob Barker 

6. Honor Blackman

7. Ian St John

8. David Prowse 

9. Pope Benedict XVI

10. Emperor Akihito 

Sub

1. Gay Byrne 

 

I’ll definitely win this next year...

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

Mine for 2018

 

Olivia De Havilland

Carol Channing

Kirk Douglas

Teddy Johnson

June Lockhart

Clive King

Dennis Norden

Jimmy Greaves

Connie Sawyer

Pearl Carr

 

Subs: Glynnis Johns, George Cohen

[Death Impends 7,975]

I'll post something in a couple days. Agreed, I view Hartlepool, DDP, and the Deathrace as the three institution deadpools that I hope to see go on as long as the forum lives.

[msc 18,443]

2018 Pan Breed team:

 

1. Charlotte Rae

2. Kathleen Blanco

3. Leah Bracknell

4. Rayya Elias

5. Clive James

6. George Bush Sr

7. John McCain

8. Tessa Jowell

9. Dean Francis

10. Lady Mary Wilson

 

subs

11. Thomas Keneally

12. Nobby Stiles

 

All familiar names on the forum, but in the interests of a 2018 game of some sorts going foreward...

[The Unknown Man 584]

Might as well enter. Here's mine for 2018.

 

1. Leah Bracknell

2. Rayya Elias

3. Javier Perez de Cuellar

4. John McCain

5. Olivia Newton-John

6. Valerie Harper

7. Tessa Jowell

8. Yasuhiro Nakasone

9. Rev. Billy Graham

10. Olivia de Havilland

 

Subs:

1. Glynis Johns

2. Liam Miller

[CaptainChorizo 1,982]

1. Marieke Vervoort

2.Paul Alcock

3.Rayya Elias

4.Dilip Kumar

5.Patrick Cryne

6.Leah Bracknell

7.Mary Carlisle

8.John McCain

9.Pearl Carr

10.Fernando Ricksen

bu

Charlotte Rae

Rev Billy Graham

[John Key 747]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, so I have to try and predict the order that my list will die in and whoever gets the most number of correct deaths from 1-x will win? So if my number 2 died before my number 1 then I'm out? I don't get this but I'll put a list forward anyway. 

 

1. John McCain

2. Roberta McCain

3. Leah Bracknell

4. Herman Wouk

5. Linda Nolan

6. Stefán Karl Stefánsson

7. Gay Byrne

8. Olivia De Havilland

9. Anna Buydens

10. Clive James

 

Spares

11. Kirk Douglas

12. Vera Lynn

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Best not to try understanding the entire rules. Some seasoned campaigners on the forum still don't, just let your team speak and whoever runs this will sort out the details.

[msc 18,443]

I get enough of the rules - predict the order, the more correct the order of death the more points, do pick Hollywood Squares/royals/other bonus winners but avoid American sport stars at all costs.

 

That's been enough to get me through... 7 years of it.

 

iirc you can feasibly get 450 points before bonuses (ie, everyone dies in order AND both subs die), but no one has ever come close. Most of the points are won on the many, many bonuses, I think.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

The last time it had proper rules posted they owed a lot to NaP's days but RA still adhered to them

 

2016 Rules below:

 

Rules 2016

 

 

Here are my copy/paste notes on the intricacies of the HPDP - subject to any corrections by Rotten Ali.  Hope it helps.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

[Exu 250]

Here's my list :-

 

1) John McCain

2) Olivia Newton-John

3) Michael Schumacher 

4) Leah Bracknell

5) George Bush (Snr)

6) Jimmy Greaves

7) Stephen Hawking

8) Jill Gascoigne

9) Olivia de Havilland

10) Nobby Stiles

 

Subs

11) Kirk Douglas

12) Freddie Starr

[FixedBusiness 407]

My team for 2018: 

1) Billy Graham 

2) Nobby Stiles 

3) Leah Bracknell

4) Stefan Karl Stefansson 

5) Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 

6) Kirk Douglas 

7) Artie Lange 

8) Clive James 

9) George HW Bush

10) Valerie Harper 

Subs: 

11) Liam Miller 

12) Ray Wilson (footballer with Alzheimers)

[the_engineer 1,415]

My team :  Engineered downfall

 

1)Leah bracknell

2)Rayya elias

3)Linda nolan

4)Nobbie stiles

5)Michael schumacher

6)Stefan karl stefansson

7)Yoko ono

8)George blake

9)Betty white

10)Liam miller

 

subs bench

 

1)clive james

2)roger bannister

[deadsox 894]

Here's mine:

 

1. Marieke Vervoort

2. Vanessa Goodwin

3. Stefan Karl Stafansson

4. Rayya Elias

5. Tessa Jowell

6. John McCain

7. George H.W. Bush

8. Abu Bakr al Baghdadi

9. Leah Bracknell

10. Liam Miller

 

Subs: Colin Butts, Jose Jose, Catherine Nevin

 

[Death Impends 7,975]

I believe the limit is two subs?

[Sean 6,324]

My team:

1)Erica Garner

2)Carmen Franco

3)Marieke Vervoot

4) Rayya Elias

5)Patrick Cryne

6)John McCain

7)Olivia Newton John

8) Tessa Jowell

9)Peter Lorimer

10)Kamala

 

Subs:

1)Kirk Douglas

2)Billy Graham

[Prophet 251]

1) John McCain

2) Carmen Franco

3) Billy Graham

4) Marieke Vervoot

5) Herman Wouk

6) Rayya Elias

7) Jose Jose

8) Kathleen Blanco

9) Fernando Ricksen

10) Patrick Cryne

Subs:

1) Stephen Hawking

2) Leah Bracknell

[Toast 16,140]

1. Marieke Vervoort

2. Charlotte Rae

3. Trevor Peacock

4. Jean-Louis Trintignant

5. Little Richard

6. Barbara Bush

7. George H.W. Bush

8. Freddie Starr

9. Jet Black

10. Ginger Baker

 

subs

Princess Elisabeth of Denmark

June Brown

 

[The Dead Cow 620]

1. France Gall

2. Marieke Vervoort

3. John McCain

4.  Charlotte Rae

5.  Vanessa Marquez

6. Joey Jordison

7. Rolf Harris

8. Javier Perez de Cuellar

9. Rose West

10. Clive James

 

Subs

1. Joe Redner

2. Devin Lima

[Death Impends 7,975]

 

1. Marieke Vervoort
2. Patrick Cryne
3. Charlotte Rae
4. Leah Bracknell
5. William Frankland
6. John McCain
7. Morton Sobell
8. Rose Marie
9. Nanette Fabray
10. Roger Bannister

SUBS:

1. Denis Goldberg
2. Naomi Parker-Fraley

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Rose Marie is DEAD. http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-news/rose-marie-dead-dies-dick-van-dyke-show-1202649747/

[Joey Russ 7,226]

Well well well, quite the timing right there isn't it?

[Death Impends 7,975]

Whoa.

[Joey Russ 7,226]

That does mean there is points. I don't know who is running this thing, but we have the first points of the 2018 Hartlepool right here...

[Death Impends 7,975]

There I was thinking I couldn't beat "Abe Vigoda might be getting better" in span from mention to report of death.