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Round 6: The Quarterfinals

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@kittybroker

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Round 5: The Quarterquarterfinals

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@the-actual-ocean

“they have fish monster yuri.”

“I have no specifics I just think the-actual-ocean should win. I’m a simple person I just like water”

“theres like. 4 of them. and they live underwater. what's not to get”

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:3

Round 4: The Quarterquarterfinals

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Round 3: The Quarterquartersemifinals

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Round 2: The Quarterquarterquarterfinals

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@would-you-punt-them

“Run by the hot-take-tournament mod, they often learn the bonkers shit folks are trying to pull in the USA when a submission (or potentially several) is made. We also got them to watch Madoka because they didn't understand why we wanted to punt Kyubey so much. And it was adorable seeing their reactions.”

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Ok but what do they do with all the hay once they take the goat down?

ive been told they burn it

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And now its being taken down. See yall in 11 months or so, hoping for better luck then.

Day 32

It's official, the goat did not burn in 2024.

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Hi, before I get started I'd like to state that I have no idea what gun control is like in Sweden (I'm American) and that I'm pro common sense gun laws.

That said... has anyone ever tried shooting an incendiary round at the goat? One shot and the whole thing would go up like a barn full of a hay in July.

I'm assuming that if a flaming arrow is a safe enough method of goat-arson, then a bullet would probably work just as well as long as there aren't any people within like a 3-meter radius of it's trajectory and as long as angle is accounted for so that if it passes through it, it'll hit the ground and not something else.

Probably not feasible, but these were just my thoughts.

oh god yanks are so hilarous

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Going on anon bc I don't want to be arrested but part of me wonders how successful of an attempt that shooting a flame-tipped arrow at it would be. Like in terms of keeping your distance, evading guards, etc.

probably successful in terms of setting it on fire (it has before), pretty doubtful you'd escape without being spotted tho

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Does the town benefit in any way from all of this attention? Don’t get me wrong, I love this and I always root for the goat to burn (except last year because the birds were funnier). I’m just not sure I understand the dynamic here, and if they’d actually be shouting themselves in the foot or if they’d be relieved to be left alone.

Oh no I think it brings a huge amount of publicity and pr to the city. Like gävle is not very big (80k people ish) y'know and yet its known internationally just bc of the goat. But it very much depends on who you ask if that's positive ig.

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i think eventually a guard is going to be involved in burning the goat. not this year but soon

Fingers crossed 🤞

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The sirens could be from the police station, it's only a few blocks away, makes sense they'd be audible on the livestream if they head north-west

idk who was talking abt sirens but the livestream doesnt have audio

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I feel like they are shooting themselves in the foot a bit by having such tight security. If there's no chance of Gävlebocken burning at all, people are just gonna lose interest.

yeah i kinda feel that way

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Writing this at 8:49AM Gävle time. Is it just me, it did the pixels on the livestream very much look like a pixelized fire for a little while? I also thought I saw sirens for a little bit. It seems to have reduced now, but was there an explanation for this or did someone make an attempt on the goat? I'm not familiar with the area

Havent looked at the footage but most likely just the snow clearing trucks, they have orange flashing lights.

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I thought they kept the goat up until like January 4th or something?

Yeah they dont take it down immediately.

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Were there any attempts at burning the goat that you know of? I don't know if they post that kind of thing in the news

That usually ends up in the local news at least, but no, no attempts this year.

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Fyi if it burns before they take it down i will still count it hint hint nudge nudge

Day 32

It's official, the goat did not burn in 2024.