Day 7 - James R. // J2999
As expected, Wade left at my last tribal, 4-1. Cool.
Austin left on the other tribe and this one was just frustrating and genuinely sucked to see. I had a final 2 with him, and I definitely feel that I could’ve gone FAR with him, whether that be actually making Final 2, or just like a lot further and be fully loyal period, that was the best-case scenario for me. So yeah that sucked.
Merge came around! This is Final 13 so it’s difficult to tell where this will lead to regarding jury. I mean I PERSONALLY either hope jury starts at 11 and is a 9-person one with an F2, or it starts today and is an… 11-person one with an F2. Just all round an F2 is better than an F3 I do believe, but a 10-person jury starting F13 unfortunately does seem likely. I guess we will see.
So initially the vote like broke out as Chris because he was like lowkey coming for people during the challenge yesterday and like I adore Chris and he had some very valid points about a ‘premade’, whilst there has been no OFFICIAL confirmation, like so many people here DON’T do group games frequently so it’s just too suspicious they have all joined this game at the same time, definitely red flags of a type of premade, just difficult to pinpoint who EXACTLY is in it.
After Chris’ name came up, MARK’s then did with an attempt to have like basically almost the whole game split on the two of them. A few people then gathered an idea to not vote either of them, so if a split was attempted it would end up like 6-4-3 with like Chris being the 4, Mark the 3 and someone else being the 6.
However, today it’s sorta all spiralled. Dallas has begun targeting Red, Red has begun targeting Dallas. Whilst I like both of them, I’m tighter with Red than I am Dallas, so like I’m gonna get behind Red, particularly as like Dallas is more connected with the people in the associated ‘premade’ than Red so yeah!!!!
Red also informed me that he has found the MERGE idol which is PERFECT because that’s someone I have a lot of trust in so feel more secure knowing that he has it.
Mark is supposedly playing a like block-vote on Dallas tonight. Whilst I think it’s a smarter and more strategic play to block someone not-Dallas because if Dallas is blocked then he will assume he’s the target and if he has an idol would therefore play it, it’s not something I’m gonna focus upon too much, I mean Red DOES have an idol he can play if necessary.
There was a chat made consisting of Chris, Grace, Mark, Paul, Red and I for this vote, and whilst I voted Mark previously like it WORKS for me because otherwise we’re just all going to get Pagonged.
I LIKE Dallas and hope he’s not pissed at me or possibly doesn’t know I was involved, but tonight I vote DALLAS. This is me playing the game long-term, not just short-term.
Plus, I do still feel decently connected with the people I’m not voting with, like I’ve got a good relationship with Josh, my brief conversations with Lexey have gone well, Max is good despite not being too active, Caden well I saved him yesterday soooo!, Ivy hasn’t been too active but I trust her. Actually her and Caden it’s unknown where they are standing tonight, but I guess we will see and possibly be able to figure based on vote count! And then Kelly another I’ve barely spoken to but we have a decent relationship. So yeah I DO feel relatively decently set up so far, and I just hope the game continues alright, starting with Dallas leaving tonight.