No no there is literally no competition you are not competing with other people you are competing with yourself. For example in the game they had to undergo a treatment (treatments are like elimination rounds before treatments begin however there will be a test which will get you out of the treatment if you win) where they had to stand on a thing of wooden nails at first they were given a soother but after those were taken away they had to stand on the wooden nails with their bare feet until somebody feels they have endured too much and can not go on any longer and push the red "quit" button. The contestants do not get to see their other players at all and their identities of the other players are completely stripped away leaving only a number. Number 1, 2 ,3, 4 , 5, 6 , 7 , 8 and 9. There is also virtually no contact from the outside world they don't know if its day or night that is completely controlled as well as everything else by Val a computer which is their only companion in the game. Oh and the place they are in is a small pod which doesn't have very much room at all.