The 2+2 Celebrity Death Pool, Part Deux: Once More, With Feeling - Other Topics Forum - Discuss Pop Culture, Arts and Entertainment

The spreadsheet, for the record, is here.

This is the thread where we'll track the hits. I've been able to sit back and create this thread at my leisure because our collective wisdom has garnered exactly zero hits to start the first two weeks of the year.

To recap the rules (this quote edited for length, the full rules are in the call for entries):

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Originally Posted by Punctually

- Each participant submitted an unnumbered list of 20 celebrities that were alive as of midnight EST January 1st, 2018. And they're all alive as of this writing, too! --ed.

- I will do my best to post the number of points acquired for the death and who chose the person. But ultimately, calling out deaths is up to participants. Please address any scoring errors to me via PM and I'll sort it out.

- The member with the most points wins.

- In the case of a tie at the end of the year, the following two tiebreakers will be used:
1. Number of total hits (most wins)
2. Youngest average age of hits

ELIGIBILITY
-Participation is limited to 2p2 members with at least 100 posts and an account that was created before October 1, 2017.

EXCLUSIONS:
- Scheduled executions.
- Deaths arising from the actions of forum members. (This is just to state the obvious – and hey, it was a Clint Eastwood movie.)
-If you are unsure if a person is eligible, PM me about him or her and I will try to answer.
- The Commissioner may, at his sole discretion, declare a name ineligible for lack of fame. (NOTE: This went unused this year.)

SCORING:

-To score points, the death must be announced on an U.S.-based, English-language national online news source listed below. If it is not, you do not receive points.

-CNN.com
-FOXNews.com
-NBCNews.com
-ABCNews.com
-USAToday.com
-CBSNews.com
-hosted.ap.org or apnews.com (Associated Press website)
-reuters.com

Their subsidiaries (for example FOXBusiness or CNBC) and partner sites (ESPN, Breakingnews.com) do not count. In all cases, it must be the U.S. editions of the above sites.

- The date of death is what counts, not the announcement. If the person is not confirmed to have died during 2017, then it does not count. The date of death is defined as the day it was in that person's time zone (a.k.a. local time) when they died. Scoring closes on January 8, 2019 for the purposes of this pool. Deaths unconfirmed (or unnoticed by us) until after January 8 do not score points.

- Dates of death must be confirmed, or at the least confirmed to be in 2017. If a shadowy figure is confirmed dead but it’s not known when that happened, points will not be awarded.

- Points for each entrant will equal (110 - Person's age at death).

- If you are the ONLY person in the pool to pick a name, you’ll get a 15-point bonus.

- You can classify one person on your list as a joker, meaning that their total points (including the bonus) would be doubled.

- Finally, it’s ultimately the responsibility of each player to track their own scores. I’ll try to stay up with various deaths but I have some semblance of a life. So ultimately it’s up to you. ALL DEATHS MUST BE CALLED OUT BY JANUARY 8, 2019, to count.

ENTRANCE FEE
It’s free to enter. There are no official stakes.

Good luck, gents. May the odds be ever in your favor.

July 3, 2018 update:

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Originally Posted by Punctually

Look, "just read the spreadsheet" could pretty much answer anything but you gotta admit, it is a conversation-killer. And given how bad we suck this year, I'll take all the activity I can get.

But hey! It's freshly updated! Here's a link to it!

Matt Cappotelli for me and PyramidScheme. 72 points apiece.

Your updated leaderboard still has krunic more or less flossing while he waits for everyone else to catch up:

krunic, 244
PocketInfinities, 123
PyramidScheme, 114
Louis Cyphre, 89
Punctually, 72
SuperUberBob, 71
Umcle Diddler, 34
JDiamond364, 34
econophile, 34

Given our performance to date this is the world's least necessary disclaimer, but....

...am out for the next two weeks. Will be slow on draw on updates.

In the interim, JUST READ THE SPREADSHEET.

Last edited by Videopro; 07-03-2018 at 04:56 AM.

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01-30-2018 , 04:39 PM

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

To-do list for Krunic:

1. Visit local Guitar Center.
2. Go to microphone section.
3. Select microphone.
4. Drop microphone.

Because of this, krunic's joker.

