document_title: NFL International Series

question_text: when was the last time the saints played in london

text: NFL International Series

text: Background[edit]

text: Prior to 2005, the NFL's primary method of promoting its game abroad was through the American Bowl, a series of preseason games played around the world, and NFL Europe, a developmental league based in Europe. The American Bowls ended in 2005 (though a similar China Bowl was planned for 2007 before being canceled), while NFL Europa (as it was known for its final season) folded in 2007. On October 2, 2005, the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 31–14 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico under the name NFL Fútbol Americano. It was the first regular season NFL game held outside the United States.[3] The game drew the NFL's highest game attendance at the time with 103,467 spectators.[3][4]

text: Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, has considered expanding the league's appeal overseas ever since the end of NFL Europa. Goodell has openly discussed the idea of holding a future Super Bowl game in London.[3] The NFL also investigated the possibility of adding a 17th regular season game to all teams, taking the place of the fourth pre-season game.[5] Waller notes that there will not be 16 different venues for the 17th games. More likely would be a "mini-season ticket" of perhaps four games in one city or country.[5] There was discussion that this "17th game" could take effect as early as the 2009 NFL season; however, 2010 would be the earliest this could be implemented because of concerns about playing on Labor Day or over the 2010 Winter Olympics, the league's rigid scheduling formula, and the league's collective bargaining agreement (CBA).[5] League officials were pondering moving a second existing game abroad for the 2010 season, but eventually abandoned it due to the ongoing CBA negotiations.[6] The league eventually abandoned its attempt to expand the NFL season via CBA negotiations, and the new CBA enacted in 2011 has kept the NFL schedule at 16 games as of 2017.

text: Games in the United Kingdom are broadcast by the BBC and Sky Sports either live on BBC2 or online via the BBC Sports website and interactive TV and on Sky Sports Action. On radio the games are broadcast by BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, with Arlo White commentating.

text: The games have been popular, with tickets for the two games per season selling out in two days, nine months in advance. According to the NFL, only 3% of those attending the London games are Americans or American expatriates, while 22% are from London and 60% from elsewhere in Britain. Ticket prices are from £35 for end zone seats to £100 for lower sideline seats.[7] A team that plays a home game in London sells a cheaper season ticket package for its own stadium with seven regular season games rather than the usual eight. Each designated home team receives US$1 million for giving up the home game.[8]

text: On October 11, 2011, the NFL owners approved playing NFL games in Great Britain through the year 2016. This stated that a home team could visit every year for up to five years but visitors could only visit once every five years.[9] However, in 2015 the Detroit Lions returned to London as visitors in an apparent disregard for this rule. Subsequently, an agreement has been reached to play internationally through 2025.[10]

text: The Buffalo Bills received a unanimous vote of approval to play a series of regular and preseason games at Rogers Centre in Toronto from 2008 to 2017.[11][12] This was separate from the regular International Series as arrangements are made by the team as opposed to the league as with the International Series. The Bills' Toronto Series was mutually terminated after the 2013 contest.

text: Due to significant time zone differences, from 2007–2015 teams playing in London would have their bye week in the following week after their game in London. For 2016, the Indianapolis Colts volunteered to play a game the week after their London game, preferring to have their bye week later in the season. The Colts playing the week after London was also done by the NFL as a test to see team fatigue for evaluation of an eventual London franchise.[13] As Mexico City is within the Central Time Zone—eight NFL teams play home games in Central Time and the rest are within two hours of it—no bye week would be needed for those teams, though they may still by chance be scheduled their regular bye week anyway. For 2017, three teams playing in London (Baltimore, Jacksonville, and Miami), will have games immediately following their International Series game.[14] In all three cases, the teams playing after their International Series game are based on the East Coast of the United States and will either be home or (in the Jaguars case) playing in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

text: Due to NFL rules, teams that are playing in temporary homes or that have recently been awarded the Super Bowl are required to play a home game internationally. The Los Angeles Rams, upon relocating from St. Louis, agreed to host an international game from 2016–2019, while their new stadium is being built. The Los Angeles Chargers, who will be sharing the stadium with the Rams once it is completed, will also host an International Series game in 2018 and 2019, only getting out of the 2017 game because the team had executed its out clause to move from San Diego after the 2017 International Series games had been announced.[15] The rule wasn't in affect when the Minnesota Vikings were playing at TCF Bank Stadium while U.S. Bank Stadium was being built, although the team did give up a home game while they were still playing in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is also likely that the Oakland Raiders will host another game in either 2018 and 2019 (or both) due to their pending move to Las Vegas, but it is unknown whether the "temporary stadium" rule applies in that case.

