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The first ever Stars game on Tengaged is over and we are extremelly pleased with the results.  It’s been an intense week and the game has been followed by a huge amount of people who finally selected Grayson10001 as the winner of the biggest Big Brother online internet game ever!!.

Below, Swatza’s interview to Grayson10001.

1. How does it feel to win the first stars?
It is very humbling.  It is almost overwhelming to read the support on the voting board from the public.  Everyone goes in hoping to win this game…..and everyone puts in so much heart, time, and energy….it is just a very humbling experience.
2. When did you realize you may have a chance to win?
My goal in every game is just to get myself to the finals, and hopefully my journey and tactics I take to get to the finals make me perform well.
On the first day I was feeling really good, but once my alliance members where being targeted and I was blind sided by nominations on Day 3, 4, and 5, I figured I would be out in a couple days.  
I was ready to be nominated and evicted around the time I started campainging to get Swatza, Latina, and Yankee out.  I had been playing low key until the the middle of the game, when I started campaiging against those players, so I felt I would have a target on my back.
When there were about 7 players left and Jubbzy and Triple XXX were up for eviction, I was pretty sure I would make it to the finals.  I think the only way that could have been upset was if Rich had orchestrated something.  I feel he was the biggest threat to my game, but also a great friend.

3. Will you be back to Defend your title?
I will not be back anytime soon to defend my title.
I don’t know if the viewers understand how much of your life the Stars game takes….publically and behind the scenes.  It is what I would call a Casting game on crack.  No one is new and everyone either knows you or knows of you.  It is a whole new ball game.

4. Was Stars hard for you?
The beginning of the game was very hard for me.  I had to put myself out on a limb and get to know some new people (Peenk and Rich) and put some trust in them.  The most difficult nomination for me was Jubbzy and Triple XXX, because those were two people vital to my game.
Personally, the lack of sleep and trying not to play the game too hard was the toughest part.

5. Any advice to future stars players? 
1) Do your research.  Read blogs and comments from the other contestants to gauge their game reputations and how they interact with others.
2) People are afraid of alliances.
3) You are gonna have people that play multiple sides…watch out for them, because they are the most dangerous.
4) Near the end, it truly becomes a group of individuals playing and less about alliances.
5) Friendships are paramount, but realize strategy and friendship are two different things.
6) When in doubt, tell someone that so-and-so is planning to nominate them.

Thanks to all participants of the first Stars edition!.

Nice post from Grayson10001. 
Reproduced with permission of Grayson100001 (hopefully).

Original source: http://www.tengaged.com/blog/Grayson10001/5630

With the introduction of the new T$ currency, the Tengaged community has been buzzing about what this means to them, their games, and the future of Tengaged.  After some investigation it looks like it is effecting mainly two markets:  Blogging and Betting.
Blogs have increased by leaps and bounds in recent days and speculators believe the monetary incentive could be the main catalyst.  There were 34 blogs posted yesterday and a total of 33 blogs posted five days previous to that.  If membership continues to increase at the current rate, daily average blog totals are expected to reach well into the lower 40’s by early October.  Even some of the Tengaged Top 20, who have previously been dormant bloggers, have been claiming a stake of their own little bit of Tengaged press.  The effect this is having on the content of blogs?  A change of scope.  While the majority of blogs pre-T$ were concentrated on in game activity, now bloggers appear to be focusing on topics pertaining to a larger audience.  Now if you plan to make a fortune blogging on Tengaged, don’t expect to get rich quick.  Only about 10% of blogs have been acruing a significant amount of money. On average, I would expect to earn yourself anywhere in the range of .1T$ to .5T$ per blog.
Now moving on to betting:  Overall, there hasn’t been much of an increase on the avg. amount bet per game; however, there has been an increase of single players receiving high bets.  The average bet (amount bet on game divide by the number of players) seems to trend towards 3.  One game in progress that may be record breaking in the amount of bets is Game #7213.  It seems it is mainly a handful of people betting on most of the contestants.  Who will be the biggest winners?  Everyone except those in the bottom 5.  The reason being is that 5th-1st place will get a cut of the money and those betting on the game have spread out the bets in such a way that they will see some profit.  
Should you bet your hard earned T$ on Rookie games?  It depends how much of a risk taker you are. The return on betting on Rookie games isn’t large. The reason being, there isn’t much risk involved.  If you bet on someone that finishes in the bottom half of the ranks, you lose your money.  If you bet on someone that ranks in the top half, you get your money back or make a profit.  So in general, you can flip a coin to see if you will make any money.  If you want to make the big bucks, you are going to have to take a larger risk, which means putting all your eggs (or at least a lot of them) in one basket….and hopefully they don’t all crack.
As for the future of the $T, most expect the value to increase in the coming weeks.  With the announcement of a new shop opening and the promise of new items to purchase, many predict that Tenagers will find their T$ more important than ever.
My advice: Blog a little, vote/post on other blogs, and don’t be voted out first in a Rookies game.  Save your T$ until the store opens and see what is has available.  If you love something you can purchase it and if not, there is always betting on rookie games to amass a fortune.

