IN your scenario only one ends up safe. With the other 3 being at risk. There may be a scenario where they all end up safe I am not going to put in th work. You came in here criticizing their strategy but havent presented one concrete reason, other than simplicity, as to why your strategy works. You didnt even full understand the end game of your own strategy(seeing as how I had to explain it almost always ends up with one being sacrificed). Also it is transparent and will cause garnet bribes to happen all over the place.

Having majority allows them to do a lot of things.

If they can work with sungyu they can send him over, so its SSX. They will sit with him and lose points, they can then send over a B, and be a majority in both, with draining happening only on them. Allowing them to make more, and maybe setting up a multi-win for safety as well as making one of them the elimination candidate. They dont even need to send sungyu over in the 10th round, just send over someone in the 9th from B, thats majority in the small with B and Sungyu, and then they can just both send the B back allowing them to have two S at the end over in small with sungyu.

Ther are so many more posibilities with majority in both, and I wouldnt be surpirsed its is possible to end the game with all 4 having the same amount of garnets(if they can secure sungyu once they know send him over right away to drain). And trust me, you underestimated the complexity of the game when you came in here. I can also guarantee just sending back the person last in exile is far from optimal, and if we are not here to argue optimal then whats the point?

You seem to think the breakdown came in going for the majority on both, but the breakdown came from, maybe, who they sent to small to get majority(aka who they kept with sungyu) and not soldifying sungyu.

Sanggyu is never going to want to go back and forth between towns, then he doesn't get to steal any gold. He wants to just sit in the big town all game and collect as much gold as possible, and win the game. (which is what happened, cuz duh).

Also, there isn't even a need to solidy Sanggyu as long as you stay 3 people strong in the big town. DUCY? Just don't start shipping all your people to the small town and then get overthrown, which is what happened.

Anyway, I'm done discussing it, as your posts are starting to make less and less sense to me. If someone else ITT understands what the almighty C_Custer in all his wisdom is trying to advocate to little old me, please do share.

Your 3 person strong is still so lulzy, because in the end its going ot result in Big town having two S's, both with 10, being joint winners with sungyu, small town having poong and an S with 10, meaning the 3 joint winners(with majority small) decide who goes in from the remaining(spoiler it will be poong from big). Where Poong can choose from 3 Big town and 1 small town resident for death match(3 people who sacrificed him mind you).

So in your opinion, optimal strategy for Big town is to have two(one being from this 'strong' 3) of them go into a death match. nice

Flawless game theory.

You come in here discussing strategy, never explain why your strategy works, back track when confronted with unfortunate end results of your strategy and then post in a condescending way. Well done. You also state I am over thinking, which is lulzy seeing as this is literally a game show about game theory. I am discussing game theory and you are just being results oriented because Gura lost.

At the end of the day it is all moot, the obvious strategy is to not try to stick to the division set up randomly in the beginning. I alos imagine there is a way for poong to work with the three small town residents and sangyu, after round 4, to set up a joint win for all of them.

JinHo is a total boss. Absolutely love his attention to detail.

Also, lol @ the crying call in Indian Poker by Poong early in the match to a gigantic all-in when Eunji was showing a 7. Seems really bad. He could have picked her apart easily playing small ball. She clearly was playing pretty ABC.

Sang-Min the ultimate troll

Jinho >> Sangmin all day. I feel Jinho is much stronger in the actual games and is 100x better in the death matches. He is actually pretty trust worthy, not really betraying anyone either, just not too many have given him a chance because he is so strong. I just think he's just a target due to natural talent in S1, and for obvious reasons in S2.

Sangmin is better at the underhanded stuff, and instigating attention on others (i.e. playing up the Jinho/Poong and Jinho/Doohee/Yohwan pairs). He is playing much better in S2 then he did in S1 though.