# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/21 "2013-12-02T01:15:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You know, that category is one I’ve copied from previous arbiters of this game. It’s sort of like “celebrity” in that it’s hard to define > > So my ruling is that if the person being held, or we Dopers at large, agree that it’s a political prisoner, then it is. > > If there’s any question about a particular person we can discuss it by PM. That rule was suggested in 2004, then added in 2005: > [@The Celebrity Death Pool 2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/669): > > I do have one other thing. We might need a little rule addition for next year. I think we should prohibit the picking of people who were abducted in Iraq this year. This is tantamount to being on death row. Someone could conceivably fill their list with people like the Allawis and Margaret Hassan and then watch the points pile up as each one is murdered. > [@The Celebrity Death Pool 2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/670): > > **Captain Lance** , I am willing to go along with your suggestion re executed prisoners – we’re macabre but not _that_ macabre – but how do we define “celebrity” prisoners? Just, “anyone who makes the news as a prisoner who is then executed” (would be ineligible)? Anyone have any feedback here? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193)._