Board 8 > ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Drunkard - WINNER: Tyrion Lannister

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By a final score of 19-11, Tyrion Lannister has defeated Sterling Archer to take his place in the Hall of Kings. He joins Garrus Vakarian, Robin Hood, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Banjo, Samus Aran, Sherlock Holmes, Gregory House, Jaime Lannister, Gandalf, Jigglypuff, Ryu Hayabusa, Garfield, Captain Jack Sparrow, Optimus Prime, Bowser, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Solid Snake, James Bond, Inigo Montoya, Walter White, Carmen Sandiego, Trunks and Jack Skellington.

Unfortunately, My Immortal has left the board so my stats guy is going to be MIA and I personally doubt I will do them myself. I'd definitely appreciate anyone that would take the time to do anything like that. If you need the results of older KotMs, I can provide (almost) all of them.

-What did you think about this category. What surprised you the most?
-Is Tyrion a fitting winner? Who was your favorite to win it all at the start? Who do you think best defines this trope?

King of the Mountain will take a short hiatus... until this weekend. I thought of taking time off because as usual I'm frustrated at participation levels, but at this point I figure well, fuck it. Nothing is gonna change on that front, so whatever category is leading by the end of the day this Friday will be our next game! Here's a link to the current nominations page: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/King_of_the_Mountain_Nominations
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Final Results:

1. Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2. Sterling Archer (Archer)
3. Jecht (Final Fantasy X)
4. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
5. Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
6. Qrow Branwen (RWBY)
7. Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
8. Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
9. Haymitch Abernathy (The Hunger Games)
10. Uncle Waldo (The Aristocats)
11. Joshamee Gibbs (Pirates of the Caribbean)
12. Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
13. Iron Man/Tony Stark (Marvel Comics)
14. Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
15. Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
16. Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
17. Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
18. Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
19. Revy (Black Lagoon)
20. Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
21. Harvey Bullock (Gotham)
22. Shunsui Kyoraku (Bleach)
23. Trevor Belmont (Castlevania)
24. Chen Stormstout (Warcraft)
25. Robert Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
26. Max Payne (Max Payne)
27. Jessica Jones (Jessica Jones)
28. Suika Ibuki (Touhou)
29. Cassidy (Preacher)
30. Sara Valestein (Trails of Cold Steel)
31. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)
32. Mallory Archer (Archer)
33. Conker (Conker's Bad Fur Day)
34. Gary King (The World's End)
35. Kenny (The Walking Dead)
36. Leone (Akame ga Kill)
37. Mick Rory (Legends of Tomorrow)
38. Valkyrie (Marvel Comics)
39. Bunk Moreland (The Wire)
40. Kitty Forman (That '70s Show)
41. John Hancock (Hancock)
42. The Nerd (Angry Video Game Nerd)
43. Tsunade (Naruto)
44. Kazan (Legaia: Dual Saga)
45. Ethan Thomas (Condemned)
46. Farnham (Diablo)
47. Scherazard Harvey (Trails in the Sky)
48. Rangiku Matsumoto (Bleach)
49. Quentin Lance (Arrow)
50. Roger Smith (American Dad!)
51. Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump)
52. Rock Lee (Naruto)
53. Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE)
54. Willie T. Soke (Bad Santa)
55. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
56. Gail (The Last Man on Earth)
57. Norm Peterson (Cheers)
58. Wong Fei-Hung (Drunken Master)
59. John "Bluto" Blutarsky (Animal House)
60. Lionel Hutz (The Simpsons)
61. Bo Rai Cho (Mortal Kombat)
62. Jiraiya (Naruto)
63. Soda Popinski (Punch-Out!!!)
64. Al Bundy (Married... with Children)
65. Miriam Pataki (Hey Arnold!)
66. Randy Marsh (South Park)
67. Nathan Explosion (Metalocalypse)
68. Melissa Mao (Full Metal Panic)
69. Sakata Gintoki (Gintama)
70. Tim Gutterson (Justified)
71. Brad Wong (Dead or Alive)
72. Carol Danvers (Marvel Comics)
73. Captain Blackeye (Banjo-Tooie)
74. Gorman (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)
75. Captain Haddock (Tintin)
76. Hannes (Attack on Titan)
77. Jack Shephard (LOST)
78. Bojack Horseman (Bojack Horseman)
79. Booker DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)
80. Sebastian Castellanos (The Evil Within)
81. Chu (Yu Yu Hakusho)
82. Ollie the Magic Bum (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2)
83. Russell Casse (Independence Day)
84. Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
85. Cliff Clavin (Cheers)
86. Mickey O'Neil (Snatch.)
87. Brian Griffin (Family Guy)
88. John McGuirk (Home Movies)
89. Mike Enslin (1408)
90. The Artist (Layers of Fear)
91. Muddy Grimes (Beavis and Butt-Head Do America)
92. Muff Potter (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
93. Demoman (Team Fortress 2)
94. Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
95. Jim the Waco Kid (Blazing Saddles)
96. Irish (Red Dead Redemption)
97. Pickles (Metalocalypse)
98. William Murderface (Metalocalypse)
99. Beth Sanchez-Smith (Rick and Morty)
100. Robert Nightingale (Alan Wake)
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Nom Treasure Hunters
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Should've been archer.
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I love Archer, but Tyrion is an excellent winner, and honestly one of the first characters I think of when I think "drunkard"

surprised Rick didn't make top 10. I feel like if this was run like 2 years ago he might've come close to winning
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What a wholly unsatisfying ending.
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Cool winner. Super thrilled Uncle Waldo got MARINATED in that top ten.
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Fine winner, but bummed Archer lost again. Hes more of a drunkard than Tyrion is.

