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Society Game is a new reality game from the makers of The Genius.

here's the rules:


The Genius players talking about Society Game:


Previews:






premiere today i believe, so hopefully bumdidlyumptious will have it up with english subs in a few days.

i'm extremely hyped.

Will definitely check it out, hope it's good

Watt

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What is bumdidly?

bumdidlyumptious is the person who did english subtitles for The Genius and some other korean shows.

How are the final 3 determined? that seems really important but was not included in the rules video.

Seems like that will be the driving force in choosing the team leader - to try and manipulate so you get into the final 3 - not as much to try and win the individual challenges.

Yup, this was my first question too. Maybe it's each team's top 3 in $ accumulated? If that's the case, let's hope the strategy doesn't devolve into The Weakest Link (though I have a lot of faith in the PD's game design capabilities). Pretty stoked for this.

episode 1 is up! http://bxrme.tumblr.com/post/1521869...ty-game-subbed

Watched it.

I think the game's format suffers from severe issues. I expect there to be a lot of predictable eliminations.

But I guess the first ep isn't an example of that, since Oliver should've been eliminated for opening his mouth to so many people. I'm super relieved he survived, I'm def rooting for him to stay in the game to stir things up. Him and Sanggook. Lol @ giving a key to Sanggook with his image, he's guaranteed to rebel just for the sake of good TV, and true enough, happened first ep already :P

Don't understand the decision to not write anyone's name down.

Very interesting that they went with only like 4 celebs for this unlike Genius where almost everyone except a couple were celebs. I dig it.

also huge wtf @ only like 2 people out of 8 being able to remember 3+ colors

It was a very long ep, and slow at times, but still quite enjoyable.

Madong were very lucky to win the challenge I feel. I wonder if there will ever be the chance to mutiny / swap to the other society.

Madong leader + rebellion keyholders seem far to OP, but I guess that's the social experiment.

Do we know if you can blacklist people from the other society? I assume not.

rip taejin :'(

uh, i don't think you can blacklist people from the other society. i think the leaders only have the power to eliminate people from their own society.

Majong leader seems pretty unfair position, just make a 3-way deal with 2 guys and you will 100% make it to the finals.

The actual human jangi was really cool.

Pity this show is much closer to survivor than the Genius.

Exactly. I guess they think it's fixed by the fact that the leader should preferably be bringing 2 strong players and not just 2 rando allies to the final 3, but in reality the leader would be stupid to break the alliance imo.

too bad about taejin. sucks to get eliminated without getting a chance to play.

red's strategy at jangi sounded good, but ended up much worse than the other teams since they gave away their king number. They were facing a loss 4 times I think, and if they had lost any of those 4 matches it was over.

favorite character is mma chick. i dont think she will be underestimated for much longer.

other than her though, they didn't present any of the girls as an important character in the show, wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of female eliminations early and 5 or 6 males in the finale.

Watched second ep, don't read if you haven't seen it






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lol @ Macho... How is it possible to be so bad.

Super relieved that Oliver dodged elimination again. And it was quite funny to see them bring out the Genius editing with the votes on that team.

Hopefully the girls on that team ally and at least keep Oliver in the game for a while.

Currently rooting for Oliver, Sangguk, MMA chick, Sahyuk (the smart guy allied with Oliver, I think that's his name) and the young guy who was leader first on the keyholder team.

episode 2 discussion below
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ugh, it was actually painful how bad macho was.

i loved the genius editing for the vote. wasn't expecting it because we didn't see any editing like that in the first ep.

the whole thing with the Madong society talking about self defense against assailants was hilarious, i was actually laughing out loud.

seems like there's going to be a lot more strategizing than i was anticipating after seeing the first episode too, so that's exciting. i still doubt that sanggyuk (or whatever his name is) will get overthrown in the Madong society, but it seems like there's a chance if Hael or someone else can make seolhwa paranoid enough.

overall, i thought it was a highly enjoyable episode, really looking forward to the next one. bumdi killed me this week by taking this long to sub it. :'(

More ep 2 comments:

"The show could really falter if the initial teams, which were decided on preference order based on skills that are transferable to the game, are lopsided."

Presumably if the teams eliminate the right (weak) people, it's supposed to balance out

Actually, did Madong sit anyone out? What happens when one team has more members?

Yeah, I was trying to think of if there was any conceivable reason to throw a challenge and if that's what Macho was doing. If he was serious, then wow. It'd be one thing if they were playing Gyul Hap, but simple arithmetic leaves you wondering wtf was going on.

No, I don't think so. Not sure how it'll work for other games. Human Janggi wouldn't have worked with lopsided teams. It's an interesting thought because it may counteract the below:

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I can't help but think of this strategy as Madong and their money distribution...

- Leader and keyholders are #1 performers in strength, brain, dexterity
- Compete in challenges as a cohesive team, say they lose day 1, win on day 2
- Leader gives 5k to each of the keyholders
- Rest of Madong is pissed and they throw challenges and lose for 8 consecutive days and the team is whittled down to the leader and keyholders
- They have 4 challenges left, so $50k left to be awarded (one presumably worth double money as it's $150k prizepool for 14 days). Say they win 50% of the challenges, and the leader awards the full prize to himself every time. The team's equity is $25k in the last four days, meaning the trio are competing for a combined $35k at the end, $11.6k each (rewatching the intro, it says they play for the accumulated amount of the trio, not that each trio is playing for their own amount).

All that is assuming that their team catches on and throws immediately, the #1 performers still only win 50% of the challenges when everyone is competing, and that the #1 performers can't carry their teams to any wins when their team is throwing a challenge.

Compare this to Madong playing "standardly"... how likely are they to have $35k combined prize each at the end? If they are 50% in challenges ($75k equity on average), would Madong typically award and subsequently vote out people worth a combined $40k? They've already blown $16k...gotta be close right?

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I wonder if they'll throw in a twist of a tribe swap or a mutiny at least.

extra player was a disadvantage in this game. extra opportunity to get a question wrong. didnt end up mattering because lol macho.

sounds like we get mj in sports bra for the rest of the show. saw her say 'im already out of tshirts' this episode. bandage on her arm, are producers making her cover up a tattoo?

the real hero of team suck is the strong guy holding the table. He's the one who called for them to just drop it. pharoah was about to die and be shamed for not outlasting the girl. mj was just about to die and be shamed for not being as strong as the guys. so he as the one who was not struggling made the call, and let them both save face. if this weren't all about posturing to get yourself into final 3, he's the one who would actually be a good person to elect as leader.