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Post by Penny Ramsey on Mar 29, 2009 1:50:13 GMT -5
We're a few rounds into this game and the numbers are quickly dropping which I am glad to see. Hopefully we'll continue having these double boots and we'll balance out the removal of power players, inactives, and just stupid people. The way I look at things I am aligned with Dave and Bobby Jon, possibly also Tracy and Ken but not sure exactly since I only talked with Tracy once who I found very nice and haven't talked with Ken yet. I guess Gervase and Marcus are also in this alliance but haven't talked with them either and maybe I'll open up to them if I don't hear from them soon. Last round the tribe targeted Dave, it was between Yau and Dave and I obviously voted off Yau since I've been aligned with Dave and Yau was really pushy with the way he approached me for the vote which I didn't particularly like. This round Kelly is trying to make the big power move to eliminate Dave but instead she's going to be leaving. I told her the Dave boot sounds good and everything so I can get some info possibly People on the other tribe I don't want to see leave are Sugar and Rupert since I know them both and should be on good terms with both people. Otherwise I could care less who leaves over there. oh ya my strategy in this game is going to be to do nothing lol, everyone is going to try making big power moves, power plays, and trying to look like some mastermind. What I am going to do is just sit back and watch these people turn on each other and look like a bunch of idiots and I'll do things when they need to be done. Shouldn't be hard since most these people are already playing too hard, I mean way too hard.
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Post by Penny Ramsey on Apr 1, 2009 8:41:42 GMT -5
This round has sucked so far. I ended up almost being eliminated from the game and God Bless Sugar for selecting me since if she didn't I wouldn't be writing this right now and instead be in the LL. I don't really like my tribe, I don't know anybody that well besides Sugar and Tracy from our one chat. I might have to change strategy a bit and kiss ass and act like I'm involved with things instead of just sitting back and watching things transpire. in a way I am a little glad to get away from Dave, BJ, and some of the others I am aligned with since I might be able to make some new bonds and alliances that could help me later. This will either work out well in the long run or blow up in my face we'll see. Similar thing happened to me in Easter Island and it worked out so there is hope lol. On a side note sucks Rupert is gone I wish anyone else was eliminated this round besides him, oh well how the cookie crumbles.
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Post by Penny Ramsey on Jun 14, 2009 8:50:48 GMT -5
I got lazy with confessionals so let's recap a little
f14 (Merge) I was all excited about the merge and thought yay only 11 people stand in my way now, then suddenly bang an outcast twist where Alex and Tracy return. I had things mostly where I wanted them going into the merge with being in the middle and trying to balance out both groups. Now one of these groups grew little more then I would have liked. Going into this round I wanted to send one person out from each group and thought I could pull it off. Nope the Egypt people are to bossy and want it their way with Sugar and Dave going. Fine, have it your way this round and I'll change things up next round.
f12 Sugar and Dave left last round, not what I exactly wanted but not the worst possible outcome. This round I won the auction item from TI which can come in handy if I can get an idol there. Peih Gee won a bunch of good stuff for this tc and Alex and Todd will be leaving. I made some fake votes to try and be tricky in case some people get too upset about the vote and in case this whole thing backfires. Alex needs to leave since he has the totem and Todd needs to go since he's got the special twist. This is a make or break it round and this is trying to move up from about 7th/8th to around 5th/6th.
f10 I wasn't happy Todd was booted and still got to use the special twist. I got stuck with a bunch of under achievers when it comes to challenges (neleh, kelly, gervase, and peih gee) What is even more frustrating is everyone votes instead of the losing team, would be so much better if it was just Fiji style with the losing team going to tc. At least Kelly has stunk up the challenge for us and will be an easy boot. I talked to Gervase and Neleh about a f4 deal with myself and Peih Gee and they like the idea. At this point I need many people on my side as I can, I got a treasure island penalty with votes at the next 3 tcs in case my name comes up. More bad luck and adversity.. great just what I need
f9 I only ended up with 1 vote at last tc but it showed my treasure island penalty which isn't good but at least Kelly is gone. I haven't told anyone the TI penalty lasts 3 rounds and won't, what I need to do is make sure my name doesn't come up the next 2 tcs otherwise that's a huge problem. Another round in teams which sucks, I did my part and of course we still end up losing. I guess I should have kept posting since I could have, just didn't want to overdo it and look like some huge challenge whore. I'll save that for later. I am playing this round a little dirty, I told Gerv/Neleh we should vote Peih Gee and then told Peih Gee we should vote Gervase. I wanted to plant the seeds for the vote and let someone else make them grow since I'll be gone most the day. I'll vote whatever way the majority is set that way it just looks like I followed along. I think Peih Gee will end up going and much as I hate to vote her, I won't have any choice and I need to make Neleh/Gervase think I am still with them.
