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2013 Leader Board (Final)
1. 2317 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
2. 1333 Robert Plomp (Life Kills)
3. 1187 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
4. 1112 Bugs ****ing Bunny
5. 1074 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
6. 946 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)
7. 876 Donegeal (Don's Deadbeats)
8. 874 Regexcellent (Kodak Crew)
9. 782 embalmer42 (The Day The Celebrities Died)
10. 742 stonesfan (We're All Skeletons Underneath)
11. 739 Krill (The New Immortals)
12. 706 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
13. 556 ricketyclik (Team Rickety)
14. 525 Ming (Never Say Die)
15. 383 OneFootInTheGrave
16. 354 Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)
17. 340 Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)
18. 207 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
18. 207 Tuberski (Ninth Lives)
Dead Celebs in 2013
January 14 – Conrad Bain (89) – embalmer42
January 19 - Stan Musial (92) - PLATO, -Jrabbit
January 21 - Michael Winner (77) - Bugs ****ing Bunny, ColdWizard
January 30 - Patty Andrews (94) - Donegeal
February 4 - Reg Presley (71) - ColdWizard
February 18 - Damon Harris (62) - ColdWizard
February 25 - C. Everett Koop (96) - -Jrabbit
February 27 - Van Cliburn (78) - ColdWizard
March 1 - Bonnie Franklin (69) - ColdWizard, Wezil
March 5 - Hugo Chavez (58) - OFITG, Krill, ColdWizard, Bugs****ingBunny, -Jrabbit, Donegeal, Regexcellent, embalmer42, SlowwHand, Wezil, Hauldren Collider, stonesfan, Robert Plomp
March 29 - Ralph Klein (70) - Wezil
April 1 - Jack Pardee (76) - ColdWizard
April 4 - Roger Ebert (70) - stonesfan, Bugs****ingBunny, ColdWizard
April 8 - Margaret Thatcher (77) - ricketyclik, Wezil, Uncle Sparky, embalmer42, Hauldren Collider, Guynemer, Robert Plomp, PLATO, Krill, -Jrabbit, Regexcellent, Bugs****ingBunny, OFITG
June 3 - David "Deacon" Jones (74) - Tuberski
June 6 - Esther Williams (91) - ricketyclik
June 11 - Henry Cecil (70) - ColdWizard
July 7 - Anna Wing (98) - Regexcellent, Donegeal
July 20 - Helen Thomas (92) - Hauldren Collider
July 30 - Harry Byrd Jr. (98) - Hauldren Collider
August 12 - Prince Johan Friso (44) - Robert Plomp
September 5 - Rochus Misch (96) - Robert Plomp
October 4 - Vo Nguyen Giap (102) - -Jrabbit
October 9 - Mark "Chopper" Read (58) - ColdWizard
October 11 - Erich Priebke (100) - Regexcellent, Guynemer, Donegeal
December 5 - Nelson Mandela (95) - Ricketyclik, Wezil, Uncle Sparky, Bugs ****ing Bunny, embalmer42, Hauldren Collider, Robert Plomp, Rexexcellent, -Jrabbit, Ming, Krill, stonesfan, Guynemer
December 15 - Harold Camping (92) - Ming, Robert Plomp
December 18 - Ronnie Biggs (84) - Krill, stonesfan, Robert Plomp, Ming, Bugs ****ing Bunny, Wezil, Donegeal
December 23 - Mikhail Kalashnikov (94) - Guynemer
All Time Leader Board (6 seasons)
1. 4971 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (26)
2. 4913 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (24)
3. 4346 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (20)
4. 3343 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (18)
5. 3197 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (17)
6. 2987 Robert Plomp (Life Kills) (16)
7. 2206 Krill (The New Immortals) (11)
8. 2050 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) (12)
9. 1901 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (10)
10. 1859 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) (10)
11. 1687 OneFootInTheGrave (8)
12. 1521 Bugs ****ing Bunny (8)
13. 1486 embalmer42 (The Day The Celebrities Died) (7)
14. 1176 Tuberski (Ninth Lives) (6)
15. 1133 MRT144 (6)
16. 1109 Ming (Never Say Die) (5)
17. 1083 DaShi (DaShi Pissers) (6)
18. 1004 Omni Rex Draconis (5)
19. 990 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (5)
20. 943 germanos (Into the Great Void) (4)
21. 876 Donegeal (Don's Deadbeats) (5)
22. 874 Regexcellent (Kodak Crew) (5)
23. 742 PLATO (Plato’s Legio Mortis) (4)
24. 726 Ricketyclik (Team Rickety) (4)
25. 675 Asmodean (3)
26. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
27. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
28. 562 LordShiva (3)
29. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
30. 408 flash9286 (2)
31. 404 Uncle Sparky (Sparky's Creamytorium) (2)
32. 393 David Floyd (2)
33. 386 LotC (2)
34. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
35. 376 snoopy369 (2)
36. 171 Drogue (1)
Past Grim Reaper Award Winners
2008 - -Jrabbit (5 hits, 991 points)
2009 - SlowwHand (6 hits, 1241 points)
2010 - -Jrabbit (4 hits, 718 points)
2011 - -Jrabbit (6 hits, 1217 points)
2012 - ColdWizard (7 hits, 1459 points)
Most points awarded: Bonnie Franklin - 347 points (ColdWizard)
Fewest points awarded: Anna Wing - 153 points (Donegeal)
Oldest Celeb death: Oscar Niemeyer - 104 (OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144)
Youngest Celeb death: Amy Winehouse - 27 (embalmer42, germanos)
