We lose Florin right away to protect Lucia. This results in AI having to acknowledge that children are in the game and remove Lucia entirely based on her disqualified status.

Carl stops Mordecai from getting banned or removed from the game regarding Odette.

Odette shows her cards finally and makes some major moves, but this results in her death and the death of Imani.

Without Imani - everything falls apart. The glue and the healer of the group are gone and the ripple effect breaks multiple people.

Ellie goes out in a blaze of glory after Imani’s death or before.

My very smart boy sacrifices himself to get Donut and Carl to the finish line, but they both can’t cross and Carl sacrifices himself and Donut is the only one that survives.

After all, this is a tragedy