text: Early years (2007–2011)[edit]

text: The Miami Dolphins hosted the New York Giants at Wembley Stadium in London, England on October 28, 2007. The Giants defeated the Dolphins 13–10 in the first regular season NFL game held outside North America. The first 40,000 tickets sold out for the game in the first 90 minutes of sales.[3][16] The game was aired regionally on Fox.

text: A single game was held in London each year through 2011. Like the 2007 game, each was televised nationally in England, but only regionally in the United States.

text: Multi-year deals and multi-game years (2012–2015)[edit]

text: On January 20, 2012, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that from 2012 to 2014, the St. Louis Rams would play one of their eight home games each year at Wembley Stadium.[17] However, on August 13, 2012, the team announced that they would not play the proposed games in London in 2013 and 2014, only the 2012 game against the New England Patriots that had already been scheduled.[18] Goodell had previously proposed the use of certain regular teams in the International Series in an effort to build a fan base for those teams, raising the prospect of a permanent NFL team on the British Isles.

text: An NFL bid to become anchor tenants of London's Olympic Stadium failed.[19]

text: The Jacksonville Jaguars took the Rams' place and agreed to play a home game in London for four seasons from 2013 through 2016. With this announcement also came news that the NFL were working to schedule a second UK game from 2013 onwards.[20] (The Jaguars later extended their agreement with Wembley Stadium through 2020 in an agreement announced in October 2015.)[2] In October 2012, it was announced that the Jaguars would host the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings would host the Pittsburgh Steelers, marking the first season with multiple games in London.

text: The NFL played three international games for the 2014 season, including one game with an earlier 9:30 am ET start, which allowed for an afternoon game, rather than an evening game, in London. This timeslot proved to be successful as all London games in 2015 and 2016 were also scheduled at 9:30 am ET. Three games were again scheduled in 2015 - including the series' first division game between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins.

text: Long-term deals and new stadiums (2016–present)[edit]

text: Between 2018 and 2027, at least two games each year will be played at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium in Northumberland Park as part of an agreement between the NFL and Tottenham Hotspur. On October 7, 2015, the league announced that a resolution had been passed to schedule international games at additional locations to London until 2025.[10] On October 22, 2015 it was confirmed that at least two games per year will remain at Wembley until through least 2020 and that the Jacksonville Jaguars will continue to play a home game there annually throughout the agreement.[21] Subsequent to this, on November 3, 2015, the NFL announced that it had reached an agreement with England's Rugby Football Union to host regular season games at Twickenham Stadium from 2016 onwards, with a minimum of three, and as many as five games to be held over the initial agreement period of three years.[22]

text: In 2016, the Oakland Raiders hosted the Houston Texans on November 21 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, at the first International Series game played in Mexico. Previously, the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers had expressed interest in playing a game at Estadio Azteca (or possibly Estadio Olímpico Universitario) in Mexico City although Houston was not prepared to give up a home fixture.[23][24] It was televised as part of ESPN's Monday Night Football, marking the first MNF game broadcast from outside the United States, and ESPN's second broadcast from Mexico City since the 2005 Fútbol Americano game (which was televised as part of ESPN's former incarnation of Sunday Night Football).[25][26]

text: The 2016 game between the Redskins and Bengals was the first International Series game to go into overtime, the first to end as a tie, and had at the time the highest attendance of all International Series games (later surpassed by the 2017 game between the Ravens and Jaguars, which drew an attendance of 84,592).

text: For 2017 the series underwent a partial rebrand with four games in London branded as NFL London Games[27] and one game in Mexico City branded as the NFL Mexico Game.[28][citation needed]

text: Game history[edit]

text:
Year
Date
Designated
visitor
Score
Designated
home team
Score
City
Stadium
Attn.
Pre-game show
Television

