Sponsor Relationships

ONE SPONSOR plus one group equals sobriety! That's what was suggested to me in my first week. However, I often saw some other newcomer claim four or five groups as home groups, pick a liberal, a moderate, and a conservative as sponsors, ask all three for advice, then do as he pleased. And he stayed sober! Which is the better way? As the Siamese monarch said in The King and I, "It's a puzzlement."