Wednesday 22 June 2016

The Game of Thrones Fantasy League – 6.09 – Battle of the Bastards

Game of Thrones – 6.09 – Battle of the Bastards




Nooooo, the season is nearly over! It’s been getting so good! This season has truly shaped up to be one of the best. I am deeply saddened to hear that the makers would like to reduce the order of episodes next year as I am quite happy to spend time in Westeros and Essos every week. This was an extraordinarily epic episode with fantastic scenes standing out, my favourites including Rickon’s charge, the Bolton shield offensive, and Jon halting arrows with his shield (that’s going to be added to the list of possible points to gain next year!). I’m also pleased that despite last week’s glaring, Dany didn’t give Tyrion a hard time about the Masters attacking because, seriously, what would you expect Meereen to be like after the state she left it in? In spite of only 19 fantasy league characters being featured in the episode, we’ve had a rise in points awarded, with 422 for the episode overall. This was due to lots of horseriding, family reunions and leading armies into battle. There have been some changes up and down the leaderboard but all will be decided next week. I can’t wait to get there but I’m so sad that this is going to be the end for 2016!

The scores for the penultimate episode of Season 6 shall be given after a few ruling details.

Possible points of contention:
The dragons gain points for both encountering previously lost blood relatives and encountering dragons. Viserion and Rhaegal get points for encountering one dragon/relative, whereas Drogon gets points for encountering two dragons/relatives.

Daario probably killed more than one Harpy but as we only see him kill one, he’s deducted points for just the one death.

Sansa and Jon gain points for reuniting with Rickon and vice versa.

Jon gets crowdsurfing points for getting swept up above the army near the end of the skirmish.

Sansa and Littlefinger gain points for leading the Vale army into battle. Tormund gains points for leading the wildling army into battle, as does Davos for the archers.

Sansa does not get points for killing Ramsay as he is technically killed by his dogs.

Ramsay gets points with Sansa for being last on screen as you can see him squirming in the backgound. I have also chosen to award him death points this episode (unlike Hodor) as it is fairly implicit we shan’t see him again.

Character Scores
Here is a full list of the characters and their awarded points. If one of your characters does not appear in the following lists, this is due to their absence from the episode, for which you shall be deducted five points per character:

Group A – Main Characters
Daenerys Targaryen – 60 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), 2 X encounters dragon (+20)
Sansa Stark – 92 points: appears (+5), 2 X rides horse (+10), leads army into battle (+22), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), last on screen (+15)
Tyrion Lannister – 35 points: appears (+5), first line (+10), encounters dragon (+20)

Group B – Supporting Mains
Melisandre – 5 points: appears (+5)
Petyr Baelish – 37 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), leads army into battle (+22)
Ramsay Bolton – 17 points: appears (+5), 2 X rides horse (+10), 2 X kills (-10), leads army into battle (+22), gets injured (-5), dies (-30), last line (+10), last on screen (+15)
Ser Davos Seaworth – 57 points: appears (+5), 2 X rides horse (+10), leads army into battle (+22), unsheafs sword (+10)
Theon Greyjoy – 5 points: appears (+5)

Group C – Rest of the Mains
Daario Naharis – 27 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), leads an army into battle (+22), kills (-10)
Missandei – 25 points: appears (+5), encounters dragon (+20)
Tormund Giantsbane – 22 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), mentions C word (+10), leads army into battle (+22), 2 X kills (-10), gets injured (-5)

Group D – Side Characters
Grey Worm – 5 points: appears (+5), encounters dragon (+20), 2 X kills someone (-10)

Group E – Side Characters to the Side Characters
Another episode this year devoid of side characters’s side characters.

Group F – Weirdos
I feel that I should have thought to include Wun Wun in this category when I was making the league last year. Shame I can’t add him for season seven's lineup any more.

Group G – Animals
Drogon – 85 points: appears (+5), 2 X encounters dragon (+20), 2 X kills (-10), 2 X reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30)
Rhaegal – 35 points: appears (+5), encounters dragon (+20), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30), 2 X kills (-10)
Shaggydog – 5 points: appears (+5)
Viserion – 35 points: appears (+5), encounters dragon (+20), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30), 2 X kills (-10)

Group H – Definitely Dead?
Jon Snow – 105 points: appears (+5), 2 X rides horse (+10), drinks wine (+8), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), leads army into battle (+22), unsheafs sword (+10), 2 X kills (-10), gets injured (-5), inflicts harm (-5), crowdsurfs (+40)

Group I – Where are these fuckers?
Rickon Stark – 35 points: appears (+5), 2 X encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), dies (-30)
Yara Greyjoy – 5 points: appears (+5)

The Leaderboard                                          
Players can see their scores by consulting their initials in the table below. Congratulations to CH for maintaining first place for five consecutive episodes! I’m amazed: she is the one to beat! And well done to KC for being this week’s points queen! She gained the most points for episode 9 and knocked her husband out of the top 5. Congrats!



See you next week to announce the scores for episode 10, The Winds of Winter, and to announce this year’s champion!

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