Elimination - Final 3

My ADHD kicked in reading sugarvales article.  So I had my trusty assistant help me understand how Gold Dust got into #1 position.  Here is what my trusty assistant (aka Google Gemini) told me.

In the event you too have ADHD and want the Cliff's Notes version of this, here you go.

DISCLAIMER: This is AI summarization of Sugarvalves newspapper article and AI is right about 70% of the time, so assume the below is 70% right.  haha

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Here is exactly how the team Gold Dust manipulated their way to first place:

1. The "Do Nothing" Strategy

While the other teams were busy fighting in the mud and losing their lives, Gold Dust stayed out of the crossfire. By hoarding their lives and letting their rivals exhaust themselves, Gold Dust entered the finale as the statistically strongest team with a massive cushion of 50 lives.

2. The Ultimate Backstab

To survive, you need friends. Gold Dust made a secret, backdoor deal with another strong team, High Voltage. However, once the competition narrowed down to just three teams, Gold Dust completely reneged on the deal, leaving High Voltage exposed and out in the cold.

3. Weaponizing Spite

The third team in the finale, APEX, absolutely despised High Voltage. Gold Dust used this to their advantage. They allied with APEX, knowing that APEX hated High Voltage so much that they were willing to willingly lose and take 2nd place, just to ensure High Voltage didn't win.

4. Financial Ruin

Because Gold Dust and APEX teamed up to relentlessly attack them, High Voltage was backed into a corner. To survive, High Voltage was forced to spend over $10 billion on outside mercenaries and healers. Gold Dust essentially bled their biggest threat dry before moving in for the kill.

Why the Other Teams Lost

While Gold Dust was executing this masterclass in politics, the lower-ranked teams eliminated each other through pure incompetence. The other four factions lost because of:

• Terrible Leadership: Leaders gave confusing orders or went missing when their teams needed them most.

• Paranoia and Flipping: Teams kept breaking alliances at the worst possible times out of fear, ending up with no allies at all.

• Internal Drama: Players argued with their leaders, and some even sold off their own team's supplies for personal profit.

In short, Gold Dust won because they played chess while everyone else was fighting in a chaotic bar brawl.

Just to correct you on point 4. We started receiving outside attacks from Monarch before placing any contracts. At this point it was already 2 (HV/R) v 3 (S&S/AP/GD).

I could find the logs but quite frankly I cba and someone else will come along to do it if they're that way inclined.

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SV's article had multiple incorrect statements and guesses.  As I was reading it, the amount of times I had to read something again to realize it was just blatantly wrong was somewhat concerning considering how many people would be mislead by the wrong information, but also somewhat amusing.

For example, this:

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Suggested this mail came when Rocket Scientists were already out, which is completely false.  You can do the math yourselves.  If RS were already eliminated, there would be 5 teams left. If S&S went out, then Apex, then Gold Dust, GD would then be in 3rd, not 4th.

This mail was sent while Rocket Scientists were still alive (hence the mail stating to keep hitting RS).  This was a key moment since things had fallen into two 3-team alliances, one being RS, Reptilians and HV, the other being S&S, Apex and GD.  Those alliances have not changed since that time.  GD and Apex were pushing reptilians every tick consistently, and we had tons of attacks where one team would jump into a player on the other team's hits.

Example two:

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There was no suggestion that HV and GD had teamed up.  Reptilians and HV had targeted Apex when the 2v2 began because Apex had lower tickets than GD, so the odds of getting Apex lower tickets than Reptilians was higher.  You can see this on the graph where Apex had climbed and then dropped shortly after.  As soon as Reptilians were out, you can see Apex start rapidly climbing again with HV dropping, now that GD and Apex switched focus to HV.  It was definitely 2v1 against HV at this point, and no changes to alliances were made. 

I don't blame SugarValves for getting it wrong, since he's only getting bits and pieces from leaks, but there is a lot wrong in that article just from the limited information I have.  I'm sure other teams could point out more, but I'd take the rest of the article with a heavy grain of salt.

If I wanted AI's opinion I'd ask AI.

Also, Sugarvalves mixes truths with storytelling often leaning more on the latter for drama.

Starkiller was a good leader

What is sugaravlaves putting in the kool aid he's selling

Very true, was a horrible news article to read. Although it did reveal some interesting screen shots which was the only useful thing in the articles. other than that whatever SV wrote was whilst his head was up his arse honestly.

true but we still love sugarvalves, doesn't matter if he isn't precise and if there are various errors. It's fine

I find it amusing how many take the articles as truth until something they're involved in pops up and they're like...

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ok so AI was right and SV was wrong?  lol

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In short, Gold Dust won because they played chess while everyone else was fighting in a chaotic bar brawl.

Nope, it said Gold Dust won.