A Cup of Thrones

An attempt to find out who sits on the Iron Throne...through polling. By @hughrbrechin and @cinemashoebox
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The Queen in the North! Sansa Stark - always one of the favourites - walks the final in the end, establishing herself as the winner of the Cup of Thrones!

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And now our watch has ended.

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Thank you all for playing along!

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The Grand Final of the Cup of Thrones!

So here we are. 128 entered two months ago, and we're down to the final two contenders for the Iron Throne. It would be fair to say that both finalists go through the wringer a bit in the series. But who will have a happy ending here?

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The Queen in the North! Sansa Stark - always one of the favourites - walks the final in the end, establishing herself as the winner of the Cup of Thrones!

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Sansa Stark, by contrast, has strolled it so far. The semi-final was the first time she didn't register an outright majority, but she still finished fifteen percentage points clear of Arya and Tyrion. Can she go one step further and take her place as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms?

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Theon Greyjoy has looked dead and buried twice in this competition, but came from behind to register memorable victories over Jaime and Brienne. Frankly we reckon he'd want to lose this final, but that's not up to him. It's up to you.

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But Osmund, Haldon and Bowen came through for us. They are the true heroes of this competition. Anyway, on to the so-called main attraction...

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The people have spoken and we like what we hear. 128 candidates set out. Only three of them received no votes whatsoever. Craster, Boros Blount, Gerris Drinkwater, Chett ... all were too popular for this group. But who is the worst of the lot?

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Allow us organisers to indulge ourselves for a moment before the final kicks off: we quite quickly developed an obsession while running these polls with whether anyone would ever get 0 votes. Even the lamest, weirdest, most obscure characters seemed to have fans.

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it's INCREDIBLY CLOSE in the battle of who sucks the least

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The people have spoken and we like what we hear. 128 candidates set out. Only three of them received no votes whatsoever. Craster, Boros Blount, Gerris Drinkwater, Chett ... all were too popular for this group. But who is the worst of the lot?

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@sianamis we honestly have no idea how they qualified

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So! The GRAND FINAL is tomorrow, but we figured we'd build the hype with a little bonus poll. We've got two options: a 3rd-place playoff, or a wooden spoon showdown between the 3 candidates who got zero votes in the groups. It's up to you: vote in this snap poll-about-the-poll!

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Moderately competent administrator! Assassin of Jon Snow! Electoral juggernaut! Night's Watch waste of space Bowen Marsh won zero votes in a group containing Mace Tyrell, and for that alone we salute him.

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Haldon Halfmaester, Jon Connington's pet nerd and sometime drinking companion of Tyrion Lannister. Does he have a secret identity? Does he have a hidden agenda? Do we even care? Well you lot certainly don't.

(We don't have a *lot* of art options for these guys)

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THE BIGGEST LOSERS IT IS! Stand by...

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Meanwhile the 3rd place playoff would *itself* require a playoff between Arya and Tyrion, who tied for 2nd place in the 2nd semi-final. Whoever won that would face Brienne.

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If you're curious, the Wooden Spoon contest would be between Osmund Kettleblack, Haldon Halfmaester and Bowen Marsh. Who WOULDN'T want to see them all back in action?