The Generation Game

[Sean 5,997]

31 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said:

 

[Death Impends 7,368]

1 hour ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

 

 

I have no association with this "Fuck Off".

[drol 10,053]

I substituted Iron Sheikh with Johnny Hallyday.

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Many of us had Noakes. Rockhopper and drol also had Konstantinos whatshisface on their teams, and Allman was a hit for me. Strange how a quarter of the baby boomers on my team have already died, but it's not going to be much easier though...

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Wow! only 7 months in (for me) and already 1/4 of my list has died. Impressive, wonder if it'll at some point run ahead of gcreptile's list. 

This is only a suggestion, but what if, at the 1 year mark, on July 30th, we switch names of, I don't know, 2 - 3 people that we think are bad picks and replace them with 2 - 3 better people that we think are more likely, and do this every year at the yearly mark. This'll ensure that the game will go slightly faster, but not too fast, if you know what I mean. Again, it's only a suggestion from me, but just a thought...

[YoungWillz 19,049]

Brian Cant is the first of the second list for me to fall. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40335213

[Sean 5,997]

On 6/16/2017 at 17:09, Joey Russ said:

Wow! only 7 months in (for me) and already 1/4 of my list has died. Impressive, wonder if it'll at some point run ahead of gcreptile's list. 

This is only a suggestion, but what if, at the 1 year mark, on July 30th, we switch names of, I don't know, 2 - 3 people that we think are bad picks and replace them with 2 - 3 better people that we think are more likely, and do this every year at the yearly mark. This'll ensure that the game will go slightly faster, but not too fast, if you know what I mean. Again, it's only a suggestion from me, but just a thought...

Interesting idea.Thoughts people?

[YoungWillz 19,049]

I'm rather against the idea personally.

 

Entrants for this game are locked in from the moment they posted. The game is open at any time for new entrants to join, so it all rather depends on when the post was made. I like that. It gives the game its speciality.

 

We really have enough rolling deadpools that when ever someone dies the whole list can be changed, and there is a uniqueness about Death By Numbers that there can be changes at the half way point.

 

In one of the only pools that Shaun runs where there are no changes (except when someone doesn't gain a QO), I'd hate to lose that.

[Sean 5,997]

I am kind of on that same page.

[Joey Russ 7,119]

That is definitely understandable YoungWilz and I can definitely see why it's a problem in your view. It was only a suggestion anyways to try to make the game move slightly faster anyways, and they don't always pass through. 

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Not related to my suggestion, but I just noticed @msc has 24 picks on the GI Generation section of the game. 

[Sean 5,997]

1 minute ago, Joey Russ said:

Not related to my suggestion, but I just noticed @msc has 24 picks on the GI Generation section of the game. 

Oh well he can keep them all for not bothering to count

[msc 17,762]

3 minutes ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

Oh well he can keep them all for not bothering to count

 

I noticed the error some time ago, but decided it'd be unfair to correct it.

[Sean 5,997]

On 8/10/2016 at 23:40, gcreptile said:

G.I. generation:

1. Brian Rix
2. Michael of Romania
3. SR Nathan
4. ZsaZsa Gabor
5. Dilip Kumar
6. Geoffrey Bayldon
7. Billy Graham
8. Sumner Redstone
9. Joao Havelange
10. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
11. Claire Hollingworth
12. Karam Chand
13. Franco Zeffirelli
14. Walter Scheel
15. Lupita Tovar
16. Zhou Youguang
17. George Bush Sr.
18. Ilse Aichinger
19. Yisrael Kristal
20. Lewis Gilbert

Silent generation:

1. Vera Caslavska
2. Bruce Langhorne
3. Geoffrey Robinson
4. Sir Owen Glenn
5. Sir Colin Meads
6. Bhumibol Aduljadey
7. Joe Jackson
8. Antony Booth
9. Hanif Mohamed
10. Mahatir Mohamed
11. Peter Sarstedt
12. Stan Mikita
13. Harry Beitzel
14. Glen Campbell
15. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
16. Arnold Palmer
17. Nobby Stiles
18. Michal Kovac
19. Manuel Noriega
20. Betty Cuthbert

Boomer generation:

1. Piers Sellers
2. Sharon Jones
3. Lord Henry Mountcharles
4. Craig Sager
5. Steve Sumner
6. Max Wright
7. Sticky Vicky
8. Frank Miller
9. Rajinikanth
10. Gunther Von Hagens
11. Smith Hart
12. Freddie Starr
13. Bobby Heenan
14. Chris Mortensen
15. Graham Richardson
16. Larry Holmes
17. Christy Dignam
18. Nanci Griffith
19. Linda Ronstadt
20. Spencer P. Jones

Tough...

