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Originally Posted by Defarse
Do we think teams were predetermined?
i highly doubt it
there's too many people involved in thes both in front and behind cameras that if they pulled anything like that it would probably leak
there's little to no incentive for them to rig the teams when they could have just said "these are the teams" and it wouldn't have ever been an issue
they also really didn't lean into that much or make it much of a storyline so it'd be super weird go through that effort and risk for 20 seconds of "oh cool we're both team diamond"
100% think the only reason for the mystery prizes was to give flexibility to the showrunner to decide who moves forward. It's a lie he can do on his own without involving others so it's super easy to pull off as the rest of the cast and crew do not need to be involved in it. And agree it'd be devastating for them to not have Dnegs move forward into the next round so i wouldn't be surprised if we see Koon get 4th that they decide to "reverse it" or if he gets 2nd or 3rd we find it's a random prize pool or so many more chips than the other 3 that now his team advances without even outright winning.
If Koon get's 4th it would not surprise me at all in something weird happens in the prizes and they move forward and David William's team magically finds themselves as the odd team out as they are by far the least marketable.