I like the concept a lot, reminds me a bit of Death Race. I've been pondering the question of why the Mindcrackers would sign themselves over to this. Perhaps some sort of misdirection - ie they thought they were signing something else; blackmail; coersion/threats; maybe even appealing to simple greed. Or all of those could be used on different guys.
A reason for why - a rival server, perhaps? With the mysterious woman in charge. Not enough to simply take down her rivals, by making them all suspicious of each other and forcing them to fight, with the world watching, the idea is to break down their friendships and tarnish their legacy, leaving them nothing to come back to. Simply bumping them off would make them.. not martyrs exactly, but beloved victims. Hey, and if you can make a boatload of money selling tv rights to the whole thing, more the better. Gaining the signed contracts is a clever loophole that means nothing she's doing is illegal - or at least nothing that a few well-placed bribes won't cover.
(Plot twist: there is no traitor. That was just a lie to make them all paranoid.)
Of course, any or all of this may not fit with things you have in mind. And as you may have noticed, I ramble a bit. :P
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I like the concept a lot, reminds me a bit of Death Race. I've been pondering the question of why the Mindcrackers would sign themselves over to this. Perhaps some sort of misdirection - ie they thought they were signing something else; blackmail; coersion/threats; maybe even appealing to simple greed. Or all of those could be used on different guys.
A reason for why - a rival server, perhaps? With the mysterious woman in charge. Not enough to simply take down her rivals, by making them all suspicious of each other and forcing them to fight, with the world watching, the idea is to break down their friendships and tarnish their legacy, leaving them nothing to come back to. Simply bumping them off would make them.. not martyrs exactly, but beloved victims. Hey, and if you can make a boatload of money selling tv rights to the whole thing, more the better. Gaining the signed contracts is a clever loophole that means nothing she's doing is illegal - or at least nothing that a few well-placed bribes won't cover.
(Plot twist: there is no traitor. That was just a lie to make them all paranoid.)
Of course, any or all of this may not fit with things you have in mind. And as you may have noticed, I ramble a bit. :P