Hall of Fame

Every year, players who have achieved certain milestones in Celebrity Goo Game are inducted into this Hall of Fame, to celebrate their excellence and their influence.

Richard Slominsky, 2025 Inductee
Good things come to those who wait: Even for a game that requires semi-daily play sustained over weeks or months in order to win, Celebrity Goo Game can demand a high degree of patience. If at first, or at second, or at third you don't succeed, you keep on trying, until sooner or later you triumph and win the competition. Excellent players sometimes wait years to win. And this has been especially true of perhaps the game's most patient player, Richard Slominsky, who has been playing at a consistently high level since joining the game 17 years ago, and gradually became one of the game's most accomplished players ever, but for whom a single victory remained elusive until now. The objective of the game may be to win any given round, but if there's anyone whose playing career proves that you can achieve greatness long before you tick that particular box, Richard has more than done so. more…

Samir Mehta, 2013 Inductee
Some of the qualities that help players achieve big scores in Celebrity Goo Game—competitiveness, ambition, ruthlessness—are self-centered, but that doesn't mean that someone can't rise to the ranks of the game's best players without being generous and conscientious, too. Case in point: The 2017 inductee to the Hall of Fame, Samir Mehta, has distinguished himself across Funeratic with his decency (arguing various positions with compassion toward society's least fortunate), charitableness (spending hours on the phone giving advice about the law and life), integrity (sticking to his moral code in the face of changing times and attitudes), and good taste (seeking out each year's best films and spreading the word about them). Funeratic is lucky to have many honorable members, but Samir has proven himself foremost among them, to the benefit of everyone he enobles with his influence. more…

Russ Wilhelm, 2010 Inductee
No list of Celebrity Goo Game's most exalted players would be complete without the champion who dominated it throughout the late 2000s, Russ Wilhelm. After a taste of success early in the game, winning in only his second round, he defeated fierce competition in the succeeding years and won two back-to-back rounds in 2008, repeating the feat in 2009. This made Russ by far the most frequent winner of the game's latter era of daily goos, conquering one out of every three rounds that he played. Russ's perennial victories have made his name synonymous with what it means to win the game in the years leading up to his well-deserved 2010 induction into this hall of fame. more…

Steve West, 2009 Inductee
It's tempting to regard Steve West's triumphant success at the goo game as mere natural talent. After all, he roared into his first victory with only 37 goos under his belt, one of the fastest times in game history. But the key to Steve's continuing achievements is his ceaseless dedication to the game. He doesn't skip any goos, he carefully researches every answer until he's sure he's right, and he pays attention to game traditions and obscure rules to avoid wrong guesses. These smart habits and his spirited enthusiasm for the game have made him a formidable contender round after round. Steve modestly claims that he's no good when the tournament goos are timed and thus he can't sufficiently research them, but there's evidence to the contrary: Two of his three victories have come from besting other skilled players at timed goos. Maybe he really does have a gift for the game after all... more…

More inductees: LaVonne Lemler (2016), Chris Lemler (2013), Erik Bates (2013), Mike Rothstein (2013), Joanna Woods (2011), Justin Woods (2011), Kelly Lee (2011), Amy Austin (2010), Steve Dunn (2009), Lori Lancaster (2007), Mike Eberhart (2006), Aaron Fischer (2004), David Mitzman (2004), Denise Sawicki (2004), and Matthew Preston (2003).