Stay Alive S1/Rules

STAY ALIVE season one: General Rules
I (devious) will play the gamekeeper. Everyone else is a contestant. The game is played across multiple levels, each will get progressively harder.

Each contestant plays one game per level. All of the contestant's scores become holes in future levels. If ever your score in a round matches a hole in a previous level you are eliminated. The winner is the last contestant left alive. My goal, as gamekeeper, is to eliminate everyone in the earliest level as possible. (Ideally level 1!)

Each season will have a theme which determines which buttons are played. Contestants can play different buttons in each level.

LEVEL 0:

No contestant will be eliminated in level 0. All scores are safe.

I will declare my button for this level. The contestant will create the game based on the current season's theme.

LEVEL N (for N>0)

After all games in the previous level are complete, I will publish a list of holes for this level. The holes are the set of scores from all previous levels that any contestant achieved in a round. (My scores are ignored.) If a contestant is eliminated partway through a game, their scores after they were eliminated are not added.

I will declare my button for this level. Contestants left alive can then create the next set of games, as in LEVEL 0.

JUMPS:

For every game you win, you get a Jump. You can use a Jump to jump over a hole and prevent yourself from being eliminated. You can have multiple Jumps.

TIEBREAKERS:

If all contestants are eliminated in the same level, the one who played the most rounds in that level (without hitting a hole) is the winner.

If multiple contestants were eliminated in the same round in the same level, the one who won the most games in the tournament is the winner.

If they are still tied, the contestant who hit the highest-valued hole (when they were eliminated) wins.

NO SURRENDERS:

Contestants are not allowed to surrender a round. If they do, they are eliminated.

EXAMPLE:

If the games in level 0 were 36200 and 36215, then tasha had these scores: 30, 24, 6, 24, 29, 24, & 24; and AnnoDomini had these scores: 32, 49, & 50. The list of holes for all future levels would include the union of their scores: [6,24,29,30,32,49,50]

SEASONS

Stay Alive/Season 1