Inner Circle: Tokyo

**Inner Circle** is the ninth season of the *Discord Entertainment Television* franchise. This online reality game competition follows the format of Netflix's *The Circle* with changes in the format inspired by *The Biggest Loser*, *The Challenge* and *Survivor*. The season premiered on Thursday May 4th, 2023 and finished on Saturday May 27th, 2023 when Jhulia was crowned the winner against runner-up Aliya and third placer Mark. It was then revealed that throughout the season's entirety Angel and Luke had been *"catfishing"* as Jhulia and DaiJa had been *"catfishing"* as Aliya, meaning that the two catfish of the season had finished in first and second place respectively.

**Discord Server:** https://discord.gg/77MFAsjSJT

*Inner Circle* involves a number of players living in isolation within into a discord channel, under constant surveillance. They will each have their own confessional room, one-on-one chats with other players, and alliance chats available to be made at any time. In this modified game of *The Circle*, there will be no late arrivals and ratings will occur every day. In addition to the players secretly rating each other, they will also be tasked with competing in a daily competition. Each players' daily score would be accumulated into the specific round *and* the into said individuals overall score.

Each round will consist of three days of scores. At the end of the specified round, a Ranking Ceremony will be held where the two players with the highest scores will become Team Captains. The player who received the lowest overall points for the round would then be automatically eliminated and the new teams would then be immediately revealed, followed by the reveal of the individual rankings for the round. However, each players' individual scores will remain anonymous for the entirety of the game - even to the player themself. The team with the fewest points at the ceremony would be forced to vote out one of their own members from the game. During the season finale, all of the eliminated players would rate the three finalists one final time, these juror scores would be added to each individuals accumulative score for the season. The individual player with the highest accumulative score for the entirety of the season would be crowned as the *Sole Winner* of Inner Circle: Tokyo.

### **Gameplay**

* **Ranking Ceremony** - At the end of each round a ceremony would be held, this ceremony will rank the players from first to last place. Their scores will be based on how the other players rated them in their respective social ratings, as well as their individual challenge scores for the respective round.
	+ **Social Ratings** - Each day the players would be responsible for rating their fellow players from first to last.
* **Team Captains** - Each round the top two players for the specified would have the ability to draft their own team by submitting a list prior to the ranking reveal. They would have immunity for the round and would be the tiebreaker vote if their team were to lose and attend the vote-off.
* **Round Themes** - Each round was given a specific theme, the challenges and any potential twists would be based around the given theme. *The themes were: First Impressions, Strategy, Endurance, Speed, Mental, Search & Find and Memory. (in order)*

### **Twists**

* **"Catfish"** - At the finale, it was revealed that three DET Legends (Angel, DaiJa & Luke) had been catfishing as rookies throughout the season.
* **Themed Twists** - Every so often twists were introduced into the game, these twists were always inspired after the given theme of the specified round.

	+ **Round 1**; *First Impressions* - the players were immediately split into two teams rather than at the Ranking Ceremony in order to split players from other players they may have met in prior ORGs.
	+ **Round 2**; *Strategy* - the first challenge of the round tasked players with strategically purchasing advantages/powers that may benefit their games in the specified round.
	+ **Round 4**; *Speed* - this round specifically would be only one day long rather than the typical three days of length, this round was known as "speed week".
	+ **Round 6**; *Search & Find* - there would be advantages sporadically hidden throughout the first and second challenges that would greatly assist players in the final challenge of the round.

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*© means they requested and/or created the alliance.*

* **Homo Invasion** *(Day 3)* – *Brian ©, Atticus & Mark*
* **Gucci Coochies** *(Day 4)* – *Jimmie ©, Dakota & Sam*
* **Sluggin' Sirloins** *(Day 7)* – *Seb ©, Aliya, Emma & Squig*
* **The No Names** *(Day 7)* – *Sam ©, Aaron & Kyle, Jhulia, Jimmie, Landon & Tristian*
* **Flop Stars** *(Day 20)* – *Aliya ©, Jhulia & Mark*

### **Minor Alliances**

* **Unnamed** *(Day 4)* – *Dakota ©, Jimmie, Sam & Tristian*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 4)* – *Dakota ©, Jimmie, Joey, Sam & Tristian*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 4)* – *Aaron & Kyle ©, Jimmie, Sam & Tristian*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 5)* – *Joey ©, Seb & Squig*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 6)* – *Aaron & Kyle ©, Jimmie, Landon, Sam & Tristian*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 6)* – *Saz ©, Atticus, Brian, Mark & Sam*
* **Unnamed** *(Day 7)* – *Mo ©, Aaron & Kyle, Atticus, Jhulia & Jimmie*