It’s time to
send in your teams for The Game of Thrones Fantasy League 2017!
This is a
game that requires nearly no input: you select characters from each group and
make a team. When certain things happen to those characters you win or lose
points. The full list of characters and available points are listed below. At
the end of the season, the person with the team that has scored the most points
is declared the winner. There will be prizes!
Some of you
will have played this last year – while things are essentially the same, there
have been a few changes:
The Points System has been updated.
There are now more ways to gain points. Look over them with consideration and
carry that with you when choosing your team.
Now you can select TWO characters from
Group A. Originally you could only choose one character from each group –
but now you can have TWO Main Characters on your team. You can only choose ONE
character from each other Group.
Choose a number between 2 and 6. Due to
the shortened season, there is now a new and exciting opportunity to win more
points! The number you choose will correspond to the episode of the season. For
this episode, your characters will receive DOUBLE points. Think of this like a
Joker round at a pub quiz. For this, we are excluding the first and last
episode of the season.
So your
submissions will be slightly different this year. Here is an example of a team
submission:
“Hi, this is my team:
Group A – Cersei & Sansa
Group B – Sam
Group C – Bronn
Group D – Grey Worm
Group E – Lyanna
Group F – Qyburn
Group G – Ghost
Group H – Syrio Forel
Group I – Daario
Episode – 5”
Here is the
full list of available points:
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Important
things to keep in mind:
There will
be a capping system in place in the event your character kills more than two
people in a single episode. A character like Bronn who killed thousands of
people with a single arrow in the episode 'Blackwater' would never be able to
gain those points back if not for a capping system in place, so you would never
lose more than 20 points if your character killed over two people in a single
episode.
All events
must be seen on screen, but I reserve the right to be flexible on this matter.
Now that is
out of the way, on to the Character Groups!
The
Characters are sorted into nine groups:
Group A – Main Characters
These are
the characters who anchor the show, whose arc is why there even is a show.
These characters are in the show the most and therefore tend to score the most
points, so the two characters you choose here will make or break your team.
Group B – Supporting Mains
These are
characters who have enough screen presence that they can carry storylines and
scenes on their own, but are not key points of view in the song of Ice and Fire.
Group C – Rest of the mains
These are all
the other living characters whose actors have their names in the opening
credits as of season 6.
Group D – Side Characters
These are important
characters but not important enough to have their actors’ names in the opening
credits.
Group E – Sides to the sides
These are significant
characters that aren't important enough to carry their own scenes.
Group F – Weirdos
These are
mysterious characters with supernatural characteristics.
Group G – Animals
You’ve got
to have an animal on your team, if anything just as a mascot.
Group H – Gone but might return
These are
characters who are dead but there is a chance they may return in flashbacks or
visions
Group I – Are these fuckers coming back?
These are
characters who were important and have seemingly left the story but have yet to
have a death scene.
Game of
Thrones returns July 16th. Please send me your submissions long
before then! Blog posts about the results for the episode tend to be up by the
Tuesday of that week, so stay tuned...and good luck!
