The show's format can be said to have completely diverged from their previous conceptions; saying the selling points and main storyline have changed is a serious matter.
With contestants competing for survival and elimination, Cui Xiangzhong felt somewhat confident in winning the audience's favor, as this was always his comfort zone and he knew how to edit it.
But when one contestant became too strong, turning it into a game of catch, where all the contestants hide and team up against this contestant, would the audience still buy it?
Moreover, there is another troublesome issue: they planned the show to be eight episodes, each thirty to fifty minutes long, and released them all at once.
Originally, because there were enough contestants, each one would have a story, more spotlight on standout contestants, then filming everyone's survival situation, the mandatory encounter rules they set, and later probing competitions, it could definitely sustain eight episodes.
