Counties of England: Northumberland is the survivor

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Counties of England

Yorkshire    3,882,848
Lincolnshire 1,693,547
Devon    1,667,097
Norfolk    1,308,440
Northumberland 1,289,756
Lancashire    1,207,605
Somerset    1,043,485
Hampshire  1,037,764
Kent    995,344
Essex    987,028
Cumberland    970,161
Suffolk    952,709
Sussex    933,269
Wiltshire  880,248
Cornwall    868,068
Shropshire    859,516
Gloucestershire 795,73
Staffordshire    749,601
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Derbyshire  658,876
Cheshire  657,068
Durham   647,281
Northamptonshire    641,992
Dorset    632,272
Warwickshire    577,462
Cambridgeshire  549,749
Nottinghamshire  539,752
Herefordshire  537,363
Leicestershire  527,124
Westmorland    500,906
Surrey    485,128
Oxfordshire    483,614
Worcestershire  480,560
Buckinghamshire  475,694
Berkshire    462,224
Hertfordshire 406,161
Bedfordshire    298,494
Huntingdonshire  234,21
Middlesex    181,301
Rutland    97,273

Round 1:

Vote to eliminate two with less than 700.00 acres and one with more than 700.000 acres.

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Middlesex
Huntingdonshire (they invented bandy!)
Essex

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I am going to close round 1 now and hope for more votes inthe second:

Above 700.000 acres

Essex 4

Below 700.000 acres

Buckinghamshire 2
Hertfordshire 2
Rutland 1
Surrey 1
Middlesex 1
Huntingdonshire 1

Bolded ones eliminated


Round 2:

Vote to eliminate 3 counties by distributing 5 votes anyway you want.

Surrey 2
Middlesex 2
Hampshire 1

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Result of round 2:

Surrey 13
Rutland 4
Middlesex 3
Berkshire 2
Kent 1
Suffolk 1
Hampshire 1

Bolded ones eliminated

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Round 3:

Eliminate 3 counties by voting 5-3-1

Kent 5
Suffolk 3
Huntingdonshire 1

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(poor Middlesex )

Kent 5
Berkshire 3
Bedfordshire 1

(btw wasn't the City a county technically)

Yes from the mid 12th century. A handfull or so of the other historical counties are also not based on the original shires.
I just went with the ones on the map and found the list. London is a special case anyway.

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Result of round 3

Berkshire 17
Huntingdonshire 14
Kent 10
Bedfordshire 3
1 vote for an already eliminated county (Rutland)

Bolded ones eliminated

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Round 4:

Eliminate 3 counties by voting 3,2,2,1,1 for 5 counties.

Bedfordshire 3
Cambridgeshire 2
Northamptonshire 2
Oxfordshire 1
Suffolk 1

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3 Bedfordshire
2 Westmoreland
2 Dorset
1 Staffordshire
1 Suffolk

Ah, I wondered at what point someone would nominate something in the North.

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With less than an hour to go only Gully and I have voted. The score is:

Bedfordshire 6
Cambridgeshire 2
Northamptonshire 2
Suffolk 2
Westmoreland 2
Dorset 2
Staffordshire 1
Oxfordshire 1

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Well, guess this thing will have to go into overtime.

Prolonged for six hours.

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From broad consensus during the ellimination of the bulk of the South-East we had votes for 14 of the remaining 30 counties this time!

Bedfordshire 8
Cambridgeshire 7
Suffolk 5
Lincolnshire 5
Shropshire 3
Wiltshire 3
Cheshire 2
Worcestershire 2
Northamptonshire 2
Westmorland 2
Dorset 2
Staffordshire 2
Oxfordshire 1
Durham 1

Bolded ones eliminated. Suffolk for more votes in previous rounds than Lincolnshire (which had none).

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Round 5:

Vote to eliminate three counties using 5,3,1 and -3. Votes from the previous round will be used to decide a tie.

The round will close in 24 hours.

