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    The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2022

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    Just had a look at the spreadsheet, and some notes.
    There are 661 unique celebrities picked by 111 contestants, of which 427 were solo shots and 94 duos.
    Unsurprisingly Queen Lizzy is both the top pick and the highest riser this year, with 42 picks, up from 10 last year. People are no doubt expecting some sort of new widow bounce.
    Ghislaine Maxwell has increased from 10 to a whopping 22 picks, which is a lot for someone neither ill nor old. Pele has risen up the charts too, after appearing notably frail recently. The highest-picked new entry is the politician Frank Field who chose an assisted dying debate to announce that he was hospice-bound (and an entirely unrelated Frank Field made a debut appearance too, for good measure).
    On the other side, the consensus seems to be that Toms Parker and Smith are considerably less moribund than they were before; they both had 29 picks last year and dropped 8 and 10 respectively this time around.
    I count four theme teams this year.
    [mention=63777]get_the_subbies_on[/mention] went with Hollywood actresses again
    Miguel has stuck with his batch of writers, with the token 'get me some points THIS year, at least' exception of some ice hockey player with cancer. Writers tend to be a suboptimal choice, because they live forever, as Miguel is no doubt discovering. He should eventually get one of them to score *sometime*.
    [mention=24212]expatowner[/mention] has a big smattering of sixties and seventies musicians
    [mention=77094]Ray Patterson[/mention] claimed to be going for a theme, but there's no obvious connection there, other than the team being slightly politician-heavy. There are non-theme teams that are more thematic than this, like@dee_62 going a half-and-half music/fitba effort. If I'm not missing something obscure, then boo!
    [mention=77689]Curmudgeon[/mention]'s alphabetic list is clearly the best theme of the year. He should get 26 extra bonus points if his picks die in alphabetical order.
    [mention=31786]Hamish's_Passenger[/mention] only picked 14 players. 
    This year's Great Minds That Think Alike teams are [mention=70409]Indale Winton[/mention] and [mention=54922]Bishop Briggs[/mention] who share 9 picks each between them. Indale Winton has already pulled ahead in the score table, because he made Gary Burgess his captain and Briggsy didn't. Some minds are slightly greater than others, it seems.
    And there is no team from 2019's runaway winner [mention=65075]alta-pete[/mention]! After his mid-table 2020 finish, he promised to be up with the big boys at the start of 2021, which netted him nul points. This is clearly a warning of the dangers of hubris. Surely this would have been the year to put in a team and go for some kind of redemption arc.

    Can confirm my team is theme related - UK #1 chart hits 1970. The football players were all members of the England World Cup squad. The squad hit the top of the pops with “Back Home” that year.

    It’s been the same theme for the last 5 years or so and I’ve only started scoring in 2020 and 2021.
    No deaths from any of the musical artists yet, all my points have come from the World Cup squad. (3 in 2020 and 1 last year)
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    The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2020

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted

    Well done to @Bishop Briggs on the win and to @Miguel Sanchez for running it.

    Finishing just outside the top 30 was a massive improvement on my 3 previous blank years.  Interesting to note that although the theme of my team was music based, it was the 3 footballers from the England World Cup squad who earned me my points.  Straightforward subs for 2021 though - 3 new squad members in to fill the void . 

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    47 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

    I don't think TV News vox pops are a good indicator of the general public.  

    Reporting Scotland absolutely love a vox pop.  A few years ago when Edinburgh Zoo was attempting to get their panda preganant they ventured out into the centre of Edinburgh and asked people what they thought of the artificial insemination of pandas.  What did they think people were going to say?

    Another classic was when there had been a rape in a park, I can't remember where.  They did a vox pop of locals, asking them what they thought of it.  They all said, wait for it, that it was terrible and they hoped the police caught the guy who did it.  Amazing stuff, back to Jackie in the studio.

    Reporting Scotland last night somehow managed to find (and put on camera) the one person who has family in Shetland and will be impacted by the 5 day limitation to travel, so he won't be going home.  Can't believe (!) that they were totally unable to find a single person (from the probable 1000's) who is happy that they'll be able to travel to visit friends or family for the first time in months. 

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