Eoin (Eoin) Confessional EP:2
I'm back! Winner of Survivor South Africa, and if I was to be given a title card I would be - "The Underdog", it's a tag I definitely carried in my winning season and it's something I feel like I play best at. In All Stars, I found it hard to gage with people, as the most recent winner, and it meant that ultimately, I didn't do as well as I hope. I don't think I have came into this game with that fear, and think I can play how I want to, without the fear of being over estimated. But the key word is that I came to play.
So first round, my tribe is going to tribal and the only person I know on the tribe is Ray. I know that Ray and I have been mostly friends over the years, but on a personal level and Ray is never someone who stays loyal to me and I feel like he usually has the last laugh. Ray is very good at playing with the minority and putting himself in a position where you feel like you have to work with him, I knew going into the game that Ray is someone who would not be loyal to me from Day 1 to Day 39, and he's the only person I can definitely say that about, so why keep him in the game? I don't want a temporary ally, if that means scraping everyone I know anything about out of the gate then that is something I will do.
So I knew I wanted to take Ray out, target acquired, but I can't be a dictator about this, so I have to plant seeds, keep it quiet from Ray as he's psycho enough to spend his whole time looking for the idol and not piss anyone other than Ray off. Tough ask.
So Ray makes a majority alliance with myself and Lexie prior to the loss, and yeah, typical Ray, trying to call the shots. But his first mistake is that there's six people, three isn't a majority. So he adds Webly, when we lose and makes chat history private, then says the vote is between Guigi and Osiris.
So I start off by telling Webly, as if he doesn't agree to it, the plan is off, so I let Webly know that he's Ray's number three in a tribe of five others, and that only accounts for a quarter of the game, so number (3x4) twelve ain't great. Webly buys it, and says that Lexie mentioned being worried about Ray, seeds planted.
I go to Osiris then, he's supposed to be friends with Guigi, its simple to pull him in, I just let him know everything and leak to him everything, easily bought, I provided screenshotted evidence. This would mean that with the screenshot of the four that I could pull in him and Guigi. He was very grateful and he returned what Ray told him. Ray said that Lexie was the vote to them, I knew Ray would try to cover his ass with a decoy so i would be able to plant uncertainty in Lexie's head.
So I then go to Lexie, she's not super convinced and hesitant to make a move without Webly being okay so she makes a three person alliance with the three of us, which she wants to use going forward for decisions, and if things go shit up, i can throw her under the bus with it. After I tell her about her being Ray's decoy, she's sold and Ray is done. 5-1, bye.
So my tribe is two duos (Lexie and Webly & Guigi and Osiris) and myself, both of which are forever grateful as to each one I saved their ass in a way, and nobody feels betrayed. Perfect round, my target goes home, I'm the middle man on my tribe going forward and I have four allies who all owe me something, even though I did what they wanted.
I like the small tribe format, it allows those with little connections like myself, to get to know people and use my social game, to flip the game to where I want while also positioning myself in a good position. If I can keep it up, there's no reason that I can go all the way...again!