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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.
Since 2008, it has been run by Octopus of Odstock
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LAST
YEAR'S COMPETITION – DDP 2008
Congratulations to The Living End, who are the winners for
the first time ever!!
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THE
CURRENT COMPETITION – DDP 2009
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FURTHER
INFORMATION
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LATEST
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS – 2nd July 2009
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July
starts with a few big deaths as the toll starts to mount - the latest deaths are
of actor Karl
Malden,
singers
Gale
Storm
&
Michael
Jackson,
actresses
Mollie
Sugden
&
Farrah
Fawcett,
athlete
Godfrey
Rampling,
Army man Waldemar
Levy Cardoso
& journalist
Steven
Wells...
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Please see the List of the Lost
for other picks who have died, but for whom no points
have yet been awarded because they haven't had a suitable obituary.
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In other news...
Walter
Cronkite
is
rumoured to be near death... Ed
Koch
has heart surgery...Ronnie
Biggs
has
a chest infection, broken hip & "has nothing to live for"
after his parole is denied...
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
in
hospital...
Liz
Smith
has
a stroke...
Cory
Aquino
in
a "serious condition" in hospital..
Dora
Bryan
said
to be extremely frail & too ill to travel..
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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!!: Mean Machine, Pobol y Fedd
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CONTACT US
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E-mail
Octopus of Odstock with any questions/comments about
the DDP:
ddp2009@derbydeadpool.co.uk
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PREVIOUS
YEARS' COMPETITIONS
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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 – 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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