Post by Russell Hantz on May 4, 2011 15:48:36 GMT -5
So, we had a double TC last round, and the shit pretty much hit the fan in a glorious burst of insanity.
Todd went to Kim, and told her that I was the weakest person on the tribe and that I should go just based on that. Umm... 'scuse me? Last time I checked, Erinn and Hunter have been getting their asses kicked in every single challenge all game, and besides that, Todd is aligned with Alina of all people. That's like La Toya Jackson accusing Jennifer Lopez of having too much surgery. Geeze.
So, anyway, it turns out that this was all a ploy, because Todd and Erinn immediately ran to me telling me that my tribe had betrayed me, and they were going to "save me" by helping me vote out off Kim instead. That was actually a really good play, and I applaud them. The only problem is that Kim came to me and told me about Todd going after me first, which meant that by the time I established that Todd was legitimately attempting to get rid of Kim here, it was way too late. End result, Kim plays her idol, smell ya later, Toddy.
Now, Erinn is pretty understandably not a fan of me having done this. I spent a few hours attempting to console her about the fact that I'd really just blindsided her ally and made what was for all intents and purposes from her point of view a really bad strategic move.
But in reality, what I did was pretty great. I made the Fengbaos believe that I owe them everything, when in reality I could have pretty easily destroyed them and wouldn't have had to do really anything strenuous to do it. In reality, though, I know for a fact that Brett in particular isn't going to want me within a mile of the finale, because he knows me well enough to know that it honestly doesn't matter what I do in the game, if I get in front of the jury, I'm probably going to win. (That's not even a brag. I've got a 11-2 record when it comes to the finals, and have never lost in a final three. Both times I did lose were when the other person had a lot of friends on the jury, or had won almost all of the challenges.)
As much as I love Brett, I just honestly don't want to play with him. He has his plan mapped out already, and it's glaringly obvious that I'm not a part of it, so... yeah.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do if there's a TC coming up. The temptation to just rid this game of the waste of space known as Alina Wilson is pretty strong. I mean, the alternative is that we can just boot her ass first thing at the merge, and go from there. But then again, how awesome would it be to blindside Brett or Colleen?
I'd probably lose Kim's loyalty for pretty much ever, which, given how many times I'm likely to run into her in other games, is a bad thing. Same with Brett. And I accidentally revealed my alias to him, so now I'm gonna have to go get another one. Grumble mumble grumble.
All I can say with any certainty is that I freakin' love me for being able to pull off the "Let everybody else be a bigger threat" strategy.
Plus, now that I kicked ass in so many different portions of last night's challenge, anybody that ever wants to call me weak ever can straight up FOAD. I owned the sliding puzzle, the word puzzle, and kicked some significant ass in the URL guessing section.
So, yes. When the challenges require me to have ten million hours to solve the same puzzle over and over, I suck. But when I simply have to be smarter than the other person, I dominate. Bam.
Todd went to Kim, and told her that I was the weakest person on the tribe and that I should go just based on that. Umm... 'scuse me? Last time I checked, Erinn and Hunter have been getting their asses kicked in every single challenge all game, and besides that, Todd is aligned with Alina of all people. That's like La Toya Jackson accusing Jennifer Lopez of having too much surgery. Geeze.
So, anyway, it turns out that this was all a ploy, because Todd and Erinn immediately ran to me telling me that my tribe had betrayed me, and they were going to "save me" by helping me vote out off Kim instead. That was actually a really good play, and I applaud them. The only problem is that Kim came to me and told me about Todd going after me first, which meant that by the time I established that Todd was legitimately attempting to get rid of Kim here, it was way too late. End result, Kim plays her idol, smell ya later, Toddy.
Now, Erinn is pretty understandably not a fan of me having done this. I spent a few hours attempting to console her about the fact that I'd really just blindsided her ally and made what was for all intents and purposes from her point of view a really bad strategic move.
But in reality, what I did was pretty great. I made the Fengbaos believe that I owe them everything, when in reality I could have pretty easily destroyed them and wouldn't have had to do really anything strenuous to do it. In reality, though, I know for a fact that Brett in particular isn't going to want me within a mile of the finale, because he knows me well enough to know that it honestly doesn't matter what I do in the game, if I get in front of the jury, I'm probably going to win. (That's not even a brag. I've got a 11-2 record when it comes to the finals, and have never lost in a final three. Both times I did lose were when the other person had a lot of friends on the jury, or had won almost all of the challenges.)
As much as I love Brett, I just honestly don't want to play with him. He has his plan mapped out already, and it's glaringly obvious that I'm not a part of it, so... yeah.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do if there's a TC coming up. The temptation to just rid this game of the waste of space known as Alina Wilson is pretty strong. I mean, the alternative is that we can just boot her ass first thing at the merge, and go from there. But then again, how awesome would it be to blindside Brett or Colleen?
I'd probably lose Kim's loyalty for pretty much ever, which, given how many times I'm likely to run into her in other games, is a bad thing. Same with Brett. And I accidentally revealed my alias to him, so now I'm gonna have to go get another one. Grumble mumble grumble.
All I can say with any certainty is that I freakin' love me for being able to pull off the "Let everybody else be a bigger threat" strategy.
Plus, now that I kicked ass in so many different portions of last night's challenge, anybody that ever wants to call me weak ever can straight up FOAD. I owned the sliding puzzle, the word puzzle, and kicked some significant ass in the URL guessing section.
So, yes. When the challenges require me to have ten million hours to solve the same puzzle over and over, I suck. But when I simply have to be smarter than the other person, I dominate. Bam.
