BoxeR and YellOw appearing on The Genius season 2! - Page 54

Unless I was mislead, it seems like one of the games for the finals is a table game, which implies Indian Hold'em since it's been used twice already. Still have to wait and figure out.

Hongchul picks the game-order item, but still not sure who he's gonna give it to.

There's also some weird +1 switch item that I saw, but not sure which game it can be used for.

There IS some item that has four squares and an arrow that resembles 'return the 4 cards' so I really think Indian Hold'em is one of the games.

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This episode turned out to be a bit disappointing, I think it was a little poorly designed, because it ended up just being a matter of the guests choosing who they wanted to let win, (there was no chance of the genius team winning, in fact two players from it (boxer and sangmin) were practically competing to be the one to sell their team out,) so it was just going to be decided by who the "revenge team" felt like giving the win, while collecting $2k each for their troubles.

Also a little disappointed that the other two didn't try to fuzz the results a little to mess up sangmins code, because towards the end they both pretty clearly knew sangmin was selling them out, even if they weren't sure how. But i guess the revenge team started moving first at around the time they were sure enough to maybe make a play.

Finally a situation where he doesn't have to fail at people-skills to get to the 1v1 games he's good at. I think he might actually be able to pull it off. He's been trying really hard to outplay people the last few episodes, (maybe a little too hard) and I'm glad he's made it this far, even if it had to be at the cost of my other favourite contestant

Also, was there more laser chess in the preview, or was that just a clip from the older episode. (I didn't recognise the position on the small board, but it might be from when they were practicing/messing around with it before the deathmatch.) That game felt like it could be really good if they just tidied it up/refined it a bit to remove the obvious, more abusive deadlock strats.

The death match strat of boxer is actually quite strong. he used his 2nd best card in first 2 rounds and then the strongest in the next 2. The first white '3' shlda warned junghyun boxer is going all in. By the 3rd loss which were quite reasonable the game is still open. But once the 4th loss and junghyun still has a zero, he has no chance to win anymore. This depended a lot on pressuring the opponent to put out high cards rather than accept more losses. If junghyun had put out the zero he coulda still fight.

Main match coulda been good since the end was a minefield. Boxer got the right strat but sadly sangmin betrayal means its too much.

some mad props to dayhe for sniffing out potential sangmin betrayal after he got enough points!

Dat Boxer Meta at the DM is great. At least it shows his superiority in gaming. Undefeated in DM!

This is true but BoxeR totally out-meta'd him. As they showed, in his game against Yooyoung, both players used their low cards first and saved their big ones for later, so he thought BoxeR would play the same way and play his 0 or 2 just like Yooyoung did (Yooyoung played 0 and 3 on the second turns in their match, Junghyun played 2 and 3).

It's telling that he used his 4 in the 3rd round and and 5 in the 4th round and felt sure he would win.

All in all I liked this episode. It highlighted Sangmin's ability to use others to his benefit. Dahye had a great moment as well at the last minute.

Boxer did badly in all main matches, but he had the right meta plan, just a very bad execution and a somewhat bad reputation on his character. Because both Junghyun and Boxer couldn't counter Sangmin's masterplan. Junghyun's straightforward honest plan bit him in the end sadly. Boxer on the other hand bet too much on his minefield at the top. He had a bad reputation already. He should've tried to cause a chaos on both team strategy at that point. However, his survival skills paid off at the end.

At least Boxer shone in the DM. It'll be an interesting final. Sangmin who never got in DMs and won tons of main matches versus Boxer who lost basically all main matches, but he seems strong in DMs. At the end the bum got richer.

After all his schemes, it would kinda sad to have Sangmin lose to Boxer at the end. Anyway, I'm happy with any winner.

I have faith in boxer for the next episode ^_^ I feel he is smart in the games, just he isn't a very strong character and gets like out-muscled by people. In the 1v1 situation he could very well beat sangmin (where that has been his weakest area). im yo hwan fighting !

Yellow outplayed Boxer so hard that moment. Get mindgamed.

Really think Junghyun was more worthy the final spot by a lot than Boxer. Boxer just killed so many of the games by deciding to suicide for someone elses victory.

ehh ii still think yohwan is the better 1v1 player and will make for a better finals than junghyun

I'm rooting for neither. For Sangmin, I did not have a good impression of him because of some wicked stuff he did before and the way he wielded influence over others in a somewhat twisted manner. Nevertheless, in the midst of conjuring mind games, he did put in efforts of his own to try play and win games. For Yohwan, he did not exactly prove his worth throughout the season esp the way he messed up others and ended up dulling the gameplay which made for some frustrating episodes to watch, and only showed flashing brilliance in the two DMs. One has the will to win, the other the desire to survive.

If I really have to choose, I'd rather see Sangmin win this. If Yohwan triumphs, I can't help but feel his 'unbeaten run' of 11 losses and 0 wins in MM will make a mockery out of the Genius tag. However, I think Yohwan stands a better chance since Sangmin has never gone to a DM in S2 (and only one in S1) so he may not be up to the mental pressure and challenge under that kind of atmosphere, unlike Yohwan who had experienced similar tension during his pro-gaming career.

Jung Hyun was a great contestant, but I was hoping for Yo Hwan to somehow make it to the finals. Now that he doesn't have to worry about betrayals anymorew, I think he can take this.

Wow Sangmin just bought a shit ton of power ups by giving the others $2k each. I hope the finals won't be one-sided.