{"id":21721,"date":"2026-01-27T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/i-didnt-have-anything-to-prove-what-traitors-finalist-jade-scott-learned-about-survival-from-video-games\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:37:49","slug":"i-didnt-have-anything-to-prove-what-traitors-finalist-jade-scott-learned-about-survival-from-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/i-didnt-have-anything-to-prove-what-traitors-finalist-jade-scott-learned-about-survival-from-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t have anything to prove\u2019: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressure<\/p>\n<p>The latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters \u2013 from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest flicker of treachery. But one faithful stood out for her quiet determination, despite a ceaseless onslaught of suspicion and accusation. That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn\u2019t at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinecraft was my way in, when I was 15,\u201d she says. \u201cI made loads of friends at school playing that.\u201d From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. \u201cThat\u2019s where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/jan\/27\/traitors-finalist-jade-scott-interview-video-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9229cf4da781404400c234d2965f299f90ae9297\/146_0_1462_1170\/master\/1462.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=696bf4d7ea35b0d50b17aa6677ab6366\" title=\"\u2018I didn\u2019t have anything to prove\u2019: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games\" \/>Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressure<br \/>\nThe latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters \u2013 from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest flicker of treachery. But one faithful stood out for her quiet determination, despite a ceaseless onslaught of suspicion and accusation. That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn\u2019t at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer.<br \/>\n\u201cMinecraft was my way in, when I was 15,\u201d she says. \u201cI made loads of friends at school playing that.\u201d From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. \u201cThat\u2019s where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in,\u201d she says. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressure The latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters \u2013 from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/i-didnt-have-anything-to-prove-what-traitors-finalist-jade-scott-learned-about-survival-from-video-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I didn\u2019t have anything to prove\u2019: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}