How much power do the "Hunters" have? Can they search other people's houses? What's to stop a contestant from just going to a friendly neighbor's house and saying, "Hey, I'll give you $50,000 to let me hang out in your basement for a month and feed me. Don't let anybody in, especially if they're with a camera crew" ? And then just don't leave for 28 days.
shareA few things. The players have limited cash ($500) and CBS reality games always have strict rules against colluding to split the prize.
They're only allowed to play when they're being monitored by their production camera crew.
The hunters can bribe friends and family and neighbors to snitch on the players. We'll probably see that.
I think there's some rules on how long the players can remain stationary.
The hunters don't actually have the real power to enter homes and pull camera footage or tap cellphones. Those part are all just simulated faked for the camera.
> They're only allowed to play when they're being monitored by their production camera crew.
I doubt that's true. They play the game 24/7. It's just up to the camera crew (probably just one guy) to keep up. A good camera guy just instinctively knows when to turn on the camera and when to not bother.
Plus, a good camera guy can even try to recreate a scene if needed. If he's in the bathroom while the players panic because they saw a black Escalade go by, he can just ask them to recreate that moment a few minutes later, when the danger has passed.
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The $500 given to them by the show is only accessible in increments of $100 at video monitored ATMs at set intervals of time, every week or so.
shareI did wonder about some of the rules as well. I do have a feeling that they can't just stay in one place the whole time. They have to move some. I also was curious about the camera crew. How in the world do they hide them.
share> I also was curious about the camera crew. How in the world do they hide them.
I am pretty sure that the hunter teams are told that they are not allowed to make any conclusions when they see only a camera operator. So, if the players are hiding behind a truck and the cameraman is out in the open filming them, the hunters cannot use that knowledge to look behind the truck. They are probably required to let the players walk away if that happens.
Remember that there are many rules that are not explained to the audience. The rules are in place to keep a balance between the two sides and also to present an interesting show to the audience.
Unfortunately, the rules include simulating many of the techniques that the hunters are using and recreating important scenes weeks after the fact. Viewers can see that and declare the whole show to be fake. And that's a shame because the game is actually pretty good when the rules are understood.
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That's the big problem. I don't know all the rules. I went to CBS page hoping that would have some nice list to comb through. Nope. There has to be a rule where you can't just stay in one place for the whole time. I also still don't know if there can be more than one winner of the prize. That has to be the case because these ppl seem to be starting at different times and not just all at once. My head hurts just thinking of all the things we don't know as far as what the players can do and the hunters can do.
share> That has to be the case because these ppl seem to be starting at different times and not just all at once.
Probably not. In the UK version, they are all released at once. Keep in mind, however, that this is not a race, so it really doesn't matter whether they all start at once or are staggered over a few weeks.
But, think about it. There are 40 or so hunters in the command center and/or out in the field. If they only had 3-4 teams to focus on, they might be sitting around doing nothing for days in between leads. Having to juggle nine teams at once keeps them all busy.
And, finally, you have no reason to actually think that this is a staggered start. The home audience is not given any information about days or time. What you see on TV is that they introduce new teams each week, but you really have no idea what order anything is filmed in. Each hunted team is its own individual story. It's not like The Amazing Race where teams meet and hook up all the time.
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Keep in mind, however, that this is not a race, so it really doesn't matter whether they all start at once or are staggered over a few weeks
> But his point is, is more than one team eligible to receive the cash prize for winning. He's not finding an answer to that question. Theoretically every team could win.
From everything I've read or seen, yes, every team could win the whole $250,000. That's what they imply on the show.
Now, that would be quite expensive if all nine teams managed to win the money -- $2.5 million is a LOT of prize money for the first season of a new reality show. So, either they took out an insurance policy against that happening or they just aren't telling us the whole story.
In the UK version, there was a pool of money -- 100k pounds IIRC -- and any team that made it to a certain point at the end of the 28 days got to split the money. Nearly everything about the U.S. version tracks the UK version, so I am thinking that the prize money did too.
When they started the game, the teams probably were told that they'd split the money. But, my guess is that only one team managed to survive the 28 days and won all the money. So, the editors changed the opening narration to say that ANY team that survived would get $250k (knowing that only one team actually did survive).
That's what I think.
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Yup. That is what I was going for. If more than 1 tm can win, then they can start at diff times. If only 1 tm can win, they have to all start at the same time or else that isn't fair to the others.
shareAs long as it's not ginger con/attorney boy and his girl!
shareI did wonder about some of the rules as well. I do have a feeling that they can't just stay in one place the whole time. They have to move some. I also was curious about the camera crew. How in the world do they hide them.
good question because that one team was ontheir friend's private property!! Minus a search warrant which they can't get how are they supposed to get caught?? THen instead of waiting for it to get dark, they just try to run out the back in broad daylight when the hunters are obviously still in the area??? sillyness!
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