Winning as a death is impossible if you have an incompetent death teammate who targets first place all the time, the idea is is if you are playing in a party and you are selected to be death, someone from your party will also be death alongside you, you are put on the same team in other modes so why not in deathrun
Addition: The whole system that allows deaths to win in deathrun is a bit stupid, the only way to win is to let one person pass and target everyone else, pretty stupid idk what else you could do but a better system should be added (A kill goal the deaths need to reach to win the game EG they need to kill 75 people between the two of them to win maybe???)