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Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 5, The Bells

2019-05-14T12:00:00-04:00

The penultimate Game of Thrones episode, "The Bells," was the exact opposite of The Lego Movie: everything is not awesome, and everyone is not okay.

It wasn't a war that descended on King's Landing. It was pure devastation. This was a massacre, just wholesale violence for the sake of violence. If viewers thought that things could end peacefully between the Red Keep, the Mother of Dragons, and anyone unlucky enough to be caught between them, this episode proved that's never going to happen.

"The Bells" also reminded us that sometimes Game of Thrones doesn't make sense. If you, like me, watch Game of Thrones with Twitter running in the backg …

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Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night

2019-04-29T10:42:13-04:00

Well, shit.

How are we feeling, people? If you're, like me, over-caffeinated and still bouncing around after last night's episode, who can blame you? Alternatively, if you're still playing around with the brightness and contrast settings on your TV or laptop in an attempt to make out anything from that poorly lit episode, know that you're not alone. "The Long Night" was a wild ride, and although there are sure to be many takes on what it all means for the final few episodes, plus a few how-to guides on increasing the contrast settings for your $1,000 television set, we're here to talk fantasy draft.

Unlike last week, which featured little …

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Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 1, Winterfell

2019-04-15T12:53:18-04:00

We're baaaaaaaaack! The final session of our fantasy sports league Game of Game of Thrones, which is run by Fantasizr, is upon us. It's time to batten down the hatches, obsess over whether you got a worthy lineup, and pray to the Westerosi gods that your drafted characters don't happen to cross paths with a couple of angry, hungry dragons. (Or if they do, that you're given the bonus points for memorable deaths.) Before we jump into the episode, here's a reminder of how the score breakdown works and the changes we've made for the final season. The season 8 premiere was fairly easy to score. It was the equivalent a hot tub you ease yourself in …

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Game of Game of Thrones season 8 preview: meet the Verge teams

2019-04-10T13:52:23-04:00

In fewer than 120 hours, we'll gather around our TVs, computer monitors, and laptop screens to watch the premiere of Game of Thrones' final season. It's exciting, isn't it? It's kind of like going back to school when you still have a full pencil case, and you feel ready for anything life throws your way. It's how you should be feeling heading into this year's Game of Game of Thrones if you drafted correctly.

Hell, even if you managed to draft a somewhat decent team over at our fantasy league partner Fantasizr, you're doing better than most of The Verge.

This year's draft didn't exactly go as planned for anybody on the team - save for perha …

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We’re kicking off season 8’s Game of Game of Thrones fantasy sports league

2019-02-28T13:48:15-05:00

Jon Snow and Daenerys in Game of Thrones season eight. | HBO

Winter has arrived: the final season of the fantasy sports league A Game of Game of Thrones is back for one more round. This is it - the big one. Once again, we're teaming up with Fantasizr to let people draft fantasy teams based on HBO's series Game of Thrones, and rake in points based on individual character milestones. Season 8 will premiere on April 14th, officially kicking off the season, but first, players will need to assemble their teams, based on who's still alive and in the game. So in order to know who's still eligible for the draft, let's take a second to remember what happened during last's year Game of Game of Thrones. We're la …

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The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 7, The Dragon and the Wolf

2017-08-28T14:40:49-04:00

Here we are on the other side of Game of Thrones' penultimate season. How does it feel? Are you listening to your break-up playlists in honor of Jaime and Cersei, or your twinkly sex-song playlists in honor of that other pair of close relatives? Are you drinking red wine with your breakfast in celebration of some first-rate drunken diplomacy, or are you munching on bugs, training yourself to subsist on lean proteins in preparation for a hard winter? Are you crying because it's over, or smiling because it happened?

We open the 81-minute finale with a 45-minute scene in King's Landing that is, I'm sorry to tell you, mostly bickering. First, J …

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The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 3, The Queen’s Justice

2017-07-31T12:14:29-04:00

You can say this about any episode in Game of Thrones' six-year history, but boy oh boy, things are really spiraling out of control in Westeros.

We've been conditioned to expect first-rate political strategy from Tyrion, but it's clear now that he's not even a passable military strategist. The siege of King's Landing failed spectacularly, and the Targaryen coalition left the Tyrells utterly defenseless in the Reach. Cersei, on the other hand, can move political chess pieces and command an army. We're not even halfway through season 7, so it would be silly to think she'll still be on the Iron Throne when this is all over, but I'm embarrassed …

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The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 2, Stormborn

2017-07-24T12:35:15-04:00

I'm going to address something right now, and then we're not going to talk about it again for the rest of our lives: it is strange to watch the men tasked with writing Game of Thrones attempt to write intimacy that is not twisted in some way. And so this week's sex scene between Grey Worm and Missandei was both touching and embarrassing. Grey Worm comparing the feeling of being in love with Missandei with a child's fear of snakes or the ocean was a clumsy rhetorical choice on his part, and Missandei's "I want to see you, please" made me want to throw myself off a building. But I'm happy these two kids finally got it together long enough to t …

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The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7 preview and a dwindling draft pool

2017-07-07T12:25:26-04:00

The Game of Game of Thrones is back, and you can play along! Once again, we're partnering with fantasy sports site Fantasizr, and using the rules written back in season 5 by the original Thronesmaster Emily Yoshida. Please catch up! We've already drafted teams here at The Verge and we're ready to serve as council while you draw up your own plans for destroying your friends in an internet game.

The reigning champs

When we left Westeros, the Starks were winning for the first time in several years, as Jon and Sansa (but mostly Sansa) had taken back Winterfell from the Boltons, Arya made it back to Westeros and did some forced cannibalism stuff …

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The Game of Game of Thrones is back: draft your swordsmen and monsters now

2017-06-29T11:00:00-04:00

Here's the good news: Game of Game of Thrones is back.

Season 7 is still a little over two weeks away, but we want to give you plenty of time to think through your selections. It's going to be a tough year for anyone who doesn't have Daenerys' dragons on their side. Once again, we're partnering with fantasy game site Fantasizr, and you can register and get your own league set up as early as right now. We'll be drafting for our staff league and spitting out our season 7 predictions as trash talk sometime next week.

oh boy, it's dragon and ice monster time

Here's the other good news: you can stop emailing and tweeting at Emily Yoshida now! Fo …

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