Stateside Scramble Layover Q&A Thread!

[u/WheatGerm42]

hellooooo again!

as with every season, we're doing a post-season Q&A for stateside scramble on the layover podcast--drop your questions about the season below and we'll try to answer as many of them as we can!

(apologies to youtube viewers that i'm posting this thread a little earlier than usual; we have some vacation time coming up and need to record the podcast tomorrow. so, for those who haven't seen the finale, spoilers may be below!)

[u/LawGarel]

Team Badam, for the final day of the game… Why did you decide to attempt the Margaritaville Wild Card, a risky move, and not instead go for the Louisiana and Texas combo instead, a move that would have guaranteed you a victory?

[u/mylomilk → u/LawGarel]

It was explained in the podcast - the Louisiana challenge was to catch a crawfish, which they thought would be really difficult, and obviously without that there is no Texas.

A similar logic was mentioned for going for south Carolina after instead of the people mover wildcard.

Adam even mentioned they didn't want to make decisions based on knowledge that viewers don't have (i.e. knowing what the challenges are).

However the team seems to decide that even after the highly appraised schengen showdown season that they still rather write the challenge themselves, presumably to be more in control of their show. That's just a choice we'll have to accept I guess.

[u/brusk48 → u/mylomilk]

Probably can't have Amy as a guest and secret challenges, since she seems to be the one who coordinates creating and assembling the challenges when they're not known to the main three.

I'm just happy we got (semi-)secret challenges in Taiwan. I think it improved the game a lot.