Game of Thrones Contest Results!
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While I do not disagree with how and who it all ended up, I think the last stories of most of those who died and survived were very underwhelming for the amount of character development that was done through multiple seasons. However, I do believe that this has all been purposeful as there are still two books expected to be published. While I do not expect the end to materially be different from the show, I think that the books would do the ending and characters far more justice. I think they have purposefully done two things; first, many (like myself) will now go to the books to read the epic story start to finish (when they are finally released). Second, I also think they are setting up the fans for the future Spin offs of the series. While we will not see the characters again, we will see the impacts of their legacy or how past legacies impacted those in the show.
In terms of the results from the body count, I thought I would have expected more key characters to perish as the show had set them up for it during the first seasons. However, given the increase in popularity of not only the show but the characters, I think they started to give the fans some of what they wanted which poses a risk for the characters in the books to come as well as there have always been deviations from the books in terms of survival as well. In summary, it seems that most of the characters that “deserved” to perish did although not necessarily in a way some would have wanted. Most participants did pretty well in guessing the fate of many characters. Out of the 27 possible scenarios, most of those who participated got at least 50% correct which is pretty impressive.
The predictions of Wight conversions had very little impacts to the scores much like the episode of the Long Night really had on the fates of most characters. That was really unexpected as the writers really setup for dire consequences for that episodes including a depleted army of Dothraki and Unsullied which magically reappeared in the last episode! I myself only lost two points after thinking two of the characters would have converted but did not actually. Luckily, it would not have changed the results for the most part. In addition, the bonus questions also did not have much impact as only three participants were able to predict the answers and everyone thought that Dary was pregnant (which would have been sad given the outcome)!
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The results have been interesting as there is actually a four-way tie for first place with 21 points each! While exciting for you all, this means that the payout just became pretty expensive for me! I said in my post that in the event of a tie, I would divide the prize among the winners but if I were to do that, the first place prize would be equal the third place prize which was not the thought of it all. However, since @steembasicincome is so great anyway, I will adjust the first place prize down to 15 SBIs but will give it to each of the four! Also only one other person not in the top 3 was able to tie my score so he will get one SBI as well. Here are the preliminary winners:
1st place (tie): @soyrosa, @vieira, @martinmcfly, @shenchensucc – 15 SBI each
2nd place: @nicnas – 10 SBI
3rd place: @abh12345 – 5 SBI
1 SBI for tie with my score: @nonsowrites
I will be triple checking my results and appreciate if anything seems off so I could adjust so let me know. If all is well by this Friday, I will send the SBIs accordingly as I need to get more Steem than I had expected!
From the results at my office, I came in 4th place which is not that bad but first place got 24 points! I am looking forward to seeing how that person achieved those results as I think it could be the bonus points that got him there. This was pretty fun so I hope I can do this more often in the future as well. I guess I now have to find something else to watch although I intend to watch this season once more to see if I feel any better about it in one run.
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I have sent the SBI rewards this morning to the winners: @soyrosa, @vieira, @martinmcfly, @shenchensucc, @nicnas, @abh12345, @nonsowrites. Thanks for your participation and engagement!
<3 Thank you! You rock :-)
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Cheers buddy!
I had planned to contribute to the prizes and so have sorted 5 SBI out for soyrosa, vieira, martinmcfly, and shenchensucc.
lol, too right! The Dothraki were terminated in episode 3!
Ahhh that’s awesome! Thank you for the bonus @abh12345!
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Thanks! I remembered this but wanted you to decide how to handle. Thanks as usual! Will start using some ENGAGE tokens below!
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Congrats to the winners! That was a fun challenge despite the season being so dreadfully terrible. I agree that the character development wasnt there. That's the common thought among most fans I think. The writers really rushed through the season and basically sacrificed character development. They relied heavily on past foreshadowing to tell the story and left the audience to recall vague obscurities from previous seasons to reconcile characters doing 180 degree personality shifts.
The ending was a massive let down as well in that it literally made no sense from the begining of the council meeting to the ending credits.
John is part of the nights watch which is no longer needed because the wildlings are free folk, the white walkers are dead and the wall has been destroyed. I guess he's up there to "watch" the snow fall???
And Bran being king makes absolutely no sense given all of the previous story line.
Bran Season 7: "I'm no longer Bran. I'm a something else now."
Tyrion Season 8: "We'll call you Bran the Broken." Followed by Bran acting like it was his plan all along.
.....whaaaaattttt!!! Lol. That outcome needed some serious development to make it even remotely believable. That's like the Dali Lama walking up tomorrow and announcing that he's going to be the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Okay I'm done my rant lol
Love the rant as it is so warranted! The books will definitely do a better job!
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Someone recently informed me that the next two books in the series are actually complete now and waiting to be released. They said that Martin isn't allowed to release them until sometime after the HBO series finale because of conflict of interest or whatever. I'm not sure if that is true but it would be a relief considering many people did not believe he would finish the series at all before he died. We will see I suppose.
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The only good thing to come out of season 8 is the fact that it will provide endless meme material for all eternity.
Someone actually created a meme already for what I said about Bran in my post. The internet is amazing hahaha.
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go to steem-engine.com.Ah wow! A 4-person tie! That’s crazy and is not something you can see coming :-) Luckily it’s SBI and the prize comes back to you in due time <3
I’m happy I did well though :D I expected more to die as well but hey, they had to keep some alive for any sequels (so they can procreate and we can follow their kids adventures ;-))
Thanks for doing this! Now we have to wait for a series of equal quality... anything that comes to mind that is on air or streaming somewhere? :-/
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I have been thinking about a new series myself! I think Westworld on HBO is pretty good but that comes back next year. Indo have about 10 episodes of the Walking Dead to catch up on too!
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Have some ENGAGE tokens!
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go to steem-engine.com.Thanks for the great contest.
We know in the books almost everyone is going to die fighting the night king... I felt we got a massive fake out. But nevertheless, it was a beautiful looking season with great acting. Just terrible writing...
It was all good fun! Thanks for participating!
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Have some ENGAGE tokens!
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Cool! I do not even know (yet) what that means! But cool!
What can Engage tokens do?!
Thank you!
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go to steem-engine.com.Cool! Thank you!
What do I have to do? hahahaha...
Congrats to the winners, but are there any winners with how that ended. sigh
no there are not... ;(
Huge congrats to the winners
Nice contest for some good SBI unit's. And this series is really awesome performing world wide .
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