1) Your thoughts going into the finale?
Coming into the final MM, I knew that there's a great advantage if I were to go to the finals with more garnets (getting to picked what game played first, getting to choose who moves first, getting an extra item and leftover items). So I was satisfied and felt good when I went in the finals after winning that DM.
2) Your thoughts on the 3 Finale Matches?
I honestly expected and hoping that bead hordes will be one of the games played, and I really want to try playing that. I had a hunch too that double sided poker will be played as well. And on that 4 days break before the finale, there's some thought in me to pick poker first if it will be played, since I really don't want to leave it all to poker. But at the same time, I don't know what's the second game is and whether I'll be good at it. So yea, I finally settles in with bead hordes.
Also I really love this version of same number hunt, even though the items are pretty OP (should've change the rule to Kevin has to play the item before the number is revealed, like they did on the show IIRC).
3) What do you think about the speeches by your opponent and guest at the start?
I honestly thought that I would get a decent amount of items when I got to the end with Kevin instead of Ethy. But after seeing Kevin's speech and realizing that he plays a better social game than me, I honestly thought I'm screwed either way. And I already burned my bridge with Ethy with betraying him, when I could've go with him to the finale and have pretty much the same results, in which my opponent have more items than me.
4) Your thoughts about item distributions?
A bit of a continuation with the last post, but I'm pretty shocked that we pretty much have the same amount number of items (even though 3 of them were because of my garnets...). Not really expecting Jay to give me his item. Glad Joshua gave his. Was expecting Tom to give his.
And at that point in the third match, when I found out that we have the equal amount of items, I thought "yea, I made the right choice going with Kevin instead of Ethy" because if Ethy had went into the finals, I'm not sure who Joshua would've picked and I'm not sure who Kevin would've picked either.
Also, with the mindset that I would earn less items, after I got my first two items from Joshua and Henry (because of my garnet count, really
), I knew that the only two guaranteed items I will get is Tom's and the automatic item I'll get with more garnets. So my strategy is hoping that both of those items will come at separate games and use duplicate on them. But of course both of them has to come out at the first game...
5) How do you feel being the winner of this season?
Still expecting my prize money...
I really don't think of winning the whole thing, tbh. I thought that I would probably get cut late game. Definitely felt more confident about myself, my mental strength, and my org skillz...
6) What is your favourite game of the series?
I actually thought the elevator game with partners format was fun and could be a lot of fun to be played on the real show. Also the animals race game was pretty fun, not just because I won that
. As for death matches, I always enjoyed betting rps. And the same number hunt was fun. And also the new version of beads horde was a good mind game IMO.
7) What do you feel overall playing in this?
Like I said at the pre-game interview, the reason I tried out for this is because I bummed the show is over and I thought that I would try to write my own game in the org and experience it myself. And yea,, even though it's not the real thing I do get some kick out of the show here. I had tons of fun, and I would probably miss checking this forum on my phone every 10-30 minutes or so...
8) Anything that can be improved?
Probably double-checking the rules and make sure you covered everything in the initial rules page, so there isn't any awkward rule-adding in the middle of the match
9) Final thoughts?
Again, thank you very much for hosting this and letting me be a part of this, Also congratulations again for another (IMO) great season. Also call me up if you need another blogger/guest for next season (unless it's an all-star season. In that case, invite me to be a player. other than that the org needs more newbies)