Strangely Effective

yeah I was shocked by that, I didn't even think they'd be able to choose the others who have boxes.

she cried all the way through and made herself out to be a victim while she was coldly eliminating the only half decent people.

I can't stand drama queens like her so I'm really hoping she gets eliminated in a very embarrassing way

Of course I watched it, you can assume everyone watched the series before they applied for the show. So everyone knows how shitty the cookie game is. By subverting the expectations they could have made the dynamics at the start of the game much more interesting. The first few people were just dropped, because no one wanted to be the star, so they had to do already one shitty decision here. By rewarding the group which took the star and farting into the face of the circle alphas, the game could have shown to be unpredictable like the series. Now we know all the games basically work as before, the series showed best survival tactics already => boring. The cookie game was boring, because EVERYONE was licking the damned cookie like in the show, no one tried biting or so, as it was shown in the series as inefficient.
The result of the picknick was also relatively clear, so clear, that I expect it was completly staged, because no one was seen to take an advantage partner, but many took their BBFs like the mother and son.