- Winner will be the player that accurately predicts the demise of the greatest
number of celebrities during the 2001 calendar year.
- $15 entry fee entitles winner to entire pot. $2 of entry fee will go towards
administrative fees.
- Contest runs from January 1, 2001 to January 10, 2002. Deaths announced
up until January 10, 2002 will be counted so long as the actual death took
place before midnight on December 31, 2001.
- Entries are due by January 1, 2001. There will be NO exceptions.
- No list is considered valid unless entry fee is paid in full by January
1, 2001. I just don't trust you.
- Celebrity, for the purpose of this contest, will be defined by the journalism
community. If it's carried by the associated press, that's good enough for
us.
- Criminals scheduled to be executed are not eligible candidates. Life is
unfair like that.
- Those of you who plan to add one or more of the aging Communist dictators
to your list should keep in mind there is no retroactive credit should it
be revealed after the contest that your candidate had died during the 2001
Deadpool season. Tough shit.
- In the event of a tie, the point system will be invoked. Each position on
the list will have a point value. Candidate #1 will be worth ten points, #2
worth nine points, etc. For this reason, it behooves the contestants to put
the most likely candidates at the top of the list, saving dark horse candidates
for numerically higher positions. If a tie still exists, point scores will
be adjusted by (-1) for candidates over 70 years of age, and (+1) for candidates
under 40 years or age. If a tie remains, the pot is evenly divided.
- Those of you who insist on turning in a list that contains a celebrity who
is already on the wrong side of the lawn will not be allowed to make substitutions.
Research is the key.
- Candidates must be real, not fictional, and named by their full name, not
"the oldest guy in the world", or "that chick that does the
thing with the snakes". Animals, of course, are not eligible.
- This years' list contains an alternate spot. This candidate will only be
used if a celebrity on your list dies between the time you hand in your entry
and the start of the contest. They always find some fucker dead on Christmas
or New Year's. The alternate will become the new #10, and all others will
move up one position.
- If one of your candidates has the same (or similar) name as another celebrity,
indicate which one you mean. Otherwise, judges' decision is final.
- Periodic updates and current standings will be given via e-mail. This is
the new millennium, after all.
- Submit entries and questions to: Greenknght@aol.com