Earliest death: Miep Gies - January 11 (-Jrabbit)
Latest death: Harold Pinter & Jack Klugman - December 24 (Ming, snoopy369, Omni Rex Draconis, LordShiva & MRT144)
Most Hits - Single Celeb - Hugo Chavez, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela - 13 players
Longest Dry Spell: 102 days (July 22/08 - October 31/08 - ended by -Jrabbit)
Most Players: 20 (2012)
Most Celebs picked: 228 (2012)
Game Rules (applicable to game play)
11. Celebrity deaths are to be reported by the players in the Dead Pool thread (one report will suffice for all). I don’t have the time or inclination to keep track of everybody’s list. If someone on your list dies it is your duty to claim your points. NOTE: A link to an obit of some kind is required (see Rule 23b). This link must be in English.
12. All deaths are to be reported by 7th January 2014 (to allow for any delay in media reporting). This will be the official closing day for awarding points.
13. I'll update the thread every time someone scores points, and up-date the scoreboard in the thread opening post.
14. At the end of the year the poster with the most points will be declared the winner. Duh.
15. When an eligible celebrity on your list dies points will be awarded according to the following formula:
Points = (171 - Rank) + (100 – age) + Bonus
16. Rank points - The higher a player Ranks their pick the more points that pick will be worth. Be careful to order your list from most likely to least likely to perish sometime in 2013 if you want to make the most of their loss.
17. In addition, bonus points will be awarded when a death meets the following criteria:
a) Unique Pick Award: +25 points if you were the only player to pick that celebrity.
b) Unlucky 13 Award: +10 points for a celebrity who dies on the 13th of any month.
c) Unnatural Causes Award: +20 points for murder, suicide or accident.
d) Party Pooper Award: +25 points for any celebrity rude enough to die on their birthday or Christmas Day.
e) First Blood Award: +25 points for the first celebrity to die in 2013.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2013.
g) The Daily Double: +50 points awarded to any player who has two celebrities on their roster die on the same day.
h) The Hat Trick: +75 points awarded to any player who has three celebrities on their roster die over the course of one week (any 7-day span).
i) The Grand Slam: +100 points awarded to any player who has four celebrities on their roster die in the same month (any 30-day span).
j) The Empty Casket Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who had the longest "dry spell" between deaths.
k) The Killing Spree Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who has the most celebrities on their list die in a row. (That is, they score multiple points without anyone else scoring between them).
l) 100th Passing Memorial Award +50 points for the player who picks the 100th celebrity to die for the Poly Dead Pool cause.
18. The official date/time of any celebrity death is measured in the time zone that the celebrity is in when they die.
19. In the event of a dead heat on points at the closing of the 2013 Dead Pool, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:
a) The player with most correctly chosen deceased celebrities.
b) The player with the youngest average age of correct predictions.
20. If a celebrity who has passed on has more than one reported age the final decision will rest with the Panel Judges. Past precedent indicates the “oldest” birth date (fewer points) will be used when an accurate date cannot be determined.
21. a) You may not go out and “help yourself” win. Basically, you cannot kill someone on your list to give yourself more points. (any list actually). The penalty for violating this rule, in addition to any criminal charges brought upon you by the appropriate authorities, is a lifetime ban from the Off Topic Dead Pool.
b) You may not kill any of the other players (see paragraph a) above)
23. DEFINITIONS:
a) "Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a major, mainstream media news website. A good rule of thumb is “Celebrity = Name Recognition.” The Judges Panel should be able to look at the name and say “Oh, I know who that is,” without any prompting from the player. The Judges Panel should at least be able to find many references to the individual with a cursory online search.
b) "Obituary" simply means an article that mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.
c) "Alive" means drawing breath, not decomposing, that kind of thing.
d) “Dead” means dead. No irreversible coma, no vegetables. To qualify as dead, there must be an actual corpse. The death of a career doesn't count.
24. PRIZE: The player with the most points at the end of the year will gain nothing more than the glory and distinction of being the best at reading the tea leaves and determining where Death was most likely to strike in 2013.
