Forgive me Father...

[Lex van den Berghe]

Kim 12:22 pm
so why do they call you the bastard anyway? haha


Where do I begin!

My name is Lex van den Berghe, and I'm a bastard. Probably an alcoholic too. I plan on proving both of these things throughout the game

The way I play these games varies. I'm certainly most known for trying to manipulate people, lie, pin people against each other, etc. Basically do whatever I feel is necessary to get myself ahead. Emphasis on trying. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it blows up in my face!

Other times, I can actually be quite loyal. If I'm in an alliance, and I LIKE you (which is rare), then I'll fight to the end for us. Even if we're doomed, I won't go out without a fight

Of course, this doesn't usually happen because I don't usually like anyone I'm with

In Malaysia, I played a fairly clean game during the first half. I tried not to ruffle too many feathers at the beginning. At the merge, I tried to make some big moves. I was part of a blindside against Tyrone (Bog Dawg) and then turned on my very close ally Coach (Brett). I felt like turning on Coach at that moment was the best move for me at that point. Unfortunately, the auction was next and I had pissed off a couple of people (Candice and Colleen) because of the Coach blindside. This caused them to launch a shit load of rewards against me which sent me home. It sucked because I actually DID have the numbers against Candice that week. That's why the Coach blindside was necessary for me. If there weren't all of those rewards, Candice would've gone next and then I'm pretty confident I could've sailed right to the end and possibly even won

I'm perceived as a bit SMUG/arrogant/douchey, but whatever. It's just a game. I have my fun however I can. Plus in other games, a lot of people tend to find me very polite and nice and humble! It's pretty funny. It really just depends on how I feel like playing

ANYWAY, I'll get to my cast assessment at some point tomorrow. I know a fair amount of people in this cast so it's gonna be pretty interesting. A large percentage of those people also happen to hate me and absolutely don't trust me, so that'll be fun!

I'm excited for this. Let the games begin ;D

[Amanda Kimmel]

Apr 11, 2011 1:19:40 GMT -5 Lex van den Berghe said:

Other times, I can actually be quite loyal. If I'm in an alliance, and I LIKE you (which is rare), then I'll fight to the end for us. Even if we're doomed, I won't go out without a fight

Ah, the memories. We should try kicking ass as team again sometime! </SBB1>

And yeah, you made AS because you could have won... and needed a shit ton of rewards to be used against you.

Glad you're back, and glad you're going to be a bastard again

[Lex van den Berghe]

Me telling Rupert how to do the puzzle, because I'm such a trusty helpful guy


Jeff 1:06 am
i'm gonna try now
(:
any TIPS?

g1nger23 1:07 am
yes
start in the middle

Jeff 1:07 am
oh men

g1nger23 1:07 am
middle LEFT

Jeff 1:07 am
i do the opposite

g1nger23 1:07 am
and work your way down
to bottom right

Jeff 1:07 am
alright
i'll try

g1nger23 1:07 am
RULE OF THIRDS

Jeff 1:07 am
lol

g1nger23 1:07 am
it draws your eyes that way
it makes things

Jeff 1:07 am
ahh

g1nger23 1:07 am
so much easier
you'd be surprised

Jeff 1:07 am
alright lets see

g1nger23 1:07 am
it's how i do good on puzzles

Jeff 1:07 am
oh men
alright starting now



I really can't believe he still trusts things that I say. I hope this leads directly to his elimination

[Lex van den Berghe]

Jeff 1:25 am
lol i'm at 17:12

g1nger23 1:25 am
hmm
did you try doing what i told you?

Jeff 1:26 am
yeah i matched the colours
in the middle
like i got all the names first and faces

g1nger23 1:26 am
yeah

Jeff 1:26 am
then it sorta just meshed, but it took awhile sorting it out

g1nger23 1:26 am
if you go
top-inside-left
and work down to the bottom right corner
and expanded

Jeff 1:27 am
i sorta went all over the board tbh

g1nger23 1:27 am
it's pretty simple
if you try to flow that way

Jeff 1:27 am
wherever i saw colours i matched it
ok
i'll save this for now

g1nger23 1:27 am
yeah

Jeff 1:27 am
and try again

g1nger23 1:27 am
sometimes youre tempted to go match things that you see
but finding the right pieces
and moving down in that diagonal line
really helps



hahah I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. I know he's busy until 6 tomorrow so I wanted him to have a really crappy time so that he'd have very little time tomorrow night to get it all in

Of course, Jimmy sucks and is at like half an hour right now so he's probably fucked if he doesn't bring that time up. I'd love to see either of them go at the start

[Amanda Kimmel]

lol @ Jimmy

That's why you didn't pick him for Kansai in CYS Japan! His puzzle time was like two hours XD


Why would you like to see Jimmy go? [Rupert I know why... lol]

[Lex van den Berghe]

lol, I didn't even know he was IN Japan!


