Dead Pool 2014

Rules are generally the same as in previous years.

In this thread, post a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. No e-mails this year.

I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. I'd rather not allow someone without, for instance, a Wikipedia entry. On a related note, if a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actor)" or "(tennis player)."

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Quvenzhané Wallis (age 10) would get you a lot more points than picking Zsa Zsa Gabor (age 96), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 10. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 10, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 10; after that, you'll be locked in.

There will eventually be a Google spreadsheet of picks and leaders. I will try to have it linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5XwkSguNI"">here.

Link fail.

Here's my list to start it off. I don't mind if people steal from it.

Ariel Sharon
Valerie Harper
Wilko Johnson
Fred DeLuca
Sam Simon
Peter Robbins (voice of Charlie Brown)
Randy Travis
Stuart Scott
Scott Putesky (a.k.a. Daisy Berkowitz)
Tito Vilanova
Michael Schumacher
Joost van der Westhuizen
Ryan Buell
Hayley Okines
Malala Yousafzai

Ariel Sharon
Michael Schumacher
Muhammad Ali
Ken Kercheval
Paul O'Grady
Tito Vilanova
Wilko Johnson
Terry Pratchett
Clive James
Liz Dawn
Fernando Ricksen
Frankie Muniz

Special "people in prison called Ian" section:

Ian Watkins
Ian Brady
Ian Huntley

(Ian Watkins being the lostprophets scumbag, not H from Steps)

Some related links, in case anybody needs ideas.

http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk
http://www.deathlist.net
http://stiffs.com
http://deadpool.rotten.com

Ariel Sharon
David Rockefeller
Terry Pratchett
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth II
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jerry Lewis
Frankie Munez
Lil Wayne
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Artie Lange
Valerie Harper
Muhammad Ali
Doris Day
Stan Lee

Ariel Sharon should be out of this game.
it's like voting for a dead man.

Ach, he'll hang on in there for another whole year at least.

well..:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ariel-sharons-condition-deteriorates/

Queen Elizabeth
Ariel Sharon
Gunter Grass
Warren Buffett
Mark E Smith
Alice Munro
Hugh Hefner
Shimon Peres
Jean Luc Godard
Hosni Mubarak

since Thatcher aside I've been so bad at this I've decided to let chance do the work for me

Jason Derulo
Noel Fisher
Ahmed Manaa
Juron Criner
Anatoli Starostin
Tímea Babos
Linsey Godfrey
Craig Smith (rugby league born 1973)
Kadir Topbaş
Merzbow
Marvin L. White
Josh Wagner
Geoffrey Prime
Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco
George Anastasia

Pervez Musharraf (b. 1943)
Hassan Nasrallah (b. 1960)
Nouri al-Maliki (b. 1950)
Mohamed Morsi (b. 1951)
Ayman al-Zawahiri (b. 1951)
Ariel Sharon (b. 1928)
Qassem Suleimani (b. 1957)
Bashar al-Assad (b. 1965)
Khaled Mashaal (b. 1956)
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (b. 1945)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (b. 1954)
Thein Sein (b. 1945)
Edward Snowden (b. 1983)
Mahmoud Abbas (b. 1935)
Hamid Karzai (b. 1957)

what's common to all?

oh wait it's 15.
so:

Queen Elizabeth
Ariel Sharon
Gunter Grass
Warren Buffett
Mark E Smith
Alice Munro
Hugh Hefner
Shimon Peres
Jean Luc Godard
Hosni Mubarak
Michael Douglas
Stephen Hawking
Hafez el Assad
Keith Richards
Jerry Lewis

xp idk geopolitical leaders and rebels from tumultuous areas?

Thanks for doing this, abanana!

Will submit a list in the next few days.

Yes, thanks for doing - just noticed your emails! Let me know if you need a hand with anything.

Maulana Fazlullah
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Joseph Kony
Dokka Umarov
Omar Treviño Morales
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Asma al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
Wilko Johnson
Clive James
Shawn Kuykendall
Tito Vilanova
Valerie Harper
Joost van der Westhuizen
Ariel Sharon

Can I sub Joost van der Westhuizen in for Fernando Ricksen in some creepy one-of-their-MND-prognoses-is-worse-than-the-other tactic?