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Lincolnshire 5
Wiltshire 3
Northamptonshire 1 (I could be misremembering, but it doesn't strike me as a particularly interesting place)

As to the defensive move I take it that Gully's insane (#) attack on lovely Dorset will remain unsupported, so as a nature lover I am going with Westmorland.

Westmorland -3



# well I went after Hampshire, you could just be doing it for tactical reasons.

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Result of round 5:

Nottinghamshire 9
Lincolnshire 6
Wiltshire 6
Northamptonshire 6
Cheshire 5
Staffordshire 3
Worcestershire 1

Bolded ones eliminated.

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Round 6:

Vote to eliminate four counties by voting 2,4,6,8. Protect one county with previous elimination votes by voting -5 (so no Devon, Northumberland etc.).

Northamptonshire 8
Leicestershire 6
Worcestershire 4
Staffordshire 2

Westmorland -5

(going for a Midland Massacre since I can not find any non-hackish options in the south and have a pro-northern bias - also very fond of the areas bordering Wales)

Round closes in 22 hours (8PM CET suits me better). Ties to be decided by votes in the last two rounds.

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Round closes in an hour + change.

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Result of round 6:

Northamptonshire 16
Leicestershire 8
Staffordshire 8
Hampshire 8
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Sussex 6
Worcestershire 4
Dorset 4
Oxfordshire 2
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Wiltshire 4 (invalid - already eliminated)

Bolded ones eliminated

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Round 7:

Eliminate three counties by voting 3, 2, 1. Ties to be decided by votes in the previous two rounds. The round closes in 24 hours.

Safes:

Country Life magazine rated these eight counties as the most naturally beautiful: Devon, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, Cornwall, Norfolk, Dorset, Somerset.

Safe one of those eight + one of the remaining twelve for the next three rounds.

Eliminate:

Warwickshire 3
Worcestershire 2
Oxfordshire 1

Safe:

Dorset (since Gully keeps attacking it)
Herefordshire

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We are now almost halfway through the survivor and there are eight rounds left. There will be five 24 hour rounds with elimination of three counties, one quarterfinal with elimination of two counties, a semifinal with elimination of one county and a final between the last two. I will try to keep the three finals open until everyone has voted (within reason), but the next five rounds will close at 7 PM GMT/ 8 PM CET.

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Result of round 7:

Derbyshire 3
Cheshire 3
Warwickshire 3
Worcestershire 2
Northumberland 2
Shrosphire 2
Oxfordshire 1
Lancashire 1
Cumberland 1

Bolded ones eliminated.

No safes chosen, since we voted on six different options. Votes for safes will be carried over to the next round, where those that haven't voted in this round can pick their safes.

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Round 8:

Vote to eliminate three counties by voting 5, 3, 1. Protect one county by voting -3.

Before this round seven counties have no elimination points: Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Yorkshire.

Only Norfolk, Sussex, Oxfordshire, the West Country, Welsh Marches and the North remain, so no "soft targets" left. All interesting places in very different ways.

Worcestershire 5
Oxfordshire 3
Sussex 1
 
Northumberland -3

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5 Shropshire
3 Lancashire
1 Shropshire

-3 Devon

You can not vote twice for the same option (standard survivor rule). I will just disregard the 1 point when counting the result, but you are welcome to give it to another option.

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5 Westmorland
3 Gloucestershire
1 Dorset

-3 Somerset

You had a chance to make two 3 round safes - one from each group. Same goes for Al.

The six votes for safes so far are:

The 8 beautiful counties from Country Life:

Devon
Somerset
Dorset

The 12 others:

Sussex
Gloucestershire
Herefordshire

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Result of round 8:

Westmorland 8
Dorset 6
Worcestershire 5 (more votes than Shropshire in the previous two rounds - tie in 7, more in 6)
Shropshire 5
Oxfordshire 4
Lancashire 3
Sussex 1
Gloucestershire 0 (3-3)
Northumberland - 3
Devon -3
Somerset - 3
Invalid: Shropshire 1

Bolded ones eliminated. There will be no multi-round safes since we did not agree on any.