Nom Millionaires/Billionaires and Deieties.

Nominate:
Sidekicks
Babies
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Whoops missed the finals....but it wouldn't have mattered
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nominate nerd

Nominate:
Shapeshifters
Ghosts
Mascots
Fliers
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slycooper69 posted...

nominate nerd

You know what? I will second this nomination. Some pretty decent nerd characters out there.
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Nominate:
Time Travelers
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I will also nominate Nerd
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v_charon posted...

Unfortunately, My Immortal has left the board

whoa, when did this happen

Tyrion's a solid winner. I actually expected Bender to win - it felt like he was never in danger until the round he went out.

No noms for me atm, but more people should nom canines and tricksters imoo
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Oh, I forgot to continue voting through the top 5. Ah well.
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MI quit?
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Underleveled posted...

Nominate:
Time Travelers

We already did this one. I don't remember who won but from that list I'm guessing Trunks?
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v_charon posted...

Unfortunately, My Immortal has left the board

Say whaaaaa??

EDIT: It's true. His account is closed.

Do we know anything about this??
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-What did you think about this category. What surprised you the most?

I really enjoyed this category, it had a real strong roster right up until the very end. I was kinda surprised Iron Man didn't crack top 10.

Is Tyrion a fitting winner? Who was your favorite to win it all at the start? Who do you think best defines this trope?

Knowing little about GoT I'm not sure if he's a fitting winner. I've certainly never heard of him specifically for his drunkenness anyway, unlike Archer.

My fave to win this contest was Max Payne, because I love the way Max Payne 3 deftly deals with Max's alcohol addiction and dependence through candid benders and strong art direction, like showing us Max through his eyes with blurred scenes, memory skips, and haunting flashbacks.

Max is definitely one of the best examples of this trope to me, but Barney Gumble probably fits the image of the "drunkard" that most people have in their heads best. A real underrated example is The Artist, who I really wish went further. There's something so subtly terrifying about opening a dresser or cabinet and having a bunch of hidden beer bottles fall out of it as you realize the damage he truly has done to his family. One last I'll highlight is Gary King, who I wish I supported more. He's characterized really well throughout the film, with his alcoholism first treated in a more traditionally comedic fashion before becoming more real and sad as he's really still living in the past.
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For those asking, drama in the latest B8 Mafia game is what made MI leave.
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Mafia is the worst.
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Sucks.

MI was a legit decent person.
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Not a bad winner but I would have preferred Barney or Jecht to win it.
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Slycooper finally has a good idea.

Nominate Nerd
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nominate:

nerds
handicapped people
turtles

tennisboy213 posted...

turtles

Yes yes yes yes yes
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Nominate canines
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In the event of any tie for the next contest, I will cast the deciding vote.
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Congratulations to Gimli for winning the 51st King of the Mountain -Save My Dwarf/Halfling/Otherwise Vertically Challenged Character- unopposed now I guess.

I love Tyrion but this wasn't his best category to win methinks. Ah well. I'm happy Qrow did as well as he did.
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Nominate: Demons
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Nominate:
Treasure Hunters
Deities
Ghosts
Turtles
Princesses
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I'm really unsure which category to get behind next...
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I will also nominate Turtles
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Reptiles is a much better category. Bears was difficult enough to get legit entries for.
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I initally had my reservations about Bears as it was seemingly something not a lot of people wanted, IIRC.
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It's less about interest and more about the fact this is not super popular. When you nominate categories like that... it makes a struggling contest struggle that much more. I resented Bears mostly because many people who pushed the category didn't even participate much. So long as people play it doesn't really matter the category; I do think Reptiles offers a great sort of mix however, with both feral representatives and humanoids with reptilian features.

That said I still stand behind Shapeshifters, Demons and Gunners among the best categories yet to be done. Most of the ones up top at the moment are all decent though.
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nominate:

reptiles

i also nominate reptiles
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I will nom superheroes and break tie

Maybe Batman will win this one
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Actually that recreated the tie lol

Superheroes is kinda a long time coming. It's been usurped for quite some time now.
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I'll nominate Reptiles as well.

I actually really want to see Superheroes make it. It seems like it would be mostly comic characters but there's a lot of potential for non traditional superheroes to make it as well. I also think that restricting it to characters that have actual superpowers would be a cool twist as hard as it would to implement.
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Nominate: Gangsters, Athletes
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superheroes will take at least one topic to 500 over discussion of what is eligible
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"He's not a superhero he's just a person with powers"

"Well he's an anti-hero, that doesn't count!"

"WELL I THINK WIZARDS ARE SUPERHEROES"
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I like Turtles

Would Reptile (Mortal Kombat) and Illya (RWBY) count for Reptiles or would the name have to be changed to Reptilians for them to fit?

Am I mad or was Reptile initially a pallet swap human character?
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Reptile was the green version of Sub-Zero/Scorpion.
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he was originally a palette swap but got developed into a full reptilian character

and I'd imagine reptilians would count for Reptiles. I'd absolutely nominate Lizardman from Soul Calibur
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Hell yeah Lizardman! I used to whoop all kinds of human/demon asses with that guy!

May as well throw in Riptor (Killer Instinct) and complete the trifecta.
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