Will update spreadsheet soon, but right now it's:

Krunic: 180
everyone else: 0

carry on.

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01-30-2018 , 08:03 PM

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Pretty insane pick.

Year has started off pretty slow when it comes to the death pool

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01-30-2018 , 09:29 PM

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

brutality

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02-01-2018 , 01:29 AM

krunic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 6,189

Looks like Mark Salling won't be hanging around any more.

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02-12-2018 , 05:37 PM

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

Liam Miller.

89 for PocketInfinites.

Spreadsheet - with all of two hits thus far - here.

Carry on.

Last edited by Punctually; 02-12-2018 at 05:40 PM. Reason: updated spreadsheet link.

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02-16-2018 , 12:31 PM

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

I woke up to see that Prince Henrik of Denmark registered as a solo for PyramidScheme - who refuses to be interred with the rest of us at the bottom of the standings.

Spreadsheet linked in previous post (it's updated). Your leaderboard here:

krunic, 180
PocketInfinities, 89
PyramidScheme, 42
...
Everyone else, 0

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02-21-2018 , 01:00 PM

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

So who had Billy Graham?

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02-21-2018 , 08:47 PM

sixfour

should be called sevenfour

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 74,718

I don't know as the spreadsheet link seems broken

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02-22-2018 , 06:25 PM

#10

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

To answer the Billy Graham (minister) question: Nobody.
We have one selection of Billy Graham (wrestler).

As for the Dropbox link. Odd, it seems to work fine for me (tested on different laptop, but not on mobile). Here it is for copy/paste into browser purposes:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9t6ovc4gh...2018.xlsx?dl=0

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02-23-2018 , 01:11 AM

#11

Louis Cyphre

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11,025

The link doesn't work for me in Firefox but in Chrome it does.

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03-04-2018 , 11:25 AM

#12

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Was I the only one who had Roger Bannister?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...s-dies-n853011

The Dropbox link in the OP is dead.

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03-04-2018 , 08:32 PM

#13

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,745

Was I the only person who had "The Dropbox link in the OP"?

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03-04-2018 , 09:39 PM

#14

gregorio

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 39,313

Quote:

Originally Posted by Punctually

Spreadsheet - with all of two hits thus far - here.

Carry on.

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03-05-2018 , 12:22 AM

#15

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

Quote:

Originally Posted by Punctually

Spreadsheet - with all of four hits thus far - here.

Carry on.

FMP.

Yes, SUB, Bannister is a solo for you.

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03-14-2018 , 12:13 AM

#16

younguns87

POG gonan POG

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 60,870

Stephen Hawking gotta be on some of the lists

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03-14-2018 , 12:15 AM

#17

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

6 people (myself included) chose Hawking

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03-14-2018 , 05:02 PM

#18

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

6 people (myself included) chose Hawking

Hey, let's do a quick leaderboard, wherein krunic seems like less of a sure thing than he was, say, four weeks ago. Recent scorers bolded.

krunic,180
PocketInfinities, 123
SuperUberBob, 71
PyramidScheme, 42
Umcle Diddler, 34
econophile, 34
JDiamond364, 34
Louis Cyphre, 34

Everyone else has yet to score. In this contest.

For a spreadsheet, this link ought to get you there, but maybe not if you're in Firefox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9t6ovc4gh...2018.xlsx?dl=0

It's unchanged from before, but I will note that the one in the OP no longer works.

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03-24-2018 , 11:26 AM

#19

PocketInfinities

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,915

Lol of course I completely whiffed strategically on choosing my joker (Kim Jong). Whoops.

Thanks for running this!

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03-28-2018 , 12:16 PM

#20

Umcle Diddler

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,876

Someone is trying to help my list out apparently.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/corey-fe...123514465.html

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04-15-2018 , 08:02 PM

#21

Punctually

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 273

No change in over a month, because we are bad at this.

But I am compelled to mourn a loss tonight:

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R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, according to his longtime manager. He was 74.
====

Farewell to the Senior Drill Instructor. One of the singular movie characters of all time. Nobody else has come close to playing the type.