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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would assume that these tournaments were no different then the Roman games, in that you placate the population with loud and bloody and deadly combat.
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Nah, that's the Meereen fighting pits equivalent with slaves and gladiator type sellswords.
A tourney like that in the first episode shouldn't be as deadly as that, should be more a Knight's Tale than the Mountain vs Oberyn. It was just to get in that violence porn which I think was a mistake.
And it's elaborated in the very next episode when they talk about all these great tourney knights but Criston Cole was chosen because he actually saw battle. These tourneys aren't real combat, or shouldn't be.