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Post by Cruise meerkat Youssy on Aug 28, 2020 21:10:26 GMT -5
What do you guys think are the best strategic moves in the entire franchise?
One that comes to mind is Tyler throwing out the Samadhi in the final 4. He basically guaranteed that none of the teams would target him, and that he would get Purple’s pieces.
Obviously, Sabrina manipulating Aaron’s feelings was good for her strategically because Blue kept winning so much.
And while I still don’t think it was believable... Will and Leslie telling everyone they won basically a free pass to the finals was a good move lol because everyone DID believe it.
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Post by multiyapples on Aug 28, 2020 21:33:17 GMT -5
Lindi bumping Bryanah of the Grey spot to get Chris.
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Post by waterwoodfire on Sept 17, 2020 15:38:55 GMT -5
I would say it's how Chris and Lindi arranged it. Demian mentioned that Chris could have gotten the first ball and thus just picked Lindi. However, by allowing Lindi to get a lower ball than him, it made it seem he had interest in her and that seemed to be why Gray was safe after Yellow won the first temple mission.
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Post by fanofe2 on Sept 18, 2020 13:31:52 GMT -5
I would say it's how Chris and Lindi arranged it. Demian mentioned that Chris could have gotten the first ball and thus just picked Lindi. However, by allowing Lindi to get a lower ball than him, it made it seem he had interest in her and that seemed to be why Gray was safe after Yellow won the first temple mission. Bingo, especially the part about him allowing her the ball. I would have liked to see the following: JD not announcing what the numbers were for after everyone had a ball AND having the balls fired off in random order. Those two had the brains to play the game smart, the muscle to win a lot of the physical stuff and I've long had a theory that a lot of them on the island crushed on those two (and each other.) |
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Post by waterwoodfire on Sept 18, 2020 16:36:09 GMT -5
Well, the boys did give Lindi the free ride for the right to stay.
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Post by carsonvega on Oct 4, 2020 11:59:55 GMT -5
What do you guys think are the best strategic moves in the entire franchise? One that comes to mind is Tyler throwing out the Samadhi in the final 4. He basically guaranteed that none of the teams would target him, and that he would get Purple’s pieces. Obviously, Sabrina manipulating Aaron’s feelings was good for her strategically because Blue kept winning so much. And while I still don’t think it was believable... Will and Leslie telling everyone they won basically a free pass to the finals was a good move lol because everyone DID believe it.
100% agree with Tyler and Sabrina.
I thought Will and Leslie told everyone that they were immune from getting sent up to the temple the first time? (That is, the time after the Box Launch mission, which Red won and ended up sending Purple to go along with Yellow.) Based on how the show portrayed it, it doesn't seem like Red was going to send Green anyway after Box Launch. But I agree that it was a good strategic move; the other contestants did seem to believe Green's lie and then Orange was genuinely surprised when Green deployed their real advantage against them later on.
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I also agree with the way Chris and Lindi arranged their partnership in Hawaii; that was well played by both of them.
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Some that haven't been mentioned yet: *Mike's management of his relationship with Annie in E2. Several people wanted Annie gone after Rollerball (notably Calley and even his partner Keetin), but Mike realized that Purple was a big threat to win missions and didn't move against Purple too early. This paid off when with five teams left after the Cherry Picker mission, Purple sent Brown and Yellow (rather than Green) up to the Temple. It's been discussed how Purple sending Yellow at that point was a bad move, but we should give some credit to Mike (and to a lesser extent Keetin as well since although she wanted Annie out she was less transparent about that to Annie's face then Calley was) for setting things up such that Purple would make that mistake.
*Orange temporarily allying themselves with Yellow with four teams left in E3. This took them from quite possibly getting sent to Temple with four teams left and then again with three teams left to not having to go to Temple at all until the Final Temple. Yes, Yellow benefited from this alliance too, but Orange benefited more.
*Jack and Skyla suggesting to Huck and Sienna that Yellow and Green were in an alliance in Karma after the first team mission. Brilliantly set up Yellow as a bigger target and kept attention away from two teams that Purple was closer to (Pink and Red).
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