Old news. You are only as good as your next win. We all start with a clean slate and have just as good a chance to win as RQ.
Yeah I don’t believe it either.
Just as I tried to do, only one pick in the top twenty. I wasn’t paying attention to see if any were unique. Had to stick with Ariel Sharon. He’ll come through for me some year.
I disagree. The 807 figure does not represent the total number of predictions. One prediction of Ken Kercheval is in no way equivalent to 85 predictions of Fidel Castro.
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There is a difference between the number of celebrities and the number of predictions. This discussion could go on forever because you are arguing about two different things. Of course unique picks will be a lower percentage of overall predictions. That’s because they are unique. I think it is more interesting that 70% of the celebrities chosen were unique picks. That shows a definate stragedy on the part of most of the players. Your stat just shows that unique picks are unique picks.
I thought it felt lighter this year. I have a bad feeling that it is an indication of the health of the board in general.
Actually there were 2091 as two lists only had 12 valid celebs.
Yep. Coming in second is gonna be real sweet, isn’t it?
Huh. Just one of my picks is in the top twenty. Hope that’s a good sign. ('Twould be ironic if I snagged the prize for Most Unique Picks when I was aiming for Most People. Not that I’d complain. . . .)
(On re-reading the rules): There isn’t a prize for Most Unique Picks. 
There isn’t a prize just for picking uniquely, but for picking unique celebrities that die, there is:
I think we should interpret that prize to being for the doper who picks the greatest number of unique celebrities that die.
As long as we (i.e., you) are crunching numbers – which poster has the most unique picks? I think I’ve got at least five, but would imagine others might have more.
The inevitable happens as Rachm Qoch gets his first points with the death of Korean boxer Yo-Sam Choi, age 35 (Choi Yo-sam - Wikipedia)
Are you serious??? Day-um, that boy is gooood.
Sounds like he died in 2007 but was only declared dead in 2008…
Hey, I only took the job in the hope it would give me enough power to invalidate some of Rachm Qoch’s picks.
That’s an intriguing one- at what point do we determine that death has occurred? When the doctor calls it or when it actually occurs?
It won’t matter anyhow- if he did die in 2007, Rachm Qoch’s alternate will be moved up and will promptly die, just to keep him (her?) in the lead.
Is this a Democracy? I would suggest that the guy dies when a physician declares him dead. 
Here’s the scoop on the boxer. Went into a coma last week at the end of the fight, declared legally dead today at the request of his family so that his organs could be harvested.
So who is going to defend his title?
This seems like one of those Terri Schiavo controversies- at what point can we say a comatose person on life support has truly died? Wikipedia states that brain death is considered a form of death in most countries. So is the official date of death December 25, 2007 or January 2, 2008? I guess the judges will have to decide.
I think it should be when he was declared dead. He went into the coma last year, but it took some time for them to figure out he wasn’t coming out of it. If he had been in a coma for 2 years and just died it would still be a death for this year.
And he gets the opening kick-off award too.
And very good chance at the Robbing the Cradle award. I smell a three-fer.
ITYM four - Winner, Opening Kick-off, Robbing the Cradle, and Inside Track.
I guess the rest of us are just batting for the last one to die in 2008.
Jeez, I’m all but declaring the contest a clean sweep only one day in.