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2012 Leader Board (as of 1-Jan-13)
1. 1459 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
2. 1122 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
3. 1045 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
4. 851 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
5. 764 OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe)
5. 764 MRT144
7. 692 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)
8. 685 Robert Plomp (Life Kills)
9. 668 OneFootInTheGrave
10. 596 DaShi (DaShi Pissers)
11. 538 Krill (Why Invent The Wheel Twice)
12. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny
13. 402 Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)
14. 386 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
15. 380 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath)
16. 210 Tuberski (That 70’s Show)
17. 195 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)
18. 182 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express)
19. 050 Elok (The One That’s All Women)
19. 050 Dinner (Done Like Dinner)
19. 050 Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)
19. 050 Barnabas
Dead Celebs in 2012
January 20 - Etta James (73) - Wezil, -Jrabbit, ColdWizard, MRT144, Bugs ****ing Bunny, stonesfan, Guynemer
January 22 - Joe Paterno (85) - Guynemer, SlowwHand
February 16 - Gary Carter (57) - ColdWizard
April 18 - Dick Clark (82) - SlowwHand, ColdWizard, Guynemer, DaShi
May 20 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (60) - Krill, OzzyKP, DaShi, OFITG, Wezil
May 20 - Robin Gibb (62) - OFITG, ColdWizard, Wezil, Bugs ****ing Bunny
June 2 - Richard Dawson (79) - PLATO
June 4 - Abu Yahya al-Libi (49) - OzzyKP
June 5 - Ray Bradbury (91) - Robert Plomp, MRT144, SlowwHand
June 26 - Nora Ephron (71) - Tuberski
June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir (96) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, DaShi, Hauldren Collider, Krill, Guynemer, SlowwHand
July 3 - Andy Griffith (86) - PLATO
July 8 - Ernest Borgnine (95) - SlowwHand, Hauldren Collider, stonesfan, ColdWizard, OFITG, Guynemer
August 20 - Dom Mintoff (96) - Robert Plomp
August 25 - Neil Armstrong (82) - embalmer42
September 25 - Andy Williams (84) - ColdWizard, Wezil
October 21 - George McGovern (90) - -Jrabbit, Hauldren Collider
October 22 - Russell Means (72) - ColdWizard
November 8 - Lee MacPhail (95) - Guynemer
November 23 - Larry Hagman (81) - Ming
December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer (104) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144
December 9 - Sir Patrick Moore (89) - Krill, Wezil
December 17 - Daniel Inouye (88) - Hauldren Collider
December 24 - Jack Klugman (90) - MRT144
All Time Leader Board (5 seasons)
1. 3897 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (20)
2. 3726 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (18)
3. 3136 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (17)
4. 2491 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (13)
5. 2029 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (10)
6. 1901 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (10)
7. 1654 Robert Plomp (9)
8. 1467 Krill (7)
9. 1308 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) (7)
10. 1304 OneFootInTheGrave (6)
11. 1133 MRT144 (6)
12. 1083 DaShi (DaShi Pissers) (6)
13. 1004 Omni Rex Draconis (5)
14. 990 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (5)
15. 969 Tuberski (Death's Litterbox) (5)
16. 943 germanos (Into the Great Void) (4)
17. 913 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) (5)
18. 704 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) (3)
19. 675 Asmodean (3)
20. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
21. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
22. 584 Ming (Never Say Die) (2)
23. 562 LordShiva (3)
24. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
25. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny (2)
26. 408 flash9286 (2)
27. 402 PLATO (Plato’s Legio Mortis) (2)
28. 393 David Floyd (2)
29. 386 LotC (2)
30. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
31. 376 snoopy369 (2)
32. 171 Drogue (1)
33. 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)
2011 - -Jrabbit (6 hits, 1217 points)
Most points awarded: Michael Jackson - 273 points (Wezil)
Fewest points awarded: Yitzhak Shamir - 155 points (SlowwHand)
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 - Kim Jong-Il - 10 players
Longest Dry Spell: 102 days (July 22/08 - October 31/08 - ended by -Jrabbit)
Most Players: 22 (2012)
Most Celebs picked: 228 (2012)
1st Celeb death - January 19, 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette (70)
50th Celeb death - May 2, 2011 - Osama Bin Laden (54)
100th Celeb death -
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 2013 (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 2012.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2012.
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) The Leap Into the Grave Award: +25 points for any celebrity that dies on February 29th.
