Well yea it's entertaining most of the time. Could be much better. After EP2 I'm wondering if there will be a challenge that allows the competitor to decide their own fate for a change. The only real contestant filters are that they can build a block tower and they opted to stay through bribes. The rest of the eliminated just had bad luck.
All of this silly bribe stuff is just overkill, you'd think the writers would have thought of more games. I'd taken the 50k and left happily knowing I had control over my own destiny.