- Tue Aug 15, 2017 4:06:51 am
#7614
With the last two boots being near unanimous, do you think that trend will continue or will moves be made and alliances clash?
Jeff Probst wrote:With the last two boots being near unanimous, do you think that trend will continue or will moves be made and alliances clash?
Ehh, I'm surprised it's been this straightforward for this long. I was saying to the Tianguan chain how this merge game has been quite reactive. People are so open with each other, like twice now it's been about waiting for a name and then pushing back against the person that brought it up. It's been my name (kinda) twice ugh. Maybe tomorrow is the day to get proactive instead.
A lot happened today in fact. I should sleep already but I'll get this down while it's fresh. That was a thoroughly enjoyable TC & outcome. But the scramble before was better again. I love it when a plan comes together. A little bit of bold gamesmanship, a little bit of sound strategy play, and a little bit of mischief thrown in for giggles.
The next step here could go a few ways. Lil could leave, nice and easy. Hangover from today and her part in that push. Or Rory maybe? As much as I like to chat with him, and as much of a bad rep he gets when people confuse inactivity with timezone issues, I'm starting to come around on the idea that he's a bit useless to me in the bigger picture. I have no faith in him to be the clutch extra vote in my corner I was hoping for. At least with Lil, her plans are clear and they don't really lead her anywhere but out the door. With him, oh he could become a thorn in all of our sides - a vote that is needed to be with us, but never actually available. They would be the obvious picks.
Secondly and harder to do would be to take this round as the right time to break up Yul & Rudy. I haven't begun to push that anywhere yet (reactive game remember?), but I can see a lot of benefits to Rudy leaving. But these are benefits to me personally, and less so other people. It would be a difficult sell.
The third route, and sort of the one I expect to grow the longest legs by tomorrow is that we three (Andrea/Vytas) get 'blindsided' by a Mia vote. Would free us up to work a lot more closely with Cass/Ozzy at a place they could buy into. Some steam gathered on her name today, and that won't go away too easily. But of course, while there are a few benefits to it happening, there are a metric shit ton of downsides to that. Suicidal as it is to start typing about endgame, a perfect finish for me would involve sitting beside Mia & Vytas - and not Andrea. That girl is starting to scare me a little. Vytas tried to take credit for 'saving my ass' today lol, but that just seemed like a cocky claim. I'm sure he played a part yes, so did I, but the real graft of forcing the pieces to fall into place seems to have been Andrea more than anything else.
Vytas/Mia/myself would be on a somewhat more even footing. We all three have a tendency to rub people the wrong way. But add Andrea to that mix in front of the Jury and suddenly there is this social butterfly sweetheart kinda nooby adorable but still razor sharp outsider that worked her way into our pre-existing relationships. Not a pre-game lol, but relationship that existed already, good and bad, that is fair.
And of course let's say no Andrea, just Vytas and I and one other - well now there's a whole underdog story going on. The safe finalists for me are those two. Which obviously can't happen if Mia leaves.
But it's what Cass & Ozzy would like to see happen I think. And they can do it without us pretty easily. So maybe we have to conceed to be so shocked at the outcome and just play with the remaining pieces then.
