Who's Winning Survivor Tonight?
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I can't believe that after ignoring this show for the first ten weeks, that I finally got sucked into it at the end. Anyone else willing to admit to watching? I studied at little bit of Game Theory at University, and I was fascinated by the application of Game Theory to this kind of environment, but then I just fell for the machavellian politics like everyone else. So who is going to win? My prediction, not that anyone cares... 1. If Kelly wins the Immunity Challenge... Sue beats Richard in the final vote, aftering tossing Rudy in the next to last Council. 2. If Kelly doesn't win the Immunity Challenge... then Rudy beats Richard after in the final vote, after they toss Sue in run up. I know... I've got too much free time on my hands. Lor
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Sigh... we don't have "Survivor" here in the UK, but we do have "Big Brother". Even though this sort of show goes against everything I believe in, there is something compelling about watching these bastards stab each other in the back! hehe
We had a show over here called "The Mole" last year that was totally addictive - but a little more laid back than the US/UK versions. Same format - challenges each week and all that, but one of the contestants was a Mole who was actively working against the group's success. At the end of each episode they took a test on what the Mole did that day. The lowest score was kicked out (since the Mole would always get 100% they would stay in each week). A little fairer than Survivor. What is it about watching group struggles and dynamics that reaches deep and drags us in front of the box each week? cheers, Chris Maunde
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We had a show over here called "The Mole" last year that was totally addictive - but a little more laid back than the US/UK versions. Same format - challenges each week and all that, but one of the contestants was a Mole who was actively working against the group's success. At the end of each episode they took a test on what the Mole did that day. The lowest score was kicked out (since the Mole would always get 100% they would stay in each week). A little fairer than Survivor. What is it about watching group struggles and dynamics that reaches deep and drags us in front of the box each week? cheers, Chris Maunde
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I can't say that I've watched Big Brother, so I can't comment on that. But Survivor is actually a pretty interesting game. Like success in the office, you need both good strategy and good luck to win. Of course Game Theory discounts luck... I was kind of wondering if they filmed multiple endings, in case the winner's name had somehow been leaked out. The objective isn't just making the final two... that's a dead end strategy if you're there with someone who is better liked than you are. That's why Colleen had to go; no one would want to have to go against her in a 2 person vote. The ideal would be to be pitted against Richard, who is never going to win that final vote. So if it were me, Richard would be my best friend, and the guy I would team up with in the next couple of rounds. Anyway, don't get me going... still an interesting game Theory problem if you ask me. Lori
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I can't believe that after ignoring this show for the first ten weeks, that I finally got sucked into it at the end. Anyone else willing to admit to watching? I studied at little bit of Game Theory at University, and I was fascinated by the application of Game Theory to this kind of environment, but then I just fell for the machavellian politics like everyone else. So who is going to win? My prediction, not that anyone cares... 1. If Kelly wins the Immunity Challenge... Sue beats Richard in the final vote, aftering tossing Rudy in the next to last Council. 2. If Kelly doesn't win the Immunity Challenge... then Rudy beats Richard after in the final vote, after they toss Sue in run up. I know... I've got too much free time on my hands. Lor
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Sigh... we don't have "Survivor" here in the UK, but we do have "Big Brother". Even though this sort of show goes against everything I believe in, there is something compelling about watching these bastards stab each other in the back! hehe
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OK - last night we had the episode where Sean was kicked out. How about someone just posts the results here ASAP so I can get my wednesday nights back... :) cheers, Chris Maunde
Chris Unbelievable... Rich won. Kelly wins the next immunity challenge--a quiz about the personal characteristics of the tribe members. As soon as Kelly wins, good bye Sue. Then its down to Rudy, Kelly, and Rich. The immunity challenge is to stand on a stop and keep touching a poll. Its fascinating because Richard is smart enough to know that he absolutely better not win the immunity challenge, because if he does he'll have to kick Kelly off and then lose to Rudy in the final vote. If he wins the challenge, and kicks Rudy off, betraying the alliance, he loses Rudy's vote in the final. He needs to have Kelly win the immunity challenge, because she will boot Rudy, figuring there is no way she can beat him in the final. So Richard quits the immunity challenge... Rudy quits after 4 hours... and Kelly wins her 5th straight immunity challenge. She boots Rudy and now it is down to the final two. But Kelly is not too smart, because she doesn't size up the jury very well. Kelly should have know that Rudy and Sue were going to Rich; she also should have known that she had Jenna, Colleen, and Gervase's vote. So she only needed Greg or Sean's vote... she should have been pandering to them during the final session. She didn't, and lost their vote, and came in second. Wow! Kelly did not have a singe vote against her in a single tribal council... plus... she won 5 straight immunity challenges... but still lost to Rich. Anyway... Rich certainly understood Game Theory a lot better than Kelly, which is why he won. Lori
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OK - last night we had the episode where Sean was kicked out. How about someone just posts the results here ASAP so I can get my wednesday nights back... :) cheers, Chris Maunde
Rich won. Kelly won two immunity challenges at the end to make it to the final two. Kelly's "backstabbing" incident against Sue and her lack of PR skills cost her dearly in the eyes of the jury. It was a tie vote at the end. Greg had the deciding vote and based his vote on asking the remaining two contestants to pick a number between 1 and 10. Rich guessed 7, Kelly guessed 3, the number was 9. I find oh so ironic that all of this hoopla came down to picking a number between 1 and 10. Ha ha ha ha
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Chris Unbelievable... Rich won. Kelly wins the next immunity challenge--a quiz about the personal characteristics of the tribe members. As soon as Kelly wins, good bye Sue. Then its down to Rudy, Kelly, and Rich. The immunity challenge is to stand on a stop and keep touching a poll. Its fascinating because Richard is smart enough to know that he absolutely better not win the immunity challenge, because if he does he'll have to kick Kelly off and then lose to Rudy in the final vote. If he wins the challenge, and kicks Rudy off, betraying the alliance, he loses Rudy's vote in the final. He needs to have Kelly win the immunity challenge, because she will boot Rudy, figuring there is no way she can beat him in the final. So Richard quits the immunity challenge... Rudy quits after 4 hours... and Kelly wins her 5th straight immunity challenge. She boots Rudy and now it is down to the final two. But Kelly is not too smart, because she doesn't size up the jury very well. Kelly should have know that Rudy and Sue were going to Rich; she also should have known that she had Jenna, Colleen, and Gervase's vote. So she only needed Greg or Sean's vote... she should have been pandering to them during the final session. She didn't, and lost their vote, and came in second. Wow! Kelly did not have a singe vote against her in a single tribal council... plus... she won 5 straight immunity challenges... but still lost to Rich. Anyway... Rich certainly understood Game Theory a lot better than Kelly, which is why he won. Lori
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I can't say that I've watched Big Brother, so I can't comment on that. But Survivor is actually a pretty interesting game. Like success in the office, you need both good strategy and good luck to win. Of course Game Theory discounts luck... I was kind of wondering if they filmed multiple endings, in case the winner's name had somehow been leaked out. The objective isn't just making the final two... that's a dead end strategy if you're there with someone who is better liked than you are. That's why Colleen had to go; no one would want to have to go against her in a 2 person vote. The ideal would be to be pitted against Richard, who is never going to win that final vote. So if it were me, Richard would be my best friend, and the guy I would team up with in the next couple of rounds. Anyway, don't get me going... still an interesting game Theory problem if you ask me. Lori
>> The ideal would be to be pitted against Richard, who is never going to win that final vote. << I believe Kelly has now found the flaw in your logic. (But I'd agree that if she had picked Rich instead of Rudy to be kicked off, Rudy would have won by a larger margin