Everyone is eligible to be in a team - i.e. any nationality, age, race, gender, of any occupation and so on. The only restrictions are:

• they must be at least reasonably well-known (been heard of by the majority of other players - as a general rule, if they have their own entry on Wikipedia they will be allowed in)
• they must not have a known terminal disease when they are first admitted into a team - if such an unfortunate illness strikes an individual already in a team, they do not have to be removed from the list
• they have not been convicted of a criminal offence in a court of law for which they have been sentenced to the death penalty - anyone currently on trial who may be facing capital punishment is allowed, though those who have been sentenced but are awaiting the result of an appeal are not

A successful prediction gets you five points.

Each team is allowed three transfers before the end of the year, which can be used at any time. Any subsequent transfers used will cost the team one point, though an unlimited number can be used.

Certain unscrupulous players have in the past taken to selecting team members who have just suffered a dire accident or sudden illness and who appear to be at death's door, knuckles poised. For this reason, the following rule is now in force: if a team member dies within three days of being selected for a team, the selection will be considered void and the player will have to choose another team member without having scored any points. Any transfers used in a selection voided will be refunded.

The administrator (that's me) is the final judge on any questionable matters, including possible disqualification for any player believed to be a suspect in the murder of any team members.

(Strike indicates a deceased team member. Red indicates a member transferred out. Yellow indicates enforcement of the three-day rule.)

Team name: Stiff Little Toetags '06
Team leader: Nigel Samson
Points scored: 15
Transfers remaining: 2
Team members
Ernest Borgnine
Ariel Sharon
Brooke Astor
Ronnie Biggs
Kirk Douglas
John Profumo 5pts
Michael Foot
Gerald Ford 5pts
Charlton Heston
Norman Kember
Ernest Gallo

Team name:  
Team leader: Michael Saunders
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Saddam Hussein 5pts
Arial Sharon
Margaret Thatcher
George Bush Snr
Dick Cheney
Nelson Mandela
Stephen Hawking
Norman Tebbit
Ian Paisley
Alex Higgins
Augusto Pinochet 5pts

Team name: Get Stiffed '06
Team leader: Nigel "Champion" Bevan
Points scored: 15
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ariel Sharon
Ronnie Biggs
Gerald Ford 5pts
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Boris Yeltsin
Mohammed Ali
Michael Foot
Patrick Moore
Lou Rawls
John Profumo 5pts
Charlton Heston
George Melly

Team name:  
Team leader: Nick Hardy
Points scored: 15
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Dick Cheney
Betty Ford
Norman Wisdom
Milton Friedman 5pts
Ronnie Biggs
Alfredo di Stefano
Gerald Ford 5pts
Mickey Rooney
Michael Foot
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Brooke Astor
Kirk Douglas

Team name: Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead
Team leader: Adam Dummett
Points scored: 10
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Lou Rawls
Alfredo di Stefano
Mohammed Ali
Ronnie Biggs
Brooke Astor
Patrick Moore
Clive Dunn
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Margaret Thatcher
PW Botha 5pts
Arial Sharon

Team name: 19 bottles of milk on the doorstep
Team leader: Ian Douglas
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 1
Team members
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Foot
Charlton Heston
Jeremy Beadle
Stephen Hawking
Pete Doherty
Lord Dennis Healy
George Bush Snr
Bernard Manning
Ariel Sharon
Osama Bin Laden
Kirk Douglas

Team name: The choir invisible
Team leader: Tom Ruppel
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
James Last
Pope Benedict
Charlie Watts
Ariel Sharon
John Profumo 5pts
Oscar Niemeyer
Sir Tom Finney
George Melly
Ronnie Biggs
Vera Lynn

Team name:
Team leader: Doug Robinson
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Nelson Mandela
Robert Mugabe
Prince Harry
Pope Benedict
David Beckham
John Major
Bobby Charlton
Arial Sharon
Woody Allen
Eli Wallach

Team name: Grave illness
Team leader: Damien Flenley
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Gail Porter
Ron Noades
Bruce Forsyth
Alex Higgins
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Shane MacGowan
Paul Gascoigne
Doug Ellis
Margaret Thatcher
Sir Bobby Robson

Team name: Please spare me for playing
Team leader: Nick Ayton
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ariel Sharon
Mohammed Ali
Nelson Mandela
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Earl Jones
Joseph Barbera
Ingmar Bergman
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Kirk Douglas
Vera Lynn