2007
October 28
New York Giants
13
Miami Dolphins
10
 London
Wembley Stadium
81,176
The Feeling[29]
Fox

2008
October 26
San Diego Chargers
32
New Orleans Saints
37
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,226
Stereophonics[29]
CBS

2009
October 25
New England Patriots
35
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
7
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,254
Calvin Harris[29]
CBS

2010
October 31
Denver Broncos
16
San Francisco 49ers
24
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,941
My Chemical Romance[29]
CBS

2011
October 23
Chicago Bears
24
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
18
 London
Wembley Stadium
76,981
Goo Goo Dolls[29]
Fox

2012
October 28
New England Patriots
45
St. Louis Rams
7
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,004
Train[30]
CBS

2013
September 29
Pittsburgh Steelers
27
Minnesota Vikings
34
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,518
Tinie Tempah[31]
CBS

October 27
San Francisco 49ers
42
Jacksonville Jaguars
10
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,559
Ne-Yo[32]
Fox

2014
September 28[33]
Miami Dolphins
38
Oakland Raiders
14
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,436
Def Leppard[34]
CBS

October 26[33]
Detroit Lions
22
Atlanta Falcons
21
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,532
Little Mix[35]
Fox

November 9[33]
Dallas Cowboys
31
Jacksonville Jaguars
17
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,603
Joss Stone[36]
Fox

2015
October 4
New York Jets
27
Miami Dolphins
14
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,986
None
CBS

October 25
Buffalo Bills
31
Jacksonville Jaguars
34
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,021
The Ohio State University Marching Band[37]
Yahoo! Sports[38][A]

November 1
Detroit Lions
10
Kansas City Chiefs
45
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,624
Madness[39]
Fox[40]

2016
October 2
Indianapolis Colts
27
Jacksonville Jaguars
30
 London
Wembley Stadium
83,798
Robin Thicke
CBS

October 23
New York Giants
17
Los Angeles Rams
10
 London
Twickenham Stadium
74,121
Craig David[41]
NFLN[B]

October 30
Washington Redskins
27
Cincinnati Bengals
27
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,448
Wessex Male Choir & US Army Europe band
Fox

November 21
Houston Texans
20
Oakland Raiders
27
 Mexico City
Estadio Azteca
76,473
None
ESPN[C]

2017
September 24
Baltimore Ravens
7
Jacksonville Jaguars
44
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,592
None
Verizon, Yahoo! Sports

October 1
New Orleans Saints
20
Miami Dolphins
0
 London
Wembley Stadium
84,423
None
Fox

October 22
Arizona Cardinals
0
Los Angeles Rams
33
 London
Twickenham Stadium
73,736
None
Fox

October 29
Minnesota Vikings
33
Cleveland Browns
16
 London
Twickenham Stadium
74,237

NFLN

November 19
New England Patriots

Oakland Raiders

 Mexico City
Estadio Azteca

CBS

text: Standings[edit]

text:
Team
Appearances
W–L–T
Pct
Most recent appearance

New England Patriots
2
2–0–0
1.000
2012

New Orleans Saints
2
2–0–0
1.000
2017

New York Giants
2
2–0–0
1.000
2016

San Francisco 49ers
2
2–0–0
1.000
2013

Chicago Bears
1
1–0–0
1.000
2011

Dallas Cowboys
1
1–0–0
1.000
2014

Kansas City Chiefs
1
1–0–0
1.000
2015

Minnesota Vikings
2
2–0–0
1.000
2017

New York Jets
1
1–0–0
1.000
2015

Jacksonville Jaguars
5
3–2–0
.600
2017

Detroit Lions
2
1–1–0
.500
2015

Oakland Raiders
2
1–1–0
.500
2016

Cincinnati Bengals
1
0–0–1
.500
2016

Washington Redskins
1
0–0–1
.500
2016

St.Louis/Los Angeles Rams
3
1–2–0
.333
2017

Miami Dolphins
4
1–3–0
.250
2017

Arizona Cardinals
1
0–1–0
.000
2017

Atlanta Falcons
1
0–1–0
.000
2014

Baltimore Ravens
1
0–1–0
.000
2017

Buffalo Bills
1
0–1–0
.000
2015

Cleveland Browns
1
0–1–0
.000
2017

Denver Broncos
1
0–1–0
.000
2010

Houston Texans
1
0–1–0
.000
2016

Indianapolis Colts
1
0–1–0
.000
2016

Pittsburgh Steelers
1
0–1–0
.000
2013

San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers
1
0–1–0
.000
2008

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2
0–2–0
.000
2011

text: Teams with no International Series appearances[edit]

text: As of the 2017 season, five of the 32 teams have not played in the International Series: The Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans. Seattle played a game outside the United States in 2012, but it was not part of the International Series. The Houston Texans have never played in London, but played an International Series game in Mexico City.

