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Best TV Show EVER - Boardsies Decide: Tournament Thread

Necro · 2019-09-28 10:40:51

Well hello there all. The time is nearly upon us as we kick off what is sure to be a divisive topic. Friends will become enemies. Rivalries may have to be put to the side for the common good. All that and more as you, the people decide through way of a 128 TV Show Tournament which is the BEST EVER (as decided by…

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#3722 05-10-2019 05:50PM

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Cheers Necro, was late to game but really enjoyed that. Greatest movie next.....

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#3723 05-10-2019 05:51PM

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pc7 wrote: »

Cheers Necro, was late to game but really enjoyed that. Greatest movie next.....

I have some bad news for you there...

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#3724 05-10-2019 05:53PM

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fixxxer wrote: »

I have some bad news for you there...

Bounty Hunter might cover that too:)

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#3725 05-10-2019 05:58PM

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Thanks Necro!

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#3726 05-10-2019 06:32PM

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pc7 wrote: »

Cheers Necro, was late to game but really enjoyed that. Greatest movie next.....

Best Movie Ever: Competition

Best Horror Movie Ever

Best War Movie EVER

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#3727 05-10-2019 06:35PM

Necro

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Ok so I'm back now and let's get the interesting parts out into the open.

Not gonna reveal any individual's name who submitted me their 5 shows. They're quite welcome to reveal it on thread though.

So we had 51 entrants. One person actually submitted the same show twice in their top 5 :pac::pac:

Here is the list of the shows that received multiple nominations:

Multiple Entries Nominations
Breaking Bad 20
The Wire 11
The Sopranos 11
Game of Thrones 9
Father Ted 7
Band of Brothers 7
Blackadder 6
The West Wing 5
The Office (UK) 5
Only Fools and Horses 5
Firefly 4
Battlestar Galactica 4
Buffy The Vampire Slayer 4
The Walking Dead 4
Friends 4
Doctor Who 3
The Office (US) 3
Deadwood 3
Oz 3
The X-Files 3
The Simpsons 3
Chernobyl 3
Line of Duty 3
Love/Hate 3
Better Call Saul 2
Curb Your Enthusiasm 2
Reeling in the Years 2
Homeland 2
Fraser 2
Twin Peaks 2
Dallas 2
Jericho 2
The Shield 2
Seinfeld 2
South Park 2
Great British bake off 2
ER 2
Rick & Morty 2
I'm Alan Partridge 2
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2
The Leftovers 2
Friday Night Lights 2
Justified 2
Parks & Recreation 2
A-Team 2
Hill Street Blues 2
Supernatural 2

These shows were then taken and would comprise the Top 32 seeds.

Where there was a tie in nominations, it was decided by random.org

Top 32 Seeds became:

Seed Show Name
1 Breaking Bad
2 The Wire
3 The Sopranos
4 Game of Thrones
5 Father Ted
6 Band of Brothers
7 Blackadder
8 Only Fools and Horses
9 The West Wing
10 The Office (UK)
11 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
12 Battlestar Galactica
13 Friends
14 The Walking Dead
15 Firefly
16 Line of Duty
17 Oz
18 Doctor Who
19 Love/Hate
20 The X-Files
21 Chernobyl
22 The Office (US)
23 Deadwood
24 The Simpsons
25 Twin Peaks
26 The Shield
27 A-Team
28 Parks & Recreation
29 Jericho
30 South Park
31 Seinfeld
32 Friday Night Lights

They were then placed into the brackets so the top seeds would avoid each other until the latter stages.

Up next: Single nominated shows...

