Death Impends 7,970 Posted January 3, 2020 INVERSE DEAD POOL 2020 Another new year arrives, and with that comes another round of reckoning the lingering prowess of the DDP's most popular selections. Of the 16 expiries throughout 2019, drol only selected 3 and notched his second win in the process. Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2020, pick a team of 25 names who you think will survive the year. Rank your list in order of least likely to die to most likely to die. Post your team in this thread. If someone dies and they are listed on your team, then you will receive points according to their position. If your #1 pick dies you'll receive 25 points, whilst if your #25 pick dies you'll receive 1 point. If someone dies and they are not on your list, then you receive no points. In case one of the names available for entry dies before the submission deadline, you are allowed to have one sub. The sub can be anyone from the top 50 or the 51st most popular name, who will be revealed alongside the top 50. The 51st name can not be part of the original 25 if no one dies. In the case of one of your original team dying pre-deadline, the sub goes into 25th place by default, but if the sub was previously the 51st, you are allowed to change the position of the new pick. If the above scenario happens, you are also allowed to name a new sub and I will reveal the 52nd most popular name. Whoever has the lowest score at the end of the year is the winner. If two or more teams are tied at the end of the year, the tie will first be decided by who has less hits. If they have an equal amount of hits, then whoever among the teams died latest in the year, and thus came closest to being a correct prediction, will decide the winner. If said name was on multiple teams in the tie, whoever had said name lowest will win. If multiple teams had said name in the same position, the second most recently-deceased name will be referred to, and so on, until a winner is found. If, by some alignment of the stars, the tie is of either no hits or of all of the exact same hits in the exact same positions, all teams in the tie share victory. Credit to Toast for inadvertently coming up with a peach of a topic description, and of course, credit to Spade for creating this wonderful game. Credit to Dead Cow for his job as previous host, laying the framework for the Inverse Dead Pool's OP, and the idea for a "dies during entry period" rule. Credit to machotrouts for the suggestion of the latest hits factoring into tiebreakers. Previous Winners 2019 - drol 2018 - machotrouts 2017 - drol 2016 - Pedro67 2015 - Death Impends 2014 - Bibliogryphon 2013 - N/A 2012 - Esturian Float 2011 - Garn2 Top 50 George Alagiah John Andretti Frankie Banali Bob Barker Susan Bayh Pope Benedict XVI June Brown Jimmy Carter Billy Connolly Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Chris Doleman Kirk Douglas Queen Elizabeth II Paul Gascoigne Jill Gascoine Greg Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Greaves David Gulpilil Rolf Harris Terry Jones Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger Angela Lansbury John Lewis Vera Lynn Stirling Moss Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Genesis P-Orridge Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Little Richard Michael Robinson Yoo Sang-Chul Prunella Scales Tom Smith Pat Smullen Leon Spinks Nobby Stiles Alex Trebek Jean-Louis Trintignant Bill Turnbull Dick Van Dyke Gianluca Vialli Doddie Weir Betty White Barbara Windsor #51 Sam Lloyd 17 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,970 Posted January 12, 2020 Confirming I now have the fifty names courtesy of Reptile/msc and have compiled my own team. Shall be revealed in full whenever I get the OK. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,970 Posted January 12, 2020 msc has given his blessing, and we are officially open! You have till 23:59 GMT on January 19th to get a team in. As for your host's entry... Paul Gascoigne Linda Nolan Bill Turnbull Olivia Newton-John Dick Van Dyke Queen Elizabeth II Angela Lansbury Greg Gilbert Barbara Windsor Betty White Billy Connolly Doddie Weir Ruth Bader Ginsburg George Alagiah Leon Spinks Lee Kerslake June Brown Pope Benedict XVI Olivia de Havilland Jimmy Greaves Little Richard Mikhail Gorbachev Michael Robinson Bob Barker Bob Dole SUB: Sam Lloyd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,225 Posted January 12, 2020 Here comes failure #4... 1. Paul Gascoigne 2. Linda Nolan 3. Olivia Newton-John 4. Bill Turnbull 5. Billy Connolly 6. George Alagiah 7. Leon Spinks 8. Dick van Dyke 9. Barbara Windsor 10. Doddie Weir 11. Rolf Harris 12. Michael Robinson 13. Angela Lansbury 14. