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In line with all these hypothetical questions... here's one.

A race of Aliens invade Earth. After Several pitched battles, the aliens succeed in enslaving mankind.

However, as bad as you may think it is, the Aliens share knowledge, wiping out Cancer, Aids and actually clean up the environment. they introduced alternate forms of clean energy and their security forces are tolerant, honest and fair.

they rule the governments, their laws surplant our own. and except for the fact that we cannot raise arms against them, nor can we govern ourselves life is pretty much normal (if not better.)

EXCEPT...

The Aliens have discovered Competiative Reality Shows and they LOVE em. infact, stations that show these Reality Shows are favored among them and get top rating and perferred treatment. so you can imagine the desire to increase the number of such shows.

but the Aliens want more than just "people voted off" they want the stakes higher. now, when someone is eliminated... they are eliminated. the winner, not only gets more freedom, and a life of luxury, but they get to live.

At first, Hardened Criminals were used... then traitors and other people who still resist the alien overlords... but now, due to a lack of criminals and resistance... civilians are now being used. it's mandatory to participate in these shows. Every year, letters to future participants (Drawn by lottery) are sent out and the contestants flown in to compete. Television excutives, politicians, everyone has to participate once they recieved their letter and no one is spared.

You have recieved your letter and even tho you try to run, you are captured and taken to the studio.

and you are now given your choice. you can choose which reality show you can participate in. not Game shows, but Competitive Reality Show.

some choices are:
Survivor Type = Survivor (http://imdb.com/title/tt0239195/)
Performance Type = [Nationality] Idol (http://imdb.com/title/tt0319931/), Last Comic Standing (http://imdb.com/title/tt0364829/), Next Action Star (http://imdb.com/title/tt0360295/), etc)
Racing Type = Amazing Race (http://imdb.com/title/tt0285335/)
Improvement Type = Biggest loser (http://imdb.com/title/tt0429318/)
Social Type = Big Brother (http://imdb.com/title/tt0251497/),
Career Type = The Apprentice (http://imdb.com/title/tt0364782/), Next Great Chef (http://imdb.com/title/tt0811596/), Project Catwalk (http://imdb.com/title/tt0467157/)
Puzzle/Mystery Type = Treasure Hunters (http://imdb.com/title/tt0472981/)
And any other category of whatever type of Reality show your country shows.

Note, the show has to have an elimination factor and must last at least 16 weeks ending with ONE winning person/Group.

Shows like Fear Factor would fall as a game show and not be chosen.

So select your show that you would participate in. Which do you think you have the best chance in surviving till the end?

Make your choice and post why you think you will have the best shot at winning.

me, I would choose the "Amazing Race"

I may not make it, but I will have fun traveling around to places I never got a chance to see. If I do get eliminated, I'll die happy.

I think I'd be best at Survivor.

I'd love to do either a treasure hunters type show or an amazing race one. Use your brain and go to exotic places? Sounds fine to me.

Project Catwalk so I can sneak out in a disguise

I'm tempted to go for puzzle, but eh, Social.

Project Catwalk so I can sneak out in a disguise
Thank you, I was trying to remember the name of that show. :headbang:

Thank you, I was trying to remember the name of that show. :headbang:

Competition eh? honey you got nothing on my fashion with that potato sack:p

Competition eh? honey you got nothing on my fashion with that potato sack:pI just remember the first contest. use whatever they find in their hotel room to make an outfit. after you see each contestant ripping out their beds, the curtains, even the covering on the seat cushions to make their outfit, they were told "ok, get some sleep for tomorrows challange..."

and they walked into their destroyed rooms to find a place to crash... :D


I have no fashion sense... hence my nice potato sack one peice... :p

I would be on (nationality) Next Top Model.
I'll call that performance.

improvement

there is nothing like certain death to keep you on a diet/exercise/beauty regimine. and i think i clean up good.

i've never hear of the amazing race before, but i'd do that one. with the exception of the puzzle one all the others make me sick.

i've never hear of the amazing race before, but i'd do that one. with the exception of the puzzle one all the others make me sick.

it's a fun show. Contestants race around from one destination to another. at each destination they have to perform some task, whether it be shooing a horse, to eating one pound of caviar or even participating in some local tradition or activity, the leg ends in at a "pit stop" where usually, the last team (of two) in are eliminated... if it's a non-elimination leg, that last team loses their money and starts the next leg pennyless.

(one team got money by begging and another had to sell stuff...)

it's a fun show. Contestants race around from one destination to another. at each destination they have to perform some task, whether it be shooing a horse, to eating one pound of caviar or even participating in some local tradition or activity, the leg ends in at a "pit stop" where usually, the last team (of two) in are eliminated... if it's a non-elimination leg, that last team loses their money and starts the next leg pennyless.

