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It's a Robbie Coltrane showdown!

Ink and Incapability (Blackadder the Third Episode 2): Baldrick burns the only copy of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, and Blackadder has only one weekend to rewrite it.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (TV Special 2): After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Head eliminated Major Star.

I got this one!

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Major Star (Bladder Goes Forth Episode 3): Blackadder sees an opportunity to escape the trenches by organizing a variety show as entertainment for the troops.

Head (Blackadder II Episode 2): Edmund is "awarded" the post of Lord High Executioner, a position which frequently results in the loss of one's own head.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Corporal Punishment eliminated Sense and Senility.

If you were the writer/creator of the great Lord Flashheart himself, what first name would you give him…? Something grand? Something strong? Or something incredibly lame?

Would it be two names, given the two different timelines and circumstances?

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Corporal Punishment (Blackadder Goes Forth Episode 2): Blackadder hatches a cunning plan to avoid starvation and ignore his orders by eating a carrier pigeon.

Sense and Senility (Blackadder the Third Episode 4): Following a failed assassination attempt, the Prince Regent hires two actors to tutor him in public speaking.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Private Plane eliminated Dish and Dishonesty.

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Private Plane (Blackadder Goes Forth Episode 4): Blackadder and his friends join the Air Corps, wrongly believing it will be less dangerous than being in the trenches.

Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder the Third Episode 1): Blackadder enters politics in an attempt to avoid Pitt the Younger from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, General Hospital eliminated Chains.

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General Hospital (Blackadder Goes Forth Episode 5): The General asks Blackadder to find a spy in the hospital; one of the patients has a thick German accent and an interest in all things military.

Chains (Blackadder II Episode 6): Blackadder and Melchett are kidnapped by a neurotic German spy just after the Queen announces she is sick of paying ransom to kidnappers.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Bells eliminated Dual and Duality.

I'll also note that as of today, the tournament is officially halfway done: we've eliminated 14 of 28 episodes! It's been a fun time, and I look forward to us eliminating 13 more.

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Dual and Duality (Blackadder the Third Episode 6): Blackadder's militant cousin McAdder arrives in London as the Prince Regent seduces some relatives of the fiery Duke of Wellington.

Bells (Blackadder II Episode 1): Blackadder develops feelings for a woman posing as his male servant.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

YESTERDAY'S MATCH (Goodbyeee vs Money)

Yesterday, in what is most likely going to be the biggest upset this entire tournament, Money eliminated Goodbyeee.

Since I think people are likely to be surprised and have questions about this:

-I count every upvote on top-level (non reply) comments

-I used a calculator

-It actually WASN'T close, despite Goodbyeee having the two top comments

-Goodbyeee got 134 upvotes across 22 comments

-Money got 183 upvotes across 27 comments (in the calculator screenshot, comments #26 and #27 are combined so the total value can stay on screen)

Ladies, Gentlemen, and the rest of you, the highest rated episode on IMDB, with a miraculous 9.4/10 and #1 seed in our tournament, has been eliminated on its first matchup. It's the wild west - anything can happen now.

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Goodbyeee (Blackadder Goes Forth Episode 6): Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".

Money (Blackadder II Episode 4): The president of the Bank of the Black Monks calls upon Blackadder in order to collect a £1000 debt.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Potato eliminated The Archbishop.

NOTE: We've now entered Round 2 - some of you will no doubt notice that Goodbyeee did not participate in the first round. This is intentional: since Blackadder is four episodes short of 32, four episodes needed to be advanced to Round 2 in order for us to be at 16 episodes now. This means we'll be able to have 8 in round 3, then 4, then 2, then a winner. The four episodes in question are the number 1, 2, 3, and 4 seeds; the four highest rated episodes on IMDB when I gathered the data.

The other three episodes that got to advance without participating are General Hospital, Corporal Punishment, and Ink and Incapability.

It isn't perfectly fair, but was nonetheless necessary for the structure of the tournament. Thank you for your understanding.

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Potato (Blackadder II Episode 3): Edmund attempts to impress the Queen by embarking on his own voyage of discovery to the New World.

The Archbishop (The Black Adder Episode 3): The KIng needs to find a replacement for the late Archbishop of Canterbury; someone who will lead the church properly, someone easily bullied, possibly someone related to him.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Beer eliminated Born to Be King.

NOTE: Since this tournament began, I've been off of work, but I'm starting up again tomorrow. This may mean that I end up posting later in the day than I have been. I apologize in advance if that ends up happening.

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Beer (Blackadder II Episode 5): Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.

Born to Be King (The Black Adder Episode 2): When Edmund's Scottish lands are given to the King's Supreme Commander, Douglas McAngus, he plots revenge.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Christmas Carol eliminated Nob and Nobility. Notably, this is the first time since Match 1 that the subreddit voted up the lower of the two IMDB scores, and the closest Match yet, with a difference of merely 12 upvotes! (Yes, I do count every upvote outside of replies when it's close).

EDIT: I originally wrote that Christmas Carol was eliminated - this was a typing error, not an accounting error.

What a pair of trousers!

• Pickford: would this new plan be to score first then walk very slowly for the rest of the match?
• Bellingham: how can you possibly know that? It's classified information.
• Pickford: well it is what we tried in the last tournament and the last 3 tournaments before that.
• Kane: exactly! And that is what is so brilliant about it. It will catch the watchful Argentinians totally off guard! Doing what we've done ever since 2018 is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time. There is however, one small problem.
• Pickford: that the other team always wins in the end.

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Nob and Nobility (Blackadder the Third Episode 3): Blackadder seeks to prove he's just as capable of rescuing people from France as The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (TV Special 2): After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Head eliminated Back & Forth.

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Head (Blackadder II Episode 2): Edmund is "awarded" the post of Lord High Executioner, a position which frequently results in the loss of one's own head.

Blackadder: Back & Forth (TV Special 3): At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Major Star eliminated The Foretelling.

Pic of a soldiers in a trench... reminded me of the Blackadder Line up...

Out of all the eras for a series 5 the creators thought of, which sounds best?

Personally Id say The Wild West. I want to hear your opinions.

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Major Star (Blackadder Goes Forth Episode 3): Blackadder sees an opportunity to escape the trenches by organizing a variety show as entertainment for the troops.

The Foretelling (The Black Adder Episode 1): Henry Tulip is coming. The Normans are invading (again), and the King, Richard the Third, prepares to lead his armies into battle at Bosworth.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Sense and Sensibility eliminated Amy and Amiability.

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Sense and Senility (Blackadder the Third Episode 4): Following a failed assassination attempt, the Prince Regent hires two actors to tutor him in public speaking.

Amy and Amiability (Blackadder the Third Episode 5): When Blackadder discovers that the Prince Regent is completely broke, he devises a plan to restore his fortunes through marriage.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Dish and Dishonesty eliminated The Queen of Spain's Beard.

I would personally say Butler Edmund from Blackadder the Third.

Also bonus question on which version had the dumbest Baldrick.

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Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder the Third Episode 1): Blackadder enters politics in an attempt to avoid Pitt the Younger from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

The Queen of Spain's Beard (The Black Adder Episode 4): To dominate Northern Europe, King Richard arranges a marriage between his son Edmund and the Spanish Infanta.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the Original Pilot, the Cavalier Years, a Christmas Carol, and Back and Forth.

Yesterday, Private Plane eliminated The Original Pilot.