# Celebrity Death Pool 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390 "2020-01-09T05:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 68
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1342 "2021-02-08T11:33:26Z")
I finished the year exactly the same as I started it. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1343 "2021-02-08T13:56:23Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I have pm’d this poster, hope he sees it. Like I said, at a New Year’s Eve party and had the realization I hadn’t posted a list. Haste, distraction, and champagne. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1344 "2021-02-08T14:23:43Z")
Well, it’s done. **RTFirefly** wins the 2019 DeathPool, with 343 points. That’s just four points ahead of **GIGObuster**. Quite an amazing run this year! **commasense** takes the Opening Kickoff award, having chosen Carol Channing. **phungi** got the Final Hours award, for picking Peter Frates. The Quantity, not Quality Award goes to **Registered at Last** , for eight picks… They were also in third place, a scant ten points behind the winner. The Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award goes to **Cazzle** , who, at 25th place, had three unique picks. An exciting end to a high scoring year. Let’s hope 2020 is as good! ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1345 "2021-02-08T15:02:56Z")
Amazing fact: \*\*phungi \*\*got Final Hours for 2019 and Opening Kickoff for 2020. Ought to be a great year for mushrooms. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1346 "2021-02-08T15:15:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, it’s done. **RTFirefly** wins the 2019 DeathPool, with 343 points. That’s just four points ahead of **GIGObuster**. Quite an amazing run this year! > > **commasense** takes the Opening Kickoff award, having chosen Carol Channing. > > **phungi** got the Final Hours award, for picking Peter Frates. > > The Quantity, not Quality Award goes to **Registered at Last** , for eight picks… They were also in third place, a scant ten points behind the winner. > > The Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award goes to **Cazzle** , who, at 25th place, had three unique picks. > > An exciting end to a high scoring year. Let’s hope 2020 is as good! I’m still kind of amazed that I won, especially this year after starting off real slow! And spending the last two months just four points ahead of **GIGObuster** and ten ahead of **Registered At Last** , where a single additional death on either of their lists (other than the picks that overlapped with mine) would have put one or the other in the lead. In particular, I thought for sure that Lee Kerslake on (GIGO’s list) wouldn’t see 2020. I notice that I’m far from the only one who’s got Kerslake on their 2020 list. 🙂 **Baker** , who won the ‘Robbing the Cradle’ award? Was it a tie among the 15 of us who had Fatima Ali? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1347 "2021-02-08T15:54:35Z")
Congrats to all the winners! It was yet another fun, if slightly morbid, year. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1348 "2021-02-08T16:02:41Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Congrats to all the winners! It was yet another fun, if slightly morbid, year. Congrats to the winners, indeed! And it’s VERY morbid, that’s what makes it fun! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1349 "2021-02-08T19:09:41Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **phungi** got the Final Hours award, for picking Peter Frates. Did anyone have [Jack Sheldon](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/)? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1350 "2021-02-08T19:19:10Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Did anyone have [Jack Sheldon](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/)? A quick thread search says this (yours) is the only post in which that name appears. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1351 "2021-02-08T20:51:44Z")
A fifth place finish. I think I get a tin medal for that. But my best finish yet. In fact, I may have gotten more points this year then I got in all previous years combined. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1352 "2021-02-10T06:19:29Z")
From the OP: > [@Baker](#): > > While all deaths garnering points must occur during the calendar year, I know that a death might go unreported for a day or so. So, I will not post official total points for 48 hours after 12/31/2019. If you find that one of your picks died, say, late on 12/31/2019, and you didn’t hear about it until Jan. 2, 2020(this is a not so subtle hint to check your lists)then post a cite by midnight, Jan. 2, 2020, and you will get your points. After that you will be out of luck. Looks like this one’s in the books, then. 🙂 **Baker** , did the 15 of us who picked Fatima Ali split the “Robbing the Cradle” award? I don’t _think_ anyone got points for anyone younger than her. (It would have been a lot of points!) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1353 "2021-02-10T13:30:45Z")
Yes, that would be you all. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1354 "2021-02-11T03:27:12Z")
I finally won [1/15th of] something!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1355 "2021-02-11T16:22:19Z")
I’m a bit thrilled about getting the Inside Track with the Reaper award. I’ve played, poorly, every year since 2001 and this is my best ever outcome. Thanks to Baker and all the previous hosts who’ve kept the game going all these years 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=67)