Every Game of Thrones Season, Ranked
Rank all eight seasons of Game of Thrones head-to-head: Season 3 vs Season 4, Season 1 vs Season 6, and where Season 8 really lands. Fans decide. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Season 12011 · 10 episodes
Season 32013 · 10 episodes
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 8 start.
How the Game of Thrones Seasons bracket works
This Game of Thrones season ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Season 1 or Season 2? Season 3 or Season 4? — and after 7 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 8 shows in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 3 rounds at the default 8-slot size (Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 8 shows in the field. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same show can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely.
7 picks, 3 rounds
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 8 entrants
All 8 entrants are listed below, including Season 1, Season 2, Season 3 and Season 4.
- Season 12011 · 10 episodes
- Season 22012 · 10 episodes
- Season 32013 · 10 episodes
- Season 42014 · 10 episodes
- Season 52015 · 10 episodes
- Season 62016 · 10 episodes
- Season 72017 · 7 episodes
- Season 82019 · 6 episodes
Tier list instead?
Load all 8 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Game of Thrones season bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- Replay it — the shuffle changes which shows meet early, and close calls in round one change the whole ranking.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
How many shows are in the Game of Thrones Seasons bracket?
The pool holds 8 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 7 picks across 3 rounds: Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final.
Which shows are included?
Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7 and Season 8. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Game of Thrones Seasons bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 7 choices at the default size. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 7 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 8 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these shows?
Every completed bracket feeds the Game of Thrones Seasons community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 8 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own game of thrones seasons bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 8 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.