>You definitely got me on the
>auction--that was the challenge that
>I really didn't anticipate.

Yippee! I spent a long time on that one to figure how to make it work with our format. The main problem was that no one was on line at once so I couldn't conduct a real auction, The idea of blind bids was just frustrating enough that I knew it would be fun... at least for me!

>The paintball challenge I suddenly understood after I got eliminated. I will assert though that one of the answers in that challenge was incorrect I think I sent you a pic via PM with a grid superimposed over the solar system image, but hey, I lost fair and square so I can't really complain.

Two problems with that: You probably drew your lines from top to bottom while the first line I drew was horizontally just below the Earth and above Venus to make sure they weren't on the same "orbit". Also, I did tell you that Burnett was drunk when he handed that picture to Jeff. It was just a general guide.

>It was those darned ball-kicking monkeys
>that got me, really.

Yes, another frustrating exercise... just like many survivor challenges!

>The implementation of the rewards is
>really up to you--I was
>just saying I missed them
>in the actual story. I
>thought you were going to
>randomly insert (imaginary) reward challenges
>in the story as plot
>devices maybe to further establish
>inter-tribal dynamics.

I used the shortcut of switching a few Survivors around instead. I could have sent Survivors on reward together to explain the formation of GIA and FB but I didn't want to spend 3 months writing this.

>I actually facepalmed after you posted
>the final immunity challenge. Yours
>was a slightly easier version
>of a question that I
>personally use when I interview
>incoming job applicants. Our version
>had one extra detail--besides needing
>to identify the fake coin,
>you also had to determine
>whether it was lighter or
>heavier than the others.

No, I was asking to identify the coin as lighter or heavier also.

> I tried to help CT with
>this by sending her the
>answer over on Facebook, but
>she told me that she
>wasn't really playing to win
>immunity that round.

Just like the story reflected, she was in Hatch's position.