OK, fukkers… it’s time to get your sh!t together and start thinking about next year’s picks! Now that Halloween is over, Christmas has stuck it’s ass right in our faces. It’s everywhere… and well before the rotting jack-o-lantern on my porch even makes it to the trash. Every soul-sucking retailer – from Macy’s to The Home Depot – already has all their Christmas sh!t out… front and center. Where are the decorative turkeys?… the pleasantly plump birds, cartoonish in their happiness despite their imminent death & dismemberment. And the pilgrims?… with their depressing clothes that made use of buckles in strange places… and their awkward firearms that appeared to be equal parts rifle and trombone? Where are they in my pre-thanksgiving shopping experience? Sold down the river, unable to compete with the commercial juggarnaut that Jesus’ birthday has become.
Anyway, the point being: The new year is closer than you think. Prepare thyself. If you haven’t already, start doing your research. Remember, the list submission deadline is 12:00AM January 1st, 2018. If you don’t already know the drill, visit the Rules & Reg’s page to get up to speed. There will be some slight tweaks to the language before the year is up, but for the most part it’ll be the same for 2018’s pool. There will, however, be some new point incentives added as well. For example: If you are the only person to lay claim to a particular corpse, bonus points will be awarded. What good does that do? It encourages you to be creative, mutherfukker. Take a flyer here and there. Don’t have a list that looks like it was largely pulled form last year’s unlucky 13. Yawn, fart… that’s no fun. Run some google searches, read a few news feeds, stalk a couple of ritzy hospices… think outside the bye-bye box.
It’s also a good time to start recruiting new players. More players and more lists yields a bigger & better prize package, folks. So spread the word. A buddy, a neighbor, your degenerate brother-in-law, that jaggoff from work… think they’d be down for some of this action? Reel ’em in. Send them to the site. Remind them that for a modest membership and processing fee they can be part of an entire year’s worth of our morbid merriment. And for any of you people currently on the sidelines, quietly monitoring our disrespect for the deceased… jump in, dammit! What are you waiting for?! Send us your info via the contact page & we’ll get back in touch with you when crunch time hits in December…. but start thinking about your picks now.
Next year aside, this year has been a rollercoaster… especially the past couple of months. Since giving a score update would only be self serving at this point, I’ll just let the leaderboard do the talking. It still is, however, anybody’s game. Good luck to all of this year’s participants. We’ve entered the funeral home stretch… and I’m willing to bet we see a few more hits before the year’s end. Regardless of how it turns out, we hope that everyone will be back join us again in 2018. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to scour the web for some fresh toe tags.
– Der Kommissar