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 2012 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 2012.
1. 1459 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
2. 1122 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
3. 1045 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
4. 851 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
5. 764 OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe)
5. 764 MRT144
7. 692 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)
8. 685 Robert Plomp (Life Kills)
9. 668 OneFootInTheGrave
10. 596 DaShi (DaShi Pissers)
11. 538 Krill (Why Invent The Wheel Twice)
12. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny
13. 402 Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)
14. 386 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
15. 380 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath)
16. 210 Tuberski (That 70’s Show)
17. 195 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)
18. 182 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express)
19. 050 Elok (The One That’s All Women)
19. 050 Dinner (Done Like Dinner)
19. 050 Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)
19. 050 Barnabas
Dead Celebs in 2012
January 20 - Etta James (73) - Wezil, -Jrabbit, ColdWizard, MRT144, Bugs ****ing Bunny, stonesfan, Guynemer
January 22 - Joe Paterno (85) - Guynemer, SlowwHand
February 16 - Gary Carter (57) - ColdWizard
April 18 - Dick Clark (82) - SlowwHand, ColdWizard, Guynemer, DaShi
May 20 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (60) - Krill, OzzyKP, DaShi, OFITG, Wezil
May 20 - Robin Gibb (62) - OFITG, ColdWizard, Wezil, Bugs ****ing Bunny
June 2 - Richard Dawson (79) - PLATO
June 4 - Abu Yahya al-Libi (49) - OzzyKP
June 5 - Ray Bradbury (91) - Robert Plomp, MRT144, SlowwHand
June 26 - Nora Ephron (71) - Tuberski
June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir (96) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, DaShi, Hauldren Collider, Krill, Guynemer, SlowwHand
July 3 - Andy Griffith (86) - PLATO
July 8 - Ernest Borgnine (95) - SlowwHand, Hauldren Collider, stonesfan, ColdWizard, OFITG, Guynemer
August 20 - Dom Mintoff (96) - Robert Plomp
August 25 - Neil Armstrong (82) - embalmer42
September 25 - Andy Williams (84) - ColdWizard, Wezil
October 21 - George McGovern (90) - -Jrabbit, Hauldren Collider
October 22 - Russell Means (72) - ColdWizard
November 8 - Lee MacPhail (95) - Guynemer
November 23 - Larry Hagman (81) - Ming
December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer (104) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144
December 9 - Sir Patrick Moore (89) - Krill, Wezil
December 17 - Daniel Inouye (88) - Hauldren Collider
December 24 - Jack Klugman (90) - MRT144
All Time Leader Board (5 seasons)
1. 3897 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (20)
2. 3726 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (18)
3. 3136 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (17)
4. 2491 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (13)
5. 2029 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (10)
6. 1901 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (10)
7. 1654 Robert Plomp (9)
8. 1467 Krill (7)
9. 1308 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) (7)
10. 1304 OneFootInTheGrave (6)
11. 1133 MRT144 (6)
12. 1083 DaShi (DaShi Pissers) (6)
13. 1004 Omni Rex Draconis (5)
14. 990 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (5)
15. 969 Tuberski (Death's Litterbox) (5)
16. 943 germanos (Into the Great Void) (4)
17. 913 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) (5)
18. 704 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) (3)
19. 675 Asmodean (3)
20. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
21. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
22. 584 Ming (Never Say Die) (2)
23. 562 LordShiva (3)
24. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
25. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny (2)
26. 408 flash9286 (2)
27. 402 PLATO (Plato’s Legio Mortis) (2)
28. 393 David Floyd (2)
29. 386 LotC (2)
30. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
31. 376 snoopy369 (2)
32. 171 Drogue (1)
33. 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)
2011 - -Jrabbit (6 hits, 1217 points)
Most points awarded: Michael Jackson - 273 points (Wezil)
Fewest points awarded: Yitzhak Shamir - 155 points (SlowwHand)
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 - Kim Jong-Il - 10 players
Longest Dry Spell: 102 days (July 22/08 - October 31/08 - ended by -Jrabbit)
Most Players: 22 (2012)
Most Celebs picked: 228 (2012)
1st Celeb death - January 19, 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette (70)
50th Celeb death - May 2, 2011 - Osama Bin Laden (54)
100th Celeb death -
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 2013 (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 2012.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2012.
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) The Leap Into the Grave Award: +25 points for any celebrity that dies on February 29th.
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 2012 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 2012.
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