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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 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)
"Real people are
subjects of deadpools. When they're my friends it's unfunny. Perhaps
students could shoot themselves instead. The end." - David Quantick
(2010)
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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 – 25th August 2010
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With
four months to go, DDP 2010 is just 31 hits from matching the record
set last year. The latest to join the ranks are literary critic Sir Frank Kermode,
Scottish poet Edwin Morgan,
German theatre and film director Christoph Schlingensief
and songwriter George David Weiss,
who will no longer be seeing fields of green and red roses too... Grobler's Stiff Ones
still has a slender lead of one point over We Spin Terror,
player of the month
for July with 24 points.
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In
other news... Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
has returned home to die after refusing any more surgery.
Actor/producer Michael Douglas
has treatment for throat cancer. Recently deceased author J.D. Salinger's
toilet is for sale. People will do anything to find that lost novel of
his!
And the Beatles are in the news again as Ringo Starr's
childhood home in Liverpool is threatened with demolition and former
Beatle film director Richard Lester
gives up his collection to the British Film Insitute. Now why would he
be doing that, I wonder?
The DDP
History page is now
fully updated and will be updated on a monthly basis. The Inane
Analysis for 2010
has
also arrived...
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Message
to all current competitors:If
you
haven't
been receiving the notification mails that we send out whenever a celeb
carks it, please check that we have your current email address (re-send
it to us if unsure), your inbox is not full, and our address is not
blocked by your mail system.
The following teams are currently uncontactable!!: Weakend
At Bernies, Take The Last Rite To The Mortuary, Bxboy422
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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
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Winner: Fallen Sparrow
(12 hits, 60 points)
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2004 –
Winner: Deathlist.net
(9 hits, 38 points)
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2003
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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
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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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