#12: Last Man Standing II
2002-2003

Winner: Bob
Runner-Up: Amy
Third: Tiffany
Killer: Jordan/chillfact0r7

The Cast:

Amy
Angela
Becca
Bethany
Bob
Bruce
Dan
Jordan
Karen
Kristie May
Steve
Taylor
Tiffany

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Description:

Last Man Standing was a Mole series that I hosted pre-FGC (with the exception of the third game, which I hosted only a few years ago and had many FGC-ers in the cast). When I first started playing games, I was security-conscious and used a fake picture. I also told people that I was a 23-year-old editor who had just graduated from college. The irony of this is that, years later, I revived the series as a 23-year-old editor who was just about to graduate from college. (I like it when things come full circle.)

For the series, I wanted to be different, so instead of calling the saboteur "The Mole," I called them "the Killer." (Many other games have done that since, but I want to go on record and say I was the first.) The first game, which appears later on the countdown, was kind of a trainwreck in regard to my hosting, but in this game, my skills had improved slightly. I say slightly because I remember lots of cast members bitching about me missing deadlines, which at the time I didn't think was that big of a deal, but I came to realize later is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to hosting. What really killed this game for me, though, was the cast - we had a lot of inactivity, including our Killer (our very own Jordan/chillfactor), who took "under the radar" to a new extreme. In comparison to the other two games, this one was pretty lackluster.

After all the inactives fell, the final three consisted of Jordan and pre-game friends Bob and Amy. The entire game Bob and Amy had suspected one another as the Killer, and the most notable thing for me was that they continued to gun for each other all the way through the final execution quiz. Amy directed all the answers on her final quiz toward Bob, and Bob threw something like one or two questions toward Jordan. For that reason, Bob took home the victory in what was I believe the lowest final quiz total ever (they each got something like 5 or 6 out of 20 correct.) It later turned out that Bob was an alias, and I believe ended up playing games for a long period of time as Dennys. (Yes, like the restaurant.)

I don't remember too many details about the cast, but I did just find a list of their names. The standouts were the very sweet and uber-religious Tiffany, friends Angela and Bethany (not Colton), Taylor, who considered himself a super-villain but tanked really early, this girl Becca that my friend and I met randomly while playing Yahoo games, and my real-life friend Danny, who played a ridiculous alias named "Kristie May" (she claimed to be an heiress whose father owned lots of farmland in the South somewhere).

I have good memories of every game that I host, but since I recall comparatively little from this one, I think it makes sense for it to end up in twelfth place.

Next up: Games people might actually remember!

Last Edited By: Electric Autumn 05/05/10 8:49 PM. Edited 7 times.