text: Future[edit]

text: Possible teams[edit]

text: Before the Chargers and Saints were announced to be the two teams headed to London in 2008, the Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks were identified as teams interested in playing a future game in Europe.[42] In particular, Seattle, which had been slated to play the China Bowl before that game was cancelled, had shown a continued interest in playing a game abroad. Tampa Bay eventually got the 2009 and 2011 games, while Kansas City got one of the games in 2015. Both the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins have similarly expressed interest in returning to the UK in a rematch of 2007's international series.[citation needed] There have also been negotiations between the Pittsburgh Steelers (whose owner, Dan Rooney, was the United States Ambassador to Ireland) and Croke Park in Dublin, Republic of Ireland for a potential International Series game there.[43]

text: The Rams and the Buccaneers are both under co-ownership with teams in the Premier League, the top association football league in England; the Rams are under co-ownership with Arsenal Football Club of London, while the Buccaneers are co-owned with Manchester United. From 2006 until 2012, the Cleveland Browns were also under co-ownership with Aston Villa before Randy Lerner sold the Browns to Jimmy Haslam, and since 2013, Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan also owns Fulham F.C., which were at the time in the Premier League, but have since been relegated to the Football League Championship.[44]

text: As part of their application to relocate to Los Angeles for the 2016 season, the Rams have volunteered to play in the International Series at least once a year while occupying the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for three seasons until their new stadium in Inglewood, California, opens in 2020.[45]

text: In 2016, Steelers president Art Rooney II stated that the team may have to give up a home game to play in Mexico City in the future, with the team stating that they would require permission from the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to do so, as their lease at Heinz Field explicitly requires the team to play ten home games (8 in the regular season, 2 preseason) at that stadium per season.[46][47]

text: Future markets[edit]

text: Within the United Kingdom, aside from London, potential candidates for hosting NFL games include Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales;[48] and Murrayfield in Edinburgh, Scotland.[49] Other prime locations to get games would be Croke Park in the Republic of Ireland (Ireland has already hosted the NCAA Emerald Isle Classic, a college football game similar to the International Series, and Steelers owner Dan Rooney was once an ambassador to the country), Germany (which hosted five teams in NFL Europa at the time of its dissolution in 2007 and whose national American Football team won both the 2010 and 2014 European Championship), China;[50] Brazil,[51][50] Australia[52] and Canada (Canada hosted the Bills Toronto Series from 2008 to 2013). Mark Waller, NFL senior vice president, international, doubts Asia or Australia would be targeted because of the travel concerns, but he does not dismiss anything.[5] Until 2015 the Jacksonville Jaguars' agreement stipulated that all future International Series games in the current agreement would take place at Wembley, ruling out other locations.[53] a The league had plans to host a game in China in 2018 with the Los Angeles Rams as the home team against the San Francisco 49ers.[54] However, the game in Germany was scrapped in favor of adding a 4th game in London in 2017. The potential game in China was postponed (the third time the league has postponed playing in China, following failed attempts in 2007 and 2009) to being aimed for the 2019 season to coincide with the league's 100th anniversary.[55][56] The league has indicated that a China game is still not certain because of the lack of a fan base in the country (NFL games are played in the middle of the night in China).[57]

text: In regard to future games outside London or Mexico, Mark Waller stated in 2017 that the only holdup with games in Germany was what he dubbed "an inventory management thing. How many games do we actually have?"[57]

text: Potential London team[edit]

