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Welcome
to the
Derby
Dead Pool
"The
sickest site on the Internet...a ghoulish competition..." –
News
of the World
"Arguably
the world's most popular 'Dead Pool' competition" – BBC
"No-one
gets hurt in this game of death" - San
Francisco Chronicle
"A
macabre celebrity death pool site" - Metro
UK
"I
draw up my list. It's a game, a very amusing little game that
they play in every drawing-room in Paris whenever an 'Immortal' passes
on: the game of Death." – Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
(1885)
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THE
BASICS
– WHAT IS THE DERBY DEAD POOL?
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Simple
– it's an online competition to guess which famous people
won't
make it to the end of the current year.
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If
they're
elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em
in your team, and for each one whose death
you correctly predict, you'll score points.
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DDP
was
dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by
Big Iain
back
in 1996,
then was run from 2003-2007 by Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid. From
2008-2009, it was run by Octopus of Odstock, but
from 2010 onwards it's the turn of The Man in Black to run the DDP....
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LAST
YEAR'S
COMPETITION – DDP 2009
Congratulations
to Tonight, Matthew, I'm Badly
Torn-Boy, who are the
winners
for
the first
time ever!!
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THE
CURRENT
COMPETITION – DDP 2010
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FURTHER
INFORMATION
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LATEST
NEWS
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS – 2nd February 2010
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CONTACT
US
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PREVIOUS
YEARS' COMPETITIONS
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2009 –
Winner: Tonight, Matthew, I'm
Badly-Torn Boy (12
hits, 107 points [new scoring system])
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2008 –
Winner: The Living End
(13 hits, 108 points [new scoring
system])
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2007
–
Winner: Meet Your Maker
(12 hits, 109 points [new scoring
system])
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2006
–
Winner: Meet Your Maker
(10 hits, 53 points)
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2005
–
Winner: Fallen Sparrow
(12 hits, 60 points)
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2004 –
Winner: Deathlist.net
(9 hits, 38 points)
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2003
–
Winner: Otis, You Want A Treat?
(7 hits, 43 points)
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2002 –
Winner: JoeRam
(6 hits, 33
points)
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2001
–
Winner: Whittaker's Choice
(4 hits, 18 points)
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2000 –
Winner: MT Graves (RIP)
(6 hits, 30 points)
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1999 –
Winner:
Drunkasaskunk
(8 hits, 39 points)
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1998
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Winner: Drunkasaskunk
(5 hits,
23 points)
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1997 –
Winner: Nick J
(9 hits, 43 points)
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1996 –
Winner: Nick J
(? hits, 30 points)
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