In post 5322, Double the Trouble wrote:Like what ur saying starts to make sense but I can't see the pieces that are supporting that piece and thats because I don't think they actually exist.
See, the thing is, you're framing it in this post as "how scum would set Toog up to be eliminated", and that is, in fact, where there wouldn't really be coherent pieces supporting that because they don't actually exist.
But from the frame of "town didn't truly have Toogeloo in their sights until later, and even after they do, they don't eliminate him"...the pieces very much are there?
Having one or two players suspicious of a slot on D1 when there's 15-16 players not suspicious of them, still means the slot is largely being ignored/written off/invisible.
And the proof that Toogeloo is resistant to being eliminated even after the invisibility cloak wears off is...literally in on how both on D2 and D3 he's not actually an elimination candidate. Yes, to some extent, this can be attributed to DEB vs Bell yesterday and DEB vs Dunn today combined with the masons outing, but even yesterday, he wasn't in Pooky's vig pool (which was, notably, a pool outside of Bell/DEB, the elimination candidates for that day), which means in the collective eyes of your masonry, on D2, Toogeloo was under the radar enough to not make that list.
And while he has made that list today, it's
still
not an easy sell to make. People keep insisting on inserting names like Ydrasse, PBE, Spiffeh, Dunnstral, DEB, etc. into the list (well, Dunn/DEB is justified as in the vig list butstill), and Toogeloo volunteering to 'risk' a supersaint death is something that further disinclines people from eliminating him since they'll be inclined to leave him alive to 'test' the presence of a supersaint.
And yet, Bell was drafted as scum and he is precisely the same type of player--a player who, as scum, tends to fly under the radar in the earliest stages of the game.
You might think that, "Bell was under heavy suspicion on D2 so he wasn't a player who was under the radar???", but I ask you.
Take a look at D1.
How many players had Bell as suspicious on D1?
How many of these players (who were already few in number) tried to actually actively PUSH him on D1?
The answer to both is almost none, because Bell was, largely, under the radar on D1. He was exposed on D2 and put under the spotlight, where under the pressure he buckled and failed, but on D1 he flew by and large under the radar and was under no serious threat. (And to some extent, the proof of this is in Pooky's D1 elimination pool. Bell was not in it, which means to your collective masonry, he was not a scumread on your radar during D1.)
Just because it's not the winning strategy doesn't mean it isn't the strategy which actually was used.
" and try to claim credit for clearly having been such a good strategist that they won due to him.
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