[Susie Smith]

Ancha won the challenge, your tribe sent the lunch lady home, and you made it past the first week! Please share your thoughts with your fans.

1.    Did the right person go home tonight? Should someone else have been sent packing? What impact will it have on the dynamics of the game moving forward?

2.    The HetDensa challenge scrambled more than just letters and tested your teamwork. Did each of your tribe members contribute equally? Any major gaffes? How well did your tribe perform as a unit?

3.    Surviving week one in Stranded requires social finesse, strategic prowess, and strong competition skills. Which of these skills was your strongest this week? How did you wield it to protect your spot in the game? Which area is your weakest? What will you do to overcome it?

4.    In the wild world of Stranded, emotions can run high. How have your own emotions influenced your strategic moves in the game?

5.    Please share an update (visually or in words) on your alliance situation or lack thereof.

Several of you have been making some pretty fantastic confessional videos. If you haven’t already, we welcome you to record at least one (reasonably brief) video on YouTube, mark it as 'unlisted,' and share the link here as your confessional response. You can express your thoughts about the game, share insights from your personal life, and discuss your answers to these confessional questions.

[Jean-Robert]

What’s up everyone. Didn’t realize we have “fans,” but I mean ya I rock with it, hopefully you all are enjoying watching me go to work. I promise I’ll get YouTube submissions going at some point soon, but this confessional is going to be another written post. Honestly, I feel like the viewers kind of know where I stand right now, so when there’s more entertaining drama for me to express, I’ll video myself for it. For now, let’s get into these questions. 1.    Did the right person go home tonight? Should someone else have been sent packing? What impact will it have on the dynamics of the game moving forward? 

• Most definitely. Denise barely contributed in the last challenge and it felt like the outcome of the challenge was so close, her effort (or lack of) could have costed us the win. More importantly to me, Denise was coming after me personally and was the only not on my side in terms of social game. Having her voted out was what was necessary for my game, honestly not even tight about losing the immunity challenge because having her in the game wasn’t good for me anyways. I will say though that now our tribe needs to step up. It will be a lot harder to vote someone else off if we lose again, and more importantly, we can’t let the Ancha tribe control the numbers when we reach a tribe swap and ultimately the merge. This next challenge is a must win for us.

 2.    The HetDensa challenge scrambled more than just letters and tested your teamwork. Did each of your tribe members contribute equally? Any major gaffes? How well did your tribe perform as a unit? 

• A common theme in these challenges is that our tribe is kinda slow compared to the other tribe. Everyone is kind of wound up in the “oh let’s do whatever” mentality when we should just put our heads down and get to work. I’m definitely going to have a grind it out mentality for this next challenge and I hope to inspire the rest of my tribe to do so as well. No more dilly dallying, I’m sick of losing. Our tribe works fine together as a unit, but we need to overcome this hurdle of lacking assertiveness in order to hit the win column.

 3.    Surviving week one in Stranded requires social finesse, strategic prowess, and strong competition skills. Which of these skills was your strongest this week? How did you wield it to protect your spot in the game? Which area is your weakest? What will you do to overcome it? 

• I mean I feel like this answer is pretty obvious for me. Our tribe got swept in competitions this week. The first comp I couldn’t really participate in because I was in the process of boarding my plane in the Athens airport. The second one was kind of a crap shoot. And the most recent one we were a couple steps behind and the advantage that the Ancha tribe had came up clutch. On a positive note, I think my social and strategic game has been top notch. I genuinely think three people see me as their number 1 ally right now: Leslie, Jaime, and Erik. I’m probably being over-confident, but I feel really good about where I stand on my tribe. I have the numbers with the Dudes, I have the remaining females wanting to play with me, and I have Erik skeptical about Aaron and Frosti’s bond, which truthfully, I don’t even know exists to the extent that I’m pushing it. I feel like I can kind of do whatever I want in terms of my next move, I just need to nurture these relationships carefully, and make everyone feel like these are moves that will help them in order for them to feel powerful, in the majority, and most importantly, comfortable with JR.

 4.    In the wild world of Stranded, emotions can run high. How have your own emotions influenced your strategic moves in the game? 

• I will admit that my emotions are playing more of a factor than I thought in this game so far. I’m starting to genuinely form bonds with some of the other players and I have to remember that this is a game. Sherea and Denise have been relatively easy decisions for me because of the lack of emotions I’ve felt towards them, but these easy decisions are extremely unlikely to continue. I’m going to have to make some tough calls that help me do the best I can in this game and I am prepared to do whatever is necessary.

