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Best x-files season 4 episodes

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04×08 – Paper Hearts1307

The worldwide ranking generated by 82 votes

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04×08 – Paper Hearts1307

04×13 – Never Again1306

04×24 – Gethsemane1281

04×02 – Unruhe1272

04×18 – Tempus Fugit, Part 2 [Max]1270

04×12 – Kaddish1269

04×09 – Tunguska, Part 1 [Tunguska]1256

04×23 – Demons1244

04×17 – Tempus Fugit, Part 1 [Tempus Fugit]1243

#10

04×03 – Home1242

#11

04×05 – The Field Where I Died1228

#12

04×22 – Elegy1213

#13

04×21 – Zero Sum1177

#14

04×06 – Sanguinarium1175

#15

04×20 – Small Potatoes1171

#16

04×15 – Memento Mori1162

#17

04×19 – Synchrony1152

#18

04×14 – Leonard Betts1148

#19

04×10 – Tunguska, Part 2 [Terma]1142

#20

04×07 – Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man1142

#21

04×16 – Unrequited1128

#22

04×01 – Herrenvolk1114

#23

04×04 – Teliko1106

#24

04×11 – El Mundo Gira1054

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Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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