Game of Thrones April Absurdity Tournament: Prelims

What are we doing here?

Two of my friends and I got bored so we decided to figure out who really is the best fighter of in the universe of Game of Thrones.

How are we doing this?

We took the 64 best fighters from Essos to Westeros and put them in a random bracket and matched them up against each other in a single elimination tournament until we had a 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd places.  True in hindsight a double elimination would have been a better, it would have eliminated a few early exits.  But hey this is good enough.

The Rules:

This is “Game of Thrones” not A Song of Ice and Fire.  It is also only seasons 1-3 of Game of Thrones so if they don’t appear before this season they don’t qualify.  All characters will be at “best form” throughout the three seasons (e.g.: Jamie with both hands).  Also all characters will get any equipment or animals they need to be at “best form” meaning Robb and Jon get their wolves and Khal gets his horse, also Barristan and others have their armor, and so on.

Do we know what we’re talking about?

Of course.  You’ve got Grayson who has read all five books and seen every episode of Game of Thrones, a few times actually.  Alex who has seen all three season and read all the books.  And myself who has seen every episode countless times and since I read behind the shows as to avoid spoil city, I have read books 1 and 2.

Here’s your 64 greatest warriors of the seven kingdoms (in no particular order… not yet at least):

Out of those 64 we each ranked our top ten just ya know… cuz:

We placed all the names in to the bracket randomly and this is what we’ve got (click to enlarge):

Round One