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 15. Greg Gilbert 16. Henry Kissinger 17. Queen Elizabeth 2 18. Bob Barker 19. June Brown 20. Betty White 21. Lee Kerslake 22. Pope Benedict 23. Olivia de Havilland 24. Jean Louis Trintignant 25. Prunella Scales Sub: Sam Lloyd 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,442 Posted January 12, 2020 1. Frankie Banali 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Olivia de Havilland 4. Bob Dole 5. Chris Doleman 6. Kirk Douglas 7. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 8. Jimmy Greaves 9. David Gulpilil 10. Henry Kissinger 11. Angela Lansbury 12. Vera Lynn 13. Stirling Moss 14. Genesis P-Orridge 15. Prince Philip 16. Leslie Phillips 17. Yoo Sang-Chul 18. Prunella Scales 19. Tom Smith 20. Leon Spinks 21. Nobby Stiles 22. Alex Trebek 23. Jean-Louis Trintignant 24. Dick Van Dyke 25. Gianluca Vialli sub - Pope Benny. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted January 12, 2020 Well, I'm probably going to regret not sleeping on this. Here's the YoungWillz selection: 01. Paul Gascoigne 02. George Alagiah 03. Bill Turnbull 04. Doddie Weir 05. Billy Connolly 06. Barbara Windsor 07. Stirling Moss 08. June Brown 09. Prunella Scales 10. Queen Elizabeth II 11. Jill Gascoine 12. Rolf Harris 13. Henry Kissinger 14. Little Richard 15. Angela Lansbury 16. Pope Benedict XVI 17. Bob Dole 18. Dick Van Dyke 19. Olivia de Havilland 20. Mikhail Gorbachev 21. Betty White 22. Bob Barker 23. Jimmy Carter 24. Leslie Phillips 25. Nobby Stiles Sub: Greg Gilbert 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Annami 85 Posted January 13, 2020 Wow, this was hard... 1. Paul Gascoigne 2. Queen Elizabeth II 3. Rolf Harris 4. Jean-Louis Trintignant 5. Dick van Dyke 6. Betty White 7. June Brown 8. Angela Lansbury 9. Bill Turnbull 10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 18th of September, 16 points 11. Olivia de Havilland 25th of July, 15 points 12. Doddie Weir 13. Billy Connolly 14. Leslie Phillips 15. Stirling Moss 12th of April, 11 points 16. Little Richard 9th of May, 10 points 17. Barbara Windsor 10th of December, 9 points 18. Pat Smullen 15th of September, 8 points 19. Jimmy Greaves 20. Jill Gascoine 28th of April, 6 points 21. Bob Barker 22. Linda Nolan 23. Bob Dole 24. Lee Kerslake 19th of September, 2 points 25. Gianluca Vialli Sub: Olivia Newton-John 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skinny kiltrunner 553 Posted January 13, 2020 Here goes. Good luck everyone 1. Doddie Weir 2. Linda Nolan 3. Barbara Windsor 4. Dick van Dyke 5. Prunella Scales 6. Paul Gascoigne 7. Billy Connolly 8. Queen Elizabeth 9. Rolf Harris 10. Terry Jones 11. Leon Spinks 12. Michael Robinson 13. Olivia Newton John 14. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 15. Bill Turnbull 16. Jill Gascoigne 17. Jimmy Greaves 18. Betty White 19. Angela Lansbury 20. Henry Kissinger 21. Pope Benedict 22. Bob Barker 23. Bill Turnbull 24. Little Richard 25. Leslie Phillips Sub Mikhail Gorbachev 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,970 Posted January 13, 2020 You put in Bill Turnbull twice, Skinny, so I will scratch off the second Turnbull and bump your sub Gorbachev to 25th Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skinny kiltrunner 553 Posted January 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, Death Impends said: You put in Bill Turnbull twice, Skinny, so I will scratch off the second Turnbull and bump your sub Gorbachev to 25th Dang it, thanks. New sub- Olivia de Havilland. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LizLemon 65 Posted January 13, 2020 Dick Van Dyke Olivia Newton-John Bill Turnbull Paul Gascoigne Billy Connolly Queen Elizabeth II Betty White June Brown Prunella Scales Olivia de Havilland Little Richard Jimmy Greaves Angela Lansbury Rolf Harris Barbara Windsor Doddie Weir Ruth Bader Ginsburg Henry Kissinger Jean-Louis Trintignant Stirling Moss Mikhail Gorbachev Bob Dole Linda Nolan Benedict XVI Jimmy Carter Sub: Alex Trebek 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 584 Posted January 13, 2020 1. Olivia Newton-John 2. Dick Van Dyke 3. Bill Turnbull 4. Lee Kerslake 5. Billy Connolly 6. Olivia de Havilland 7. Angela Lansbury 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Linda Nolan 10. Vera Lynn 11. Kirk Douglas 12. Barbara Windsor 13. Jimmy Carter 14. Little Richard 15. Stirling Moss 16. Bob Dole 17. Mikhail Gorbachev 18. Pope Benedict XVI 19. Alex Trebek 20. Pat Smullen 21. Prunella Scales 22. Rolf Harris 23. Leon Spinks 24. Susan Bayh 25. Bob Barker Sub: Michael Robinson 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,282 Posted January 13, 2020 1. Paul Gascoigne 2. Queen Elizabeth 3. Barbara Windsor 4. Leon Spinks 5. Linda Nolan 6. Pope Benedict 7. George Alagiah 8. Rolf Harris 9. Terry Jones 10. Billy Connolly 11. Jimmy Carter 12. Bill Turnbull 13. Dick Van Dyke 14. Gianluca Vialli 15. Mikhail Gorbachev 16. Prunella Scales 17. June Brown 18. Jill Gascoine 19. Angela Lansbury 20. Olivia De Havilland 21. Prince Philip 22. Betty White 23, Henry Kissinger 24. Michael Robinson 25. Olivia Newton-John Sub Alex Trebek Thanks for running. GUB 