Post by dukus on Feb 19, 2021 15:24:21 GMT
Episode 2 Thoughts
After Katrina left the game because of personal reasons it left my tribe at a 7 to 8 deficit over Praslin and it made this next challenge really important to win. In survivor I never want to be down in numbers to a tribe ever, and this early on it just makes it more difficult come swap to have potential numbers. The likelihood of getting swapped into a majority is less and less because math.
I wanted to set myself up to not be voted out in round 2 if we were to lose so some things that I wanted to do to prevent that was to form some sort of loose agreement and hop on a few calls with people I felt I needed. My first call was with Dave. I think he really took a leader role in the first challenge by organizing and getting the airplane idea rolling. He is one of the more active members of La Digue and I think he is a strong overall player, and I wanted to make a bond to him. Our call was brief because I didn't necessarily think I needed to spend as much time on call with him; we seemed to be down for all the same things and had been on the same wavelength from the start.
The next call I got on two nights ago was with Ojani. We spoke for close to an hour, and I felt like it went really well. I wanted to get to know him a little bit more and just feel him out for a game sense and just as person. He was super nice, and we had expressed through message that we were down to work long term in the game together. I really enjoyed that conversation with him, and we also spoke about the same people potentially working together in the pre merge pre swap portion of the game. With both Dave, and Ojani, I spoke about potentially have a core three alliance created, and working with Amanda because she seems to be around the most of that other tribe mates.
So the other tribe gets the advantage of matching up the players against each other for the gross eating immunity comp. I get put up against Michael, who I am perceiving to be their strongest member in challenges. He ends up beating me by one second...Damn. Lol, it was a shot show for me to even run this comp, ty Sandy for dealing with my bull shit hahaha.
Anyways we get swept 4-0. A couple things with this challenge performance that really are scaring me. I know that this is a crap shoot of a contest, but my tribe is clearly weaker then Praslin. I think myself, Ojani, Dave, and Grace are really the only people that can perform in these challenges and Amanda, Gianna, and even Evan to some extent are liabilities. It is early so I could be overreacting, but I would not be surprised if we lost out in the pre swap phase.
Two groups get formed. Ojani ends up making a three person chat with myself and Dave, and we end up calling it the ODD balls. Love it. This is definitely my core group at the moment, and I want the way these first couple votes happen to go through us. Then Amanda makes a four person chat with the ODD balls and then herself. This is great, the groups and things I have been echoing with these three people are starting to pay dividends.
In terms of this vote, the main targets initially seemed to be Gianna and Evan due to the challenge performance. It is funny because Amanda literally forfeited her matchup but from what I have heard has not even been spoken about as a vote. She also had a diet restriction which completely understandable. My initial reaction is to vote out Evan and continue to push his name. Evan just accepted my request on Discord, and to this point has yet to message me still, and we are like at day 7 of the game. Although Gianna is a huge liability in the challenges, Evan hasn't performed well either, but Gianna at least responds to my messages.
With that being said, I do really think we need to win a challenge no matter what. Going down 6 to 8 is terrible for me, and I need to even this game out so I am hoping who ever leaves we are able to win some challenges, or this could not even matter.
I am a lot of fun though, this has been a really cool experience so far. Really appreciative to be playing!
After Katrina left the game because of personal reasons it left my tribe at a 7 to 8 deficit over Praslin and it made this next challenge really important to win. In survivor I never want to be down in numbers to a tribe ever, and this early on it just makes it more difficult come swap to have potential numbers. The likelihood of getting swapped into a majority is less and less because math.
I wanted to set myself up to not be voted out in round 2 if we were to lose so some things that I wanted to do to prevent that was to form some sort of loose agreement and hop on a few calls with people I felt I needed. My first call was with Dave. I think he really took a leader role in the first challenge by organizing and getting the airplane idea rolling. He is one of the more active members of La Digue and I think he is a strong overall player, and I wanted to make a bond to him. Our call was brief because I didn't necessarily think I needed to spend as much time on call with him; we seemed to be down for all the same things and had been on the same wavelength from the start.
The next call I got on two nights ago was with Ojani. We spoke for close to an hour, and I felt like it went really well. I wanted to get to know him a little bit more and just feel him out for a game sense and just as person. He was super nice, and we had expressed through message that we were down to work long term in the game together. I really enjoyed that conversation with him, and we also spoke about the same people potentially working together in the pre merge pre swap portion of the game. With both Dave, and Ojani, I spoke about potentially have a core three alliance created, and working with Amanda because she seems to be around the most of that other tribe mates.
So the other tribe gets the advantage of matching up the players against each other for the gross eating immunity comp. I get put up against Michael, who I am perceiving to be their strongest member in challenges. He ends up beating me by one second...Damn. Lol, it was a shot show for me to even run this comp, ty Sandy for dealing with my bull shit hahaha.
Anyways we get swept 4-0. A couple things with this challenge performance that really are scaring me. I know that this is a crap shoot of a contest, but my tribe is clearly weaker then Praslin. I think myself, Ojani, Dave, and Grace are really the only people that can perform in these challenges and Amanda, Gianna, and even Evan to some extent are liabilities. It is early so I could be overreacting, but I would not be surprised if we lost out in the pre swap phase.
Two groups get formed. Ojani ends up making a three person chat with myself and Dave, and we end up calling it the ODD balls. Love it. This is definitely my core group at the moment, and I want the way these first couple votes happen to go through us. Then Amanda makes a four person chat with the ODD balls and then herself. This is great, the groups and things I have been echoing with these three people are starting to pay dividends.
In terms of this vote, the main targets initially seemed to be Gianna and Evan due to the challenge performance. It is funny because Amanda literally forfeited her matchup but from what I have heard has not even been spoken about as a vote. She also had a diet restriction which completely understandable. My initial reaction is to vote out Evan and continue to push his name. Evan just accepted my request on Discord, and to this point has yet to message me still, and we are like at day 7 of the game. Although Gianna is a huge liability in the challenges, Evan hasn't performed well either, but Gianna at least responds to my messages.
With that being said, I do really think we need to win a challenge no matter what. Going down 6 to 8 is terrible for me, and I need to even this game out so I am hoping who ever leaves we are able to win some challenges, or this could not even matter.
I am a lot of fun though, this has been a really cool experience so far. Really appreciative to be playing!