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#3728 05-10-2019 06:39PM

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Lads, don't tell necro, but I think it's borderline time to stage an intervention

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#3729 05-10-2019 06:43PM

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Yeah, so here is the list of shows that were nominated just once

Single Entries Nominations
24 1
Absolutely fabulous 1
Alf. 1
Always Sunny in Philadelphia 1
Angel 1
As Queer As Folk 1
Babylon 5 1
Back To The Future: The Animated Series 1
Batman the Animated Series 1
Big Brother 1
Black Books 1
Brooklyn Nine Nine 1
Carnivale 1
Charlie Jade 1
Columbo 1
Cracker 1
Dark 1
Dark Angel 1
Dexter 1
Eastenders 1
Fair City 1
Fargo 1
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place 1
Gilmore Girls 1
Harper's Island 1
Hart to hart 1
Homicide Life on the Streets 1
Hot Zone 1
Killing Eve 1
Knight Rider 1
Knightmare 1
Legion 1
Lost 1
M*A*S*H 1
Macgyver 1
Married With Children 1
Masterchef 1
Minder 1
Mindhunter 1
Mysterious Cities of Gold 1
Nightstand 1
Not the Nine O'Clock News 1
One Tree Hill 1
Orange is the New Black 1
Peep Show 1
Prison Break 1
Red Dwarf 1
Rescue Me 1
Rome 1
Scandal 1
SEAL Team 1
Sense8 1
Sesame St 1
Six Feet Under 1
Sons of Anarchy 1
Southland 1
Spartacus 1
Star Trek: The Original Series 1
Stranger Things 1
Suits 1
The Big Bang Theory 1
The Bridge 1
The Crystal Maze 1
The dukes of hazard 1
The Fast Show 1
The High Chaparral. 1
The Killing (Danish version) 1
The Mentalist 1
The outer limits 1
The Riordans. 1
The Twilight Zone 1
The Unit 1
The Wonder years 1
Thick Of It 1
Thundercats 1
Tiswas 1
Utopia 1
V 1
Wayward Pines 1
West World 1
Will & Grace 1

Coupled with the multi nominations, this became our tournament!!!!

Few interesting tidbits:

The only non-seeds to make the last 16 were:

ER
Reeling In The Years
Frasier

None progressed into the quarter finals.

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#3730 05-10-2019 06:45PM

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So FT got nominated 7 seven times, BB 20 times and FT won, a travesty of justice.

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#3731 05-10-2019 06:46PM

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Charlie19 wrote: »

Bounty Hunter might cover that too:)

:cool:

In all seriousness though good on ya Necro for running this.

Now to be a smarmy Internet and heres what should have happened mook

:pac:

Semi Finals

The Sopranos vs Breaking Bad
The Wire vs The Shield

Knocked out in my QFs

Game of Thrones
The West Wing
Father Ted
Oz / The Simpsons / South Park / Lost/ Band of Brothers

Then the lower tiers

Rick & Morty, The Walking Dead, 24, Narcos, Better Call Saul, Mr Robot, Stranger things

The X-Files, The Office x2, Arresed Development, Bojack Horseman, Hannibal, Fargo

The Newsroom, Friday Night Lights, Spaced, Archer, Dexter,

Peep Show, Californication, Eastbound & Down, Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses, It's always Sunny in Philidelphia, Black Books

The Thick of It, Boardwalk Empire, Daredevil. Jusrified, Deadwood

Parks & Rec, Community, Friends, Brookyn 99, The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, Red Dwarf, Monthy Python, Brasseye, Alan Partridge

Sherlock, Orange is the New Black, Seinfeld, Shameless, The Bridge (Bron), Lillyhammer, Generation Kill, True Detective, God The Devil & Bob, the Life & Times of Tim, 11.22.63, Futurama,

but thats just off the top of my head :pac:

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#3732 05-10-2019 06:46PM

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Spook_ie wrote:

So FT got nominated 7 seven times, BB 20 times and FT won, a travesty of justice.

Yep. In fact quite a number of people who nominated shows never even voted on the thread :pac:

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#3733 05-10-2019 06:48PM

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Necro wrote: »

Yep. In fact quite a number of people who nominated shows never even voted on the thread :pac:

Name n shame.