Team name: Snuff box
Team leader: Joel Bailey
Points scored: 10
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Nelson Mandela
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Thatcher
Gene Wilder
Mohammed Ali
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 5pts
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Joan Didion

Team name: Necropolis When?
Team leader: James Beeson
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Hesseltine
Richard Briars
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Colonel Gadaffi
Fidel Castro
Doug Ellis
Lauren Bacall
Ian Carmichael
Nelson Mandela

Team name: Dawn of the Dead
Team leader: Pat Murtagh
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Margaret Thatcher
Pope Benedict
Queen Elizabeth II
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
50 Cent
Nelson Mandela
Colin Cowdrey
Diego Maradona
Arnold Palmer

Team name: Judie's gonna get you
Team leader: Judie Grant
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ariel Sharon
Dick Cheney
Michael Foot
Tony Benn
Ronnie Biggs
Margaret Thatcher
Bobby Robson
Nelson Mandella
PW Botha 5pts
Albert Hoffman

Team name: Doffin Codgers
Team leader: Chris Lockie
Points scored: 20
Transfers remaining: 2
Team members
Augusto Pinochet 5pts
Gerald Ford 5pts
Maria Esther Capovilla 5pts
Margaret Thatcher
John Goodman
Henry Kissinger
Chuck Berry
Kirk Douglas
Ronnie Biggs
Nancy Reagan
Ian Brady
Elizabeth Bolden 5pts
Emiliano Mercado del Toro

Team name: One way ticket
Team leader: Tom Dawkins
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Dennis Norden
Dick Cheney
Humphrey Lyttelton
Osama bin Laden
Margaret Thatcher
Ozzy Osbourne
Henry Kissinger
Stephen Hawking
Ariel Sharon
Clive Dunn

Team name: Missing you already
Team leader: Anthony Pearson
Points scored: 10
Transfers remaining: 2
Team members
Eric Newby 5pts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Humphrey Lyttleton
Christopher Lee
Angela Lansbury
Bill Kerr
Peregrine Worsthorne
June Whitfield
Norman Mailer
Ivor Cutler 5pts
JD Salinger

Team name: This is an ex parrot
Team leader: Richard Ackland
Points scored: 10
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Dick Van Dyke
Joan Collins
Diego Maradona
Pete Doherty
Stephen Hawking
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 5pts
Evel Knievel
Charlton Helston
Steve Irwin 5pts

Team name: Last one out is...dead
Team leader: Scott Mackenzie
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ariel Sharon
Margaret Thatcher
Pete Doherty
Michael Barrymore
Patrick Moore
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Nelson Mandela
Richard Attenborough
Vera Lynn
Brooke Astor

Team name: Bad Karma Police
Team leader: David McLaughlin
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Omara Portuondo
Margaret Thatcher
Ian Paisley
Patrick Moore
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Sir Jimmy Saville
Albert Hoffman
Ariel Sharon
Eric Sykes
Norman Wisdom

Team name: Team Beetlejuice
Team leader: Tim Smith
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 1
Team members
Margaret Thatcher
Saddam Hussein 5pts
Robert Mugabe
Michael Barrymore
Leonard Nimoy
Sir Tom Finney
Norman Kember
Mel Brooks
John Goodman
Abigail Witchalls
Ariel Sharon
Elizabeth Taylor

Team name: The Graveyard Shift
Team leader: Cliff Bambridge
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 1
Team members
Kirk Douglas
Hamed Karzai
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Norman Wisdom
Gerald Ford 5pts
Jake LaMotta
Patrick Moore
June Brown
Margaret Thatcher
Dave Brubeck
Zacarias Moussaoui
Elizabeth Taylor

Team name: Death watch beatle
Team leader: Sarah Savage
Points scored: 0
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ariel Sharon
Margaret Thatcher
Pete Doherty
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Aung San Suu Kyi
Yoko Ono
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Brian Wilson
David Blunkett
Kate Moss

Team name: Ashes To Ashes
Team leader: Lyndsey Cockwell
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Pete Doherty
Ariel Sharon
Zacarias Moussaoui
Margaret Thatcher
Cilla Black
Osama bin Laden
Snoop Dogg
Jade Goody
Sol Campbell
Saddam Hussein 5pts