I didn't like him at all when he was Rob C. He annoyed the shit out of me. He's already doing the same stupid shit. I had a very brief conversation with him about the puzzle. Then he told Rob that I was being "sketchy" with my puzzle time and wouldn't tell him my answer. Rob told Brett and then Brett told me he heard I was being sketch

The conversation was perhaps the LEAST sketchy thing in the world. I sent it to people and no one knew what the fuck Jimmy was talking about. If he asked me for my puzzle time I would've gladly used the opportunity to brag about it! He's an idiot. I hope he's going

[Lex van den Berghe]

looool

Jimmy was Rob C in Japan too. He got eliminated then due to the puzzle. Let's hope history repeats itself!

[Lex van den Berghe]

ME BEING "SKETCHY"


Jimmy Johnson 12:08 am
get 1 min yet?

g1nger23 12:09 am
haha
did you remember that from malaysia?

Jimmy Johnson 12:09 am
lol
nope just remembered u were good at puzzles

g1nger23 12:09 am
even kim somehow knew i'm good at puzzles

Jimmy Johnson 12:10 am
my best is fucking 30 mins lmao

g1nger23 12:10 am
haha
the more you do it
the easier it'll be

Jimmy Johnson 12:10 am
the more annoying it gets

g1nger23 12:10 am
haha
true

Jimmy Johnson 12:10 am
2 bad i have school in 6 hours
:-P

g1nger23 12:10 am
yikes
where do you live?

Jimmy Johnson 12:11 am
toronto

g1nger23 12:11 am
ahh

Jimmy Johnson 12:13 am
yeah
quite "fun"

Jimmy Johnson is offline

[Lex van den Berghe]

Verraad: Lex, Toddy, Sierra, Candice, Rupert, Alina, Jimmy

WHYYY AMANDA WHYYYYYYYYY

[Amanda Kimmel]

It was just how the cookie crumbled. I didn't pick the tribes... the times did.

[Lex van den Berghe]

Cast Assessment!

Only my tribe for tonight because I have too much work in the morning


Verradd!

First of all, I'm pumped to be on the Verradd tribe just because it means betrayal. When Brett was making the flags, he asked me to give him something that symbolizes betrayal. I sent him this image and he put it on the flag



(That's me!)

Amanda I don't know why you didn't go with that for the final flag


Anyway, my tribe kind of blows. I hate some people on it. I'll go through one at a time





THE PROWESS - Oh god. My history with Candice is very interesting. Possibly one of my favorite relationships with an ORG person. We played together in SBB1 and were on opposite sides. Not only that, but we HATED each other. So much. By the end of that game though, we started to kind of joke around about our hatred for one another. I think that's when we started to warm up to each other

In Malaysia, I was actually willing to work with her. We worked together a bit during the first half but I recall most of that being through Colleen. Once the merge came, I betrayed our alliance (oops!). I tried to kill Candice the next round because I knew she'd probably end up winning the game. I failed, and she won the game! I had the numbers against her, so that was kind of nice. It was all about rewards though and they had more.

So now I'm in Backlash 3 with her. THIS time, we seem to be actually working together, and we're actually doing realllyyy well together. I always knew that her and I could be a force, but it just never ended up going that way.

She's a really tough player and obviously great at challenges. I'm glad to have her on my side. The hardest part is getting her to trust me. We'll see how that works out.




THE FLIP-FLOPPER - Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey. He's an old friend of mine. He's a member of a forum that I run. He's gotta be the most gullible guy I've ever met in my life, so our friendship is pretty hilarious. I play pranks and stuff on him constantly, as you saw earlier with the puzzle stuff.

He's a good guy though. Brett gets angry at him all of the time. Colleen and him love each other and will work together I'm sure. I told Brett that I wanted to kill Rupert ASAP but that was kind of just for fun.

