Episode 12

You have the whole weekend ahead of you, so lots of questions that I hope you can give us some serious insight into where your mind is at, closing into this final week of potential mayhem.

Mia's gone, and you voted with her and one other. What do you lose from your alliance without Mia? Were you surprised that five others kept you out of the loop?

Let's look at those five for a minute. What do you think the dynamics are between them? Are they tight, or do you expect them to break? Who is on the top and bottom of their pecking order? Do you think they realize it?

What connections do you still have in play, and who do you still trust? Are you planning on taking advantage of any of those bonds to infiltrate tonight's five-person majority and prevent them from picking you off?

Who would you approach? Why?
Who would you expect to target?
How would you persuade them to turn? What're the odds of it succeeding?

Finally, let's focus on jury. Who do you ideally want to be in the end with? Why? Who do you definitely NOT want to be in the end with? Why? If you make it to the end, who do you think you'd most likely be with? Based on feasibility of them making it that for, or working with you to get there?

First of all, last night was one shock after the other for me. I thought we were just gonna easily vote off Bobby Jon with no drama or anything and everything would be fine, but it didn't work out like that at all. First Mia told everyone that she had an idol (which I had no idea about) and then she didn't play it and got voted off Chad and Tom flipped on us and totally left me, Mia and Ami out in the cold

I'm gonna miss Mia soooo much She ended up being my number 1 ally and the person I trusted the most in the game and I'm so sad she's gone The only person I know I can trust now is Ami.

I wasn't positive about Tom but I was really shocked that Chad flipped on us like that. He claims that it was because of Mia's antics right before TC and that he and Tom still want to work with me and Ami and vote out Ibe & Bobby Jon next but who knows if he's telling the truth.

I think there's a chance that Tom & Chad will flip back over to me & Ami. Ibe, Bobby Jon and Kim seem pretty tight. I think Bobby Jon and Ibe would pick each other over Kim though and I think she knows it, so I may be able to pull her in later.

The only person I trust 100% is Ami. I do have a bond with Chad even though he voted against us last night. I'll def talk to him a bunch more, hopefully he's telling the truth about still wanting to work with me & Ami.

I had an alliance with Tom but he keeps turning on me. He voted out Chris without telling me and then was fine with the Jolanda/Gregg boots and then flipped again and voted out Mia without telling me. I really don't think we can trust him anymore at all. He's obviously trying to be covered on all sides.

I'm hoping that myself, Ami and Chad can stick together. We'll just need to pull in one more to get the majority. I think Ami is working on Tom right now to get him back on our side. Hopefully he votes with us.

Chad said that the target is still Bobby Jon which is perfect. Hopefully he'll finally go this time

I think the person that I would have the best chance of beating in the end would be Kim since we played very similar games.

I definitely do not want to be at the end against Ibe cause he's really came a long way and won a bunch of challenges and has a ton of friends n the jury and he's very likable. He would win in a landslide.

If I make it to the end then it will proably be with Ami. I would love that because the two of us have been together basically the whole game and we've been through so much together and both of us making it to the end would be so epic. I could see the votes going either way if that happened too.

So Ami/Kim/Lisa F3 is your goal? And you're *hoping* Chad and maybe Tom get onboard for a Bobbi-Jon boot right now, correct?

Map out the preferred outcomes then for me - for F6, F5, F4 - and how you hope to get to that stated final three.

Immunities aside, who is each rounds target, who are the numbers that would vote that way at that point and what reasoning would they have to do that and not boot you/Ami/Kim/some other option?

I'm hoping that myself, Ami, Chad and Tom will all vote out Bobby Jon at the next TC. Then Ibe after that. Then after that we would need to take out Tom since he's such a huge jury threat. Making the final 4 me/Ami/Chad/Kim. I know I want myself and Ami in the final 3 but the last spot is tricky. I really feel like taking Kim with us would be the best bet but I'll have to talk about that more with Ami and figure it out.

For this round, Chad says that he's still with me & Ami, and Tom says he can't work with Ibe & BJ. So the votes for BJ should be myself, Ami, Chad and Tom. It won't matter who Ibe/BJ/Kim vote for.

In the F6 I think we would all boot Ibe as long as he doesn't win Immunity since he's such a strong player and giant threat.

At F5 is when I'm really hoping to pull together something with me/Ami/Kim to take out Tom and then Chad.


So this is my IDEAL boot order:
7. Bobby Jon
6. Ibe
5. Tom
4. Chad
3. Kim
2. Ami
1. Lisa

Hopefully it can work out like that!!

You are yet to win individual immunity, and were outside of the numbers on the last vote, an idol could certainly help change that - on a scale of 1-10, how tempted are you to take a clue and maybe find an idol?

Probably a 2 I guess. I would love to get an idol, but I don't think I want to risk a shot at Immunity to get a clue for an idol. I feel like I would have a better chance at winning an Immunity than I would at cracking the code for the idol. I came pretty close at a few Immunity challenges now, I never came close at all to figuring out the code to that first idol. So I think the best bet would be for me to just try hard for Immunity.

I notice Lisa, you leave a lot of PMs unanswered. And indeed Bobbi-Jon called you out on doing this a few Tribals back. Is this an intentional ploy? Do you just want not to talk to people or is it for some other end?

And bearing this in mind, how can you be sure you are heading into TC fully informed?
What do you believe is happening tonight, and is that really the best thing that can happen for your personal game?

It's really not intentional at all. I try to reply to everyone but sometimes I glance at the pm's and then forget to go back to respnd. I'll make sure to work harder with that.

Tonight I think that me, Ami, Chad and Tom will be voting BJ. And Kim, Ibe and BJ will be voting Chad. Hopefully none of our 4 flip! We neeeed BJ out to break up that group!!

Ooh right Well with only five others left, it should be easy to keeps better tabs on it. ;)