(one team got money by begging and another had to sell stuff...)

that sounds like a good concept. i saw a show a while ago where several groups of people (i think there was 2 or three in each) were told to pack a backpack for any conceivable situation, then they were taken in a blacked out helicopter to the middle of nowhere in siberia or somewhere with the task of reaching london first. oh, and they had no money. i can't remember now if any team succeded but it was pretty interesting. maybe it was the same show.

that sounds like a good concept. i saw a show a while ago where several groups of people (i think there was 2 or three in each) were told to pack a backpack for any conceivable situation, then they were taken in a blacked out helicopter to the middle of nowhere in siberia or somewhere with the task of reaching london first. oh, and they had no money. i can't remember now if any team succeded but it was pretty interesting. maybe it was the same show.

doesn't sound like it... since each team doesn't know where they are going untill they get to the first destination... and it's all the same.

but I did hear of yours... can't remember the title tho.

the amazing race, but if there killing people why not just go the gladatorial arena's, imagin the fun event you could have (fun to watch not participate)

i would love to see those idiot professional paintballers in a real gun fight. People figting alien beasties would be cool too, as well as having a prize for the best death where their family gets a huge prize if they die in the most honorable or amusing way.

I like to run. So the Amazing Race type.

I've never actually seen that show... they do run, right?

Social, only because you're allowed to get piss drunk every day.

can we kill fellow contestant, i would'nt mind doing big brother if you could, wait untill ruffies passed out drunk and then 'wham' i'm on to the next round :)

The Amazing Race is the most competive and least mind gaming. I'd love to do it and think I could do well. I've travelled the World and had a lot of fun doing it so I'll navigate roads and airports. My wife would be a great partner since she has a lead foot and is absolutely fearless behind the wheel.

Don't know much about the others except Survivor. IMHO, it's not the show it started out as. The first few really were tough and demanding physically. Now the series has deteriorated into little more than manipulation and mind games. But the camera work is still fantastic!

Gentlemen, start your engines and let the Games begin!!!!!!

I'd do rather do Battle Royale type game where the goal is to kill everyone else on the island outright, but if I must play a non-violent game for my life, then I'd choose Survivor, and kill everyone else on the island outright anyway.

While it doesn't exactly fit the criteria of the OP, I'd like to do one of those shows where they strap a camera to your head and send you into an abandoned prison or similarly "haunted" building and expect you to be scared, wimp out, and quit because (ZOMG!) it's dark in there.

I'd win...I'd live, and it'd be easy as hell. :D

I'd do rather do Battle Royale type game where the goal is to kill everyone else on the island outright, but if I must play a non-violent game for my life, then I'd choose Survivor, and kill everyone else on the island outright anyway.

Sounds fun. You get to have the paper fan.

Sounds fun. You get to have the paper fan.

*awed* Oooooooo.....

I call Green Shell! *throws* :p

In the absence of a Battle Royale option, I choose The Amazing Race, only because it's the only reality show I'd watch.

I chose other. The show would be titled Revolutionary Uprising. The aim of the show would be to overthrow the alien government. If I lose, I die. If I win, the aliens are booted off the planet, if not destroyed altogether.

I'd do Amazing Race. Get to travel around the world....if I make it that far.

*awed* Oooooooo.....

I call Green Shell! *throws* :p

*Bludgeons you with a pair of binoculars*

In the absence of a Battle Royale option, I choose The Amazing Race, only because it's the only reality show I'd watch.

would have hated to be in the class that got picked

I chose other. The show would be titled Revolutionary Uprising. The aim of the show would be to overthrow the alien government. If I lose, I die. If I win, the aliens are booted off the planet, if not destroyed altogether.

then you loose, for you are captured and put on "Project Runway" :p

While it doesn't exactly fit the criteria of the OP, I'd like to do one of those shows where they strap a camera to your head and send you into an abandoned prison or similarly "haunted" building and expect you to be scared, wimp out, and quit because (ZOMG!) it's dark in there.

I'd win...I'd live, and it'd be easy as hell. :D

unfortunatly, not an option.

unless they make one in the near future...


never can tell with these network execs...

Damn aliens! Since I'm old, fat and ugly, I lose anyway, so I'll commit a sit-down/hunger strike and attempt to kill any alien who comes near me.

Sounds fun. You get to have the paper fan.
Sure, if you'll jsut let me hold that Uzi for a second.

Damn aliens! Since I'm old, fat and ugly, I lose anyway, so I'll commit a sit-down/hunger strike and attempt to kill any alien who comes near me.

which is why I chose Amazing Race. even if I lose the first round, I would've traveled to someplace new and have fun doing it. (i.e. free)