False. Staying alive in this place is not merely a matter of smarts. Yeah it helps, but it's equally dependent on skill, strength, luck and politics. [Makes a face at that last word]
You've probably witnessed it already, right? One person's slip up can mean that their entire team gets villified in the next murder game and ganged up on. Or perhaps it won't even be for just the next game. Maybe it'll be for the rest of that team's existing time in Sabra La Tau. Even long after the people who were involved in the original incident are gone and nobody even remembers why they're supposed to hate that particular team anymore...