text: The success of the International Series has led the NFL to focus its global expansion aims on the possibility of having a full franchise located in London. While no set timetable has been set, the league is working on a goal of establishing a franchise by around 2021, assuming they have all the necessary arrangements in place. It is believed this would be most likely achieved through relocation of an existing franchise, with the Jaguars most often linked due to their association with the International Series, even though their owner is said to be content with the current arrangement and other franchises have more reason to move (the most often cited being poor on-field performance, lack of fans and uncertainty over stadium leases). The NFL has used some of the specific arrangements for the International Series games as a test bed for predicting how a London franchise could be made effective from a logistical and competitiveness standpoint.[58][59]


document_title: United States Senate election in Michigan, 2018

question_text: who is running for michigan senate in 2018

root

text: Democratic primary[edit]

text: Candidates[edit]

text: Declared[edit]

text:
Craig Allen Smith[1]
Debbie Stabenow, incumbent U.S. Senator[2][3][4]

tag: ul

text: Endorsements[edit]

text:
[show]Debbie Stabenow

Organizations

EMILY's List[5]

tag: table

text: Republican primary[edit]

text: Candidates[edit]

text: Declared[edit]

text:
John E. James, businessman and Iraq veteran[6]
Robert P. Young Jr., former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court[7]

text: Potential[edit]

text:
Justin Amash, U.S. Representative[2][8]
Tom Barrett, State Representative[9]
Mike Bouchard, Oakland County Sheriff, former State Senator and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2006[2]
Rick Jones, State Senator[9]
Ronna Romney McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee[2]
Candice Miller, Macomb County Public Works Commissioner and former U.S. Representative[2]
Ted Nugent, musician and political activist[10]
Sandy Pensler, businessman[11]
Randy Richardville, former Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate[12]
Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie, musician[13][14][15]
Mike Rogers, former U.S. Representative[2]
Fred Upton, U.S. Representative[16]

text: Declined[edit]

text:
John Engler, former Governor[17]
Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, former U.S. Representative and nominee for U.S. Senate in 1990 (running for Governor)[16]

text: Withdrew[edit]

text: Lena Epstein, businesswoman (running for MI-11)[18]

text: Endorsements[edit]

text:
[show]Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie

Governors

George Pataki, 53rd Governor of New York and 2016 presidential candidate[19]

People

Sid Miller, Texas Agriculture Commissioner[20]

text: Polling[edit]

text:
Poll source
Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Lena
Epstein
Bob
Young
John
James
Robert
Ritchie
Undecided

Trafalgar Group (R)[21][22]
July 25–27, 2017
1,078
± 3.1%
9%
6%
7%
50%
28%

Target-Insyght[23]
July 25–27, 2017
344
± 5.35
8%
14%
16%
33%
29%

text: Third party and independent candidates[edit]

text: Independent[edit]

text: Marcia Squier, Green nominee for MI-14 in 2016[24]

text: General Election[edit]

text: Hypothetical polling[edit]

text:
Poll source
Date(s)
Administered
Sample
Size
Margin of
Error
Debbie
Stabenow (D)
Robert
Ritchie (R)
Undecided

Mitchell/Rosetta Stone[25]
October 1, 2017
558
± 4.2%
46%
38%
16%

Zogby Analytics[26]
September 19, 2017
800
± 3.4%
46%
36%
18%

MRG[27]
September 13–18, 2017
600
± 4.0%
52%
34%
14%

Google Consumer Surveys[28]
September 14–16, 2017
520
± 4.3%
53%
47%
0%

Target-Insyght[29]
July 25–27, 2017
822
± 3.5%
50%
42%
8%

Trafalgar Group (R)[30]
July 25–27, 2017
1,078
± 3.1%
46%
49%
5%


document_title: How Great Is Our God

question_text: who sings the song how great is our god

question_tokens: who sings the song how great is our god

text: How Great Is Our God

text:
"How Great Is Our God"Single by Chris Tomlinfrom the album ArrivingReleased
September 21, 2004Genre
WorshipLabel
sixsteps/SparrowSongwriter(s)
Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Ed CashProducer(s)
Ed Cash