Phanne has finally posted the 1st monthly SUPER HEROES Honnor awards, which you may read it on her blog and I reproduce it here (with her permission)

It seems that the winners are:
Best Name: The European aka Ilysa
Best Breasts: The Tranny/Boobguy aka Stiano
Best Superpower: The Distractor aka Rockgoddess
Best Non-green Superhero: The Kohn-Artist aka Kohniva
Best Undercover Agent: Lemonhead aka Umfooanoo
Best Use of Green on a Non-superhero: Brianmertz

And the Lifetime achievement award goes to…..

The Distractor aka Rockgoddess!!
Without the helping hand of the Distractor, the Green Hornets would not have such snazzy outfits, and nice breasts.

Congratulations to the winners!

The “green cape Super Hero Team” managed to become the 50% of the Last Winners on the index page.

We have injected on the site some counter-measures to reduce the effects. Some pretty yellow variations are also affecting the site, although not as much as the green ones.

The other revolt, originated by the lack of nips is now under control.

Groups feature is coming, but we would appreciate any nice idea that could be included into groups.

Roly started it…

and

nobody can stop it.

You may be a great voter, that’s good, but … if people do not vote positive to your messages you ain’t got no choice. If you get +2 on your messages while other housemate gets always +3, he is going to score more on that parameter. Number of messages sent counts of course but there is a limit,… and positive votes you get from messages count more.

Are you always voting to the same person,… that counts (negatively ). Are you a down voter? that counts… negatively, and as you know, the 50-50 rule stills around… Are you sure nobody deserves some negative vote? try to balance a little bit, it doesn’t have to be 50-50 but voting every things positive doesn’t help.

There are more than 50 parameters taken into account for the HoH selection… but above ones are some of the most important ones!.

If you are asking your self why you never get the HoH… check the above

We have setup a full new algorithm to take care of evictions, HoH selections, etc within games, it will start to operate within two hours from now. We were not happy with the previous one, even with continuous refinements it was not really doing a good work. The new one takes care of many parameters and based on some AI techniques, I am completely sure it will be much more fair that the previous one. We are on “alpha” still and it means some bugs, glitches, corrections, etc have happened during these days… so sorry for that.

By the way… “Rookies” last for 7 days, the same as the “Newbies”, after some thoughts and changing our minds several times it looked like the best option… but probably once the #6753 ends we can ask the winners about it

One of the things we got more impressed was with the way people is utilizing the blog posts on Tengaged. We enjoy reading all those and even more reading all the answers that usually the more veterans are giving. It is great!

There are posts explaining how the game is going, new features request and suggestions, thoughts about the site, and even some philosophical  theories (We are becoming fans of roly’s posts!)

We are actually thinking on creating a view with all posts ordered by number of responses and maybe some voting thing too… let’s see.

For the moment we are working on the “groups” feature,… more about it soon