For the past several weeks, Reddit HQ has been buzzing with excitement about the final season of Game of Thrones, with some teams even hanging their favorite house sigils over their desks. Each Monday, staff can be spotted darting to quiet corners, whispering watercooler banter, dire not to utter a spoiler too loudly. Now, that would be a shame. 🔔

This is an excitement we share with you, the Reddit community. And for good reason: Game of Thrones has been king of our vast realms of television fandom communities since the show’s beginnings. Whether you’re seeking in-depth episode discussions for any season, conversations about the written text or checking out the folks with the dankest of GoT memes, we’ve got a community for any Game of Thrones fan to call home.

r/GameofThrones Community

With over two million subscribers, r/gameofthrones has been the largest TV community on Reddit seven out of the last eight years. Since 2011, redditors have flocked to this community to discuss out-of-the-box fan theories, the latest mind-bending plotlines and their favorite show moments. This year has been no different, where we’ve seen over 1.5M comments within the community around the show’s last season.

The r/gameofthrones community has always been vocal about their favorite—and sometimes least favorite—characters on the show. To celebrate the long-awaited series finale, we partnered with the community to give redditors an opportunity to show that fan passion in the spirit of the final season’s ultimate battle: the fight to win the Iron Throne.

The Throne Pool

To kick off season eight, Reddit launched a Throne Pool experience with the r/gameofthrones community, where redditors were encouraged to “bend the knee” for the character they wanted to see take the Iron Throne at the end of the season.

Once a character was selected, redditors were entered into that character’s dedicated community to post memes, theories and chit-chat with other bannermen that shared their predilections. Over 1.3M redditors have bent the knee and aren’t shying away from making their alliances known.

As the season progressed, we implemented a few unique changes to the experience in response to episode plotlines and character traits (like when we gave the first 62 users that bent the knee for r/LyannaWinsTheThrone an “Original 62” flair). We also setup alliances so that bannermen of allied characters could post in each other’s communities (Team Arya and Sansa, anyone?). Of course, after the show is over we’ll be awarding some special trophies to winners and losers alike.

But who will be the victor? Will it be a fan favorite like that know-nothing Jon Snow, who has seen a 25 percent increase in Throne Pool supporters? Or will another character emerge from the shadows? Thousands of redditors seem to think Sansa may claim the final seat; she’s received four times the amount of backers since the beginning of the season! While we’ll have to wait until the finale for the true winner to be revealed, you can check out the most popular choices from redditors in our leaderboard on the r/gameofthrones sidebar on desktop (redesign only)!

And, if you haven’t caught up with the finale (why are you reading this then?) there’s still time to relive season 8 (or the entire series) with the r/gameofthrones community episode threads and collections.

Finally, if you’re still looking for a place to talk about the explosive finale on Sunday, check out a few of our select GoT-related communities below!

r/gameofthrones – As mentioned, this community is a popular destination to discuss both the television series as well as the source material. We’ve also curated a special Throne Pool Character Community Multi so you can keep up with the latest memes and show banter.

r/asoiaf – A community where you can discuss the A Song of Ice and Fire series and its relation to the series.

r/freefolk – Spoiler alert! Enter at your own risk. This meme-heavy community is a popular destination to find the latest news, rumors and spoiler-related content from the show.

r/aSongOfMemesAndRage – A community dedicated to the dank-arts of memecraft related to both GoT and ASoIaF.

r/HBOGameofThrones – A community dedicated to content and discussion about the television series only.

r/gottheories – A community for ASoIaF fans to discuss theories about the books and television series.