text: "How Great Is Our God" is a song written by Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash. It was originally featured on Tomlin's album Arriving, that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart. It is also featured live on Tomlin's Live from Austin Music Hall album. As of November 2014, it also is the fifth most popular worship song today, according to CCLI's top 25 worship songs chart.[1] It also reached No. 1 on Christian Music Weekly's 20 the Countdown Magazine's Top 20 Worship Songs Chart. The song won "Song of the Year" and "Worship Song of the Year" at the 2006 GMA Dove Awards, and "Worship Song of the Year" again at the 2008 GMA Dove Awards.[2]

tag: p

text: In 2009, gospel/jazz keyboardist Ben Tankard, presented his instrumental rendition of the song from Tankard's No. 1 charting album, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.[3][4]

text: At Passion 2012, Tomlin performed a new edition of this song called "How Great is Our God: World Edition". This new version included the original lyrics sung in several different languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Zulu, Afrikaans and Mandarin.[5] It is the first track of his Chris Tomlin: The Essential Collection album.[6]

text: Certifications[edit]

text:
Region

Certification
Certified units/Sales

United States (RIAA)[7]

Platinum

1,000,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone^shipments figures based on certification alonesales+streaming figures based on certification alone


document_title: The Walking Dead: The Final Season

question_text: when does episode 2 of walking dead game come out

text: The Walking Dead: The Final Season

text: Gameplay[edit]

text: As with other games in The Walking Dead series, The Final Season is a graphic adventure game, where the player controls the protagonist Clementine as she struggles to survive in the wake of a zombie apocalypse.  The player can move Clementine around the environment to examine items, initiate conversation trees with non-player characters, and progress in the game. Decisions made by the player can affect future episodes, and The Final Season can use previous saved games from The Walking Dead to bring a player's choices from these games into The Final Season. Players that have not played previous seasons, or who may want to adjust choices made affecting Clementine's character, will be able to use a web-based Story Builder tool to create a cloud-based save game that can be used to feed into the game. This also addresses issues with various save game limitations due to platform transitions over the course of the series (for example, previous saves from the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 from the first two seasons are not compatible with The Final Season).[1]

text: In portions of the game, the player will be required to react to quick time events in action-driven scenes, such as escaping from a "walker" (the name for zombies in the series). Failure to complete the events typically results in the death of Clementine or another key character, requiring the player to retry the event.  The Final Season introduces more open-ended action sequences that give the player more control during the sequence.[2]

text: Plot[edit]

text: Some years after the events of A New Frontier, Clementine has continued to raise AJ, recalling Lee's own lessons he taught her. They drive along and stop at a train station to scavenge for food. Inside, they find a cellar with a well-stocked supply of food, but the door is rigged with a grenade, and the noise from the blast draws a walker horde. Whilst driving to escape, Clementine crashes the car, and as she blacks out, she sees someone grabbing AJ. Clementine awakens within the ruins of a schoolhouse. She meets Marlon, the leader of a group of teenagers from the school, and finds they have also been taking care of AJ while she recovered. Clementine and AJ meet the other kids, learning that they have been alone for some time after being abandoned by the school staff but have found ways to survive by hunting and fishing from nearby woods and using traps to ward off walkers outside the school grounds. As she gets to know the others and helps AJ learn appropriate social skills, Clementine learns about the loss of a set of twin sisters about a year prior that still troubles the children, particularly Tenn, the younger brother of the siblings.

text: Marlon warns Clementine they are running low on food, the safe area around the school becoming smaller over time, and has her help the next day with hunting and fishing. Neither effort secures enough food, and Clementine suggests returning to the train station to see what food supplies survived the grenade blast, despite the station being outside of the designated safe zone. Clementine and AJ enter the station to secure the food but are confronted by a man named Abel, who demands a ration of the food at gunpoint. After either complying with or subduing Abel, Clementine and the rest of the group make it back to the school, reporting on their encounter. That evening, through the pipe system in the school, Clementine hears two voices arguing, and finds Marlon and Brody, another resident, having a heated discussion in the cellar. Brody reveals to Clementine that Abel is part of a raider group that Marlon had traded the twins to in exchange for safety. Furious at the reveal, Marlon hits her with a flashlight giving her a deep head gash. Before she dies of brain trauma, Brody reveals to Clementine that Marlon also intends to trade her and AJ should the raiders return. In a state of panic, Marlon leaves Brody to turn and locks Clementine in the cellar. Clementine dispatches the re-animated Brody and escapes the cellar to find Marlon being held at gunpoint by AJ, drawing the attention of the rest of the group. Marlon takes the gun from AJ and tries to frame Clementine for Brody's death in an attempt to get the group to turn on her. Clementine is able to convince the other children of Marlon's wrongdoings, and eventually, Marlon surrenders. As the others discuss what to do with Marlon, he is shot and killed by AJ.

