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The freefall from an airplane at the start of each match was a new feature for the genre, to encourage strategy between staying with the pack of players or seeking out one's own route for a better chance at finding good loot.[6] With the added parachute drop, Greene considered that Battlegrounds had three distinct subgames: the air drop during which one must quickly figure out the best time to jump and where to land in relationship to the other players, the loot game of knowing where and how to gather the best possible equipment, and the combat game with other players.[21] Players that win a match are greeted with the phrase "winner winner chicken dinner", an idiom that Greene had used since the first "Battle Royale" for winners and intended to keep for Battlegrounds, and which itself had origins as early as the Great Depression.[22]