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From JeffreyRaze: For both of them I'd like to ask them what their views are on the balance of challenges and political maneuvering in this game
Answer: Hmm. Lets see, I think there was a good mix of old games and new games. A couple sequel games made it appear that there were more old games than there actually were but thats fine. I think most of the challenges themselves were skill orientated though a few did have an element of luck involved yeah. Of course, there were a few questionable ones that relied on how fast your computer ran (5 Minutes to Kill Yourself and probably Carrot Track) or had an exploitable aspect to them (Captain Commander and Space is Key) that simply made the game unpleasant to play. Unsurprisingly, those would rank lower on my list of favorite games played here (except one). But overall, Id say that the balance of games was pretty good, especially having Soul Brother as last which was basically a competition to see who could collect everything in the shortest amount of time with as few deaths as possible.
I think the political maneuvering this season was rather lacking. Most of it came from the Blue team as they started to fall behind. I dunno if any of us figured out what was going on with that team but it was obvious something was up. Us Reds just kinda sat back and were waiting for Blue to die out. I think the only real maneuvering done on Reds part was before anyone even started thinking about what we would do at Final 8 with all Red, Mik and I forming an alliance and brought in Edwards and Dragon (and our actions that came of that which included voting out Valentine and you guys before Cody) and you guys when you tried to vote out Edwards. Once that failed, you guys just sort of accepted it and went down one by one without really trying to make any deals to save yourself. So yeah, I dont think the political game was that hot this season, I believe it was much more a game of numbers and having the necessary votes to get what you wanted done.
From Justin_Crossing: What steps did you take to coerce cody?
Answer: Me personally? None. When cody and the other Blues were busying PMing all the rest of Red I was like the only one to never get a PM (what gives guys?). I talked to him twice in the game. The first time was the night you got voted out and he didnt know who the rest of Red was voting for so I told him it was going to be you. Good thing I was able to get that PM to him though because if Edwards gets voted out there this game goes a lot differently. The second time was at the final 5 where he again wanted to know who we were voting out and I told him Edwards. And thats about it.
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