In this, the competition’s sixth year, we’ve unanimously decided to shake things up a bit and “borrow” a new set of rules from an established Death Race site :-)
1) This year, pick TWENTY celebrities who you think are going to pop their clogs in 2010.
2) The only restrictions are that they have to be real people, 18+, and can’t be on death row / scheduled for execution.
3) This year, the score you get for a death depends on the celebrity’s AGE as follows:
18-29 years: 12 points
30-49 years: 10 points
50-59 years: 9 points
60-69 years: 8 points
70-79 years: 7 points
80-89 years: 6 points
90-99 years: 5 points
100-109 years: 4 points
110+ years: 3 points
4) BONUS points are awarded as follows:
Unique pick: +3 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.
Unlucky 13: +2 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month.
Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not State executions).
Party pooper: +5 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or Xmas Day (date of death is that of the region where they died).
Joker: Nominate one of your celebs as joker - if your joker dies you get double points for that person.
5) They must be famous enough to get a major news website obituary or to have a wikipedia entry that isn’t a stub (don’t think any WOMbles would be sad enough to create their own page!)
6) In the event of a tie, the following criteria is used in this order:
a) The most correctly-chosen deceased celebs.
b) The youngest average age of hits.
c) The first to score points that year.
7) Committing murder is cheating
8) Good luck! :-)
Posted on Fri, 1 January 2010 at 19:51