f8 I was sad to see Peih Gee go but really didn't have any other option. Finally those teams are gone and we're back to just one person winning immunity. I thought about working with all the Malawi players left, if I can get Bobby Jon to vote with us that gives us majority. Bobby Jon then tells me he hears the vote is Neleh and hopes they are telling him the truth. Um sorry, that just doesn't sound to enticing and none of the others bothered to talk to me about the vote so it's easy I vote with the Malawi people, tie the vote and see if Neleh wins the tiebreaker. If this works then we have 3/7 Malawi people left and I move up the totem pole to 5th/4th at the worst and my vote is even more important next round.
f7 I should have known Neleh wouldn't win the tiebreaker. Gave it a shot though and have to re think what to do. Adam is being an idiot trying to get me to throw the challenge for him, how pathetic. Him saying I was save this round pretty much means I am on the chopping block. I had to convince Bobby Jon to turn on Marcus this round, I just guilt tripped him much as I possibly could and tried to convince him that going with that group was suicide. I knew Amanda/Gerv would vote with me and long as Bobby Jon did we could say so long to Marcus. The funny thing is all they had to do was vote Amanda or Gervase this round and Marcus probably wouldn't have left. Worked out in an odd way, least it worked out.
f6 All the luck challenges are getting frustrating especially since Adam lucks out with every one. Now Adam and Bobby Jon want a f4 with them and Tracy. Not a bad deal, just not a great one either since I would obviously be 4th in that alliance and I want to stick with Gervase and Amanda for right now. I'll tie up the vote again...hopefully this time the tiebreaker will go our way. This is going to piss off some people, but if it works I've made a good move to get myself to the end of the game. Could move up to 3rd/2nd at the worst now and if it doesn't work I would be back to 5th/4th which is where I would have been anyway lol.
f5 Another losing tiebreaker, ah those just aren't going my way in the game. At least I now know the finals in this game is f4 and I just need to win immunity this round. No ands ifs buts about this round, it's all or nothing with this immunity challenge. I knew I could win all the posting/endurance portions and that's exactly what I spent the most time with. The quotes were tricky...the puzzle was insane...and the endurance was something was time consuming but really easy. All I needed to do was catch the Hannah Montana marathon and sit back and post away. After like 20 hours the immunity was mine, I was actually surprised the effort of everyone else wasn't that great but oh well I am in the finals and all that matters. Now they can yell at me silly!
I wanted to try and keep Amanda this round. I told Bobby Jon we should vote out Adam since he's got like 3 guaranteed votes waiting already in the finals. Then he says they'll all just vote Tracy, probably true but I had to give it a shot. I still voted with Amanda even knowing she was going, purely strategical since I will need her vote and I wanted to show the other Malawi people I was somewhat loyal to them. Now we'll wait and see if that actually works or not.
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Post by Penny Ramsey on Jun 14, 2009 8:55:17 GMT -5
The winner of the game should be revealed soon...hopefully before I grow too old. Not sure how this is actually going to play out with 10 jurors, but if I don't win its all good and if I do win this even better lol. Part of me thinks I'll win and the other part thinks I'll come up short. I am satisfied with everything I did and how I played the game, plus winning isn't everything it's more about the experience and what you learn along the way but it's always nice to at least win once in a while.
Coming into this game I really didn't think I would make finals. I had so many things going against me and thought either the no pre game friendships or some twists would come back to bite me at some point. I guess I accomplished a lot just getting here and a win would be a nice icing on the cake if it happens. I think I have a good shot, much better shot then when I entered this ftc so all I can do is wait and see how this story ends.
And thanks Jeff for hosting the game, it was truly an enjoyable experience for me.
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