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#3734 05-10-2019 06:50PM

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Ah to be fair, quite a few who didn't submit entries also got really involved in the thread, and thank you for that. Twas a lot of fun.

But now I'm retired, that was my magnum opus.

(Yeah, yeah I'll probably be back in a couple of months lol)

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#3735 05-10-2019 07:01PM

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Bounty Hunter wrote: »

:cool:

In all seriousness though good on ya Necro for running this.

Now to be a smarmy Internet and heres what should have happened mook

:pac:

but thats just off the top of my head :pac:

You don't have firefly at all, so this is just poppycock.

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#3736 05-10-2019 07:06PM

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Fair play to you Necro that was some serious work you put in and you definitely deserve to put the feet up.

Bualadh bos

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#3737 05-10-2019 07:11PM

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sKeith wrote: »

You don't have firefly at all, so this is just poppycock.

Bring back Necro :pac:

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#3738 05-10-2019 07:19PM

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Thanks Necro , brilliant game , with so many controversial winners in the heats , my favourite was Sesame Street

Think my picks were ,

Queer As Folk ,
Six Feet Under ,
Hill Street Blues (?)
Big Brother
Can't remember the last one tbh .

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#3739 05-10-2019 07:20PM

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Mam of 4 wrote: »

Thanks Necro , brilliant game , with so many controversial winners in the heats , my favourite was Sesame Street

Think my picks were ,

Queer As Folk ,
Six Feet Under ,
Hill Street Blues (?)
Big Brother
Can't remember the last one tbh .

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#3740 05-10-2019 07:22PM

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Necro wrote: »

Dallas

Ah , thank you !
I miss BB and the threads

Anyhow , thanks again !

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#3741 05-10-2019 07:32PM

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Necro wrote: »

Ah to be fair, quite a few who didn't submit entries also got really involved in the thread, and thank you for that. Twas a lot of fun.

But now I'm retired, that was my magnum opus.

(Yeah, yeah I'll probably be back in a couple of months lol)

Too many people voted against shows because they had never seen them.

Booooooooooooooo.

Shenanigans.

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#3742 05-10-2019 07:32PM

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Yep, thanks Necro. An enjoyable addition to my week. Never in this forum before. Ye run a tight ship... Bit mad though Ted

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#3743 05-10-2019 07:35PM

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De BhÃ&#161 wrote: »

Yep, thanks Necro. An enjoyable addition to my week. Never in this forum before. Ye run a tight ship... Bit mad though Ted

Well... I hope some of ye will stick around and try out some of the other games the forum has running currently or in a few short weeks

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I'd just like you all to know when this thread started I joked about nominating Gilmore Girls. But that wasn't me who actually did it!!
I was the one who nominated OITNB though.

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#3745 05-10-2019 07:51PM

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I'd just like you all to know when this thread started I joked about nominating Gilmore Girls. But that wasn't me who actually did it!!
I was the one who nominated OITNB though.

Can confirm that BuileBeag is telling the truth

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#3746 05-10-2019 08:37PM

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Yipeeeee Father Ted won!

Go On Go On Go On Go On Go On Go On!!!!!!!!!

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#3747 05-10-2019 10:00PM

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I have to admit I tapped out when Chernobyl got beaten by Blackadder

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#3748 05-10-2019 10:03PM

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#3749 05-10-2019 10:22PM

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Voted for breaking bad, would have wanted sopranos or wire but delighted for father ted.

I never thought it would have got it.

True warrior.

Cream always rises to the top.

Hopefully it gets the recognition it deserves now and takes off in America and Bollywood’s areas of importance.

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#3750 05-10-2019 10:52PM

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Can officially vouch for utopia. On the last episode now. Very good

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#3751 06-10-2019 12:48AM

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Hunky Monster wrote: »

Too many people voted against shows because they had never seen them.

Booooooooooooooo.

Shenanigans.

And too many voted for shows even though they had seen them (I'm looking at you Breaking Bad voters) which is equally frustrating.

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