text: Despite Clementine and AJ's attempts to make amends, the other children vote to have the pair evicted from the school. Outside, they run into Abel and another member of the raiders, who Clementine is shocked to find is Lilly, a woman who Lee and Kenny had forced out of their group after leaving Macon, Georgia. Despite her attempts to negotiate with Clementine to convince the other kids to give themselves over to her group, she refuses and they start to hunt her and AJ down, during which AJ is shot in the stomach. The pair are saved by James, a former member of the Whisperers, who reveals to them the raiders are forcibly recruiting people to fight in their war against a rival community. James tends to AJ's wounds and accompanies them back to the school the next morning, before departing on his own. Despite some of the children's resentment towards Clementine and AJ, they allow them back in so that AJ can have his wounds treated. Clementine warns them about Lilly and the raiders, and they make plans to prepare the school grounds for an attack.

text: Two weeks go by without the raiders' incoming attack, putting everyone on edge. After playing a game of truth or dare to ease tensions, the children go to check on final preparations. The player can choose to have Clementine accompany Louis or Violet, and in either case, express romantic feelings for these characters. Soon after, the raiders arrive at the school, looking to capture more children. In the midst of the battle, Lilly inadvertently kills one of the kids, Mitch. Clementine gets into a fight with Abel that ends with them falling off a balcony, breaking Abel's leg. After Clementine saves either Violet or Louis from being kidnapped, Lilly and the raiders escape, and the remaining children count their losses, which include Omar, Aasim, and whichever person Clementine did not save. They vow to get them back and as Abel is now their prisoner, they intend to interrogate him for the location of the raider camp.

text: Episodes[edit]

text: The game is separated into four episodes, released every six weeks.[3]

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No.overallNo. inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date [4]161"Done Running"Chris Rebbert, Vahram AntonianJessica Krause, Adam Esquenazi Douglas, Mary Kenney, Lauren MeeAugust 14, 2018 (2018-08-14)
Clementine and AJ join a new group made entirely of children set up in Ericson School for Troubled Youth. Clementine aims to prove their worth to the group by helping out while AJ has trouble fitting in. They learn the recent loss of twin sisters, Sophie and Minerva, has left many in the community heartbroken. After a tense encounter with a stranger who has been stealing the group's food, Clementine learns the secret behind how Ericson has remained safe for so long. The episode ends with AJ making a troubling decision of his own.
172"Suffer the Children"Chris RieserJames Windeler, Mary KennySeptember 25, 2018 (2018-09-25)
Clementine and AJ are forced to leave Ericson, and they run into a figure from Clementine's past, now a new threat to their safety. Helped by a former Whisperer, the pair returns to the school to help the students prepare for an enemy attack. After the raiders make their move, Clementine is forced to choose between two friends, and prepares for vengeance against the raiders with the remaining kids.
183"Broken Toys"TBATBATBA
194"Take Us Back"TBATBATBA

text: Development[edit]

text: Announced during the July 2017 San Diego Comic Con, The Walking Dead: The Final Season, is scheduled to launch as a four-episode series on August 14, 2018 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version to launch later that year.[5] Clementine will return as the lead character, voiced by Melissa Hutchinson, as Telltale found that fans of the series were not pleased with how little interactivity there was with Clementine in A New Frontier. Telltale wanted to have the final season call back to what fans had praised about the first season, and knew they needed to make Clementine the focus. With this direction, Telltale decided to make this the final season for The Walking Dead series so that they can create a satisfactory conclusion to Clementine's story arc.[6] For this purpose, Telltale brought back Gary Whitta, the writer for the first season and "400 Days" content, to help close out Clementine's story.[7][6]

