As said above, we are also in the jury phase now. Congrats on making jury! Let's ask the big question everyone in this phase gets asked: How important do you think jury management is for you?
Thank you so much for the congratulations! Tbh, I'm not surprised that I'm here. Now it's just about maneuvering my ass to a final tribal council seat. Will Evvie be able to do it? We shall see~*
I think that jury management is important in general, but making sure that you have good relationships to everyone or at least try to connect with people is half the battle of the game. And making sure that you're conscious of how you send people home and how you treat people throughout the entirety of the game. I think that another huge factor is you really don't know who is going to end up on the jury so you have to be polite and mindful throughout the whole experience of how you're treating everyone around you. Yes, you can't always be on people's side or leave a positive taste in their mouth when you vote them out, but I do think that maintaining some semblance of good connection to people is going to be important to staying as well as managing your threat level so that you don't get voted out in the first place. For me, jury management is important but I'm not necessarily focusing on that right now. I'm more focused on staying in the game compared to how people are leaving it.
What would you say has been the most difficult thing about merging into one tribe?
All the conversations that are flying throughout the day and keeping up, and then when another accusation hits your table, feeling tethered to trying to investigate but if you don't investigate enough or ask the right questions, you find yourself out of the loop. I was able to manage that pretty decently with 7 people, for the most part...I think because we were winning and we were just fattening ourselves up on the Ws we were getting. Now, we have to actual factual play and that's not going to be easy. Of course ya'll gotta make things so hard! I think keeping up and trying to be invested in my conversations and pre-strategize and feel like I'm putting my own two cents in and it's being heard or something is being done has been the most difficult thing to navigate. I'm trying to figure out how to ease myself up off of those feelings, but I think that won't happen until there's less people around. I hope I am in that smaller number, though, to make those decisions. I feel like these people are not about to let me coast there and I feel like I have enough of a presence to where people will want to start attacking me sooner rather than later to set themselves up for being around longer.
For some of you, that was your first tribal. For others, this was like any other round. How did you feel about this particular tribal council? Was Jaime leaving the right call for your game, or would you have wanted someone else first as the merge boot? Were you nervous or excited with all the many whispers going around at Tribal?
This particular tribal council had a lot riding on it, and it confirmed that I can't trust everyone that I showed up onto Pachamama with first and foremost. That's the major thing I have at the forefront of my head, but I'm also like 'what move would I be making right now' if I was going to make a move that wasn't in total alignment? This TC had Jaime go home and I feel like she was a nice lady. I feel bad that I had to lie to her and lull her into a false sense of security so that way she didn't know that votes were coming her way, and I feel like I did my part. Now, I feel like I'm not necessarily tethered to trying to hold everything together. I think the other part is like, my bones are not leaping at anyone specifically to try and make a move. JR has a big target on his back. Heather's target is increasing, and so is mine. I think Deshawn is the person who is doing the best job right now if I'm being honest lmao. Anyways, I think that I would have wanted Erik to go because he's like a ghost to me. A player that I know exists but also doesn't say a fucking word to me at all and I'm not in the place where I feel like I need to extend my hand across and bend over backwards. It's also good to have those types of players because you always got to have someone that you can target since you can't kill everyone off immediately. He's still here, I hope he goes next but I think it depends on having numbers to do that and right now, idk if I have the pull in order to make that move happen which kinda blows me. I threw it out there, and it fell on deaf ears but like, I don't want someone around who willingly doesn't want to work with me. Hell, Sara kinda falls into that category as well and I'm reluctantly keeping her around - I would not be surprised if she was my fucking downfall. As far as the whispers, I was whispered to and people were trying to confirm that stories were staying the same, etc. I get that everyone is trying to stir up paranoia and I'm being a raging, rigid bitch who doesn't want to play into it because that's when I start to lose myself in the game. This is the only way I can stay grounded to ensure that I don't freak out and make mistakes along the way, but sitting on my hands for too long is not the way to go about it either. I'm at a crossroads with it all. The whispers got on my nerves lmao and I know more are supposed to come. I was trying to be mindful of who I was whispering to on my tribe as well, like I would have preemptively whispered to Xander or Abraham but of course Abraham had to reach across to talk to me and he didn't need to do that. Xander was quiet but he couldn't vote anyway LMAO but I'm trying to not expose too many of my closer relationships because I don't want people latching on to make assumptions.
Are you having fun with your Stranded experience? What are some of your favourite highlights so far?
This experience is something for me, for sure. I think this next week is when the 'fun' is going to kick in since I'll actually start voting. The first few weeks were summer camp and now I feel like I'm actually playing. My favourite highlight is winning that challenge after flopping hard and the other team copied, cheated, and still lost. Talk about a gaggerini!
Could we get an updated trust rankings with all of your new tribemates included? Top to bottom
If I'm being honest, I don't know if I really trust anyone right now...but here we go, I guess.
1. Abe
2. Xander
3. Shan
4. Deshawn
5. Heather
6. JR
7. Leslie
8. Sara
9. Erik
Sorry I didn't post with color codes this time, I'm being relatively lazy
