by David » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:40:41 pm
This tribal was by far the craziest of the season. I'm still kind of blown away by what happened. Also, I'm going to try and answer your questions, but most of this confessional is just going to be random rambling from me. Need to get my thoughts in order, you know!
So, I knew Sophie was having doubts about me and I did my best to quell them, but obviously that didn't work. When she told me that the vote was going to Whitney, I knew something fishy was brewing, but I didn't question her. I went to Grant, Mike, and Steph and told them about the Whitney vote. I said we should split votes to Sophie just in case she were to play an idol on Whitney. Grant, Mike, and I voted for Sophie thinking that Grant would only get 3 votes at most. If what we thought would happened had happened, then a revote would have gone for Sophie and Grant, and Sophie would have most likely left. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. I still don't know who flipped, but they gave an extra vote to Grant and now he's gone.
There are positives and negatives to this. Grant was such a big threat that him leaving does kind of make things a little less stressful for me. But he was pretty much my number one ally this entire game, so now I'm kind of fucked. Things aren't completely hopeless though! Four votes that were distributed to Whitney and Sophie came from people still here, and four votes against Grant. It makes things sort of like an even split. Whatever, happens next is definitely going to be a blindside. It's either going to be rocks, or someone will flip. Just when you think your headed for a Pagonging, shit like this happens! I love it.
I have enough to worry about in this game. I always hear people say that I need to play my game and to not play for anyone else. I think that goes for the active players still here and for the jury as well. I can't predict what they are going to say at the FTC. I just have to play the game under the assumption that I could still win. I was never malicious towards anyone on the jury (to their face) so it's not like they can say much about my character to discredit me. Also, I feel like I've played this game really hard and semi-decently, so they can't discredit my game too much. So I still feel like I have a legitimate chance. I'm not really playing to build a resume for the jury, I'm playing to win. I'm not going to make big moves because they look good. It's hard for me to even think about what I would say to the jury because I don't want to get ahead of myself.
Plan of Action:
Sophie and Ashley - solid 2
Whitney - Their goat
Steph/Julie - ??? one of them voted with the Nama
Mike - loyal to me
Kristina - ?????
So, I could align with Sophie and crew and be safe for one vote and avoid rocks. Then it would be final 7 and I could gather some people to vote out Sophie? I feel like all Julie wants is security. If I could offer her a deal she can't refuse, that plan might work. I have no idea what is going on in Kristina's mind. She is probably scrambling like an egg at this point. I could try and talk to her. Steph is also questionable. I still don't know if she flipped or not. Mike will always be by my side, for sure. Whitney does whatever Sophie tells her. Ashley made the right move, but I could talk to her a bit as well. Scratch that, she will just tell Sophie. I think I need to sleep on it and make a decision soon!
