MMMDP 2018

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

21 entrants (20 quickest off the mark plus your host and - ahem - master Maryportfuncity). Competition opens on 1 June with the aim of getting a winner by midsummer's day.

 

 

Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2018 (That’ll be MMMDP to you lot!)

 

 

 

  WTF? HRH MC'S MMMDP!!

 

That there masterlist in all its grim glory!

 

 

MMMDP 2018

 

1 - Sean - Matt Cappotelli

2 - Captain Chorizo - Mayor Doug Lachance

3 – Bibliogryphon - Herman Wouk 

4 – Clorox Bleachman - Bishop Francis Quinn

5 – MSC - Colin Butts

6 – Sir Creep - Meng Lang

7 – Dead Cow - Irene Jones.

8 – YoungWillz - Jack Dunnett.

9 – YorkshireBanker – Loongkoonan

10 – GC Reptile - Bertie McMinn

11 – Spade Cooley - Carmella James

12 – Rover and Out - John McCain

13 – CastAway - Kathleen Blanco

14 – Joey Russ - Denis Goldberg 

15 – Toast - Leslie Phillips

16 – Runebomme - Olivia de Havilland

17 – Book – George Bush Sr

18 – Drol - Fu Da Ren.

19 – FixedBusiness - Leah Bracknell

20 – Death Impends - Jon Hiseman

21 – MPFC – Norman Dewis

 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

 

And those Rules in Full:

 

1 - The object of the MMMDP is to WIN.

 

2 - To enter the MMMDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant.

A “candidate” in this context means a living person aged 18 or over who remains alive at midnight on May 31st and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit – see rule 9 below – upon death. The only exception to this rule are persons residing on death row with an execution falling within June 2018 (feel free to risk a death rower due to take the final walk from 1 July).

 

3 - Entries open at 9-00am BST on 31st May and close at midnight on 31 May. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the MMMDP thread on the Deathlist.

 

4 – The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 BST hrs on 1 June 2018.

 

5 – Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate.

 

6 – Entry is limited to 21 players (twenty who are obliged to post entries on the MMMDP thread and Maryport who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavour). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 21 players to compete for a death within 21 days thereby giving us a victory by midsummer’s day at the latest. If you’re snoozin’ you’re losing.

 

6a – Because he has forced his own entry Maryport guarantees to respect the first 20 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others.

 

7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate – even if the entry times are within the same minute.

 

8 – In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required.

 

9 - An "obit" in the context of the MMMDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes MPFC's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties.

 

10 – The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the MMMDP. In honour of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a MMMDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a MMMDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the MMMDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifyiing RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory – once declared – is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win.

 

10a – To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day.

 

11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the MMMDP and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of MMMDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the MMMDP thread by venting their fury).

 

12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the MMMDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into MMMDPs.

 

13 – In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 31 May fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 June to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement.

 

14 - A prize will be awarded as follows:

i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcoholic drinks (pints, wine or spirits) will be supplied by MPFC along with much hearty congratulations and back-slapping.

ii: A carefully chosen and appropriate prize will be posted to the winner (such as the DVD copy of the original Death Race movie supplied to the 2009 Deathrace). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with six of the seven existing winnings of the Deathrace). This course of action is highly encouraged and is known to show dead poolers as something other than the sicko scum many ranters believe us to be.

 

AND FINALLY...

On completion of MMMDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectactors offer well-deserved congratulations to the skilful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

 

Okay gang - we're up and running - competition starts in a month

 

Feel free to start a form guide somebody!

[Joey Russ 7,119]

Shouldn’t this have 2018 in the title since we already had three of these? 

[Clorox Bleachman 2,016]

12 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2016

MMMDP Form Guide #1 - Muhammad Ali?

[Sir Creep 7,013]

So if I turn in a list now no one is allowed any of my 21 names?  Or wait -- I'm only turning in 1 name?  I have a month to figure it all out. 

I'm glad Rule 1 is there, it eliminates all these 'I'm here to have fun' people. 
 

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Comes around sooner every year.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

1 hour ago, Joey Russ said:

Shouldn’t this have 2018 in the title since we already had three of these? 

