Handrejka 1,903 Posted December 30, 2017 17 minutes ago, Deathray said: Wait shit it's NYE tomorrow. Fuck. No big secrets here. Cobbled together right now. Spade, do you need an email as well or will this do? Deathrays Kervorkian Clinic 1. John McCain (Joker) 2. George Bush Sr 3. David Attenborough 4. Mary Wilson (Harold's wife) 5. Clive James 6. Leah Bracknell 7. Shane McGowan 8. Michael Schumacher 9. June Brown 10. Billy Graham 11. Jimmy Carter 12. Dennis Skinner 13. Robert Mugabe 14. Michael Gorbachev 15. Roberta McCain 16. David Butler (psephologist) 17. Stefan Karl Stefansson 18. Vittorio Cechi Gori 19. Kieth Richards 20. Bob Dylan 21. Nicholas Soames 22. Richard Sullivan 23. Quentin Blake Cobbles to a Coffin (theme team: corrie actors) 1. Thelma Barlow 2. William Roache 3. Barbara Knox 4. Philip Lowrie 5. Michael le Vell 6. Eileen Derbyshire 7. Julie Goodyear 8. Doreen Keogh 9. Neville Buswell 10. Johnny Briggs 11. Ernst Walder 12. Timothy West 13. Warren Clarke 14. Sue Nichols 15. Malcolm Hebden 16. Simon Gregson 17. Bruce Jones 18. John Savident 19. Ian McKellen 20. Cliff Richard 21. Prince Charles 22. Sarah Harding 23. Beverley Callard Shot in the Dark (The first 23 names that entered my head) 1. Thomas Schaffernaker (weatherman) 2. Jonathan King (pedophile) 3. Tony Banks (musician) 4. Tracy Enim (artist) 5. Robert Halfon (politician) 6. Dennis Skinner (politician) 7. Clarrisa Eden (Anthony's wife) 8. Wiley (grime artist) 9. Catherine Tate (comedian) 10. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actor) 11. Rod Stewart (singer) 12. Liam Gallagher (singer) 13. Frankie de Torri (horse rider) 14. Danny Boy Hatchard (actor) 15. Ray Wilson (footballer) 16. Paul Gascoigne (alcoholic) 17. Romelu Lukaku (footballer) 18. Chris Kamara (professional idiot) 19. Queen Elizabeth II (benefit scrounger) 20. Mark Hamill (actor trading on past glory) 21. Ringo Starr (drummer) 22. Barry David Elliot (chuckle brother) 23. Giles Brandruth (professional posh twat) Minimal effort was put into all these lists not expecting any hits; know I've mussed some blatantly obvious ones but can't think who. Surely you can't mean Warren Clarke who died in 2014. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,314 Posted December 30, 2017 30 minutes ago, Deathray said: Wait shit it's NYE tomorrow. Fuck. No big secrets here. Cobbled together right now. Spade, do you need an email as well or will this do? Deathrays Kervorkian Clinic 1. John McCain (Joker) 2. George Bush Sr 3. David Attenborough 4. Mary Wilson (Harold's wife) 5. Clive James 6. Leah Bracknell 7. Shane McGowan 8. Michael Schumacher 9. June Brown 10. Billy Graham 11. Jimmy Carter 12. Dennis Skinner 13. Robert Mugabe 14. Michael Gorbachev 15. Roberta McCain 16. David Butler (psephologist) 17. Stefan Karl Stefansson 18. Vittorio Cechi Gori 19. Kieth Richards 20. Bob Dylan 21. Nicholas Soames 22. Richard Sullivan 23. Quentin Blake Cobbles to a Coffin (theme team: corrie actors) 1. Thelma Barlow 2. William Roache 3. Barbara Knox 4. Philip Lowrie 5. Michael le Vell 6. Eileen Derbyshire 7. Julie Goodyear 8. Doreen Keogh 9. Neville Buswell 10. Johnny Briggs 11. Ernst Walder 12. Timothy West 13. Warren Clarke 14. Sue Nichols 15. Malcolm Hebden 16. Simon Gregson 17. Bruce Jones 18. John Savident 19. Ian McKellen 20. Cliff Richard 21. Prince Charles 22. Sarah Harding 23. Beverley Callard Shot in the Dark (The first 23 names that entered my head) 1. Thomas Schaffernaker (weatherman) 2. Jonathan King (pedophile) 3. Tony Banks (musician) 4. Tracy Enim (artist) 5. Robert Halfon (politician) 6. Dennis Skinner (politician) 7. Clarrisa Eden (Anthony's wife) 8. Wiley (grime artist) 9. Catherine Tate (comedian) 10. Tom Baker (Doctor Who actor) 11. Rod Stewart (singer) 12. Liam Gallagher (singer) 13. Frankie de Torri (horse rider) 14. Danny Boy Hatchard (actor) 15. Ray Wilson (footballer) 16. Paul Gascoigne (alcoholic) 17. Romelu Lukaku (footballer) 18. Chris Kamara (professional idiot) 19. Queen Elizabeth II (benefit scrounger) 20. Mark Hamill (actor trading on past glory) 21. Ringo Starr (drummer) 22. Barry David Elliot (chuckle brother) 23. Giles Brandruth (professional posh twat) Minimal effort was put into all these lists not expecting any hits; know I've mussed some blatantly obvious ones but can't think who. I reckon you will get a few hits out of those. Walls tempted to post mine early on here but I won't as there are some names I am hoping people have forgotten or overlooked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,957 Posted December 30, 2017 @Deathray Last year, Sir Creep posted a few theme teams in the DDP thread assuming it'd count as a submission. It didn't. So on that I'd recommend sending Spade some emails. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted December 31, 2017 BTW, Here is my Theme Team. No chances of winning, just did it for fun. Theme Team: Complications from a fall Dictators and former dictators, more or less: 1)Morgan Tsvangirai (J) 2)Robert Mugabe 3)Muhammadu Buhari 4)Daniel Arap Moi 5)Kenneth Kaunda 6)Hosni Mubarak 7)Abdelaziz Bouteflika 8)Nuon Chea 9)Khieu Sampan 10)Girma Wolde-Giorgis 11)Jiang Zemin 12)Mahatir Mohamad 13)Zine Ben Ali 14)Yasuhiro Nakasone 15)George H. W. Bush 16)Lê Đức Anh 17)Dawda Jawara 18)Mwai Kibaki 19)Ali Hassan Mwinyi 20)Li Peng There is great potential.... for the List of the Lost! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 31, 2017 12 hours ago, Death Impends said: @Deathray Last year, Sir Creep posted a few theme teams in the DDP thread assuming it'd count as a submission. It didn't. So on that I'd recommend sending Spade some emails. OK. I'll email them. Vaguely remember tmib taking mine from the forum last year but that was a lot earlier in December! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 31, 2017 12 hours ago, Handrejka said: Surely you can't mean Warren Clarke who died in 2014. This is why I have subs.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heef 166 Posted December 31, 2017 Email sent. Will be awful due to being on holiday, using a phone and having left any info at home. Poor planning on my part it would seem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted December 31, 2017 Boom! Pan Breed 2018, Here's Who You Could Have Won, and a theme team all sent by email. Now time to rela...oh yeah, the Crowdsourced lists! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted December 31, 2017 Teams sent, good luck everyone and a happy new year. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eesti 151 Posted December 31, 2017 Gonna send my team in in a few minutes. I did a lot of research in 2016 and got 12th spot in the scoreboard. Last year I didn't too as much research and going to end up somewhere in top 50. This year I did more research and hoping to get a position in top 10 next year. Also going to send my first theme team - DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 31, 2017 Sweepstake on the number of teams? Going with 467 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted December 31, 2017 500 Still Life, Destination Eschaton and new B-team Still More Life, have all been sent to the master. Both main team and B team consist of a combination of certs and gambles, young and old, popular picks and potential uniques, 'futharc's and 'twelfth's, and it will be interesting to see how they both fare. Obviously, I won't reveal them until tomorrow, but I shall reveal Destination Eschaton now, considering it doesn't stand a chance. 1. Saul Kripke 2. Mary Midgley 3. Gayatri Spivak 4. Daniel Dennett 5. Thomas Nagel 6. Slavoj Zizek 7. Peter Kreeft 8. Mary Warnock 9. Jurgen Habernas 10. Gillo Dorfles 11. Noam Chomsky 12. Onora O'Neill 13. Alasdair MacIntyre 14. Martha Nussbaum 15. Alain Badiou 16. Simon Blackburn 17. John Searle 18. Anthony Kenny 19. Judith Butler 20. Sandra Harding Subs 1. Hans Albert 2. David Chalmers 3. Kanye West Good luck folks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted December 31, 2017 I bet the chance of unique hits will decrease even more with all those B-Teams. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted December 31, 2017 7 minutes ago, gcreptile said: I bet the chance of unique hits will decrease even more with all those B-Teams. Somebody's a trend setter! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted December 31, 2017 3 minutes ago, msc said: Somebody's a trend setter! True :). Though I was a little sorry for taking away the unique hit with Julia Perez from Death Impends. This time, my B-Team is excessively safe, it's the attempt to get 20 hits that I suggested before. All the risk is in my main team, a no-holds-barred frontal assault. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,799 Posted December 31, 2017 Team submitted, consisting mostly of last year’s survivors, a couple of random thoughts and some names from the first three pages of the Possibilities thread. Good luck losers! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted December 31, 2017 I have no uniques for sure. To everyone's surprise I did not pick Cecchi Gori as he is said to be recovering and Olivia Newton-John is not on my main theme because I don't think she'll really die; anyway she has secured a place on b-team, as she is too big to miss. Same for Stefan Karl. Only two/three picks in both teams are not so common and I think one will be picked by very few people, but we'll see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted December 31, 2017 My teams will be posted at some point tomorrow. Then you can curse your luck if you've picked them too! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted December 31, 2017 I have no uniques at all, most likely, but also not a winning side - aiming to try and be better than 2017, if not 2016, points wise. Obviously being better than 2012-15 hopefully goes without saying. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted December 31, 2017 Now, if everyone has a "safe" team and a "risky" team, then last year's trend of the Drop 40 getting more "sophisticated" (less name recognition, more fringe-fame-cancer-people) will be reversed. I'm sure if everyone forces themselves to pick 40 or 60 names instead of 20, then name recognition will, again, increase in importance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garn2 34 Posted December 31, 2017 Haven't had any time to research this year, not that it made any difference when I did, so have just picked 20 people listed across the forums who sound vaguely ill but probably are fine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,131 Posted December 31, 2017 I don't really care for this trend of having a B Team. It seems to be a way of avoiding the discipline of having to keep to 20 names, and reducing the danger of 'risky' picks. Theme teams are fine, but two 'serious' teams seems a bit greedy to me. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted December 31, 2017 (Continuing the team sweepstakes) I’m gonna guess around 520 or so. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