1. 2317 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
2. 1333 Robert Plomp (Life Kills)
3. 1187 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
4. 1112 Bugs ****ing Bunny
5. 1074 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
6. 946 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)
7. 876 Donegeal (Don's Deadbeats)
8. 874 Regexcellent (Kodak Crew)
9. 782 embalmer42 (The Day The Celebrities Died)
10. 742 stonesfan (We're All Skeletons Underneath)
11. 739 Krill (The New Immortals)
12. 706 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
13. 556 ricketyclik (Team Rickety)
14. 525 Ming (Never Say Die)
15. 383 OneFootInTheGrave
16. 354 Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)
17. 340 Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)
18. 207 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
18. 207 Tuberski (Ninth Lives)
Dead Celebs in 2013
January 14 – Conrad Bain (89) – embalmer42
January 19 - Stan Musial (92) - PLATO, -Jrabbit
January 21 - Michael Winner (77) - Bugs ****ing Bunny, ColdWizard
January 30 - Patty Andrews (94) - Donegeal
February 4 - Reg Presley (71) - ColdWizard
February 18 - Damon Harris (62) - ColdWizard
February 25 - C. Everett Koop (96) - -Jrabbit
February 27 - Van Cliburn (78) - ColdWizard
March 1 - Bonnie Franklin (69) - ColdWizard, Wezil
March 5 - Hugo Chavez (58) - OFITG, Krill, ColdWizard, Bugs****ingBunny, -Jrabbit, Donegeal, Regexcellent, embalmer42, SlowwHand, Wezil, Hauldren Collider, stonesfan, Robert Plomp
March 29 - Ralph Klein (70) - Wezil
April 1 - Jack Pardee (76) - ColdWizard
April 4 - Roger Ebert (70) - stonesfan, Bugs****ingBunny, ColdWizard
April 8 - Margaret Thatcher (77) - ricketyclik, Wezil, Uncle Sparky, embalmer42, Hauldren Collider, Guynemer, Robert Plomp, PLATO, Krill, -Jrabbit, Regexcellent, Bugs****ingBunny, OFITG
June 3 - David "Deacon" Jones (74) - Tuberski
June 6 - Esther Williams (91) - ricketyclik
June 11 - Henry Cecil (70) - ColdWizard
July 7 - Anna Wing (98) - Regexcellent, Donegeal
July 20 - Helen Thomas (92) - Hauldren Collider
July 30 - Harry Byrd Jr. (98) - Hauldren Collider
August 12 - Prince Johan Friso (44) - Robert Plomp
September 5 - Rochus Misch (96) - Robert Plomp
October 4 - Vo Nguyen Giap (102) - -Jrabbit
October 9 - Mark "Chopper" Read (58) - ColdWizard
October 11 - Erich Priebke (100) - Regexcellent, Guynemer, Donegeal
December 5 - Nelson Mandela (95) - Ricketyclik, Wezil, Uncle Sparky, Bugs ****ing Bunny, embalmer42, Hauldren Collider, Robert Plomp, Rexexcellent, -Jrabbit, Ming, Krill, stonesfan, Guynemer
December 15 - Harold Camping (92) - Ming, Robert Plomp
December 18 - Ronnie Biggs (84) - Krill, stonesfan, Robert Plomp, Ming, Bugs ****ing Bunny, Wezil, Donegeal
December 23 - Mikhail Kalashnikov (94) - Guynemer
All Time Leader Board (6 seasons)
1. 4971 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (26)
2. 4913 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (24)
3. 4346 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (20)
4. 3343 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (18)
5. 3197 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (17)
6. 2987 Robert Plomp (Life Kills) (16)
7. 2206 Krill (The New Immortals) (11)
8. 2050 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) (12)
9. 1901 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (10)
10. 1859 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) (10)
11. 1687 OneFootInTheGrave (8)
12. 1521 Bugs ****ing Bunny (8)
13. 1486 embalmer42 (The Day The Celebrities Died) (7)
14. 1176 Tuberski (Ninth Lives) (6)
15. 1133 MRT144 (6)
16. 1109 Ming (Never Say Die) (5)
17. 1083 DaShi (DaShi Pissers) (6)
18. 1004 Omni Rex Draconis (5)
19. 990 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (5)
20. 943 germanos (Into the Great Void) (4)
21. 876 Donegeal (Don's Deadbeats) (5)
22. 874 Regexcellent (Kodak Crew) (5)
23. 742 PLATO (Plato’s Legio Mortis) (4)
24. 726 Ricketyclik (Team Rickety) (4)
25. 675 Asmodean (3)
26. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
27. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
28. 562 LordShiva (3)
29. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
30. 408 flash9286 (2)
31. 404 Uncle Sparky (Sparky's Creamytorium) (2)
32. 393 David Floyd (2)
33. 386 LotC (2)
34. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
35. 376 snoopy369 (2)
36. 171 Drogue (1)
Past Grim Reaper Award Winners
2008 - -Jrabbit (5 hits, 991 points)
2009 - SlowwHand (6 hits, 1241 points)
2010 - -Jrabbit (4 hits, 718 points)
2011 - -Jrabbit (6 hits, 1217 points)
2012 - ColdWizard (7 hits, 1459 points)
Most points awarded: Bonnie Franklin - 347 points (ColdWizard)
Fewest points awarded: Anna Wing - 153 points (Donegeal)
Oldest Celeb death: Oscar Niemeyer - 104 (OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144)
Youngest Celeb death: Amy Winehouse - 27 (embalmer42, germanos)
Earliest death: Miep Gies - January 11 (-Jrabbit)
