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Submitted all my teams, good luck all.

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Who do you guys think will be the most popular joker? Seems like Ricksen and Vervoort are dead and there are not many too good young dead certs.

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21 minutes ago, Eesti said:

Who do you guys think will be the most popular joker? Seems like Ricksen and Vervoort are dead and there are not many too good young dead certs.

Tom Smith or George Aliaigh ?

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Team Name-Roasting Bodies In Redcar
1-Vera Lynn
2-Bobby Brown(Rangers Legend)
3-Bobbi Brown(Bobbi Brown Cosmetics)
4-Judith Magre
5-Margaret Stuart Barry
6-Aaron Carter
7-Daniel arap Moi
8-Michael Verhoeven
9-Medea Amiranashvili
10-David Gulpilil
11-Freeman Dyson
12-Chris Doleman
13-Roger Scruton
14-Lynne Reid Banks
15-Mary Ward (actress)
16-Anne Baker(writer)
17-Demi Lovato
18-Jean-Claude Carriere
19-Shin Kyuk-ho
20-Jill Knight(Parliament)
 

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Thumbs up for Michael Verhoeven!

 

I once saw him personally because he owned the cinema down the street. He has sold it and his other cinema though. 

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1 hour ago, Eesti said:

Who do you guys think will be the most popular joker? Seems like Ricksen and Vervoort are dead and there are not many too good young dead certs.

 

Tom Smith......

or possibly Lee Kerslake or Genesis P-Orridge

 

All the other 'cult picks' of the year are too old for DDP use. 

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Submitted my team, which confessedly is fairly conventional. While I'm keeping hopeful of a top 10 spot, I doubt there's that extra oomph for an outright win. All I personally wanted is one DDP win, and with that likely to finally happen, and the way life is shifting meaning I likely won't have as much time for extensive research, I now shift to a more relaxed approach, largely picking the (competitive) names I want to pick, even if some others are better coldly logically.

 

Good luck to all!

 

(and of course, if I lose the lead within the remaining hours, then that's a sign from the deadpool Gods I shouldn't bother trying to win anyway... ;))

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6 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

 

Tom Smith......

or possibly Lee Kerslake or Genesis P-Orridge

 

All the other 'cult picks' of the year are too old for DDP use. 

 

Would David Hagen get obit? He also seems like a dead cert to me.

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5 minutes ago, Eesti said:

 

Would David Hagen get obit? He also seems like a dead cert to me.

 

If the Scottish papers are back as QO sources (I've lost track...) then yes.

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4 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

 

If the Scottish papers are back as QO sources (I've lost track...) then yes.

 

Herald is back as a QO, yes, but Hagen would get a BBC obit no bother.

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6 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

 

If the Scottish papers are back as QO sources (I've lost track...) then yes.


As I am not familiar with the British media, what would the rules say in plain language. Would David Hagen get obit?
 

OBITUARY QUALIFICATION:To win points, there must be the mention of a celebrity's death on a national online news source:
BBC*:
bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages)
bbc.co.uk/sport
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat
And from the UK versions of the following:
 
(As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded)
 
...and from these news sites:

uk.reuters.com
news.sky.com/uk
skysports.com
itv.com/news* (this includes local news pages)
channel4.com/news
The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing.
 
The following news sources are excluded as from 1st January 2016: Huffington Post UK, MSN UK, Yahoo UK, Scotsman, Daily Record, STV and UTV.
 
Independent has now been removed as of 1st January 2017 as it no longer has a regular print edition. i is a valid obit source as of 1/1/2018.

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1 minute ago, msc said:

 

Herald is back as a QO, yes, but Hagen would get a BBC obit no bother.

 

Ah yeah - I keep forgetting the sports pages counts so he won't fall into the old 'headlines sports pages but nothing in news' trap.

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4 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

 

Ah yeah - I keep forgetting the sports pages counts so he won't fall into the old 'headlines sports pages but nothing in news' trap.

 

No, remember I fell into the "Pick actually got a mention on the BBC news but not on the one page of the BBC that counted as a QO" trap* in 2017-ish so yeah the whole bbc.co.uk counts.

 

*OK, they were a bit fringey of a candidate but by the 5th BBC obit that didn't count for him I was started to feel trolled a little bit...