I brought Rupert into Malaysia but he ONLY signed up to vote out me and Brett (Coach), which was really annoying. He betrayed me the round that I left and sided with Candice instead. I made sure to destroy him in my jury speech. I hope that swayed people to not give him votes! ;D




THE WIZARDD - Why the fuck is he called the wizard? Another person from Malaysia. He played as Rob C that season. He was USELESS at challenges, terrible at socializing, not fun to talk to at all, and his word meant absolutely shit. He annoyed the shit out of me in Malaysia. Our conversations were so DULL all of the time. He says the same things over and over.

He's friends with Boston Rob and Danielle, but they're all too lame to be threatening in the least bit.

He sucked at the puzzle and I was hoping he'd be eliminated because I can't trust him for shit. Figures he got put on my tribe, and now we're in a little alliance together! Kill me.





THE NINJA - Yet another Malaysia player. Literally did not say a SINGLE word to her throughout all of Malaysia. I spoke with her for the very first time the other day. I read her confessional after the game though and she was hilarious.

She hates Rupert a lot because of Malaysia, so that's kind of funny. She probably won't help out much during the challenges.





THE LOUDMOUTH - Hate. Kill. Die. Now.

The very first person who's elimination I ever orchestrated myself was Sierra's. Almost a year ago in my first ORG, Bermuda Triangle. She was on my tribe and was the strangest person I had ever met at the time (Note: I was just getting into org's...)

She would keep spreading bullshit rumors about all of the people on her tribe to each other. Then when she was caught, which was always because she's not sneaky at all, she would tell everyone that she's sorry and that she was drunk. It's pretty pathetic.

Then I played with her in Japan and she did the exact same shit, so we voted her off first in that too once I figured out it was her.

I have no idea how the hell she won a game. I don't get why anyone would award her with a win. Ugh. She'll hopefully be the first person out on our tribe. I can't wait to vote her out first AGAIN.




THE PHYSICAL DOMINATOR - I know basically nothing of Todd. I know uhh....he dominates physically! So that's good to have. Him and I pm'd a little bit tonight though and he seems like he's pretty down to earth, so that's good. Hard to find too.




THE BASTARD - Hazzah! ;D

[Lex van den Berghe]

Mere SECONDS after the tribes were announced, Candice and I were working out plans. We work well together because we both hate everyone, including our whole tribe. We're quite negative!

We quickly roped Rupert and Jimmy into a small alliance. We created a group chat. As long as the four of us stay together, we control the tribe. Our goal is to eliminate Sierra as soon as we can.

Although we have Candice and Todd, I'm not sure how strong we'll be at challenges. So Sierra might be leaving very soon. I'd like to pull off some wins first though, but oh well

We talked about how as long as none of us deviate from the group, we'll be all set for awhile. Unfortunately, none of these three trust me naturally. It's gonna be tough. I have no plans on betraying the four of us. Who am I gonna leave us for? Alina? SIERRA? No.

I talked to Sierra for a bit. For a loudmouth she's being awfully quiet. She said she hasn't talked to anyone really so far.

Sierra 11:06 pm
it seems good
i know todd from another game
in another series
and he's awesome in challenges
and obviously you are
i dont know rupert and ummmm
lol
candice
sorry
i hope we win
i know jimmy too, he's fun, and he's been getting better at challenges

Sierra 11:09 pm
todd and i were in a single game together and jimmy and i have always had a weird relationship :-P


Mentioning Todd and Jimmy makes me a big nervous. If her, Todd, and Alina sense that they're on the outside, which they are if my three allies are being truthful, then I wonder if Sierra would be capable of flipping Jimmy. I have no idea what their relationship is like. I'll have to find out

She seemed nervous that she might be the first one booted since she hasn't talked to anyone. I told her that Alina would likely be the first to go. I'm gonna keep telling her that to make sure she doesn't try anything.

I wonder if she kept my screen name from BT/Japan and remembers who I was...she hated me in those games. Oh well!

Not much else has happened yet. I'm gonna try to talk with Todd and Alina in order to keep them close just in case anything happens.

[Lex van den Berghe]

Oh and Rupert and Jimmy are in some other game together right now. Apparently Rupert has full control over Jimmy. I'm hoping they don't get too buddy/buddy and try to turn on me and Candice at any point. I'm also hoping they don't betray each other in that game causing them to turn on each other and our alliance in this one. We'll see!

[Fabio Birza]

Hey Lex, very very interesting! How did Sierra ever win Namibia? thats a question I've been wondering for awhile myself lol. You're always very entertaining and fun to have in a game hope you stay awhile

[Lex van den Berghe]

Thanks old buddy! I was upset that you were eliminated. I was looking forward to playing with you again and maybe doing a bit better this time haha