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My team is fine. Thanks for running this again Raddikins!

 

I may have finished in bottom position last time out, and I may do so again. What the hey? How you doing? *

 

(*Enzo Amore)

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The talent pool was quite big - too big, even. I forgot about Noriega, Durham and even George Bush Sr. Or Hamilton-Byrne.... and I didn't even consider that Andretti guy. A name out of nowhere for me.

 

But then the start in May means that there is that reservoir of still living DDP favourites plus those you discarded for being too old. And the ton of new names who will inevitably die just shortly before the new year.

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I forgot Van der Laan, José José and Sonja Durham. Curse you,dementia.

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Just realized that DeathImpends' Deathlist Cup hit George Niederauer was also chosen by him for this pool.

 

Please, folks, let me know about your obscure picks dying. :P

 

Anyway, no qualifying obit... yet...

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LA Times obit for Niederauer

 

Lucky that LA Times is a QO in this pool. I'd have probably picked him even if it were only the DDP QO sources that counted, as I suspected a former archbishop of a big US city would get something via Mail AP, but no sign of that yet.

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Finally a second hit.

Niederauer on May 2nd, and Bayldon all the way on May 11th.

 

However, I still won't update the scoreboard as both of these hits were unique.

I'll wait until there's a major hit (such as van-Zandvliet) for there to actually be more than two teams on the scoreboard.

Or if that takes forever, until there's two more minor hits.

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28 minutes ago, RadGuy said:

Finally a second hit.

Niederauer on May 2nd, and Bayldon all the way on May 11th.

 

However, I still won't update the scoreboard as both of these hits were unique.

I'll wait until there's a major hit (such as van-Zandvliet) for there to actually be more than two teams on the scoreboard.

Or if that takes forever, until there's two more minor hits.

 

Still all quiet on the eastern front, there.

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4 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Geoffrey Bayldon was on the top of my tree for this game.

 

Congrats, Biblio. :)  You have already scored almost 10 times as many points as you did for the entire game last year! :D  

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Ian Brady yet another unique hit... 

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A lot less people had Sonja Durham than I expected.

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Only three teams had her, but all the rest of the hits so far have been unique.

 

Good enough for an update.

I'll do it in about 5 hours, when I get back from volunteering.

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Taking a look at all the teams, The Dead Cow is the favorite for me imo. 

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Okay, folks! Time for update #1!

The carkers were George Niederauer, Geoffrey Bayldon, Ian Brady, and Sonja Durham.

 

Bibliogryphon 500 
DeathImpends 400

The Dead Cow 400

Grim Up North 350
JoeyRuss 275
Jiromeon Kimura 180

Book 0
CaptainChorizo 0
Davy Jones' Locker 0
Deathray 0
drol 0

gcreptile 0
Gooseberry Crumble 0
GraveDanger 0
ImNotHades 0                
msc 0

RadGuy 0
Shaun of the Dead 0
The Unknown Man 0
Wormfarmer 0
YoungWillz 0

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Ray Pfeifer has died. Don't know the likelihood of him getting a QO though.

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First hit, Hooray!

 

500 Gord Downie   17.10.2017

450 Leah Bracknell

400 George Bush Sr.

350 Paul van Zandvliet   14.06.2017

300 Errol Christie   11.06.2017

275 King Michael I. of Romania   05.12.2017

250 Violet Brown   15.09.2017

225 Catherine Nevin   19.02.2018

200 Manuel Noriega   29.05.2017

180 Glen Campbell   08.08.2017

160 Johnny Hallyday   06.12.2017

140 Gretel Bergmann   25.07.2017

120 Renee Simonot

100 Kirk Douglas

85 Tony Booth   25.09.2017

70 Billy Graham   21.01.2018

55 Mary Carlisle

50 Hugh Hefner   27.09.2017

45 Stefan Karl Stefansson

40 Helmut Kohl   16.06.2017

 

 

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Update #2 for Ray Pfeifer, John Noakes, and Manuel Noriega.

 

Bibliogryphon 500 

Grim Up North 435
DeathImpends 400

gcreptile 400

The Dead Cow 400
JoeyRuss 275

Book 200
Jiromeon Kimura 180

msc 45

The Unknown Man 40
CaptainChorizo 0
Davy Jones' Locker 0
Deathray 0
drol 0
Gooseberry Crumble 0
GraveDanger 0
ImNotHades 0               

RadGuy 0
Shaun of the Dead 0
Wormfarmer 0
YoungWillz 0

 

Congrats to Grim Up North on being the first person to get two hits!

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Helen Dunmore dead according to Twitter. Gcreptile pick.

 

Had been shortlisted for 2018 here a few months back, but so it goes.

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29 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

QO for Dunmore: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/05/poet-and-author-helen-dunmore-dies-aged-64

 

Suspect she'd have been an Elias/Nevin-style cult DDP pick had she revealed her diagnosis a few months prior.

Exactly. I thought about not picking her in this at all, to keep her name secret. But the "threat" of an early death was too high for me and I wanted to get at least something for it.

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Update #3 for Peter Sallis and Helen Dunmore.

 

gcreptile 625

Bibliogryphon 500 

Grim Up North 435
DeathImpends 400

The Dead Cow 400

YoungWillz 350
JoeyRuss 275

Book 200
Jiromeon Kimura 180

GraveDanger 120

Wormfarmer 85

RadGuy 55

msc 45

The Unknown Man 40
CaptainChorizo 0
Davy Jones' Locker 0
Deathray 0
drol 0
Gooseberry Crumble 0
ImNotHades 0               
Shaun of the Dead 0

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I get Julia Perez.

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Update #4 for Jill Singer and Julia Perez. Sam Gould joins the List of the Lost.

 

gcreptile 625

Bibliogryphon 500 

The Dead Cow 450

Grim Up North 435
DeathImpends 400

YoungWillz 350
JoeyRuss 275

Book 200
Jiromeon Kimura 180

GraveDanger 120

msc 100

Wormfarmer 85

RadGuy 55

drol 45

Captain Chorizo 40

The Unknown Man 40
Davy Jones' Locker 0
Deathray 0
Gooseberry Crumble 0
ImNotHades 0               
Shaun of the Dead 0

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