RC Thread

I've been ruminating on it and there's definitely a real game concept in the way Edge is being done here, just with the whole game being earning/losing lives, last player standing wins. Very The Challenge and I'm sure this idea has been run somehow and I forgot, but just a thing I've been thinking about!

I like it too. I definitely prefer it to a normal Redemption where you need to keep winning duels or an Edge of Extinction where you just sit around waiting for the challenge. Players eliminated later have an advantage, as they should, but all players do have a realistic chance and there is a margin of error. I might be somewhat annoyed if I was Pelison though that the previous round let people gain lives rather than losing them like normal, since in theory Ancient Oven and Riju could have had more lives than him despite being eliminated sooner.

I originally wasn't sure if I would like it because I thought if you were an early boot it would just draw out your misery when your real odds of making it back were functionally zero, but Magda actually was able to survive until the return challenge and had a serious shot at making it back.

The only thing is that, as much as Magda is a queen, I don't love the idea of people who only played a round or two and who didn't even meet the majority of people in the game becoming members of the Jury. These people could be nice objective people who are just able to vote based on speeches I guess, but more often I feel like they're going to be influenced by the other members of the Jury they meet and they are extremely likely to be biased in favor of people they actually knew during the game, giving some finalists really no chance at earning their votes.

With time I'm growing more fond of smaller Juries anyway, since the people who don't make it to endgame often have no clue what's going on and smaller Juries are much less predictable. When you're an underdog at FTC with a massive Jury to convince, that's an extremely daunting task and it can feel impossible, especially when large sections of it are made up of people you never met and who have been told how terrible you are by their friends. When you only have to convince a few people and they are people you spent significant time with and got to know, it can feel much less hopeless and the FTC results themselves can be legitimately surprising.

If I was designing this game, I might consider just not starting Jury until the second returnee(s). I know that would be unorthodox, but if you have two return at final 8, that would be a decent-sized Jury of 7 with a F3 or 8 with a F2.

I don't think you guys did anything wrong, this is mostly a matter of preference, but just some musings.

We did also plan as many swaps and multi-eliminations to up the odds of people from early on either actually meeting finalists or being able to network into hearing information about the state of the game while not being entirely uninformed.

While I fully support the Magda survives against all odds revenge arc, I am sad Riju has now been the bridesmaid twice. She had the third highest score in lonks to return (albeit it wasn’t close) and now had just barely not beaten magda to retain a life.

Oh, I'm fairly confident after the next challenge that multiple people will be eliminated.

It miiiiiiiight be the toughest challenge we've given them thus far. Emphasis on miiiiiiiiiight.

Actually it's impossible for multiple people not to be eliminated, no? Everyone but Link is on one life.