 5.    Please share an update (visually or in words) on your alliance situation or lack thereof. Kind of explained this earlier but here’s the picture

• 1987 Chevy Malibu (“The Dudes”): JR, Frosti, Aaron, Erik
• The As: JR, Leslie, Jaime
• Really tight with Leslie and Jaime individually, talk the most game with Aaron, close with Erik
• Frosti is an interesting one… weirdly enough, his little outburst after the last challenge made me consider what the next move should be if we lose. If he is perceived as a common enemy by the Ancha tribe, it may be best to keep him around, especially if we don’t have the numbers.

 Enjoy the weekend everyone and Fathers Day to those who are celebrating. Love you all and again, I’ll make sure to put together some entertaining videos sooner rather than later.

[Loveita Adams]

Trust me, Jean-Robert. All the lurkers and cohosts you've been messaging the past few days for idols are your fans 

Looking forward to a video when things heat up and you have some drama to spill! 

[Jean-Robert]

Happy Fathers Day! I’m sorry to disappoint you all with another written confessional, but my initial attempt at YouTube ID verification was unsuccessful, so had to resubmit stuff to confirm I’m not like an alien or something. Now to the good content, let’s talk some game. I kind of know that I have to play pretty hard these next couple of days, not just to stay alive, but to set myself up the best I can for an inevitably upcoming tribe switch or merge. Tonight’s doubleheader challenge and tribal has forced me to talk to my fellow tribe mates about our plans if we are to lose tonight’s challenge. Again, I will stress that the most optimal outcome is that we win today’s challenge (duh) but I know I said I was cool with losing the other challenges, so just wanted to clarify that I am not as cool with losing tonight and moving forward. However, my plans are in motion if we are to lose our fourth straight challenge. I’m just going to info dump it all. Jaime has caught on to the 1987 Chevy Malibu alliance with the other three guys, but does not realize that I’m also a part of that. Lol. With that being said though, I am expecting the Dudes alliance to be squandered after the next time we go to tribal because truthfully, I want to keep Leslie and Jaime in this game. They are the two people I’ve connected with the most and I think they are loyal to me. I’ve also painted a picture in Erik’s head that Frosti and Aaron are a duo and that me and him are also a duo. To affirm this depiction, I’m kind of letting Erik make the call on who to go for between Frosti and Aaron. I will admit that when thinking to myself, I recognized Frosti’s outburst and concluded that he’d be an easier vote out if we were to switch tribes or merge. This gave me a slight lean to go after Aaron. However, I don’t really talk to Frosti, it doesn’t even feel like we’re in an alliance together. After talking to Erik, I can confirm that FROSTI is the main target if we lose todays immunity challenge. I think Erik still a little wound up about Frosti randomly throwing his name out to Denise. Perfect for me, I can use that as an excuse to turn on the alliance, in efforts somewhat maintain my relationship with Aaron in spite of leaving him out of the vote. Yes, I’m thinking ahead. I really hope I’m playing this game as well as I think I am. Like I can deal with looking back and learning I’m a Survivor idiot, it’s just a game, but it would be awesome to learn that I’m actually the one running the show, I’d be very proud of myself. I’ll “see” you all tonight at the challenge, wish Kallpa some luck, we need it.

[Jean-Robert]

Today has been absolutely insane. Leslie basically forced me to give her the login to 1987 to have full trust with me. I hated that, but I had to do it. I had to tell Jaime about how the guys are coming after her, but Erik wants Frosti. All of this chaos, but it’s all because of me and I love it. I changed my mind by the way, I want AARON out of this game. I’m not playing Erik’s game and I am right to think that Frosti is a great shield to have going into a swap or merge. Therefore I have executed a master plan. Aaron and Frosti are going to vote Jaime. We are going to tell Erik we’re voting Frosti because that’s what he wants and will make him feel like he has control. But then, because of the trust I built with the girls, Jaime, Leslie and I are going to vote Aaron. This leaves Frosti pissed at Erik for voting him and gets my target out of this game. Tribal will be spicy if we lose tonight’s challenge. Not rooting for a loss, but wow this would be a good episode and I think I’d gain some fans. I told y’all I was coming to make big moves, this is only the beginning…