dino259
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Why was that smoked turkey and the rest could have been just Turkey? Some of that is inconsistent.
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Probably the only thing I don’t really like. The categories can be deceiving like the Simpsons was guessing the real names of celebrities that have been on the show. When they did Candy, the guy had to say Reese’s with “peanut butter cups” after it kept going and the girl just said “Hershey’s” for the chocolate bar and that was fine. Hershey’s is the company that makes Reese’s too. The inconsistency in some cases is pretty bad. Even the fruit one. The guy passed on Honeydew but he did say melon and it’s a melon. That lady said “fluffy” not the whole comedian’s name so it really is wildly inconsistent.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
She’s 23. Once you hit 40, most people in their early 20s seem annoying.
Wingnut
Footballguy
The problem with this show is the people that were picked early in the game have no shot to win. If you're a contestant, you hope to be picked in the finale or close to it to have a chance to win the 250k.
The one guy last night won 5 duels and built up his territory, then a guy beats him and walks away with 20k after one win. Kinda lame.
The one guy last night won 5 duels and built up his territory, then a guy beats him and walks away with 20k after one win. Kinda lame.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
She's played it perfectly. There's a huge advantage to starting in or near a corner if you get called early. Win one or two battles so you won't be subject to the randomizer, and then go back to the floor and people will leave you alone, especially if you don't have a popular category, because you're not in the pathway to the bigger territories.
The woman directly below her blew it when she got tabbed by the randomizer. She went for the big territory, but she should have gone for the three-spot International Foods territory and then gone back to the floor if victorious -- if she'd won, she would have been guaranteed to make the finale except in the unlikely event that whoever controlled the big territory really wanted to play her category. If she'd won the big territory, she would have been unlikely to hold it until the end of the episode because it was early in the episode. Even very good players like the PhD fruit expert and the engineering professor couldn't hold the territory for that long.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
Watched last two shows but didn't seem anything special.
Yes, with the caveat that at the end of each show, the person with the largest floor area wins $20000, so there's a lot of incentive for the early people, too.
Wingnut
Footballguy
What a terrible finale.
Carl won like 5 or 6 duels, and beat players at their own category before getting beat....then, international foods girl goes against a guy who made one of the dumbest decisions ever and hands her the $250k grand prize.
I'm out for season 2 unless they tweek it and make it more fair.
ETA: love the blurry spoilers with click to un-blur.
Carl won like 5 or 6 duels, and beat players at their own category before getting beat....then, international foods girl goes against a guy who made one of the dumbest decisions ever and hands her the $250k grand prize.
I'm out for season 2 unless they tweek it and make it more fair.
ETA: love the blurry spoilers with click to un-blur.
It was terrible. The winner basically stood there since day 1 and won because the last guy was a moron. You knew it was going to end that way, unfortunately. Not sure how I’d fix it, but maybe a minimum number of challenges. Maybe the bigger folks can’t be challenged by someone who hasn’t won anything. Maybe if you have 1 square you have to challenge someone with 1 to 4 squares unless they are land locked.
offdee
Footballguy
I think the solution is some sort of safety after winning a certain number of duels. Possibly after 4-5 duel wins you are safe and can't be picked to duel again until final 20. This promotes people from not just camping out and waiting and also keeps the big guns around for the final group. I'd imagine then in the final 20 you'd probably end up with 10 or so that were safe and have a proven track record of playing and winning.
I think safety might be hard to track, which is why I thought having lower square count people fight it out could work. It’s similar because the people who run a string of challenges would be safe just by having done that. The only problem (in both of our proposals) is the land lock situation where someone can’t challenge anyone.
bryhamm
Footballguy
technically 3, but your point is still valid.
offdee
Footballguy
Why hard to track? Just show number of wins inside there floor owned and when they get to safety, their land turns red. Easy.
And for the challenging land lock, just treat it as an extension when there are no options…whoever the land lock touches is now open to challenge.
JShare87
Footballguy
I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I think he made the right decision going Fashion Icons. If I understand it correctly, they get to go and study that night and the next day after that night’s show is over. The winner basically got to study International Foods every night since it was her topic. Think the guy wasn’t good in either category and figured he would go with the one that neither studied much on. Just my two cents.
Why would he have gotten to study? The finale looked like two split episodes. I would think each episode was filmed during one day. I don’t think they broke before the last challenge. I mean he could have studied a bit of every category left but I don’t think there was a night between the second to last challenge and the last one.
offdee
Footballguy
And even then it was proven over and over that the naming of people by their picture/face was by far the hardest categories.
JShare87
Footballguy
I’m not saying he got to study. I’m saying, the women with International Foods was sitting on and most likely studying that category every single night. I would assume that went into his thought process. He probably thought she was an expert at that because she had so much time to study it and decided he had a better shot at a category neither of them studied (Fashion Icons).
