Stranded for Victory

Slam your body down and wind it all around Lets keep this party going shall we?

1-If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Where does the power on this tribe reside? Do you plan on working within that power structure or rebelling against it?

2-Make it last forever, friendship never ends! Who are you closest to on the tribe?

3-Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is... How active have you been in the strategy around camp? are you actively working to make things happen? Or are you letting others lead the charge so you can strike later?

So we won the challenge and there wasn't any bullshit twists with it? What a dream, what a dream! With that win under out belt, we have the numbers up on Fenrir and not going to lie, that feels amazing to have. All that stress over that challenge and it was nothing. I mean, I was surprised that they DQ'd though, did they not read the rules through properly? Everyone on our side read it and checked it to make sure we didn't go over. Better to have an incomplete answer than be penalised for not finishing at all. If this is going to be how they hold themselves up in competitions, we have a right to feel confident if it relies on logic, because they sucked at that. This new challenge though, ranking the other people on this tribe? That feels like it will be a lot more subjective, so this could go anyway.

Especially when it isn't based off of what you think, but how eight other people think as well. I made the decision to put the stronger challenge people at the top and worked down from that. Social power also plays a major part of it but I feel the only one I am confident in is Kim being at the bottom, seeing as we were throwing her name around as the boot target for last night. Let's be real with it though, if we fail this challenge, I am under little illusion that I won't hesitate to throw her under the bus. I need to keep as many of my allies on side with each other. Joaquin and my little four girl alliance, my side deal with Catalie (we all know she is allied with everyone though, so I am keeping an eye on her). I think this challenge will have a major reason for splitting us up. We all know there is a split coming up and there was a question for when it would happen. At the final 18, final 16 or final 15? Well I guess we are going to find out tonight what will happen.

Right, so the power in the tribe I feel lies with Joaquin and Loveita. They both are social butterflies and have been pulling some serious weight in the challenges and I feel a lot of people gravitate to them. While I am allied with both of them, it is seperately and it would not surprise me if they are working together as well. They feel like they are the center of the tribe and I think they are the main ones who are keeping the unity. Steph is up there as well as someone who seems to be wielding a lot of power potentially. I think the rest of us are in the mix as well, but I would say they are the core three power players in this tribe at the time. Catalie has a lot of connections but I don't trust her at all but I think she has a few pre-game connections she is relying on. She did use her challenge expertise to help our asses out, so she did well in that challenge, so I will give her props for that.

I feel closest to Joaquin, Loveita, Val and Steph at the minute. They are all pretty nice and I think we have some good connections with them. I think they would be great allies to keep down the line but once we get to the merge, I would probably have to assess how strong they are. They would be great shields but I need to be able to make some other connections at that point. My approach for this is round by round to get to the merge at this point, survival day by day.

As for the strategy around camp, I haven't taken a huge lead on challenge activity but behind the scenes, I feel like I have been hustling. I worked to get Loveita and Steph in a alliance with me and even though Loveita wanted Val in it, I am cool with that because Val is great. I feel like Mookie going was just a group consensus. I had wanted to push for Catalie to get rid of her connections but I felt a lot of people would have felt better booting Mookie for his inactivity and sometimes the best move is not to make a move at all. No point getting myself in trouble to save Mookie and make a target on myself for nothing. Now Kim is the obvious target if we lose. I think the consensus is that we want an easy target so we won't have any major splits going into the probable tribe swap/split. I feel like I have been playing a constructive game at this point. I want to build up my alliances and connections rather than play dirty straight away. I need strong bonds to help support me down the game. I want people to trust me and like me, I want to be wanted to be kept around. I know I am not the strongest in challenges, so I need the social side of my game to carry me through the tribal portion of this game right now.