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Thank you guys for the input! I decided to put him on the bench, because even though there is no QO fear anymore I think that he might hang on a little. Usually MND doesn't kill with 1-2 years. 

 

I sent my team and theme team in and hope top 10 finish for my 10th appearance at the DDP. So far my best is 12th in 2016.

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David Quantick's Showbiz Pals have now been filed for the first time in two years. Spent the past 48 hours with food poisoning and no sleep so if I fuck it up completely this year, that's my excuse.

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Here is my theme team I sent in. I'll post the other two for y'all tomorrow ;)

 

Team Theme name: They Just Keep Dye-ing!

1. Alissa White-Gluz (death metal singer) (Joker)
2. Hayley Williams (Paramore singer)
3. Billie Eilish (pop singer)
4. Katy Perry (pop singer)
5. Nicki Minaj (pop singer)
6. Lena Dunham (actress)
7. Jennifer Hudson (singer)
8. Avril Lavigne (singer)
9. Pink (singer)
10. Lily Allen (singer)
11. Kelly Osbourne (singer, daughter of Ozzy and Sharon)
12. Lady Gaga (singer)
13. Cyndi Lauper (singer)
14. Rihanna (singer)
15. Pixie Geldof (daughter of Bob, singer)
16. Shirley Manson (Garbage vocalist)
17. Jonah Hill (actor)
18. Awsten Knight (Waterparks singer)
19. Boy George (singer)
20. Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance singer)

 

 

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Good luck to everyone. Here is my team.

 

The End of the World As We Know It

 

George Alagiah
John Andretti
Frankie Banali
Olivia de Havilland
Chris Doleman
Kirk Douglas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
David Gulpilil
Terry Jones
Lee Kerslake
Giorgio Napolitano
Olivia Newton-John
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Isabel Peron
Prince Philip
Genesis P-Orridge
Nobby Stiles
Bernard Tapie
Alex Trebek (Joker)
Jean-Louis Trintignant

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Stone cold sober and my team is in.   No inebriated last minute alterations this time and no religious figure or terrorist either. 

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12 hours ago, Eesti said:

Who do you guys think will be the most popular joker? Seems like Ricksen and Vervoort are dead and there are not many too good young dead certs.

 

Alex trebek .

 

Nobby stiles.

 

Even though both not young. 

 

 

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I've not seen the teams yet but I'm about 90% sure Genesis Porridge makes the Drop 40 so he might be a very popular joker in 2020.

 

Others with a decent shot at Drop 40 bonus who might be popular jokers are David Gulpilil and Chris Doleman.

 

One of those is my 2020 Pan Breed joker. Not exactly a hidden name!

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3 minutes ago, msc said:

I've not seen the teams yet but I'm about 90% sure Genesis Porridge makes the Drop 40 so he might be a very popular joker in 2020.

 

Others with a decent shot at Drop 40 bonus who might be popular jokers are David Gulpilil and Chris Doleman.

 

One of those is my 2020 Pan Breed joker. Not exactly a hidden name!

I picked P-Orride and Gulpilil.Was not sure Doleman would obit so I didn't pick him.

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3 minutes ago, Sean said:

I picked P-Orride and Gulpilil.Was not sure Doleman would obit so I didn't pick him.

 

There are some posters on this forum who, and I mean this as a massive compliment and tremendous respect btw, are sort of bellwether teams for the Drop 40. When they pick the terminally sick names you know they are getting huge traction across the forum. So far a few of them have posted public teams across the forum, and 5 names have appeared everywhere: Trebek unsurprisingly, Porridge, Gulpilil (will I Learn to spell his name by obit time?) and Doleman, and actually Frankie Banali, which surprises me. But they seem the top tips right now for new ill Drop 40ers.

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5 minutes ago, msc said:

 

There are some posters on this forum who, and I mean this as a massive compliment and tremendous respect btw, are sort of bellwether teams for the Drop 40. When they pick the terminally sick names you know they are getting huge traction across the forum. So far a few of them have posted public teams across the forum, and 5 names have appeared everywhere: Trebek unsurprisingly, Porridge, Gulpilil (will I Learn to spell his name by obit time?) and Doleman, and actually Frankie Banali, which surprises me. But they seem the top tips right now for new ill Drop 40ers.

I picked Banali as I came to the conclusion he would obit almost certainly.

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