I gotcha, still think it was an awful mistake. We’ve seen that sometimes people get a tougher set of slides than others. Going fashion icons and having to guess names of people’s pictures (as @offdee mentioned above) when you know you don’t know them is a bad choice. From her look, I would instantly think she knows more. If he knows nothing she doesn't need to be an expert to win.
wlwiles
Footballguy
I told my wife for weeks now that the final would come down to the lady in the corner with International Foods. I think the dude made a huge mistake choosing fashion icons to battle in.
For Season 2 I hope we see a lot of tweaks. The way it currently goes, if you get chosen near the end of an episode and there are enough duels left for you to make it to and win the biggest territory, you go for the $20k but you're forfeiting your chance at the final prize. If you're not near a big territory, you win one and go back and hide and bam you find yourself in the final 8.
For Season 2 I hope we see a lot of tweaks. The way it currently goes, if you get chosen near the end of an episode and there are enough duels left for you to make it to and win the biggest territory, you go for the $20k but you're forfeiting your chance at the final prize. If you're not near a big territory, you win one and go back and hide and bam you find yourself in the final 8.
- Safety/immunity if you win X number of duels.
- Allow corners/edge players to challenge opposite side players (no more hiding in corner)
- Prize $ for each duel winner. Could entice people to "stay and play" vs return and hide.
JShare87
Footballguy
I completely agree with it being a poor decision. I’m just trying to rationalize why he did it.
belljr
Footballguy
Yep yep that is probably the only reason I considered switching is she sat on that category forever
This game was surprisingly entertaining. Lot's of game theory and other aspects to discuss during the play. Looking forward to it picking back up.
jamny
Footballguy
yeah, didn't expect much in the first season but we liked it and am in for a new one. The questions are generally easy but under pressure makes it tough at times. I hope they improved on some of the strategy aspects so people can't just sit back and try to win at the end.
offdee
Footballguy
Looks like it’s 100 players now (compared to 81 last season).
And there’s a “Time Boost” reward….winning 3 duels in a row gives you a 5 second bonus on your next duel.
Guess that will motivate players to keep playing versus just win one and go back to hide in the corner.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
It was 81 last season. 9x9. Now 10x10.
offdee
Footballguy
Yep that was a mistype. I edited my post.
I kept saying the best way to win was to just be forgotten and then win one at the end when you get challenged in your category. Who cares about getting more and more real estate. The risk to getting knocked out was much higher then the benefit of obtaining more tiles. Not sure how to fix that.
offdee
Footballguy
The top tile holder at end of each episode won $20K. Thats nothing to sneeze at.
The winner got $250K. I would say the risk of getting knocked out for the chance at $20K was too high to risk it (at least for me).
Wingnut
Footballguy
I hope they've found a way to fix this.
Maybe eliminate the person with the smallest floor area (who has actually been in a match) at the end of each day? Would force everyone to stay up for a few matches before stepping down.
offdee
Footballguy
I posted it above…
it’s 100 players now (compared to 81 last season).
And there’s a “Time Boost” reward….winning 3 duels in a row gives you a 5 second bonus on your next duel.
Guess that will motivate players to keep playing versus just win one and go back to hide in the corner.
offdee
Footballguy
This was discussed in the thread last season…
I think the solution is some sort of safety after winning a certain number of duels. Possibly after 4-5 duel wins you are safe and can't be picked to duel again until final 20. This promotes people from not just camping out and waiting and also keeps the big guns around for the final group. I'd imagine then in the final 20 you'd probably end up with 10 or so that were safe and have a proven track record of playing and winning.
To track it, just show number of wins inside there floor owned and when they get to safety, their land turns red. Easy.
And for the challenging land lock, just treat it as an extension when there are no options…whoever the land lock touches is now open to challenge.
Does this keeping accumulating? Is it a one time use? I don't think a one time use 5 second bonus helps with the risk but it could make you go three at a time. Once you earn the 5 second bonus then go back to waiting and banking that 5 seconds for when you get challenged. Then hope to win two more duels to get the bonus again and then go back to the corner.
what about requiring someone to win X duels before they can go back to the corner? You have to win 4 duels to stop dueling. I guess the problem with that is those that are off in a corner to start are at a big advantage in that they never get called upon until a bunch of people have already been eliminated.
I wonder if you limit the duels so there is more random selections to get more involved early would work. You get a max three duels then you are done. Random selection. Goes to the next three, and so forth. More turnover with random starters? This is all just thinking out loud. Not sure if any of these are good ideas.
offdee
Footballguy
Just finished watching the first episode. No real changes other than that 5 second bonus but nobody in the first episode came close to earning that. I'm convinced that the only way to keep players from winning once and hiding is to give them safety until the final 20 contestants after winning a total of 5 duels.
And the woman who won on the last duel of the episode...oof. Has a panic attack as she's walking up to the podium. She also seems very annoying.
And the woman who won on the last duel of the episode...oof. Has a panic attack as she's walking up to the podium. She also seems very annoying.
offdee
Footballguy
That one though was like…
Rabbit
Cow
Lion
Zebra
Three toed blue collar squabbler mallard
Cat
belljr
Footballguy
Yeah but this year chicken coop is on screen they say chicken house and they accepted it.
Last year they didn't say Coop. It wasn't passing
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