The celebrity deadpool, run like a fantasy league

Race to the Gates

Draft celebrities with your friends, watch the season unfold, and let the app keep score: no spreadsheet, no arguments about the rules.

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How it works

  1. STEP 1

    Start or join

    Create a league and share its invite code, or join a friend's. 2 to 10 teams per league.

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  2. STEP 2

    Draft live

    A real-time snake draft: 16 picks across 13 categories. Anyone can object to a pick.

  3. STEP 3

    Score automatically

    Deaths are picked up from public sources daily and scored by age, holidays and birthdays.

  4. STEP 4

    Take the pot

    Standings and projected payouts update all season. The commissioner tracks buy-ins.

Scoring

100 − age at death. Dies at 67 → 33 points. Over 100 goes negative.

  • Dies on a US federal holiday+25
  • Dies on their own birthday+50
  • Dies on your birthday+50

Payouts: 75% / 15% / 10% of the pot. Every number is adjustable by your commissioner.

13 categories, 16 picks

The classic lineup: one pick per category, two each of actors, sports figures and musicians. Commissioners can change categories and counts before the draft.

  1. POLPolitical Figure (Foreign or Domestic)×1
  2. BUSBusiness Man/Woman×1
  3. TVTV Personality (News, Host)×1
  4. COMComedian×1
  5. KKicker (Kicks for a Living)×1
  6. METMeteorologist×1
  7. MISCNovelty/Misc.×1
  8. ACTActor/Actress×2
  9. SPTSports Figure×2
  10. MUSMusician×2
  11. INFSocial Media Influencer×1
  12. KIDPre-Y2K Child Star×1
  13. AUTHAuthor/Literary Figure×1

About

From a spreadsheet to a season

Race to the Gates began as one commissioner's Excel workbook: a tab of rules, a tab of picks, and a lot of manual math every time a celebrity on someone's list made the news.

This app keeps the same game and does the bookkeeping. Picks are linked to public records, deaths are checked against public sources, scores follow the rules you agreed to, and every change is logged so there's never a dispute about who's ahead.

No money moves through the app. It's a game among friends about public figures, played with good humor.