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Challenge 9: The World Congress; Diplomats and Dollars
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We started this game with 24 leaders, representing a wide variety of great civilizations. However, it's a big world out there; there are a whole bunch of smaller city-states out there that, while they have no chance of winning the game, still have a role to play in international affairs. We've gathered you all to the first meeting of the World Congress to meet the diplomats from these city-states and give you chance to convince them to lend you their support. And the best way to do that is with old-fashioned bribery!

Throughout the game you all have received Survivorbux as rewards for your challenge performance. Now's it's time to put those Survivorbux to good use. The diplomat from Venice has a lot of pull here; all you have to do is collectively as a tribe offer him the most Survivorbux, and your tribe will win immunity!

Of course, while getting Venice's vote is of utmost importance to your tribe's success, there are a bunch of other city-states here too. Each one of them has some sort of reward item that will give you an advantage later on in the game. To submit bids, make a post in your confessional containing how many Survivorbux you wish to give to each city-state. Whoever gives the largest bribe will win the item, with the exception of Tribal Immunity, which will go to the tribe with the largest total bribe.

In the event of a tie for the largest bribe, the two bids will cancel each other out and the reward item will go to the player with the next-highest bid. If there are no valid bids for an item then nobody gets it.

So what's it going to be? Work for the good of the tribe, or let greed take over? The choice is yours!
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The following cities will publicly announce which player bribed them the most and for how much.

Florence - Double Vote
Kyzyl - An advantage in a future challenge
Buenos Aires - Cancel out one vote on you at a TC
Rio de Janeiro - Nullify a specific player's vote at TC.
Warsaw - A mystery item!
Vienna - A mystery item!
Edinburgh - A mystery item!
Jakarta - A mystery item!

The following cities will not reveal who bribed them, although the amount of the bribe will be public.
Singapore - An extra vote in your favor at the Final Tribal Council
Cape Town - An advantage in a future challenge.
Sydney - A vacation from the game - for one TC you may neither vote nor be voted for
Oslo - Select a player during a challenge. They will be unaffected by all reward items (good or bad) at the next TC.
Bucharest - A mystery reward!
Algiers - A mystery reward!
Hong Kong - A mystery reward!
Vatican City - A mystery reward!

And of course, all bribes from players on the same tribe will be combined into one megabribe for the following cities:
Venice - Tribal Immunity.
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On second thought make the post in your bank. That will make things easier for me.
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So if I'm understanding the rules correctly...

No matter what cities we bribe, the total amount of money bribed also applies to Venice, like one big tribal pot. This means that there is no reason to not dump all of your money into the prizes you want, and the winning tribe of this challenge has already been decided before the match even started because it's all about how many Survivorbux are in each tribes' possible bribery pool.

Is that right? That doesn't seem right, but the wording of the rules makes it seem that's how it's working.
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No, Venice receives their own bribes. Any money going towards Venice is money that will not factor in to winning any other prizes.

Each tribes' Venice bribes will be added together. All non-Venice bribes will be ignored for immunity purposes.
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OK, cool. I misread that final line about the Venice bribes and thought it was referring to the whole tribe's global bribe amounts.
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Where will the cities announce their bribe info?
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I'll make a post in here when the bribing is done.
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Oh, ok, so its not play by play, just end result.
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Correct.
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Will the Survivorbux have any other use or are they purely for this challenge and we should spend all of them?
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Go hog wild!
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Awesome
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Will Venice share anything more then overall bribe amount?
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Nope!
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Good to know.
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If you want to change your bids before deadline, please do it in a new post so I can update my master spreadsheet.
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Alright, here's how this will work. I will announce each winner. Once that is done, I will go through and post your rewards in your confessionals. Let's see if all that bribery paid off!

Florence

Kyzyl

Buenos Aires

Rio de Janeiro

Warsaw

Vienna

Edinburgh

Jakarta

Singapore

Cape Town

Sydney

Oslo

Bucharest

Algiers

Hong Kong

Vatican City


Those are the minor rewards, but the big prize is Tribal Immunity. Who gave the largest bribe to Venice?

Venice
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Rewards have been distributed. If I didn't post anything in your confessional, then you were not a winner.
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Now that we have merged I can reveal that the item in escrow went to Lincoln.
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