Ain't no sunshine when they're gone, except for the Deadpool! Stay away from this thread if you don't like the absurd/ridiculous/macabre nature of this game... . THE rules! Picks will be allowed to be posted from today until January 9th, 12:00pm PST. Why 9+ days? It's an integral number in the baseball/Howard Stern universe, so I like it. Also, nobody who dies within this time period will be counted towards points right away... new for 2023, it'll be the 'Purgatory list', to be revisited at this date a year from now, to see if it affects the final scores. To be fair to any & all playing, everyone gets 11-picks. NO PM's; much easier to track & compile results by going through the first few pages of this thread. The criteria is simple: any celebrity/well-known human that's 18+ (obscurity is welcome, of course, but that person's got to be some sort of a known figure) and/or famous animal in the vein of Harambe, or P22 (a tracked mountain lion that had lived out here in L.A.). No JCer's, obviously. Points & multipliers! Base points for age groups are as follows: 18-30... 100-points 31-40... 90-points 41-50... 80 points 51-60... 70-points 61-70... 60-points 71-80... 50-points 81-90... 40-points 91+.... 30-points The multipliers! 2x- if two people on your list die within the same calendar day. 3x- if three people on your list with 24-hours of each other. 4x- "the scumbag"... a death that near-universally won't be missed (i.e. Garry Glitter, Putin) 5x- "the massive"... a death, loved or hated aside, that will cause world-wide news for some time to follow (i.e.: Queen Elizabeth, Trump). 10x- "the irony"... a death that's related to the person's career/work (i.e.: Paul Walker dying in a crash crash back in '13 type of thing). 15x- "the bittersweet"... someone 80+ (open to debate, I suppose) who clearly has had a good run at it, but nonetheless, it's a sad thing (i.e.: Vin Scully). 50x... "the exact"... a death that occurs on a person's birthday. 100x... "the absurd"... if multiple people on your list die in the same incident OR are responsible for the other's demise. Yeah, no bittersweet multiplier this time around. And remember, Multipliers aren't mutually exclusive, so depending on circumstance, a particular death or deaths can net you a large amount of points! THE winner will get a 31-days of colors (I like odd numbers). No runner-up prizes.
1. King Charles 2. King Harald of Norway 3. ex king Juan Carlos of Spain 4. princess Beatrix of the Netherlands 5. Queen Margrete of Denmark 6. Queen Sonja of Norway 7. King Carl Gustaf of Sweden 8. Queen Silvia of Sweden 9. Sultan Hassanal of Brunei 10. King Mswati of Eswatini 11. Queen Camilla Repeating my list from last year, just switching one queen for another.
My second favorite death is of the bittersweet. Can I ask for clarification about how the purgatory list comes into play? Or at least hypothetically would?
Think of it as “spring training”; separate list/points complied (people who die between January 1st-January 9th), only to be added on 12/31/23 to the official totals, if any of the names on the Purgatory list affect who ends up winning in ‘23.
1. William Shatner 2. George Takai 3. Walter Koenig 4. Patrick Stewart 5. Avery Brooks 6. Kate Mulgrew 7. "Joe Who?" Joe Clark 8. Brian "The Chin" Mulroney 9. Kim "Kim" Campbell 10. Jean "The Shawinigan Strangler" Chrétien 11. King Charles III
1. Dick Van Dyke. 2. Ric Flair 3. Bob Barker 4. Dick Cheney 5. Henry Kissinger 6 Al Roker 7 Harry Belafonte 8 Vladimir Putin 9 Jimmy Carter 10 Keith Richards 11 Pat Robertson If someone dies during Purgatory can we replace them on our list?
At least I don’t have to pay to play here. 1 Robert Duvall 2 Stevin “Blippi” John 3 Chris Leidy 4 Dr. Ruth Westheimer 5 Jack Depp 6 Tim Curry 7 Jimmy Carter 8 Justin Bieber 9 Stephen Bannon 10 Maddie Ziegler 11 Elon Musk
Somebody causing a stock to tank meant I had to consult the real time... um... Ramza's Deadpool List. Bernard Arnault Elon Musk Gautam Adani Warren Buffett Jeff Bezos Bill Gates Larry Ellison Mukesh Ambani Carlos Slim Helu Steve Ballmer Larry Page
Dick Van Dyke Harry Belafonte Bob barker Jimmy Carter Rosalyn Carter Burt Bacharach William Shatner June Lockhart Eva Marie Saint Bob newheart Tony Bennett
1. Vince McMahon 2. Bill Gates 3. Donald Trump 4. Joe Biden 5. Mike Tyson 6. Francis 7. Charles III 8. Vladimir Putin 9. Volodymyr Zelensky 10. Patrick Stewart 11. George Lucas
I was wondering the same thing, but it seems not. It's used to potentially determine a winner in case the finals scores are close.
Once again, I will not be playing because I'm too lazy not because it's too macabre. BUT this is still my main source of knowing when random people die so thanks for the thread.
In order of how sad their deaths would be for me, 1 being not at all, actually pretty psyched and 11 being I'll be in the dumps for a couple days. 1. Vladimir Putin 2. Prince Andrew 3. Kanye West 4. Ezra Miller 5. Bill Cosby 6. Ozzy Osbourne 7. Julie Andrews 8. Dick Van Dyke 9. James Earl Jones 10. Mel Brooks 11. Tom Baker
Well my plan of hoping for an explosion at the Juno Awards or some sort of Guess Who murder/suicide pact never came to fruition so I'm switching things up this year.
Going for the full scumbag again: 1. Donald J. Trump 2. Mitch McConnell 3. Rudy Giuliani 4. Dick Cheney 5. Henry Kissinger 6. Ted Kaczynski - This is his year for sure! 7. Alex Jones 8. Roger Stone 9. Vladimir Putin 10. Newt Gingrich 11. Clarence Thomas