text: The story will follow from A New Frontier with Clementine having rescued AJ from the McCarroll Ranch, with a timeskip a few years ahead, where AJ is now a young boy. With diminishing resources amid the apocalypse, Clementine and AJ find the importance of staying with communities of vital importance, meeting other characters who have little memory of the time before the downfall of society. Clementine starts to teach AJ the essentials of survival as Lee had taught her during The Walking Dead: The First Season, as a way of paying Lee's lessons forward.[8] Telltale had initially considered writing a version of Clementine that had become more jaded, but found this was far too different from the established version of the character, and reworked her to be more sympathetic.[6][2][9]

text: The final season will use the updated version of the Telltale Tool first introduced in Batman: The Telltale Series, along with improvements in the visual style to approach the style used in The Walking Dead comic.[6] This included improved dynamic lightning, and a new rendering style Telltale called "Graphic Black" to enforce the comic book rendering style.[10] Some scenes will feature "unscripted" zombies who may attack Clementine if the player is not careful, creating new freeform combat sequences, while other parts of the game will continue to use quick-time events as from previous games.[2]

text: Due to course-corrections made at Telltale in 2017, The Walking Dead: The Final Season was primarily the only game the company released that year, cutting down from twenty episodes across multiple games in 2017 to only this season's four in 2018. The game's executive producer Brodie Andersen said that "We know we ran a little hot in previous years and weren't able to fully deliver the experiences we may have wanted to, so that was important to focus in on a polished quality experience players love."[10] Because of the reduced product schedule, Telltale was able to establish firm release dates for all four episodes in the season, a first for any of Telltale's episodic series. Andersen said that they were able to achieve this by starting from where they wanted The Final Season to end, and then building the narrative backwards from that, establishing four clear episodes for the series to work towards.[10]

text: A free demo of the game, offering approximately the first twenty minutes of the first episode, meant to show off the new gameplay features added in this season, was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 31, 2018.[11] Physical releases of The Final Season for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are expected to be released on November 6, 2018; they will contain the first two episodes and a season pass code to download the final two episodes when they are normally released.[12]

text: Despite the title The Final Season, Telltale originally did not rule out a possible future for The Walking Dead games; Creative Director Kent Mudle said that The Final Season title represented the end of Clementine's journey from Telltale's view, but could revisit the franchise through other characters.[13]

text: On September 21, 2018, Telltale announced they were undergoing a "majority studio closure", laying off nearly all staff and leaving only 25 to complete the studio's remaining obligations. The state of The Final Season is unknown, though other planned studio projects were cancelled.[14][15] The second episode was still released on September 25, 2018, but the fate of the remaining episodes is unknown. Telltale stated on September 24, 2018, that the studio has been approached by "multiple potential partners" that want to help bring these two episodes to completion in some manner.[16] Until they are able to figure out how the last two episodes will be played out, Telltale asked retailers and digital storefronts to pull sales of the game and the season pass.[17]

text: During the 2018 New York Comic Con, Robert Kirkman announced that his production company, Skybound Entertainment, will help to bring the last two episodes to release.[18] According to Skybound, they have acquired the rights of the game from Telltale, and will be working with former Telltale Games employees who worked on the series to finish off the episodes.[19]  Ian Howe, the CEO of Skybound Games, noted that there were logistical difficulties in this. Some of the Telltale team had already moved on to other jobs prior to the Skybound deal, and for those still looking for work, they are not expecting them to relocate from San Francisco (where Telltale was located) to Los Angeles (where Skybound is located), but do need to find them space that makes the completion of development possible. They further needed to account for the time that those seeking jobs would need. Howe stated that he fully expected that the third episode would be released before the end of 2018.[20]

text: Reception[edit]

text: The Walking Dead: The Final Season received generally positive reviews, earning praise for its characterization, visuals, and upgraded gameplay mechanics, and is considered by many critics and fans to be a return to form for the series.[21][22][23][24]

text: Episode 1 - Done Running[edit]

text: Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 76/100 based on 26 reviews,[25] the PlayStation 4 version 75/100 based on 14 reviews,[26] the Xbox One version 70/100 based on 9 reviews,[27] and the Nintendo Switch version 76/100 based on 5 reviews.

text: Episode 2 - Suffer The Children[edit]

text: The second episode received mixed reviews. On Metacritic, PC version of the episode has a rating of 69/100,[28] and PS4 version has a rating of 70/100.[29]