I think Smith Hart was a unique for you.Not that it gets you any more points though.

[Sean 5,997]

On 8/15/2016 at 20:07, JiroemonKimura said:

List is final as of August 31, 2016 at 7:25 P.M. UTC.
01-24:
1. David Rockefeller
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Robert Mugabe
4. Claire Hollingsworth
5. Michael I of Romania
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
8. Olivia De Haviland
9. Lupita Tovar
10. Sumner Redstone
11. Reinhard Hardegen
12. Barys Kit
13. Fauja Singh
14. Rev Billy Graham
15. Ken Hechler
16. Peter Carrington
17. Bobby Doerr
18. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
19. Herman Wouk
20. Peter Sallis

25-42:
1. Colin Meads
2. Nobby Stiles
3. Pasqual Margal i Miira
4. Peter Sarstedt
5. Tony Booth
6. William H. Hudnut III
7. Ian St John
8. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
9. Dr Nakamats
10. Henri Richard
11. Stan Mikita
12. Valerie Harper
13. Gordon Banks
14. John Noakes
15. Joe Kapp
16. Bart Starr
17. Glen Campbell
18. Bhumibol Adulyadej
19. Clive Derby Lewis
20. Bruce Langhorne

43-60:
1. Piers Sellers
2. Craig Sager
3. Ray Blacklock
4. Gerd Muller
5. The Amazing Jonathan
6. Malcolm Young
7. Luke Halpin
8. Superstar Billy Graham
9. Michael Douglas
10. Sharon Percy Rockefeller
11. Derrik Jenson (American football player)
12. Augie Nieto
13. Paul Shrubb
14. Stan Bowles
15. Dennis Moore

16. Jimmy Superfly Snuka

17. Joellyn Duesberry (died before start) Randy Romero

18. Judy Martz

19. Sharon Jones

20. Christy Dignam

Right as Derrick Jenson died three months ago yesterday and has no obit you can write him off and add 2 names of baby boomers in his place.

[gcreptile 10,232]

Thanks Shaun! 25/60 now. I think other people have caught up quite a bit in recent months. I'm not sure I'm still first. But then, without a time limit it simply depends on who is the last hit. One wrong pick and you're out. I think I should have gone for more ALS/dementia types. They're not as risky as cancer people.

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Only 8 months, and I already got 15 hits. Though I'm sure a couple of people will hold me back. I think you are still first, but not by a lot.

[Sean 5,997]

Interesting part of the game is that some of the best teams could still struggle if they miscalculate the health or obit chances of just a couple of picks.

[Sean 5,997]

I havent done a scoreboard as it seems the surviving picks are what needs to be judged.

[Deathray 2,933]

2 minutes ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

I havent done a scoreboard as it seems the surviving picks are what needs to be judged.

 

It would be nice to know whose closest though, if even if they just sit at 74 picks for months on end, it'd be amusing.

 

I've just looked at my team again and there's absolutely no way I can win this unless there's a few interesting car crashes.

[Sean 5,997]

3 minutes ago, Deathray said:

 

It would be nice to know whose closest though, if even if they just sit at 74 picks for months on end, it'd be amusing.

 

I've just looked at my team again and there's absolutely no way I can win this unless there's a few interesting car crashes.

I am starting one but keep getting ddistracted.Will definately do one in the future.I know I am on a pitiful 6/60.

 

74 picks?

[msc 17,762]

I've only got...54 hits left to go.

[gcreptile 10,232]

Had to look at a couple of my picks now, especially the rarities I found last year, Lord Henry Mountcharles and Sir Owen Glenn. Glenn is doing fine, and feeling well enough to battle in court. Lord Mountcharles however is doing not so good.

[Deathray 2,933]

3 minutes ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

I am starting one but keep getting ddistracted.Will definately do one in the future.I know I am on a pitiful 6/60.

 

74 picks?

 

Thought it was 25 picks a generation. I may have had a beer or two before scanning my team. That should obviously been 59.

[Sean 5,997]

I have decided when this game ends I will do a second volume that will go:

 

_The Silent Generation (1925_1942)

_Baby Boomers (1943_1953)

_Generation Jones (1954_1965) 

 

That shouldnt be for a couple of years at least though I would think.