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"Episode #2: the art of the getback."
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07-13-08, 12:39 PM (EST)
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"Episode #2: the art of the getback." |
I don't want to spoil anything from the noon airtime, so let's just talk about the elimination format until the evening viewers catch up. At least for the current stage, things work like this:1. Teams are given a challenge alert that contains no details about the task: just suit up and get ready. 2. Each team must choose a new captain. There must be a new captain for every challenge: the same person cannot be captain for back-to-back events. (A constant pass-off between two people is possible.) 3. Play the challenge as per usual. 4. The losing team must nominate three of their own for possible eviction. (They have fifteen minutes to make a decision -- and if they don't, the other team will decide for them.) The captain of the winning team becomes the 'Paymaster': the only person who will make the decision as to who goes home. 5. All three nominees take a trip out of the house with the Paymaster, giving them some time to plead their case. 6. At the evening ceremony, the Paymaster chooses one to stay -- then one more. Whoever isn't named goes home. Strategically, this is one of the more interesting formats we've seen in a while. Alliances with majority can protect members short-term, or a divided team can keep its stronger players off the chopping block and hope to dump weak links. But it's in the best interests of the Paymaster to get rid of the best player among the bottom three -- so this is 'eat the strong' with someone else determining what's going to be on the menu today. We also have a bit of BB's eternal revenge element: former captains could become targets -- but they're only vulnerable if their team loses. There are some definite gameplay quirks available in this format. Here's hoping they keep it for more than one episode. 
The next-week previews seem to give away the winning team and at least one of the people on the block -- but previews lie...
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Fishercat 4168 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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07-13-08, 08:39 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Episode #2: the art of the getback." |
OK, I am going to, for the sake of discussion, pretend these people are of moderate intelligence.I think the position of Paymaster is a bit too strong, and thus, will become a huge fight to get position. It should really be something like an automatic nomination for elimination if the captain loses, or full control over the boot if the captain wins. However, that leads to throwing challenges with an unpopular captain (...Boston). VH1 inadvertently created a pretty cool elimination system that could cause havoc if we get down to 10 people with teams and the system is still there. However, I fully expect that with 11 people left, they're going to bring Flav, New York, and Bret Michaels in and it will become Flavor of Rock York's Money in Hollywood. Oh, and these people are morons.
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Fishercat 4168 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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07-15-08, 06:06 PM (EST)
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9. "RE: Episode #2: the art of the getback." |
LAST EDITED ON 07-18-08 AT 11:08 PM (EST)Here is what we think we know A) Frankentainer is Gold captain and his team wins (I'm willing to take this as true) B) The "Romantic Rival" can only be Heat. We've seen the triangle in previews, we saw Heat-Destiney warming up to each other when she picked him second (where he subsequently got squashed by Frank). I think Heat probably said "I hope you and Destiney are very happy together" at the alone time. C) We can guess that Megan is thrown into the pot from the previews and is likely to go. We assume Heat is there as well. That would logically suggest that the third person needs to be the big threat competing against Heat...but I wonder who would be thrown in that matches that. The Stallionaires (Whiteboy, Chance, Heat) seem to be in control of votes at this point, and if they got overruled, all three would be in there. LeeBoston is no threat, Megan's in the pot, Brandi C. isn't a threat, and Destiney's safe. This trips me up, since I'm going to assume that Heat, Megan and Brandi/Boston were put in, and none of those are big threats. The only way a Whiteboy/Real/Chance gets put in is if one gets booted for falling off first (say, Chance), and then Real/Whiteboy can't control the vote alone. Then Frankentainer boots Heat so he can keep Destiney to himself. Now, this is the long shot scenario, but under the same formula, we have one more matchup. It won't be since I am sure Frank wins, but still A) Heather is Gold Team Captain and her team wins the challenge. Doesn't make much sense since she wasn't even chosen to joust, putting her fifth in line it seems, or never getting into the loop, but let's say she pushes in. B) The Romantic Rival is Megan. We saw this on the previews from prior episodes to where Megan is trying to steal 12-Pack away. Plus, we see a conflict between Heather and 12P in the previews with Heather showing affection to him in prior episodes. The dangerous competitor is Heat: he's fit, has/had a romantic alliance with Destiney and a "party boys" alliance with 12P, as well as a four-person alliance that got broken up earlier. C) This allows us to throw any third pawn into the pot (Brandi C. fits, as does Mr. Boston), and we can theorize that Heat gets put in for the second poor performance in a row, or he fell off earlier and got thrown in automatically. Edited to Add: I'm almost sure the "threat" is now Mr. Boston since I saw him at a table with The Entertainer (IIRC) in a preview. If so...where's the dilemma?
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