Mai Whelan Wins First Season of 'Squid Game: The Challenge'

The 55-year-old Virginia native outlasted 455 other contestants, using a calculated strategy and forming individual connections rather than alliances.

Mai Whelan, a 55-year-old immigration adjudicator from Virginia, won the first season of Netflix's reality-competition series 'Squid Game: The Challenge'.
Whelan played a calculated game, laying low and only emerging as a threat once the bigger personalities had been eliminated.
She doesn't believe in alliances, instead opting to form connections with individuals rather than groups.
Whelan used crying as a strategy to relieve stress and stay focused, not as a sign of weakness.
The second season of 'Squid Game: The Challenge' has been greenlit and is currently in the process of casting.

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