Bonus Bucks Challenge 3: Wobbly Wager

[Host Ryan]

Bonus Bucks Challenge
Time: Leg 3
Location: Sydney, Australia
Name: Wobbly Wager – Australian English

Before the game, each team is secretly and randomly assigned a starting position on an inverted game pyramid. (Depending on the number of participating teams, the requirement that starting positions be “random” is subject to change, as teams may be able to select their own positions.)

The goal of the game is to be the last team standing on the pyramid.

The team that wins the game will earn all of the money contributed to the group kitty. The kitty will start at $200 (since 8 teams are remaining), and each participating team will add $100 to it.

The game will take place in “rounds,” each of which consists of two “moves.” At the beginning of a round, each team may place one “mine” on any space in the next two rows of the game pyramid. Then, each team will secretly move from their current space on the game pyramid to a space in the next row of the pyramid, and then move a second time. Direction of movement is downwards, as each row shrinks by one space.

If two teams both step onto the same space, they will both be eliminated. If any team steps onto a space that is occupied by a mine, they will also be eliminated.

If all remaining teams are eliminated on the same move, teams will enter “sudden death” where all mines will be removed from the game pyramid and all remaining teams will be reassigned randomly selected positions on a given row of the game pyramid, as in the beginning of the game.

Again, the last team standing wins the challenge—and all of the money in the kitty.

[Trevin]

And whoever comes in Second will win.

[Host Ryan]

Sept 19, 2010 20:56:23 GMT -5 Trevin said:

And whoever comes in Second will win.

And I've disabled your account until you learn to show respect for authority, and stop hijacking every thread or chat that you're involved in to incessantly repeat the same thing, demonstrating that you can neither be civil to the person hosting you nor elect to leave, if you so desire. There are fifteen other people in the game that don't need to be bogged down by your repetition.

You are interrupting the experience of every other player in the game by plaguing every thread and chat with your garble, regardless of whether or not you think it's true, it's stopped being just an annoyance, and has started to be a conscious interference of the flow of the game and how other players can participate. Until you cease or address this, then things are staying the way that they are now.

Once you decide to stop sounding like a broken record, stop hijacking every thread or chat you're involved in, and stop being wholly inconsiderate to someone who has already given you far more courtesy than you've shown you should be entitle to, your account will be enabled once again.

There isn't a single person in this game that would call this request unmanageable, impossible, or excessive. If anything, it is expected by anyone being hosted in a game of this form. At this point, your future is in your hands.

[Host Ryan]

The winners of the challenge were The White Team, congrats Colton and Trevin!

Participating teams in this challenge were: Blue, Orange, and White. Each team added $100 from their budget to an initially $200 pot, and White (as winners) walk away with that $500 kitty, a net gain of $400 to their budget.