DaveLovesDee

Or if Donald Trump gives him a job in the White House. Then he'll definitely be a dead man walking.....

Yorkiechef

So he is head of ISIL and ISIL say he is dead. I dont think ISIL will announce the funeral and location for fear of 500 cruise missiles joining the party. You can take them off me if he springs back to life for a long weekend in Palestine. 😜

SchnookoLoly

It says any major national news outlet... Times, BBC, CBC, etc are all fine. Never been an issue until this dude!

dbd33

RT, is a major national news outlet. If RT says someone is dead and the rest say not, is the person dead? (Admittedly it's usually the other way around but the circumstance is foreseeable). This standard means that the administrator of the pool has a lot of discretion, for example, is the CBC a credible source, how about Global News or the Oakville Beaver?

Games, especially betting games, are more fun if the rules are as fixed as possible.

caretaker

I raised this issue a few years ago and it was changed from BBC to any major news service. It was re-clarified either earlier this year or last year.

SchnookoLoly

Holy crap. If you guys want it to be just BBC, I don't care. It was changed because people regularly post whatever link they come across. So it seemed like it was dumb to require them to go dig up the BBC link when every major news outlet carried the story. There's like 20 people playing here, it's not some giant thing with hundreds of players that has to be closely managed because people are making all kinds of obscure picks. I like to think there's some room for intelligence and judgement around here but apparently not.

My hesitation with baghdadi was no one seems to have CONFIRMED he's dead. (I'm disinclined to believe ISIL separately from any other news source.) If you want him marked dead, fine, go make the change, the spreadsheet is open. Else I'll do it on Tuesday. Sheesh.

BristolUK

Yorkiechef

Great, this could be a late run for the line.....winter is coming, should have a few pop off....� ����

DaveLovesDee

Season 7's already started in the UK

DaveLovesDee

Goodnight to the Rhinestone Cowboy, Glen Campbell. 81yrs old.

BristolUK

Jo Bologna

Atlantic Xpat

"Nice to see you. To see you er..." Sir Bruce Forsyth: TV legend dies aged 89 - BBC News

Souvy

A few points floating around on that one.

SchnookoLoly

Oh wow.

He did feature on some of the predictions, so that's 11 points to Hurlabrick, Souvy, The4BellsLondon, and withabix, with 22 going to tootlepootle for having him as the joker.

Points have been updated, and new picks required for you five, plus a new joker for TP.

DaveLovesDee

Yup, and tootle got the Brucie bonus too!!!