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The Off Topic 2010 Celebrity Dead Pool
2010 Leader Board (Final)
1. 718 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
2. 592 OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe)
3. 570 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
4. 544 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
5. 536 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
6. 530 solomwi (Hearse Chasers)
7. 411 drunkasaskunk
8. 408 flash9286 (The Flashtastics)
9. 378 Winston (Something Rotten)
10. 338 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
11. 230 germanos (Into The Great Void)
12. 170 ricketyclik (Team Rickety)
13. 161 Tuberski (Deathtongue)
14. 050 duke o’york
14. 050 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express)
14. 050 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)
Dead Celebs in 2010
January 11 - Miep Gies (100) - Jrabbit
January 19 - Jennifer Lyon (37) - OzzyKP
January 27 - JD Salinger (91) - SlowwHand, ColdWizard, Ricketyclik
February 9 - Phil Harris (53) - flash9286
February 14 - Doug Fieger (57) - drunkasaskunk
February 20 - Alexander Haig (85) - solomwi
March 10 - Michael Foot (96) - Wezil
May 4 - Ernie Harwell (92) - Guynemer, drunkasaskunk
May 9 - Lena Horne (92) - Winston, ColdWizard
June 4 - John Wooden (99) - -Jrabbit, SlowwHand, Tuberski
June 28 - Robert Byrd (92) - Guynemer, flash9286, -Jrabbit, solomwi
July 13 - George Steinbrenner (80) - Guynemer, Wezil, OzzyKP
September 29 - Tony Curtis (85) - Winston
October 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom (95) - Solomwi, OzzyKP, Wezil, -Jrabbit
October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale (58) - ColdWizard
October 30 - Harry Mulisch (83) - germanos
All Time Leader Board (3 seasons)
1. 2294 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (12)
2. 1902 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (9)
3. 1762 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (9)
4. 1018 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (5)
5. 811 Omni Rex Draconis (4)
6. 785 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (4)
7. 675 Asmodean (3)
8. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
9. 605 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (3)
10. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
11. 570 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (3)
12. 562 LordShiva (3)
13. 495 germanos (Into the Great Void) (2)
14. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
15. 408 flash9286 (2)
16. 399 Tuberski (Deathtongue) (2)
17. 393 David Floyd (2)
18. 386 LotC (2)
19. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
20. 376 snoopy369 (2)
21. 339 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard) (1)
22. 264 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) (1)
23. 171 Drogue (1)
24. 170 Ricketyclik (1)
Past Grim Reaper Award Winners
2008 - -Jrabbit (5 hits, 991 points)
2009 - SlowwHand (6 hits, 1241 points)
2010 - -Jrabbit (4 hits, 718 points)
Highest and Lowest Awards
Michael Jackson - 273 points - Wezil
John Wooden - 161 points - Tuberski
Game Rules (applicable to game play)
10. Points will be awarded for each celebrity that you accurately predicted would die in 2010. Points will be awarded according to the formula in Rule 15.
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 2011 (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 2010 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 2010.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2010.
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.
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 2010 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 following websites will be consulted and the age that the majority says the celebrity was would be the age used.
a) deadoraliveinfo.com
b) wikipedia.org
c) AP.com
d) If there is no clear majority, then the deadoraliveinfo.com site will be the official age recorder.
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. 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 2010.
1. 718 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
2. 592 OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe)
3. 570 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
4. 544 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
5. 536 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
6. 530 solomwi (Hearse Chasers)
7. 411 drunkasaskunk
8. 408 flash9286 (The Flashtastics)
9. 378 Winston (Something Rotten)
10. 338 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
11. 230 germanos (Into The Great Void)
12. 170 ricketyclik (Team Rickety)
13. 161 Tuberski (Deathtongue)
14. 050 duke o’york
14. 050 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express)
14. 050 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)
Dead Celebs in 2010
January 11 - Miep Gies (100) - Jrabbit
January 19 - Jennifer Lyon (37) - OzzyKP
January 27 - JD Salinger (91) - SlowwHand, ColdWizard, Ricketyclik
February 9 - Phil Harris (53) - flash9286
February 14 - Doug Fieger (57) - drunkasaskunk
February 20 - Alexander Haig (85) - solomwi
March 10 - Michael Foot (96) - Wezil
May 4 - Ernie Harwell (92) - Guynemer, drunkasaskunk
May 9 - Lena Horne (92) - Winston, ColdWizard
June 4 - John Wooden (99) - -Jrabbit, SlowwHand, Tuberski
June 28 - Robert Byrd (92) - Guynemer, flash9286, -Jrabbit, solomwi
July 13 - George Steinbrenner (80) - Guynemer, Wezil, OzzyKP
September 29 - Tony Curtis (85) - Winston
October 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom (95) - Solomwi, OzzyKP, Wezil, -Jrabbit
October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale (58) - ColdWizard
October 30 - Harry Mulisch (83) - germanos
All Time Leader Board (3 seasons)
1. 2294 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (12)
2. 1902 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (9)
3. 1762 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (9)
4. 1018 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (5)
5. 811 Omni Rex Draconis (4)
6. 785 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (4)
7. 675 Asmodean (3)
8. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
9. 605 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (3)
10. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
11. 570 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (3)
12. 562 LordShiva (3)
13. 495 germanos (Into the Great Void) (2)
14. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
15. 408 flash9286 (2)
16. 399 Tuberski (Deathtongue) (2)
17. 393 David Floyd (2)
18. 386 LotC (2)
19. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
20. 376 snoopy369 (2)
21. 339 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard) (1)
22. 264 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) (1)
23. 171 Drogue (1)
24. 170 Ricketyclik (1)
Past Grim Reaper Award Winners
2008 - -Jrabbit (5 hits, 991 points)
2009 - SlowwHand (6 hits, 1241 points)
2010 - -Jrabbit (4 hits, 718 points)
Highest and Lowest Awards
Michael Jackson - 273 points - Wezil
John Wooden - 161 points - Tuberski
Game Rules (applicable to game play)
10. Points will be awarded for each celebrity that you accurately predicted would die in 2010. Points will be awarded according to the formula in Rule 15.
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 2011 (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 2010 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 2010.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2010.
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.
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 2010 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 following websites will be consulted and the age that the majority says the celebrity was would be the age used.
a) deadoraliveinfo.com
b) wikipedia.org
c) AP.com
d) If there is no clear majority, then the deadoraliveinfo.com site will be the official age recorder.
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. 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 2010.
May your timeliness continue to surpass my pathetic stewardship in 2009.
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