Sure! "You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 10"

No one choosing Michael Schumacher?

a wish list

George Herbert Walker Bush
Dick Cheney
Anthony Kiedis
Stan Lee

Michael Schumacher
Sam Simon
Valerie Harper
Jan-Michael Vincent
Casey Kasem
Wilko Johnson
Harper Lee
James Garner
Herman Wouk
Sid Caesar
Anita Ekberg
Don Pardo
Joseph Wapner
I.M. Pei
Jack T. Chick

Daisy Berkowitz
Beau Biden
Sam Simon
Darren Daulton
Jerry Kill
Mel Stottlemyre
Lynne Stewart
Paul Revere (of the Raiders)
Wilko Johnson
Valerie Harper
Stephen Hawking
Joost van der Westhuizen
The Ugandan Giant (Kamala)
Ariel Sharon
Michael Schumacher

my tactic of picking wrestlers has backfired on me recently, but fucking hell, how the likes of bobby heenan and kamala are still alive is bewildering and this has to be the year i run away with it all. i'm going double or quits this year with a full wrestling pick. (thats if im not too lazy to research it and write a list obv)

my final list.
Godard is out, Schumacher in:

Queen Elizabeth
Ariel Sharon
Gunter Grass
Warren Buffett
Mark E Smith
Alice Munro
Hugh Hefner
Shimon Peres
Michael Schumacher
Hosni Mubarak
Michael Douglas
Stephen Hawking
Hafez el Assad
Keith Richards
Jerry Lewis

Hafez died in 2000.

yeah right, i mean the son

Mr Bashar

Vince McMahon
Bobby Heenan
Kamala
Superstar Billy Graham
Lex Luger
Jerry Lawler*
Ric Flair
Chyna
Jimmy Rave
Iron Sheik
Sabu
Jim Neidhart
Dynamite Kid
Barry Windham
Perry Saturn

*He's been rushed to hospital today, so I needed to do this quickly.

DDP hates dead pools and is busy trying to ruin any attempts at doing this list properly. Fucker has turned around the lives of Jake Roberts, Scott Hall and Justin Credible in the past year alone. (That he is able to do this is awe-inspiring obviously but it meant Sabu made my list and he'll live forever.)

never heard of Jimmy Rave, what makes him a likely candidate?

Used to wrestle for TNA. Also known to smoke a lot of meth and down many pills.

Picking anyone that wouldnt get a new health insurance policy is to be frowned upon imo

Oh and actually I'd like to replace Jimmy Rave with Mae Young.

bashar al-assad
jerry sandusky
shia labeouf
abel ferrera
preston lacy
david a. siegel
david blaine
don king
bob barker
g hw bush
harry dean stanton
tom sizemore
dexter filkins
gheorghe muresan
verne troyer

Petula Clark
Neville Wran
Rohan Kanhai
Anna Karen
Don King

Norman Lamont
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hugh Hefner
John Laws
Virginia Bottomley

Bob Skilton (Aus AFL footballer)
Tony Blackburn
Ian Brady
Elizabeth Evatt
Jeremy Thorpe

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Former-prime-minister-Ariel-Sharon-dies-at-85-337662

Seems like a good time to end entries. Fred Nark, you are in.

15 points to start off with eh? Feels like a mulligan.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/mae-young-passes-at-90-26173408

my first points.

Noted. (I still need to finish the spreadsheet.)

oh yeah I noticed that Kalishakov died on Dec. 23rd and he was on my 2013 list... can I get those points added retroactively?? ;)

*Kalishnakov

I got 'em, V.

:)

From my list:
Shawn Kuykendall

Doku Umarov (not yet independently confirmed, but reported by his supporters)

Thanks. Will note it down for when I start to work on the charts.

From mine, and a few others' too, really unhappy to be bumping this for Tito Vilanova :-(

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/25/tito-vilanova-dies-aged-45-barcelona

(Also had Sandy Jardine last year but dropped him this year)

I know I could use a ranking update (when there's time)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bXqiw7jKS3RFZnM-niCVpIhOvLIQLD6dHCWG4ez-wGQ/edit?usp=sharing

whenuweremine is way in the lead with 188 points. Current runners up are myself and ailsa with the same picks scoring 70, then Elvis Telecom with 41. Let me know if I made any mistakes.

Bump for Don Pardo.

You get 4 points.

I updated the chart. I took 50 points away from whenuweremine because Dokka Umarov actually died last year. This is possibly controversial since it wasn't known until March this year. Looking at other dead pools, I see they require the death to occur within the year, and that's the rule I'm going with. whenuweremine is still in the lead.

are going to do 2015 as well?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bXqiw7jKS3RFZnM-niCVpIhOvLIQLD6dHCWG4ez-wGQ/edit#gid=0

whenuweremine won with 138 points. He picked 3 stiffs.

Ariel Sharon - 7 picks
Tito Vilanova - 3 picks
Shawn Kuykendall - only pick. Youngest death at 32 years, for 68 points.

Elvis Telecom selected the most celebrities who died. No crossover with any other contestant.

Casey Kasem
James Garner
Sid Caesar
Don Pardo

Other rewarded choices:
Paul Revere (of the Raiders) - kaleb
Mae Young - a hoy hoy
Neville Wran - Fred Nerk
Jeremy Thorpe - Fred Nerk

So who wants to run Dead Pool 2015?

you?