The Ultimate Floater

The Ultimate Floater is "an experimental, subversive meta-parody of an RTVG game." The goal of the game is to reward intentionally bad strategy, by using a point system that punishes people for success and rewards them for failure.

Concept
The is based on a distortion of Big Brother. In order to win challenges, you have to be the worst performer. Except, winning challenges incurs large point penalties. Players will have to balance incurring penalties in order to gain power with the fact that points are needed to win the game in the end.

The game makes a mockery of RTVG games in general, with its asinine graphics and hilariously easy challenges.

Points
The game revolves around a point system. The goal of this game is to make the final two and end up with more points than the other person in the final two. However, points in this game don’t come from bold power plays or impressive challenge performance. Instead, the point system rewards incompetence and encourages players to purposefully use poor strategies to gain points.

Here are the point values that result from various actions.

PENALTIES

-10 • Become Head of Household

-8 • Win the Golden Power of Veto

-5 • Save yourself with the Golden Power of Veto

-3 • Save someone else with the Golden Power of Veto

-2 • “Top” performer in the Weakness Challenge that doesn’t win HoH or PoV

-5 • Skipping the Weakness Challenge‡

-1 • Picked to play for PoV

-1 • Vote with the Majority

-5 • Cast the tie-breaking vote to evict

‡While this may seem against the spirit of the game, I have to draw the line somewhere and I draw it at inactivity. Otherwise, the only way to truly win the game would be not to sign up at all, or to sign up and refuse to do anything.

REWARDS

+1 • Vote with the minority.

+3 • Saved by someone else’s use of the PoV

+5 • Survive an eviction vote

+1 • For each eviction vote cast against you

+5 • Survive a tied eviction vote

+1 • Come in last in the Weakness Challenge

+2 • Don’t use the Golden Power of Veto

+1 • Ineligible to win the Golden Power of Veto

+5 • Cast the sole minority vote in an otherwise unanimous eviction

SPECIAL BONUSES

These can only be collected once per player.

+10 • Survive five rounds without winning HoH or PoV

+10 • Survive two or more consecutive Eviction votes

+10 • Vote in the minority a collective total of five times

+10 • Refuse to save yourself with the PoV while you are on the block.

+30 • Make the final two without winning a single challenge

+30 • Make the final two without voting in the majority

Points are non-transferable and will not be publicly updated. At any point in the game (barring the final two), you may request via PM what your current personal score is and I will give it to you. Points are immediately added or subtracted from your score at the completion of an event.

Weakness Challenge
It is very important to read this section, because it is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than how challenges are normally graded on RTVG.

In the Weakness Challenge, you are competing for the right NOT to become Head of Household or win the Golden Power of Veto.

Each Weakness Challenge is a painfully simple, bland, basic, and easy RTVG challenge. Here is how the challenges are graded:

• The person with the lowest score becomes HoH. The person with the lowest score who participates in the PoV competition wins the Golden Power of Veto.

• In the event of a tie, the person with the longer time prevails. Note that for all challenges in this game, the maximum time allotted is 30 Minutes. This is to prevent people from just opening the challenge and waiting for right before the deadline to submit in order to have power in the game.

• In the event of a score and time tie, the BETTER performer on the tiebreaker question prevails. This is like a normal RTVG challenge. The reason that it is not reversed is because it could turn into people trying to make the largest number possible to become HoH, and I really don’t want to grade challenges with inordinately large numbers.

Important Detail: Not completing the challenge doesn’t guarantee you a “win”. Instead, you will just be disqualified from the challenge, getting no power and losing five points. This is to discourage people from skipping challenges and wasting everyone’s time. In order for a challenge to be considered complete, it must contain the following: (1) answers of some kind, even if it’s the word “Throw” (2) It must be submitted within 30 minutes of when it was opened. (3) A tiebreaker number must be included.

In the event that all eligible players are disqualified from the challenge, the entire challenge order will be randomized, and the challenge “winner” will receive a -20 point penalty. This, again, is to prevent inactivity.

Strategery Ceremony
The “Strategery” Ceremony is where the bulk of the post-challenge events take place. Here’s what happens. It follows Big Brother very closely. You all probably know the rules of Big Brother, so this is probably just review. Read it over anyway.

1. I will announce the unfortunate person who “won” Head of Household.

2. The Head of Household will nominate two people for eviction by posting in the thread, and simultaneously choose two players to participate in the PoV competition.

3. Each nominee will pick a player for PoV, first-come first-serve. The two nominees and four picks will be the PoV players.

4. I will announce the winner of the PoV.

5. The PoV player must announce whether or not s/he is using the PoV, and on whom.

6. If the PoV is used, the HoH must name a replacement. The PoV winner cannot be nominated. Neither can the person taken off the block. Everyone else is fair game.

This portion of the round will ideally take 48 hours at the most, but hopefully closer to 24 hours.

Eviction
Everyone but the HoH and two nominees has 24 hours to cast a vote to evict one of the two nominees. In the event of a tie, the HoH will be asked to cast a tie-breaking vote by posting in the thread.

TARGET LIST

At the beginning of the game, I will ask you to write a target list. The people at the top of the list are people you are planning on evicting/getting rid of, while the people lower on your list are people you are planning on keeping around. This is only used in the event that you don’t vote within the deadline. I will remind people that they can update their target list during each Weakness Challenge. You can change your list at any time by PM’ing me.

Funale
In the “funale”, the Jury of Seven will have an opportunity to question the finalists. The Jury will then divide the Points that they earned throughout the game between the finalists. If a juror has negative points, they will just subtract points from whomever they decide to give their negative points to.

The Jury points and the points earned by the finalists throughout the game will be weighted 50/50 based on the following formula:

Jury Points = 50 * (Finalist’s jury score divided by the total number of jury points). What this formula does is allocate 50 percent proportionally between the two finalists.

Game Points = 50 * (Finalist’s points earned throughout the game divided by the total number of points both finalists earned). This allocates the other 50 percent proportionally between the two finalists.

Final score = Jury Points + Game Points. The person with the highest final score will be named The Ultimate Floater!

Cast

 * Ann Markley • BottleItUp
 * Beverly Kim • Meh
 * Bunky Miller • eagle2ch
 * Carter Williams • Iron Muffin
 * Jun Song • Lewinsky
 * Kellie Pickler • CupidStunt
 * Kelly Sharbaugh • Shattered
 * Kiara Belen • betinez
 * Kristen Bitting • wccats
 * Sabrina Brimhall • Jigsawce
 * Sanjaya Malakar • Lumina
 * Tim Urban • Aandres
 * Tyler Stone • RiddleMeThis
 * Zulema Griffin • VanityEgo