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Monday, December 20, 2010
Redemption Island
I am not a fan of Survivor Island. Well, I used to be. I watched the last episode of the first year, and then caught up by watching the reruns. Fun stuff, and the best character was… I forget his name.... Greg I think.... the blonde guy. He was so freaking cool, that while others asked the final two contestants some blah questions about why they think they deserve the million dollars, Greg simply asked them to think of a number between 1 and 10, and after they gave their answers, he said thank you and sat down. It was a moment of lunacy and genius that really captured what Greg was about. I saw the second season (the one with all the good looking people), and I think parts of the third and fourth, but, you know, I got bored. The format was boring, the people were boring. It was just too contrived, too controlled.
Now, they are thinking of Redemption Island, where once you are voted off, you seem to have the chance to come back. I love rule changes, and this is a great rule change. This won’t make me want to watch the show, so I don’t really want to talk about the show. (You guys can if you want.)
No, what I want to talk about is the double-elimination rule. I love that rule. You guys probably know about this. After the first round, when all the winners go to the “right” in the bracket, all the eliminated teams go to the “left”, and form their own new bracket (bracket of losers). And it proceeds from there. The losers in the winners bracket get a second life in the losers bracket. Until the end, where the winner of the winners faces off against the winners of the losers.
Now, from there, I’m not sure what the most common rule is. As far as I’m concerned, if it’s a “one-win” event, the winner of the winners should be allowed two chances to win, seeing that if they lose, they end up with the same record as the losers (both will have won and lost the same number of games, but the team from the winning bracket will have played agaisnt better competition). I think it’s only fair that you need to lose twice to be eliminated, hence the double-elimination. Again, not sure what the commonly accepted form is. Basically, treat it as a best-of-three, where the team from the winning side is automatically up 1-0.
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