Latest death: Harold Pinter & Jack Klugman - December 24 (Ming, snoopy369, Omni Rex Draconis, LordShiva & MRT144)
Most Hits - Single Celeb - Hugo Chavez, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela - 13 players
Longest Dry Spell: 102 days (July 22/08 - October 31/08 - ended by -Jrabbit)
Most Players: 20 (2012)
Most Celebs picked: 228 (2012)
Game Rules (applicable to game play)
11. Celebrity deaths are to be reported by the players in the Dead Pool thread (one report will suffice for all). I don’t have the time or inclination to keep track of everybody’s list. If someone on your list dies it is your duty to claim your points. NOTE: A link to an obit of some kind is required (see Rule 23b). This link must be in English.
12. All deaths are to be reported by 7th January 2014 (to allow for any delay in media reporting). This will be the official closing day for awarding points.
13. I'll update the thread every time someone scores points, and up-date the scoreboard in the thread opening post.
14. At the end of the year the poster with the most points will be declared the winner. Duh.
15. When an eligible celebrity on your list dies points will be awarded according to the following formula:
Points = (171 - Rank) + (100 – age) + Bonus
16. Rank points - The higher a player Ranks their pick the more points that pick will be worth. Be careful to order your list from most likely to least likely to perish sometime in 2013 if you want to make the most of their loss.
17. In addition, bonus points will be awarded when a death meets the following criteria:
a) Unique Pick Award: +25 points if you were the only player to pick that celebrity.
b) Unlucky 13 Award: +10 points for a celebrity who dies on the 13th of any month.
c) Unnatural Causes Award: +20 points for murder, suicide or accident.
d) Party Pooper Award: +25 points for any celebrity rude enough to die on their birthday or Christmas Day.
e) First Blood Award: +25 points for the first celebrity to die in 2013.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2013.
g) The Daily Double: +50 points awarded to any player who has two celebrities on their roster die on the same day.
h) The Hat Trick: +75 points awarded to any player who has three celebrities on their roster die over the course of one week (any 7-day span).
i) The Grand Slam: +100 points awarded to any player who has four celebrities on their roster die in the same month (any 30-day span).
j) The Empty Casket Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who had the longest "dry spell" between deaths.
k) The Killing Spree Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who has the most celebrities on their list die in a row. (That is, they score multiple points without anyone else scoring between them).
l) 100th Passing Memorial Award +50 points for the player who picks the 100th celebrity to die for the Poly Dead Pool cause.
18. The official date/time of any celebrity death is measured in the time zone that the celebrity is in when they die.
19. In the event of a dead heat on points at the closing of the 2013 Dead Pool, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:
a) The player with most correctly chosen deceased celebrities.
b) The player with the youngest average age of correct predictions.
20. If a celebrity who has passed on has more than one reported age the final decision will rest with the Panel Judges. Past precedent indicates the “oldest” birth date (fewer points) will be used when an accurate date cannot be determined.
21. a) You may not go out and “help yourself” win. Basically, you cannot kill someone on your list to give yourself more points. (any list actually). The penalty for violating this rule, in addition to any criminal charges brought upon you by the appropriate authorities, is a lifetime ban from the Off Topic Dead Pool.
b) You may not kill any of the other players (see paragraph a) above)
23. DEFINITIONS:
a) "Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a major, mainstream media news website. A good rule of thumb is “Celebrity = Name Recognition.” The Judges Panel should be able to look at the name and say “Oh, I know who that is,” without any prompting from the player. The Judges Panel should at least be able to find many references to the individual with a cursory online search.
b) "Obituary" simply means an article that mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.
c) "Alive" means drawing breath, not decomposing, that kind of thing.
d) “Dead” means dead. No irreversible coma, no vegetables. To qualify as dead, there must be an actual corpse. The death of a career doesn't count.
24. PRIZE: The player with the most points at the end of the year will gain nothing more than the glory and distinction of being the best at reading the tea leaves and determining where Death was most likely to strike in 2013.
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