Questions!

[Macka]

I have some questions! They are both fairly obvious but I'm just making sure.

I'm surprised that players can gain value even after they've been voted out. Garret increased from a value of 5 to 6. If someone had Garret on their team, would they sell him for the 5 they originally paid or the new value of 6? If it's the latter, then it would actually be a good idea to pick players that look like the might get voted out since they generally get extra airtime in their last episode. I had just assumed if one of your people was voted out they'd be worth 0, so this changes things!

How strict are you with trades? If I was to declare I wanted to trade x for x now, but then realised later in the week (before the next episode airs) that I had made a stupid decision, could I retract that trade without wasting one of my four total trades? Or is it final as soon as you use one?

[The Ghost]

To address the first one, last season those voted out were in negative most of the time. This season has been a lot more generous in giving players points for tribal council talking, plus I removed a penalty for being voted out. It just seemed to make sense but if it means players increase in value over the course of the season, then maybe it needs to be reviewed.

Also, remember Garrett had a lot of airtime, being isolated early and because he was a focus in both votes. Think Brad Culpepper from last season, I guess, who would have scored well if voted out in episode 2. He also got the idol clue and idol and voted right for the David vote. And his vote off was somewhat of a surprise. I'm sure we'll see some poor scores from many booted out this season, but if I'm wrong, well, all the better for you for picking up on it.

Trades can be reversed at any time and redone up until the lockout for the next episode, so you definitely can retract without any worry about losing a trade.

[Macka]

Did I move up some placements with my J'Tia 10 point increase?

[Macka]

aaaaand I just realized why you didn't update the ladder.

[Macka]

Brice didn't go up in value? I was sure he would because of the amount of Tribal Council questions he answered.

Jeremiah scored the same as him this episode (mainly because he voted correctly) and he went up by 1.

[The Ghost]

It's all relative to how everyone scores. Top score was 71, low score was 0. Brice didn't even make median. Jeremiah was also worth $1 before the episode, so a slight price rise is in order.

You can compare a few like that... Latasha stayed at 4 while Kass rose from 3 to 4 with the same score. Sarah went from 3 to 5 while Tony only went up 1 with scores of 46 and 45.

Jeremiah barely made the cutoff for an increase. As you can see, Jefra, Trish and Woo stayed at 1 with a score of 26.

Brice needed to at least get median to justify an increase (a la Kass).

[Macka]

Fair enough. I was just hoping to have more points to spend