Harlow everyone, I am back with episode 8, getting pretty empty in the Genius studio yea...
Main match: Minus Auction II
Ooolala another auction game. To be honest, I have yet to re-watch minus action in season 2 and others are telling me that it is a really good episode... >< I WILL watch it soon haha and edit the post after.
But in the meantime, I had a really vague memory of the mainmatch this episode so I re-watched ep 8 with English subs. This also explains why I am uploading my review so late... ):
At its core, this game is about finding the right numbers and getting the sequential ones while earning as many chips as possible. However due to the hidden numbers, luck was involved once again to hinder some players who played by similar strategies used in season 2. Very interesting...
Jinho shined for a little this episode with his smart use of getting 34 to earn as much chips for number 35. Though it didn't last too long, when 32 came out, everyone else were bums and had little chips to last, cancelling out Jinho-Hyunmin's plan to eat up even more chips.
In such a slight change of rules of the game, Kyunghoon was also very smart to change up his strategy to use more chips and bargain with garnets, especially since he had way more than the other players. However, while he stood in a good position to win with the smaller numbers he got, he decided against Junseok's idea for a joint win???!!! I still don't really understand his relationship with Sangmin and the rest of the players. It was a game for him to win and he decided to let that pass. ): He said that he was reminded of Sangmin hyung and couldn't abandon his team?!? What team haha. His team wasn't going to win and suddenly he doesn't want to win too and be one of the possible DM opponent? Was he doing some image control there, hahaha it is really unbelievable how he thinks through the games. Ohwell but he wasn't picked so perhaps he was indeed thinking long term. :/
Finally Kyungran lost due to a hidden 26... How unlucky. :/ And she picked Dongmin to go to the Deathmatch. I was rather surprised by her decision, usually players went for opponents that they thought they could beat, but kudos to her bravery for taking on Dongmin.
Did you guys realised that Kyunghoon actually predicted that Dongmin was most likely to go to the Deathmatch??? O.O
However Dongmin just demonstrated to everyone that not only is he very good socially, he is able to play one on one and win. I was super impressed by how systematic and fast he was. A total all-kill for Dongmin. <3
I wanted to bring up Kyungran's words when she was about to leave. "Her responsibilities as a female player." There were really too few female players in The Genius. Final 5 are all male players. Hopefully they can get some girls who are more bold to be on the future seasons, if any. ^^
Next week we see returning players WOOHOO ... wait... eh most from previous seasons??? ): Haha I am excited to see them again but then... I really wanted returning players from this season. ):
Sangmin's back. (& Kyunghoon is his dog) With Horror race II. ;D
Okay I am excited but there are so few episodes left... ):
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Cya next week!
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