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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2018 6:47:27 GMT
ROUND 7
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2018 15:49:12 GMT
I'm here for a Brady win. At this point, I think he is the only one actually playing it smart. The Krio 8 are a MESS. They can't hold it together, their lips are HELLA loose. Adam/Blake are really not playing it smart. The only one in the group with a chance is Sarena. Mike/Shon/Jeff/Chris are hella messy as well, I can see Chris as the only one doing well.
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2018 18:46:28 GMT
I haven't done any of these yet so it's only fair to do a merge assessment of my thoughts and opinion on the remaining players.
Brady, the man, the myth, the legend. Honestly, he came into the merge outnumbered. Not having played with any of the other 8 yet in the game should've been a completely disadvantage to him. However, he is working this game PERFECTLY to the point that one of the OG 8 Limba members is likely to go tonight. He will stay with his idol and I can see him shortly becoming in control of the game. With all the messy players in the game, I'd pick Brady as my winner pick. At this point, he is playing the best page in the merge (round 1 of the merge).
I used to root for the "OG 3" as Jenn calls them but they have been SO oblivious and clueless about their surroundings that it's to the point that they aren't that rootable for anymore. Blake is WAY to paranoid for his own good. People don't trust him as it is and he isn't giving them any reasons to trust him anymore. I think he has a good chance of surviving as long as Brady wants him to. Adam is clueless. He is super funny and entertaining but he for some reason is SUPER gullible and thinks he has WAY more power than he actually has. He was a dead man walking in his last tribe and him not knowing that is very very bad. He doesn't have strong relationships, people find him annoying and loud. I don't see him lasting long OR I can see him being a 3rd placement. Sarena is the good apple out of the three. I think being associated with these two totally brings her down. I think she has the best social game out of the three and the best chance of winning out of the three. I also love her relationship with Chris. More people would love her if she wasn't with these two. And QUEEN for not telling anyone she has the idol!
I paired these three up because I feel similar about the three of them. They are totally playing the game and doing their best to get out of the position of being at the bottom. I think they are going to be successful and they are doing a very good job. I mean, the other tribe was fractured as it was so most of it is falling into their lap. But they are doing a good job at receiving. However, they aren't like the most exciting players right now. Or the biggest players. It'll be interesting seeing them moving forward and it'll be a nice overall story.
These four had it almost together pre-merge. They were in a powerful position, dictating their tribe. However, they are handling the merge extremely POORLY and it may cause them to possibly go back to back. They could've simply stuck to the 8 and take out of the other side. But they wanted to play two sides and give WAY too much information and it's going to bite them in the ass. Shon played this round MESSY. I don't know what he was thinking when he went up to Brady and talked to him the way Brady described it. He also doesn't have very strong relationships with a lot of people. Jeff was in the center of his old tribe, but the old Krio (mainly brady) is now seeing how he was in the center which is totally not a great thing for Jeffrey in the game. He is very smart and good at challenge, he'll be targeted soon. Mike is a very smart player. However in this game he has been wanting to step back and not play super aggressively and I think it's going to hurt him more than pay off. Mind you, he can easily make the FTC but I think he'll be cut before because he doesn't really try to talk to people. Chris has the best chance out of these four. And that's HUGE because Chris doesn't think his social game is strong, it actually wasn't in the last ORGs he played. But Chris has a good chance of winning and he has had a pretty good social game throughout the game. I like that Chris has done his work of maintaining as impartial as possible and forming relationships from people from other "sides" like Sarena and Blake and Brady.
ICONIC QUEEN JENN deserves a spot by herself. A MESSY QUEEN. Jenn is by far one of the most messiest yet entertaining players to ever play XTC. I hope she isn't leaving any time soon because that'd suck dicks. I want her to continue being messy and wild. I don't think she has any chance of winning but she's just so iconic that she can't leave. She just throws anyone and everyone under the bus, she gives ZERO fucks
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Post by emily on Feb 23, 2018 0:25:32 GMT
I can't even write a prediction for what I think is going to happen tonight. Does that make me a bad prediction writer?!
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2018 2:34:46 GMT
I'm not sure if Adam has ever watched or played survivor but WHY ARE YOU TELLING THE OTHER SIDE EVERYTHING?
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2018 7:43:06 GMT
I literally did the write up in the morning and shit got wild at night so its inaccurate
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Post by jay on Feb 28, 2018 6:36:40 GMT
So I feel like there is still a lot to go over for the first round of the merge. I will try my best to explain the whole round and the crazy ass tribal council day.
So the whole merge starts off with it being 8v4 just from the previous tribe alignment. Krio was coming in with just 4 players since they lost 4 straight immunity challenges. They were also coming in with not the best of terms since they had just blindsided Ryan in the Holli vote. Limba on the other hand had 8 players but it was also not the tightest of tribes. It was basically two groups within the four (Adam/Blake/Sarena and Chris/Mike/Shon/Jeff/Jenn). Blake/Adam/Sarena really had no clue that they were going to be the ones voted off if that tribe had ever lost.
There were some dynamics within the merge group from past pre-swap and pre-game connections that started to make an impact. Chris and Mike were on an original tribe with Kate and that group quickly back together with them having trust from going through two votes together. Blake also knew Sam and Brady from previous games and also wanted to work with them. Blake and Kate hated each other
So it starts off with the Final 8 group being made from the swapped Limba Tribe. With the other tribe getting into the cave so many times and possibly having a lot of advantages, the obvious thing to do was pretty much at least keep the façade of them sticking together until final 8 (even though everyone was talking shit about each other and leaking info to other 4).
Later in the round, Jenn starts to play really really messy and starts telling everyone everything, including the fact that Chris/Mike/Shon/Jeff are a group. This gets back to them and they lose trust in Jenn. They make the decision to cut the Final 8 group into a Final 7 group without Jenn.
Not long after the Final 7 group being created and they get on call, Blake tells Kate and Brady (Blake was trying to work with these two and Sam) about this group. Kate inexplicably immediately tells Shon that she knows about his group. This move marked the beginning of the end for Blake, as Shon called him out infront of everyone and blew up his game. Adam and Sarena lost trust in him and therefore the Final 7 group became a group of 6 without Blake. Kate made a big blunder in telling Shon and then trying to cover it up by saying she knew about it from the day before which made no sense because the group was just formed like 5 minutes ago.
At this point the game was divided into two sides, Blake/Brady/Kate/Sam/Ryan on one side with Mike/Shon/Chris/Jeff/Sarena/Adam being the other. Brady’s group wanted to vote Chris, and Shon’s group wanted to vote Kate. Chris and Mike still had the connection with Kate and wanted to keep her safe but the others were making a strong push for her to go. Chris inexplicably tells Kate she was the one his group was going to be voting, which could have been the end of his game if she used her idol on herself. She told everyone that she heard she was the one getting votes, which made the group switch the votes to Sam. The 5 also switched their votes onto Mike during the scramble before the vote.
Sam ended up going home which was sad because he truly had been in the worst situations ever since the swap happened. He was also someone who was a more logical and sane game-player compared to the rest of the group.
It was an exhausting round and probably our most intense/insane first round of the merge that we have had in the series. A lot of craziness and info leaking that made it extremely entertaining to watch. Everyone played hard and if this is an indication for the rest of the game, it should make for an interested merge.
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