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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