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The NewlyDead Game 2010 begins 12:00 a.m. (EST) 1 January 2010.
The game ends 11:59 p.m. (EST) 31 December 2010.
Each entrant must submit a team name (preferably something death related) and a team, consisting of two (2) rosters:
twenty-five (25) On Air Roster contestants and five (5) Green Room Roster contestants. Entrants may create as many teams
as they wish, paying the entry fee for each team.
Entries and payment must be submitted or postmarked by 11:59 p.m. (EST) 31 December 2009.
Once you have submitted your entry, it becomes official.
Each entry costs US $25.00.
More detailed information on the entry procedure can be
found here.
Roster #1 - On Air Roster. This roster is your primary list of famous people you think will die during
2010. The On Air Roster can contain no more than twenty-five (25) names.
Roster #2 - Green Room Roster. This is a list of five (5) additional famous people. During the course of
2010 as people on your On Air Roster die, you can replace them with those waiting on your Green Room Roster.
To be included on either an On Air Roster or a Green Room Roster, the team members must meet the following criteria:
To be considered famous or infamous in their own right, a pick must meet the following criteria:
Missing persons are eligible, but if it is determined during the course of the year that they were dead at the start
of the game or if their fate is still unknown as of 1 January of the following year, they will score no points. (If you
want to waste a pick on Jimmy Hoffa no one will stop you.)
Entrants are responsible for their own Rosters. If an On Air Roster includes someone who is already dead at the start of
the game, if a name appears more than once, or if a Roster is short one or more names, the only remedy is replacing the
ineligible name with a Green Room Roster name. Errors on Green Room Rosters have no remedy.
The Coroners Committee is the sole judge of eligibility. A pick will be determined to be eligible or ineligible only at
the time of their confirmed death. Decisions of the Coroners Committee are final. We cannot issue advisory opinions on
whether or not a person is eligible.
The Coroners Committee is made up of nine (9) people, who will be called upon to discuss, opine and judge on all the
issues mentioned on this page, as well as any other game related issues that may arise during the year.
Members of the Coroners Committee are allowed to participate in the game.
For all eligibility considerations, seven (7) of the Coroners will need to convene and majority will rule. If the corpse
in question is a contestant on a Coroners team, that Coroner will not be involved in the decision.
When someone from either roster dies, please contact TheNewlyDeadGame@comcast.net immediately to inform me of the following:
Responsibility for reporting deaths is on the entrant. If multiple entrants have picked a name, only one has to report
the death for all to get credit. The NewlyDead Game is not responsible for crediting deaths not brought to our
attention. However, the administrator will, in fairness, monitor major sources for possible deaths on a regular basis.
Deaths can be reported any time before 15 January 2011. On 15 January 2011, the results will be declared final.
The 15 January 2011 date is for reporting only - rigor mortis must have set in before 12:00 a.m. (EST) 1 January 2011 to
score points. This allows for the fact that obituaries are often delayed several days.
When someone from the On Air Roster dies, they can be replaced by someone on the Green Room Roster. The empty spot on
the Green Room Roster will remain that way for the rest of the year. No new names will be added to the Green Room Roster
during the year.
Responsibility for calling-up Green Room Roster contestants is on the entrant. Activation will be recorded as the
date-stamp (and time if necessary) on your "call-up" email. So it is in your best interest to keep close tabs on your
team and call-up your Green Room people ASAP (especially if they are ill LOL!)
There is one (1) exception to the "call-up" rule: if, after you have scored on a corpse, you have only one contestant
left in GR (Green Room) status, it will be automatically activated for you without an e-mail. But for the first four,
you must follow the procedure in the previous paragraphs.
Points will be awarded for each death according to the following:
If the cadaver appears on only one Green Room Roster, it is worth 5 points. If it is on any other roster (On Air or
Green Room), as well as your Green Room Roster, it will be worth only 3 points to you. For example, if a corpse appears
on one On Air Roster and one Green Room Roster, 20 points and 3 points will be awarded, respectively.
Special Awards:
So, the maximum number of points that can be awarded for a single death is 50, for a solo hit by a suicide/homicide under 45 years of age who is either the first or last stiff of the year and also the youngest (20 points for a solo hit; 12 points for being under 45; 10 points for the suicide/homicide; 4 points for being the first/last, and 4 points for being the youngest.
The year 2009 (under the old version of the game) started off with a debate, when a certain death caused players to
become confused about the actual timing of events! Therefore, based on the actual outcome of the resulting discussions,
I initiate into our guidelines, the Helen Suzman provision:
The actual starting time of the game causes some gray area due to the various time zones.
For the purposes of submitting rosters, our game officially begins at the stroke of midnight in Continental USA, and that
is 1 January, 12:00 AM EST. You should make the appropriate time adjustment, based on the time zone of your mailing
address, so that your entry form(s) will be submitted before the start of the game.
For the purposes of recording a death, the local date/time zone in which a person dies will be the basis for the official
time of death (TOD).
Since the dawn of the dead pool games, most people will wait until mid or later in the day on 31 December to submit their
entries. Therefore, if somebody on your team dies on January 1 of the new game year in Kiritimati, Christmas Island,
Kiribati, you will only receive the points if after converting the time over to our EST zone it is determined that they
were alive at your official entry time.
Updates will be posted on the Rosters page of this website as required (at least twice every month). Entrants will be notified via the forum(s) when updates are posted.
After deducting the administrative costs of running the game, the remaining money will go into the kitty to be split
among the winners. Anticipated administrative costs are $200. The costs incurred are for domain registration ($25),
web hosting fees ($75), bank fees ($50) and miscellaneous expenses ($50).
The money in the kitty will be split as follows:
In case of ties, entrants will split the cash at that prize level and the next level(s) down. For example, if two (2)
players are tied for 2nd place, they will split the 27.5% (13.75% each) that constitutes the second and third place
money. If less than forty two (42) teams participate, the minimum amount awarded for any prize will be $25 (return of
entrance fee). In this case, these minimal amounts (along with any Metabolically Challenged Awards) will be deducted
from the kitty first and the amounts for the other prizes adjusted accordingly.
Anyone who causes or contributes to the death of a celebrity on their list, is not eligible for prize money. So, no
taking matters into your own hands! And if you must stalk somebody, choose a celebrity who is not on your list.
If a pick is deemed ineligible due to lack of Fame or Notoriety, the team or teams will be notified of the decision and given a chance to research the stiff's history and obituaries for evidence that could overturn the ruling. The Coroners Committee will then vote on the eligibility based on the team leader's evidence. The team will then be notified via e-mail of the panel's decision. The Coroners Committee is the sole judge in any dispute. The decisions of the Coroners Committee are final.
This website uses no cookies, nor any other methods for identifying or tracking individuals who visit the site.
General statistics may be kept on the number of visitors to the site, the domains they come from, and referring sites.
Entrants to the contest must supply the following personal information:
This information is used for game purposes only (I can't mail you your winnings if I don't have your address). It is
not displayed on the website and will not be made available to third parties for any reason.
Occasionally, I will send contest updates and current standings to entrants and others on the forum. These updates will
occur approximately twice a month (the exact frequency varies with the rate at which celebrities kick off.
Please email any comments or questions regarding the game to the administrator of our new game, Barbara, at:
TheNewlyDeadGame@comcast.net
Our game’s website is TheNewlyDeadGame.com.
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