The Reply-All Dead Pool

Rules:

  1. Pick ten people you think will die, draft-style.  Points awarded for a correctly predicted death will depend on that person's position on your list.  If the #1 person on your list dies, you receive 10 points.  If the #10 person eats it, you receive 1 point and so on.
  2. The time limit is one year.  For any death on your list to count, that person must die within the time limit.
  3. Age factor bonus will reward risky, youthful predictions.  When you make a correct prediction, you'll receive a bonus tenth of a point (0.1) for every year that person falls short of their 100th birthday.  Therefore, if the person dies when he/she is 65, you will receive a bonus 3.5 points.
  4. Stereotypical Disease: As an option, you can add a stereotypical disease next to a persons name, such as Hepatitis C or Scurvy.  If that person succumbs to that disease within the time limit, you will receive a bonus.  If it is well known that this person has this disease, you will get a bonus of 1.25x your point total.  If you pick the correct terminal disease and it wasn't known that the person had said disease at the time of the draft, you will receive a bonus of 2.5x your point total.  Note that these same rules apply to drug overdoses since pussies refer to drug addiction as a disease.  In reality, people who can't handle their drugs are bitches, but in terms of The Reply-All Dead Pool, we'll agree with the pussies for now and count an overdose as a Stereotypical Disease.
  5. Instead of a Stereotypical Disease, you can predict the person to die of old age, which, if correct, is a bonus of 1.25x your point total.
  6. Unnatural Death: Like the Stereotypical Disease rule, you can choose to specify if the person on your list will die from unnatural causes, such as a plane crash, car crash, or gorilla attack.  Since this is much more risky and completely random, you will receive a bonus of 3.5x your point total if you are correct.  Just be warned that this could be considered throwing your bonus opportunity away.
  7. Obviously, everyone on your list must be alive at the start of the Reply-All Dead Pool.  I am making this a rule because you're all a bunch of CHEATS and someone will pick a guy no one's ever heard of before for their list who's probably already dead.  And it's not like you can get away with this anyway.
  8. You cannot list someone more than once.  Using a dead celebrity from last year as an example, it would be illegal to list Johnny Cash ten times on your list because you figured he was going to drop any day.  No repeats.  Should be obvious, but I'm getting rid of the loophole from the get go.
  1. Pogson
  2. Stover
  3. Brent
  4. Hose
  5. J
  6. Greg
  7. Godwin
  8. Russ
  9. Paul
  10. Rulnick