Celebrity Death Match

[owly]

How to play
The game starts at 12:01am January 22 2011 and ends 11:59pm December 31st 2011.
Post now; a team name(if you want one), a list of 25 celebrities by name along with a cause of death for each and a brief description or occupation to help avoid confusion for celebrities with common names.

Rules
1. No celebrity can appear more than once on a roster
2. Your picks don't have to be unique, but you stand a better chance of winning if you alone get points
3. You may submit a roster late (within reason) but if anyone on your list dies between the start of the game and when you finally submit it, you get no points.
4. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, any ties will be broken by number of deaths on the roster then by youngest average age of the roster.
5. You can't kill anyone on your roster.

Eligibility
To be included on an active roster the person must meet the following criteria:
They must be human.
They must be alive as of the start of the game.
They must be famous or infamous in their own right.
They must not be famous only for being ill.
Persons on death row at the start of the game will score no points if they are executed. Persons held hostage at the start of the game will score no points if they are killed by their captors or in a rescue attempt. Such persons will score points if they die from other causes.
They cannot be recipients of animal or artificial vital organs as of the start of the game. (Note: Pacemakers and heart valves are NOT vital organs, e.g., Dick Cheney is eligible.)

To be considered (in)famous, the person must meet one of two criteria:
Their death must be recognized by a major media organization (e.g., Associated Press, New York thymes, London thymes, Washington Post, CNN). Local celebrities from cities like New York and Washington are not eligible even if their deaths are reported in the thymes or the Post, unless out-of-town news organizations also carry the obituary. Given the penchant of AP to report the death of just about anyone associated with the news industry, any news person must have a national following or received a major news award during their lifethyme to be eligible.

Anybody who wants to decides that major media organizations have failed to report a death of a famous person. Admin or who ever will make a judgment of fame comparing that person with others who have died and been reported. (The point of this rule is to cover the occasional case where a famous person is inexplicably ignored by major news organizations.)

Celebrities must have done something (written a book, recorded a song, won an Olympic medal, hosted a TV game show, etc.) to be considered famous in their own right. Their fame cannot derive solely from a relationship to another famous person. Spouses and family members of famous people who receive significant press coverage during their lives are considered famous in their own right (e.g., Ladybird Johnson, Prince Philip, and any of the Kennedy?s are eligible; Derek Jeter's mother, Dorothy, is not).

Simply living to a ripe old age is not sufficient as a claim to fame. Therefore, the oldest person in the world is not eligible unless they happen to have done something else in their life to justify celebrity.

Missing persons are eligible, but if it is determined during the course of the year that they were dead at the start of the game or if their fate is still unknown at the end of the game, they will score no points.

The Kaz man or anybody who's interested can keep count/keep score

Scoring

Each death will earn you 10 points plus 100-(age of your celebrity). If the celebrity is over the age of 100 it will result in just 1 being added.
The minimum points a death will earn is 11 by anyone age 99 or over and that also doesn't qualify for any bonus points.

Bonus points

20points The first death of the year.
20points The last death of the year.
15points The oldest death of the year.
15 points The youngest death of the year.
35points If they die on their birthday.
40 points If they are murdered or commit suicide. (55 If their death is part of a murder AND a suicide)
50points If they die while having sex.

[MoP]

1. Kim Jong-il - N. Korean ruler - Nulear bomb
2. Lindsay Lohan - attention whore - car crash
3. Vera Lynn - singer - age
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress - age
5. Courtney Love - singer/widow - overdose
6. Bobby Brown - husband - another Whitney 'comeback'
7. La Esterella - singer - age
8. Darlene Cates - actress - obesity
9. Nelson Mandela - ex-president - heart attack
10. Ahmedinejad - president - murdered
11. Jusin Bieber - childwhore - suicide
12. Margaret Thatcher - the Iron Lady - skullfucked by Gili
13. Kirk Douglas - actor - age
14. Oscar Niemeyer - architect - age
15. Kate Middleton - princess to be - scratched the eyes out and slowly tortured to death by a jealous girl
16. Gaston Berghmans - comedian - heart attack
17. Bush Sr. - ex-president - heart attack
18. Amy Winehouse - singer - overdose
19. Pete Doherty - singer - overdose
20. Bart De Wever - politician - murdered
21. Diego Maradona - football player - heart attack
22. Pope Benedict XVI - pope - murdered
23. Barack Obama - president - plane crash
24. Sarah Palin - politician - hunting accident
25. Magic Johnson - basketball player - AIDS

[owly]

Maybe i'll try to contact Kaz for a posting tittle for this if Kaz is willing then it will be done......

[MoP]

bump!

[Gili]

Mmmm interesting. 25 though, thats some creativity there. Not sure i'd skullfuck Maggie Thatcher though

[squee]

mmmmm, much harder to come up with something than i thought


1) Al Davis - Raiders owner - Beat to death by Tom Cable
2) Donald Sterling - Clippers owner - Shot by a black man from Compton
3) Tim Tebow - Quarterback - Finally lusted after a girl so God struck him down
4) Kate Middleton - Future Princess - Car accident
5) Vincent Buckles - Gunsmith on Sons of Guns - Gets shot by coworker
6) Alan Greenspan - Former chairman of the Federal Reserve - Heart attack
7) Pauly D - Jersey Shore cast member - drug overdose
8) Olivia Munn - Former cohost of Attack of the Show - burned by a stalker geek
9) Muammar Gaddafi - Libyan leader - killed by rebels
10) Scott Adams - Dilbert creator - cancer
11) Jimmer Fredette - BYU basketball player - heart attack due to enlarged heart
12) Alan Mulally - Ford CEO - some weird sickness that I've never heard of
13) Chris Brown - Singer - drug overdose
14) Charles Barkley - Former NBA player - Golf accident
15) Gisele Bundchen - Model - Pregnancy complications (It is football offseason)
16) Dez Bryant - Cowboys WR - Killed off by the mob for not repaying a loan
17) Mel Gibson - actor - Alcohol poisoning
18) Kirk Douglas - actor - old age
19) Susan Boyle - Britian's Got Talent Contestant - run over by a bus
20) Jon Gosselin - reality star - falling off a roof
21) Warren Jeffs - president of flds churhc - gangraped in prison
22) Anna Chapman - former Russian spy - assasinated by another spy
23) Larry Platt - Pants on the Ground - Forgot to follow his own lyrics and tripped over his own pants
24) Julian Assange - wikileaks - no one knows, he'll just disappear
25) Kim Jong Un - Kim Jong Il's son - military takeover

[MoP]

Seems like I got First Blood. La Esterella died. I'm looking for a decent English source, but for now you'll have to cope with this:

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/cultu ... erella_RIP

May she rest in peace.

[MoP]

I'm fairly sure noone cares, but I scored again with Amy Winehouse's death...

[owly]

I killed her so you would win

[MoP]

I was winning without her death too...

[owly]

Prestigiously winning indeed

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