With just three weeks remaining of 2008, we're on the downhill run for the 2008 Celebrity Dead Pool, which means . . .
It's time to start thinking about who's going to be dropping off the perch in 2009 !
We've had a some surprising celebrity deaths this year, and you can bet your last dog-eared copy of Who magazine that 2009 will be no exception.
The only question is . . . can YOU pick a winner?
Just like the 2008 Celebrity Dead Pool, the game is very simple.
Simply nominate a list of 10 celebrities you believe are not long for this world, and submit them to me before 12am on 1 January 2009.
You can email your nominations to me at ilikeportello@gmail.com.
And that's it! From then on it's just a ghoulish waiting game.
Entry is free and the prize once again will be a double pass to Village Cinema Gold Class.
And finally there are, of course, some rules.
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Scoring
1. The score awarded for a correctly predicted death will be equal to 100 minus Age at Date of Death.
2. A person's "age" will be defined as their Age Last Birthday. This figure is incremented at the instant of 12am on the date of the person's birthday. This means that if a person dies on their birthday, their age is taken as the age they had just become that day.
3. If a person is over the age of 100 at their date of death, the score will be zero.
4. In the event of dispute about a person's precise age, the issue will be investigated by the moderator (me) and a decision made based on the best available evidence. The moderator's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered in to.
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The Rules
1. All nominated persons must be human and must be alive as at 12am on 1 January 2009.
2. If you make a nomination and the person dies before 12am on 1 January 2009, you may substitute another name. You have 1 day's grace, and the substitution must happen before 12am on 2 January 2009.
3. Nominated persons must be famous or infamous in their own right, not (for example) because they're sick, or because they're very old, or because they're hideously and tragically deformed, or because they're about to undergo an extraordinary, ground-breaking and very risky operation.
4. For a death to be valid, it must be reported by at least one major mainstream media outlet. Examples include AP, AAP, Reuters, a major national or metropolitan newspaper or a major national or metropolitan TV network. Your blog doesn't count.
5. The death of a local celebrity will only be valid if their death is reported by a national media outlet, or by a major media outlet in another city.
6. If a nominated person is on death row or known to have a terminal illness at the start of the game, no points will be awarded if they die of the expected cause. Similarly, if a nominated person is being held hostage at the start of the game, no points will be awarded if they are killed by their captors or in a rescue attempt. Points will be awarded only if such a nominated person dies from another unrelated cause.
7. Each nomination list may have at most 10 names.
8. No name may appear on a nomination list more than once. You may, however, submit more than one list.
9. Any attempts to influence the result via homicidal acts will result in immediate disqualification.
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Get your nominations in before 1 January, and good luck!
4 comments:
I was wondering how the terminal illness thing slipped under you radar last year. Good to see you've picked up on it.
No Michael J Fox for me this year then.
Of course, life is simply a terminal illness that we all have.
Also, with rule 1, in light of the child porn case and the definition of a person, I assume that I could nominate Kenny from South Park and get multiple points for each time he dies?
bring it on!!!
My friend Lloyd is keen to join.
I have sent him the link to this post.
list submitted :)
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