 

Sorted

[gcreptile 10,234]

MMMDP Form Guide #1 - John Bain a.k.a. Total Biscuit:

 

 

Photo says it all. Nr. 1 pick should he still be alive in a month. Bowel cancer since 2014, in remission for a while, came back in October 2015. Metastasized to the liver, treamtent now failed.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

MMMDP Form Guide #2: Stan Lee

 

 

Will we be seeing a flat Stan Lee in June 2018? Pictured here at a recent Clive Dunn lookalike contest, the guy who signed his name to all Steve Ditko's comics now only picks the pen up when one of his 350 assistants wants to write themselves into his will. Vultures assemble!

[Joey Russ 7,119]

MMMDP Form Guide #3 - John McCain

 

Recently he has been silent on Twitter, and has been hospitalized from, presumably, glioblastoma complications. Will his new memoir be his final work released before his midsummer demise?

 

[Grim Up North 3,565]

MMMDP Form Guide #4 - Clive James

 

 

 

One last Midsummer Night's dream for Clive?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/17/clive-james-mickey-rooney-puck-midsummer-nights-dream-acting

[Sir Creep 7,013]

MMMDP Form Guide #5 - Pat Bowlen  

 

 

Looks like I'm all in on this guy, so if he fails me in May DL Cup play, that means he will make the starting gate here.  If not, I'm screwed here but will get a Cup hit.  Alzheimer's is a tricky one to predict but those around him commenting he is deteriorating quickly.  What 'quickly' means, time will tell.
SC

[drol 10,054]

MMMDP Form Guide #6-7 Lê Đức Anh and Đỗ Mười

 

Two old Vietnamese leaders who ruled the country during the Fall of Communism. Now hospitalized in 108 Ho Chi Minh hospital and sharing the room, while the hospital staff does everything to keep them alive. How long before we realize they are not so immortal?

[Sir Creep 7,013]

I just realized the smart play is to just post anyone, and if they die, just edit your post cuz you're already locked in lol.  Don't hate the player, hate the game.

SC

[Grim Up North 3,565]

Just now, Sir Creep said:

I just realized the smart play is to just post anyone, and if they die, just edit your post cuz you're already locked in lol.  Don't hate the player, hate the game.

SC

The smart play is to understand the rules 

[Sir Creep 7,013]

7 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

The smart play is to understand the rules 

Ohhh oh kay... *goes back to read rules....*

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

Just now, Sir Creep said:

Ohhh oh kay... *goes back to read rules....*

12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the MMMDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into MMMDPs.

[msc 17,762]

1 minute ago, Sir Creep said:

Ohhh oh kay... *goes back to read rules....*

 

Game doesn't open till 31st May and it's a free for all. One name per person.

 

MPFC is usually on hand to take immediate note of who picked who, so cheating is unlikely to prosper.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

2 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the MMMDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into MMMDPs.

13 – In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 31 May fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 June to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement.

[Grim Up North 3,565]

Hi Mary - I turn 50 on 31st May so will skip your wonderful mid year fun this time and spend the day rejoicing life instead.

 

Sure it will be rapid as usual.

 

Cheers, Grim.

 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

2 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

Hi Mary - I turn 50 on 31st May so will skip your wonderful mid year fun this time and spend the day rejoicing life instead.

 

Sure it will be rapid as usual.

 

Cheers, Grim.

 

 

 

 

You know if you over-indulge....you obitable by way of local papers etc?

 

Just askin'

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

MMMDP Form Guide #8

 

 

 

Leah Bracknell

 

Irresisistable dead pool fodder for anyone hereabouts with a brain but MMMDP is down to calling the date to perfection. Ms Bracknell's recent reticence to stoke the once red hot social media updates makes that call hard. Doubtless someone will nab her on this dead pool.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

 

 

MMMDP Form Guide #9

 

 

 

Bessie Camm

 

Oh look - really old person. Put it this way - she's due to celebrate her 114th birthday 20 days after we start competing. So, will she be celebrating in June or will someone be celebrating because she isn't?

 

Tension mounts

[CaptainChorizo 1,904]

 

 

MMMDP Form Guide #10

 

Prince Leonard Of Hutt River

 

In Feb 2017 he peacefully abdicated the Principality Of Hutt River Throne to his youngest son Graeme,it was a bloodless nonviolent transition of power after an honorable 45 year reign over the subjects of his great land. Rumor has it the  one they call Leonard is in seriiously ill health