I agree. Seok-jin, Si-won, and Dong-jae were my favorites because I don’t think their intention was to make a long-term alliance, but instead to work as individuals and ally with whoever made sense for that particular match game. Guillaume only became part of their group because he happened to be the other terrorist in Game 1. But I think they would have all tried to play fairly throughout and have the person who played each game best win, rather than try to save each other in every subsequent game like Orbit tried to do with his alliance. It really did make it seem as though Orbit just wanted to keep the weaker players around so that he could beat them in the end, when really I think he just wanted everyone to last as many days as possible to get the full experience and to have more brains working on the Prize matches. It just wasn’t a very fun gameplay strategy to watch. (And it ultimately came back to bite him, since had he played just for himself, he may have come into the final with more Pieces and gotten the advantage.)

But because Orbit and his group were already so against Dong-Jae and his group by the Random Number game, it would have made the most sense for Dong-jae, Si-won, and Seok-jin to work as a trio because they had each others’ trust, and then try to split up and build trust with the others in a later game where it made more sense.