The Game of Thrones Fantasy League – 7.06 – Beyond the Wall

Game of Thrones – 7.06 – Beyond the Wall

The game changer. Ten players gambled that their Joker episode should be the penultimate episode of the season. And that gamble payed off in spades. We are looking at a completely different leaderboard this week! Well done to those risk takers. A penultimate episode, while usually carrying the budgetary weight of the season, can be a risky choice because they tend to cover one large event with a small percentage of characters. If you have those characters, you’re laughing. If you don’t…your horse might be out of the race.

Last week I predicted that Thoros, Beric and in particular The Hound might die and come back as a wight. I was glad The Hound survived and it looks like he is taking the wight down to King’s Landing…and his brother!

The spectacle heavy episode felt like the action movie of the summer. However as it’s my job to scrutinise the episode minutely, it is a shame that a lot of it doesn’t hold up. It has detracted slightly from the integrity of the episode but I was certainly thrilled. On with the points!

Possible points of contention

Due to the army of wights, I’m capping “encounters wight” points to be counted five times. The same goes for White Walkers. Seven White Walkers appear at one time but have been capped to count five times. Jon, Tormund, The Hound, Beric, Ser Jorah and the dragons kill tonnes of wights, this is also capped at five times.

The party gain witnesses magic points for the first time Beric and Thoros ignite their swords.

Tyrion does not ever look at the table map, meaning he does not get points for grimly surveying the map, but Daenerys does.

Beric gets points for praying over Thoros.

Jon and co do not get points for leading an army into battle as they are a very small force and don’t count as an army.

The Night King has armies but gains no points for leading them into battle as he is not at the forefront of the violence.

Tormund gets pretty banged up in the battle and is deducted points for sustaining injuries.

Yet again, Daenerys and Jon gain encounters previously lost blood relative points.

Jon also gains points for encountering the dragons again as he has travelled great distances and a significantly long enough time for this to be a new encounter.

Arya’s monologues don’t even go over two minutes, meaning she misses out on monologue points.

Although not seen from the waist down, Jon gets points for being naked under his bedcovers as it is very unlikely they would have taken off his wet clothes only from the waist up.

The Night King gains points for winning this battle. Despite sustaining losses greater in number than the opposing forces, he is decisively more triumphant after this battle than before. You also cannot charitably say that Jon and co won the battle as they barely escaped with their lives.

The Night King gains witnesses magic points for resurrecting Viserion. Sheeeeeeeit.

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

Arya Stark – 20 points: appears (+5), mentions Iron Throne (+15)

Daenerys Targaryen – 493 points: appears (+5), drinks wine (+8), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), mentions Iron Throne (+15), 2x crosses the Wall (+50), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), travels by boat (+10), last line (+10)

Jon Snow – 725 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), first line (+10), 3x unsheathes sword (+10), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), kills white walker (+50), 5 x kills wight (+15), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), 2 x encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), rides horse (+10), crosses the Wall (+50), travels by boat (+15), gets naked (+15)

Sansa Stark – 18 points: appears (+5), studies a book (+13)

Tyrion Lannister – 13 points: appears (+5), drinks wine (+8)

Group B – Supporting Mains

Brienne of Tarth – 5 points: appears (+5)

Petyr Baelish – 5 points: appears (+5)

Ser Davos Seaworth – 120 points: appears (+5), 2 x crosses the Wall (+50), travels by boat (+15)

Group C – Rest of the Mains

Sandor Clegane – 573 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), unsheathes sword (+10), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), drinks wine (+8), 2 x says C word (+10), 5 x kills wight (+15), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), crosses the Wall (+50)

Tormund Giantsbane – 540 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), says the episode title (+10), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), 5 x kills wight (+15), gets injured (-5), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), crosses the Wall (+50)

Group D – Side Characters

Beric Dondarrion – 585 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), mentions Lyanna (+25), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), communicates with deity (+15), unsheathes sword (+10), 5x kills wight (+15), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), crosses the Wall (+50)

Group E – Side Characters to the Side Characters

Thoros of Myr – 165 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), unsheathes sword (+10), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), gets injured (-5), encounters White Walker (+40), dies (-30)

Group F – Weirdos

Benjen Stark – 220 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x kills wight (+15), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)

The Night King – 160 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), wins a battle (+40), witnesses magic (+30), last on screen (+15)

Group G – Animals

Drogon – 480 points: appears (+5), 2 x crosses the Wall (+50), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), 5 x kills wight (+15)

Rhaegal – 480 points: appears (+5), 2 x crosses the Wall (+50), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), 5 x kills wight (+15)

Viserion – 510 points: appears (+5), crosses the Wall (+50), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), 5 x kills wight (+15), dies (-30), comes back from the dead (+45), last on screen (+15)

Group H – Dead but not Forgotten

No appearances from any of these folk.

Group I – Are these fuckers coming back?

Gendry – 248 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), drinks wine (+8), 5 x encounters wight (+20), witnesses magic (+30), encounters White Walker (+40), crosses the Wall (+50)

Ser Jorah Mormont – 555 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), 2 x unsheathes sword (+10), witnesses magic (+30), 5 x encounters wight (+20), 5 x kills wight (+15), 5 x encounters White Walker (+40), 3 x encounters dragon (+20), crosses the Wall (+50)

The Leaderboard

Players can see their scores by consulting their initials in the table below. Congratulations to SV for shooting up from 13^th place to number one! And congratulations also to this week’s points champion MP who shot up from 17^th to number two with an unprecedented 5528 points! These two players are over 1200 points ahead of the person in third place so it looks like the race for winner is between them. With SV only 90 points ahead, it won’t take MP much to overtake her. However she has Drogon and he has Ghost so out of the two, for my money SV has the greater chance of winning.

Check back next week to find out who has won the Game of Thrones Fantasy League Season 7!