I have enjoyed taking part in a number of dead pools this year, and would like to give back a bit more next year.  I'm not talented enough to come up with a brand new idea for a pool that I could run, but there is the low hanging fruit of simply sponsoring a team on the Doug Stanhope Celebrity Death Pool site.  I would be willing to put up the registration fee if there is enough interest. Some of you are no doubt familiar with this site, but for those who are not, it's a site where you register your own pool (funeral home) and invite whoever you want (mourners)  to participate.  The nuts and bolts of it is that you choose 20 celebrities.  There are no QOs as such, but rather the celebrity you choose has to be in their database, which you will find is both somewhat American-centric and also sets the bar a bit higher than your average pool as far as celebrity needs to go.  Some of your more obscure, especially non-American, celebrities won't be in the database.   You can request they be added, but my experience is that they usually get shot down.  Regardless, the formula for points is 100-age, with bonuses for pool uniques, site-wide uniques, and various other factors ( ie. suicide, overdose, birthday, airplane crash) each with their own cute title.  You are allowed one trade per month, on the 15th, but you can't choose someone who has already been taken in your pool. This pool is how I started out with deadpools, and I take part in about 10 pools. There are other pools you can join if you wish and they have open entry, even some paid pools so you can make a couple of bucks. Pretty sure if we put a pool together, it would vie for the top pool in the site. So tell you what, if you are interested, like this post.  If it looks like we can put together 15-20 people, I will register a funeral home for us and send out the invites to those interested.  In the meantime, if you are interested, check out the site (dscdp.com) and register a profile.  Maybe to keep it simple for invites and competition sake, use your alias on this site, or at least something recognizably similar.  If we decide to give it a go, I'm open to suggestions for funeral home names.