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,578 Posted January 13, 2020 Paul Gascoigne Linda Nolan Dick Van Dyke Queen Elizabeth II Angela Lansbury Rolf Harris Greg Gilbert Jill Gascoine Olivia Newton-John Billy Connolly Betty White Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mikhail Gorbachev June Brown Prunella Scales Bill Turnbull Barbara Windsor Jean-Louis Trintignant Leon Spinks George Alagiah Little Richard Bob Barker Alex Trebek Olivia de Havilland Henry Kissinger Sub Lee Kerslake 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted January 13, 2020 Here are Toast's 25 To Stay Alive (more likely I have condemned some of these poor souls to death) Still! it's nice to hope that your selections don't die, for a change. Linda Nolan Paul Gascoigne Doddie Weir Dick Van Dyke Barbara Windsor Pope Benedict XVI Billy Connolly Queen Elizabeth II Rolf Harris Angela Lansbury Olivia Newton-John Little Richard Bill Turnbull Greg Gilbert Henry Kissinger June Brown Betty White John Andretti Lee Kerslake David Gulpilil Prunella Scales Leon Spinks John Lewis Mikhail Gorbachev Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sub: Olivia de Havilland 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted January 13, 2020 1. Queen Elizabeth II 2. Paul Gascoigne 3. Olivia Newton-John 4. Linda Nolan 5. Greg Gilbert 6. Doddie Weir 7. Bill Turnbull 8. Benedict XVI 9. Billy Connolly 10. Dick Van Dyke 11. Prunella Scales 12. Angela Lansbury 13. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 14. Olivia de Havilland 15. Betty White 16. Vera Lynn 17. Rolf Harris 18. June Brown 19. Bob Barker 20. Michael Robinson 21. Stirling Moss 22. Barbara Windsor 23. Pat Smullen 24. Jill Gascoine 25. Prince Philip Sub: Sam Lloyd 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,585 Posted January 13, 2020 When's the deadline. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 13, 2020 15 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: When's the deadline. 14 hours ago, Death Impends said: msc has given his blessing, and we are officially open! You have till 23:59 GMT on January 19th to get a team in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,442 Posted January 13, 2020 19 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: He says blessing, it was more like me going "Huh, what OK are you waiting for?" "Yours!" "Oh right, go ahead then?" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, msc said: He says blessing, it was more like me going "Huh, what OK are you waiting for?" "Yours!" "Oh right, go ahead then?" Yeah I get it though - really the unveiling of the Drop 40 should be one of the things everyone is waiting for when the 2020 DDP site goes live - it's just a shame we're having to drip feed info out whilst we work through the IT glitches. EDIT: Actually the Drop 40 info is not obvious from the opening post so ignore me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,442 Posted January 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Yeah I get it though - really the unveiling of the Drop 40 should be one of the things everyone is waiting for when the 2020 DDP site goes live - it's just a shame we're having to drip feed info out whilst we work through the IT glitches. At least there's no teasing folk like saying Sultan Qaboos was 2 teams off the Drop 40. That'd just be cruel. TMIB used to do a big reveal on forum of the Drop 40 years and years ago when the website took weeks to load. But hopefully the IT glitches will be nuked before too long! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 13, 2020 Just now, msc said: At least there's no teasing folk like saying Sultan Qaboos was 2 teams off the Drop 40. That'd just be cruel. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuffaloPhil 926 Posted January 13, 2020 1) Paul Gascoigne 2) Michael Robinson 3) Doddie Weir 4) Billy Connolly 5) Linda Nolan 6) Queen Elizabeth II 7) Henry Kissinger 8) Mikhail Gorbachev 9) Rolf Harris 10) Betty White 11) Olivia Newton-John 12) June Brown 13) Angela Lansbury 14) Chris Doleman 15) Barbara Windsor 16) Dick van Dyke 17) Leslie Phillips 18) Stirling Moss 19) Bill Turnbull 20) Susan Bayh 21) George Alagiah 22) Pat Smullen 23) Ruth Bader Ginsburg 24) Leon Spinks 25) Prunella Scales sub Bob Dole 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,391 Posted January 13, 2020 This was one of the few DP's I've attempted that wasn't a total disaster, so I'm going in again to prove that was a fluke. Queen Elizabeth II Olivia Newton John Linda Nolan Billy Connolly Paul Gascoigne Dick Van Dyke Angela Lansbury Doddie Weir Barbara Windsor Rolf Harris Betty White Jimmy Greaves June Brown Bill Turnbull Greg Gilbert Henry Kissinger Pope Benedict XVI Michael Robinson George Alagiah Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Carter Kirk Douglas Olivia de Havilland Vera Lynn Prunella Scales SUB: Sam Lloyd 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
