Post by Judd Sergeant IV on Jan 6, 2007 9:49:57 GMT -5
Here's the sound of a lock unlocking...
...Ahhh, how satisfying.
Now, here's the skinny. It turns out that while we thought we were going to be replaying Guatemala, we are actually playing a whole different type of game. A very different game, for three main reasons:
1. We're a huge tribe of 20 people. That is officially the largest tribe I've ever been in after 18, which was very recently, so I've at least got some of that fresh in my mind. My main advice to anyone in a large tribe: don't be afraid to talk and bring things up, but be careful, because ANYTHING that makes people notice you is a reason for them to vote you off. Activity, inactivity, too nice, too mean, too strategic, not strategic enough, doesn't matter...as long as someone notices it and points it out, it's a reason.
2. In Guatemala fashion, two people are returning for second seasons before All-Stars...the winners, Ruth Marie and Billy. This means that two people enter the game with targets on their backs. However, these two don't need to compete in the first challenge, which...because of the next reason, will make a lot of people angry.
3. The first challenge is not really for immunity, it's for self-nomination. Instead of being safe if you're one of the first to complete it, you are vulnerable for being one of the last. This means that in regular terms, of the 18 people competing in this challenge, 15 are gaining immunity in a sense. I wonder if this will be how the rest of the game will be played. It can only last that way for so long and still be considered Survivor, so we'll see what's up.
Now, since the tribe is so large, I have of course tried to talk to as many people as possible, because I don't want to stand out as inactive or not social. That could be my demise. So I was talking to people on the first night, and already fell into an alliance with some of the people I thought I would be on a tribe with on Nakum (which of course, sadly, never came into fruition), and later realized was comprised of two Nakum and Two Yaxha, lol. Oh well, that's okay because we all ended up on the same tribe anyway. Well, Jamie, Morgan, and Brianna (who I've played with a million times, and am not especially happy to keep finding her everywhere, because it means I'm playing like three games with her at a time), approached me/were approached, and we made a fourstrong alliance. Now that the winners are included, we agreed that we'd ask them to help us out, since they will want to cling onto something if they can. This makes me ecstatic, because while I hate to have pre-game alliances and devotions, Billy is someone that I get along with very well, and we've tried to win a game twice now, and while he did it without me next to him the first time, lol, I had to see him go home way before me the second time. I'd like to meet him in the final two one of these days, and while I haven't made any sort of personal alliance with him yet, it's nice to be part of a F6 with him, because it means we have the option.
I'm just hoping we can keep people from voting him and Ruth Marie for long enough.
We have to be so careful, because we cannot let people on to the fact that we're together, just that we've talked. I will say that I've talked to say Brianna and Jamie, but I won't say I've talked to all of the people I've talked to. That would be stupid. Vagueness is good, lol.
...Ahhh, how satisfying.
Now, here's the skinny. It turns out that while we thought we were going to be replaying Guatemala, we are actually playing a whole different type of game. A very different game, for three main reasons:
1. We're a huge tribe of 20 people. That is officially the largest tribe I've ever been in after 18, which was very recently, so I've at least got some of that fresh in my mind. My main advice to anyone in a large tribe: don't be afraid to talk and bring things up, but be careful, because ANYTHING that makes people notice you is a reason for them to vote you off. Activity, inactivity, too nice, too mean, too strategic, not strategic enough, doesn't matter...as long as someone notices it and points it out, it's a reason.
2. In Guatemala fashion, two people are returning for second seasons before All-Stars...the winners, Ruth Marie and Billy. This means that two people enter the game with targets on their backs. However, these two don't need to compete in the first challenge, which...because of the next reason, will make a lot of people angry.
3. The first challenge is not really for immunity, it's for self-nomination. Instead of being safe if you're one of the first to complete it, you are vulnerable for being one of the last. This means that in regular terms, of the 18 people competing in this challenge, 15 are gaining immunity in a sense. I wonder if this will be how the rest of the game will be played. It can only last that way for so long and still be considered Survivor, so we'll see what's up.
Now, since the tribe is so large, I have of course tried to talk to as many people as possible, because I don't want to stand out as inactive or not social. That could be my demise. So I was talking to people on the first night, and already fell into an alliance with some of the people I thought I would be on a tribe with on Nakum (which of course, sadly, never came into fruition), and later realized was comprised of two Nakum and Two Yaxha, lol. Oh well, that's okay because we all ended up on the same tribe anyway. Well, Jamie, Morgan, and Brianna (who I've played with a million times, and am not especially happy to keep finding her everywhere, because it means I'm playing like three games with her at a time), approached me/were approached, and we made a fourstrong alliance. Now that the winners are included, we agreed that we'd ask them to help us out, since they will want to cling onto something if they can. This makes me ecstatic, because while I hate to have pre-game alliances and devotions, Billy is someone that I get along with very well, and we've tried to win a game twice now, and while he did it without me next to him the first time, lol, I had to see him go home way before me the second time. I'd like to meet him in the final two one of these days, and while I haven't made any sort of personal alliance with him yet, it's nice to be part of a F6 with him, because it means we have the option.
I'm just hoping we can keep people from voting him and Ruth Marie for long enough.
We have to be so careful, because we cannot let people on to the fact that we're together, just that we've talked. I will say that I've talked to say Brianna and Jamie, but I won't say I've talked to all of the people I've talked to. That would be stupid. Vagueness is good, lol.
