WATMM Dead Pool 2013

January 11, 2013

Seeing as no thread has been created yet, here we are. Sure nearly everyone knows the drill now, but if anyone needs a reminder of the rules (as stolen from a previous thread)...

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THE BASICS:

Pick 10 different celebrities who are alive as at 1st January 2013, but who, in your opinion, will no longer be with us by 31st December 2013.
Nominate one of them as your "joker".
For each celeb demise that you guess correctly, you'll score points, and if your joker sadly passes away, your grief will be alleviated by the fact that you'll score double points.
The Person with the most points at the end of the year will, unsurprisingly, be deemed to be the winner.

In the event of a dead heat on points, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:

The most hits (i.e. correctly-chosen deceased celebs).
The youngest average age of hits.

OTHER RULES:

All of your chosen celebs must be:

Human.
At least 18 years old as at 1st January 2013.
Actual real-life people, not characters out of soap operas and the like.
Named individuals, not just "Pope Wotsisface" or "the oldest person in the world".
Players must not murder their chosen celebs. That's cheating, and cheating is wrong.
The date of death is taken as that in the country/region where the person died, i.e. local time is used. If the time of death is reported as exactly midnight local time, the date of the day just beginning is used. This may be relevant in deciding bonuses (see below).

DEFINITIONS:

"Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a British national newspaper or on the BBC News website. This does mean that you can't always be sure when picking your team whether each person will be famous enough or not, but that's all part of the game.
"Obituary" simply means an article which mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.
"Alive" means drawing breath, not decomposing, that kind of thing.
"No longer with us" is the opposite of the above.
"Death" means the transition from the former to the latter. The death of a career (e.g. Michael Jackson) doesn't count.

SCORING:

The value of the basic death depends on the person's age:

16-29 years: 12 points
30-49 years: 10 points
50-59 years: 9 points
60-69 years: 8 points
70-79 years: 7 points
80-89 years: 6 points
90-99 years: 5 points
100-109 years: 4 points
110+ years: 3 points

On top of this, bonus points are awarded as follows:

Unique pick: +1 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.
Unlucky 13: +2 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month.
Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not State executions).
Party pooper: +5 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or Xmas Day.
Joker: Take the total of all the above and double it.

Either way here's my picks to start things off:

Margaret Thatcher
George Bush Sr.
Bruce Forsyth
Mick Jaggar
Joan Rivers
Axl Rose
Prince Philip
David Attenborough (please don't let it be so )
Lindsay Lohan
Piers Morgan (Joker)

EDIT: Swapped Barbara Harris for Prince Philip as I'm not sure she'd be famous enough to get an obituary in the papers...

Edited January 11, 2013 by Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald

**Rubin Farr** · January 11, 2013

John Boehner

Bob Barker

Hugh Heffner

Justin Bieber

Oprah

Christopher Lee

Honey Boo Boo

Al Roker

Kristen Stewart

George Lucas

J3FF3R00 · January 11, 2013

Edward Furlong

Mike Meyers

Courtney Love

Peter O'Toole

Lindsey Lohan

Marylin Manson

Betty White

Christopher Lee (good one, Rubin... I'll be taking that one)

Dave Foley

Kirk Douglas (joker)

**dr lopez** · January 11, 2013

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Nelson Mandela

George H. W. Bush

Fidel Castro

Hugo Chavez

Kim Jong-Un (Joker)

Sly Stone

Fumihiko Maki

cear · January 11, 2013

may I update my list with each post? unable to think of ten right now.

Piers Morgan (I think he ironically will get shot)

Soloman Tump · January 11, 2013

terry pratchett

bruce forsyth

prince phillip

brian blessed

dolly parton

mick jagger

rhianna (joker)

Edited January 12, 2013 by feltcher

**baph** · January 11, 2013

Gary Glitter

Haruki Murakami

Don DeLillo

Alex Jones

Dina Lohan

Keenan Thompson

Janet Reno

William "The Refrigerator" Perry

Tina Turner

Stephen Hawking (Joker)

Edited January 11, 2013 by baph

January 12, 2013

Robert Mugabe

Hugo Chavez

George Bush Sr.

P.D. James

Ray Liotta

Muhammad Ali

Jack Nicholson

Romain Grosjean (joker)

Madeleine Albright

Paul Gascoigne

brian trageskin · January 12, 2013

obama

justin bieber

tom cruise

**joshuatxuk** · January 12, 2013

Pat Robertson

Amanda Bynes

Billy Graham

Hugo Chavez

George Bush Sr.

Jimmy Carter

Betty White

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Dick Cheney

Charlie Sheen (joker)

Edited January 12, 2013 by joshuatx

sergeantk · January 12, 2013

Chevy Chase

Mick Jagger

Paul McCartney

Bob Barker

Bam Margera

Lindsay Lohan (this one will be tragic)

halisray · January 12, 2013

this thread is morbid

GORDO · January 12, 2013

Hugo Chavez for sure.

lumpenprol · January 12, 2013

I'll definitely second:

Hugo Chavez

Lindsay Lohan (and, following her, Lina Lohan is a good pick)

Christopher Lee

Edward Furlong

Zsa Zsa Gabor (she's not dead yet?)

Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela are good picks too, obviously

And add a few of my own:

Mel Gibson

Lil Wayne

Lady Gaga

one of the two Olsen Twins

McCaulay Culkin

Marilyn Manson

**spratters** · January 13, 2013

Prince Harry

Barry Scott

Margaret Thatcher(Joker) - And if I get this one I'm allowed to dance on her grave.

Alex Ferguson

Terry Pratchett

Cliff Richard

John McAfee

George Michael

Judi Dench

David Bowie

BOCfan · January 14, 2013

I'm always reluctant to participate in dead pools as I worry I'd be inviting voodoo upon myself.

January 14, 2013

Jamie Oliver

Bobby Womack

Harrison Ford

Emili Sande

Eric Pickles

Vanessa Feltz

Nick Nolte

Judy Finnegan

Triple H

Rio Ferdinand

**Squee** · January 14, 2013

Nick Stahl

Lindsay Lohan

Prince Phillip

George Bush Sr

Castro (I thought he was already dead?)

Mandela

Edward Furlong

Kirk Douglas

The Pope(??)

Peter O'Toole (thought he was dead as well)

January 15, 2013

katt williams

nelson mandela

kirk douglas

bob dole

stan lee

roger ebert

nick nolte

tom sizemore

lindsay lohan

ed asner

Root5 · January 15, 2013

Clint Eastwood

LimpyLoo · January 15, 2013

Jaleel White

Leonard Cohen

Bill Bellamy

Axl Rose

Steve Martin

Stephen King

George Clinton

J.D. Salinger

Steve Buscemi

Kristen Stewart (wildcard)

January 15, 2013

jd salinger died a couple years ago. maybe pick thomas pynchon instead?

LimpyLoo · January 15, 2013

On 1/15/2013 at 6:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:
Jaleel White

Leonard Cohen

Bill Bellamy

Axl Rose

Steve Martin

Stephen King

George Clinton

~~J.D. Salinger~~ Alex Jones

Steve Buscemi

Kristen Stewart (wildcard)

Blir · January 15, 2013

Lindsay Lohan

Bill Murray

John McAfee

Margaret Thatcher

Barack Obama

Jack Whitehall (wishful thinking more than anything)

Piers Morgan

Muhammad Ali

Gary Glitter

Ralph Fiennes

lumpenprol · January 15, 2013

On 1/15/2013 at 12:34 PM, Obel said:
Ralph Fiennes

lol?

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