Episode 1 Challenge Debriefing

Challenge 1.1: CUTTHROAT TRIVIA

Objective: Answer 30 questions correctly

Five agents were able to attend the first challenge of OMC 5. Aaron, Evin, Heidi, Mike, and Padraig showed up. After a bit of meet and greet chat, the challenge got under way. The group did fairly well answering my onslaught of trivia questions. However it came right down to the wire. With Heidi, Mike, Aaron, and Padraig losing all of their lives Evin found himself standing alone with six questions remaining, five correct answers needed to win the challenge, and three strikes (incorrect answers) standing between him and defeat. Unfortunately for the group, Evin couldn't pull it off in the end and the group could only muster up 26 correct answers of the 30 necessary for challenge success. However, $.50 was added to the pot for reaching the 20 correct answer level.

Answering 11 questions correctly, Mike wins exemption for the first episode. Evin, Aaron, Padraig, and Heidi answered 8, 5, 2, and 0 questions correctly respectively.

Earned: $0.50

Reward: Mike wins exemption

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Challenge 1.2: Blog-O-Sphere

Objective: Complete a seamless webring of player customized blogs.

I chose to start my inspection of the blog ring at Keith's blog (because he was the last agent to email me his URL so it was at the top of my inbox). I began by inspecting the forward links. All seemed to be OK at first, however I encountered a broken link when I came to Andy's forward link. As the challenge rules state, any broken links in the ring result in no money added to the pot. But just for grins and giggles, I went back to Keith's blog to see if the group could get the backwards ring in order. Upon checking the back links, I found that Keith's blog the back link took me to Padraig's blog (which is forwards, skipping over Mike) and not only that but I ended up back at Keith's blog after a clicking a couple more back links.

With number four on the list of requirements a bust, I went back to check to see if each blog had the first three requirements: a logo link to the main blog, a bio, and their player pic. I came across the following errors:
Andy: Missing logo link, pic, and bio: -$0.15
Fred: Missing logo link, pic, and bio: -$0.15
Heidi: Missing logo link, pic, and bio: -$0.15
Keith: Missing logo link, pic, and bio: -$0.15

Not exactly getting off on the right foot.

Earned: $-0.60

Reward: None

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Challenge 1.3: Deep Dark Secrets

Objective: Get to know your fellow agents.

Brentin, Evin, Keith, Mike, Padraig, and Ryan participated in Part One of the challenge by posting an interesting fact about their life on the forums. Each player could choose to post a truthful or deceitful fact. Here's the validity of each post:
Brentin: TRUE
Evin: TRUE
Keith: TRUE
Mike: TRUE
Padraig: FALSE
RYAN: TRUE

In Part Two, each player was asked to guess whether they thought each post was true or false. Overall, the group made 25 correct guesses, worth $0.25 added to the pot. With five correct guesses, Keith wins the bonus. There was a three way tie of zero correct guesses between Andy, Brentin, and Heidi. A die rolling tie-breaker determined Heidi as the player who receives the penalty. Both the bonus and penalty will be revealed tomorrow (Sunday).

Earned: $0.25

Reward: I will disclose the rewards Sunday.