YBTL 2007 Update

(Updated 02/06/08)

Greetings You Bet Their Lifers! Below you will finally find the final results, payouts and special awards for the 2007 game. Thank you all for participating in a record-setting year.

You Bet Their Life 2007 Final Standings

The Tote Board

Perchance To Dream	253
Goatsucker	236
Skeleton In Their Closet	215
Go Fish	199
Van Owens Body	185
Die2K	180
AA88	159
Old As the Hills	155
The Finish Line	150
Life'll Kill Ya	144
The Big Casino	143
Christopher Reeve's Dancecard	142
Putnam's Tomahawk Chop	129
Century Mark	119
Monty Python's Dying Circus	118
Happiest Epitaphs	118
Already Dead	110
Grim Reapers	108
Autopsy Payouts	106
The Absent and the Dead Have No Friends…Nor Do We	106
SPT On Your Grave	103
Already Dead - The Resurrection	98
Walking Toward the Light	98
Rigor Mortis Sets In	98
Decay NY	90
Knock, Knock, Knocking On Death's Door	86
Spank Me To Death	85
Flatliners	83
La Morte La Diventa	81
The Famous Final Scene II	77
Swan Song	76
BairBones	72
Stiff As a Board and Bright Green	72
Lou Costello's Ice Cream Soda	72
Elvis' Rotting Corpse	71
Raven	70
Four Feet Deep	70
Don't Fear the Reaper	69
I Am Stretched On Your Grave	68
Cadaver Synod	66
Dead Wringers	66
Ghostbustin' Babe	64
Bloody Mary	63
Brian's Flat Cat	63
Old Soldiers Never Die	63
No Viagra Needed	60
Deathbitch	60
The Kevorkian Cocktailers	59
Hannibal Lechter's All You Can Eat Buffet	59
Crypt Kickers	57
Adios Amigos	54
Ethnic Cleansing	54
Eddie Munster	53
Spectral Evidence	53
Death March	53
Bury Me Shallow	52
Jackalope Ghost	52
Team Dirt	51
Black Plague 2007	51
Reporting for Plastination	51
Heaven's Doorknockers	50
Morris the Cat's 9 (+21) Lives	49
Requiescat In Pace	48
Toe Tags and Body Bags	48
Figmentt	48
Sneezin' and Coffin	48
Excuse Me For Coffin	48
Auditioning for the Choir Invisible	47
Get Thee To Kevorkian	47
Inverse Genesis	45
God's Country Death Duo	45
Life's a Bitch, Then You Die	45
Ol' Dying Bastards	45
Death for 1000, Alex	44
Fecal Matter	44
Timeline of Death	44
Mystery Guest, Sign Out Please!	43
Maggot Meals	42
The Ex Files	42
White Light Gazers	41
Schadenfreude	41
More Hemlock Please	40
Immortally Challenged	40
DeathRUs	40
Toe Tags	39
Dead Martha	39
Adipocere	38
Better Off Dead	38
Falling Off the Life Table	38
Exit Wound	37
Organ Donators	37
1 Deadbeat Off	37
What's a TSCU?	37
Jackalope Ghost - To All My Friends	37
Headless Horsemen	36
Stewie Griffin's List of OLD VILE WOMEN	36
Eternal Dirtnap 2: The Final Chapter	35
Eternal Dirtnap	34
Slobodan Milosevic's Medicine Cabinet	34
Their Endless Numbered Days	34
Dig-A-Hole	33
Sprouting Wings	32
Maggot On Your Sleeve	31
Stiff Sloths	31
Formaldehyde Enema	30
Corn On Macabre	29
Made It Ma! Top Of the World!	29
Mangled Baby Ducks	28
Ghost Of a Chance	28
Toe Tag, You're It!	28
Born/Live/Die Naked - Ace Shoots For the Top 47	28
Celestial Discharge	27
Dead Like Me	27
An Evening At the Apollo	26
Leader of the Pack…and Now He's Gone	25
A Prayer For Cancer	25
Detritus Demanded	25
Dead Coaches Society	20
Abracadaver	20
Friends of the Devil	19
To Die For	18
Dead and Loving It!	16
The Last Waltz	16
Collateral Damage	16
Ghostwriter	15
You Are Killing Me	15
The Famous Final Scene	13
The Long Black Veil	13
Death Of It All	10
Death: A Life-Long Process	10
Knock Knock, Who's There, DEATH!	10
Rigger Morty's Pasta Way Café	10
You're Dead To Me	10
Death Mitten	10
Passing My Way	5
Queen of Hades	5
Doornails	3
Only the Bad Die Young	0
Spoon	0
When the Music's Over	0

The Breakdown

140 teams participated this year, resulting in a possible $3500 collected. From this, $200 is subtracted for administrative expenses (web hosting fees, etc.), $50 for Metabolically Challenged compensation (one team didn’t actually pay their $25) and $275 for other unpaid entry fees (these teams will be notified of their past due amount privately). This leaves $2975 to be divided among the top twelve scorers in accordance with the schedule detailed in the rules.

Place	Team Name	Prize Money
Place	Team Name	Prize Money
First Place	Perchance To Dream	$1190
Second Place	Goatsucker	$446
Third Place	Skeleton In Their Closet	$372
Fourth Place	Go Fish	$223
Fifth Place	Van Owens Body	$178
Sixth Place	Die2K	$149
Seventh Place	AA88	$119
Eighth Place	Old As the Hills	$89
Ninth Place	The Finish Line	$74
Tenth Place	Life'll Kill Ya	$60
Eleventh Place	The Big Casino	$45
Twelfth Place	Christopher Reeve's Dancecard	$30

Each winner will receive a check on or around 02/20/08. Congratualtions!

Special Awards

- The Jeanne Calment Award for Oldest Stiff of the Year (4 Points Each) – Antonio Pierro – 110 years old

Old Soldiers Never Die

- The Charles Lindbergh III Award for the Youngest Stiff of the Year (4 Points Each) - Ashraf al-Saadi – 29 years old

Goatsucker

- The Harry Helmsley Award for the First Stiff of the Year (4 Points Each) – Ernie Koy – 01/01/07

Grim Reapers

Inverse Genesis

The Finish Line

- The Frank Zappa Award for the Last Stiff of the Year (4 Points Each) – Oscar Peterson – 12/23/07

Lou Costello's Ice Cream Soda (which received the bonus for First Stiff last year)

- The Metabolically Challenged Award for Ending the Year With Everyone On The List Alive

Only the Bad Die Young

Spoon

When the Music's Over

One team still owes the entry fee and will not receive the payback.

Extra Special Awards

- Best Single Pick - Ashraf al-Saadi – 46 Pts (20 for solo+12 for Under 45+10 for Un-Natural+4 for Youngest Stiff)

Goatsucker

- Most Obscure Pick (to earn points, that is) – Hal Rothman - 02/25/07

Perchance To Dream (I think only they know him)

- Best Named Team

Slobodan Milosevic's Medicine Cabinet

- Rookie of the Year

Grim Reapers

- The Not Playing with a Full Deck Award (Best Use of Lousy Picks)

Skeleton In Their Closet (had 2 ineligible picks, yet still managed to score 215 points)

- Comeback of the Year

Old As the Hills (74 points after 08/01/07 to finish in 8^th place)

- Most Likely to Succeed in 2008

Already Dead (Duh!)

Special thanks to Skeleton In Their Closet for having more picks wind up being discussed on the forum due to eligibility controversies. :P

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