Post by Russell Hantz on Nov 19, 2009 8:25:52 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank you all for what has been one of the most competitive ORG’s I have ever played in.
When I came into this game my strategy was to play a social and strategically game. Quickly into the game I had already formed alliances with Marisa, Jaison, Ashley and Mick. This with the combination of me being a vey active member of the tribe was enough to get me to the tribal switch.
However at the swap Marisa, Ashley and Myself found ourselves in the minority. We all knew we had to bring in 2 others to be safe and move on to the next round. So I quickly tried to make a bond with John even before the swap because I knew he would be a powerful person to have on my side. So Ashley, Marisa and myself worked our magic and got both John and his closest allie Brett, to flip to our side and vote out Monica. This alliance was able to stay strong until the merge.
At the merge I met back up with many of my people from earlier on. However I still formed key bonds with Kelly and Betsy. At the first tribal the consensus of the group was to take John out as he seemed like a big challenge threat, even thought he claimed to not be an individual challenge threat. Then with ten player remaining Brett had no other allies so he went next.
This is when I started thinking longer down the rode. This is when Mick and I had the idea of a 5-person alliance. We decided to bring my two closest allies in (Marisa and Ashley) and Mick wanted to bring Nat in. I didn’t want to bring Nat into the alliance, as I felt closer to Kelly, however I decided to go along this Mick’s plan to keep him happy with me. Every one was down for the alliance and we took out Betsy, as she was an obvious social threat for figuring out Kelly had in-rounds in Foa Foa.
Then came the double elimination. I was very paranoid here. I thought if we could get Nat to loss immunity this would be our chance to get her out and bring Kelly in. However it didn’t go that way and apparently Mick and
Kelly were closer to Nat than me, so when someone told her I was targeting her, Nat rightfully targeted me. However, fortunately I could still trust my allies from the start Jaison, Ashley and Marisa. And we came up with a plan to take out Kelly and Mick. I didn’t want to vote Mick out as I felt we had a close bond. However after chatting with him on AIM I got the impression he was going to vote me out, even though later I found out he wasn’t lying to but just changed his mind later. This made me feel REALLY bad.
However after the vote it was 3 v 3 and Nat won immunity (for like the 100th time
) . So Ashley and Marisa stayed loyal to me and it was a tie. I won the tie-breaker challenge against Laura. So Marisa, Ashley and I had the majority. But then Mick quit the game, for reasons I’m still not sure of.
So in the final 4 challenge I knew Nat had an idol so I knew I needed to go all out to win immunity, because I didn’t want to be at the mercy of Nat who already hated me. (Only kidded. You only strongly disliked me, Nat )
So I was able to win immunity and than Marisa shocks me! By telling me she had another idol
. So the only person left that didn’t have immunity was the person I’d been loyal to from the start, Ashley ☹.
But in one of the most selfless and generous acts I’ve ever seen in an ORG. Marisa sacrificed herself to give Ashley and I a better chance at winning ☺. And she gave Ashley the idol.
At the final 3 challenge Ashley and I had a final 2 deal. If she won she would take me and if I won I would have taken her. However Nat won immunity and I had to say goodbye to yet another one of my closest allies.
So basically that was the game for me in a nutshell. If you have any questions about my game play or anything else. Please don’t be afraid to ask me. ☺
And thank you guys again for what I have found to be a very competitive game and active game.
First of all, I would like to thank you all for what has been one of the most competitive ORG’s I have ever played in.
When I came into this game my strategy was to play a social and strategically game. Quickly into the game I had already formed alliances with Marisa, Jaison, Ashley and Mick. This with the combination of me being a vey active member of the tribe was enough to get me to the tribal switch.
However at the swap Marisa, Ashley and Myself found ourselves in the minority. We all knew we had to bring in 2 others to be safe and move on to the next round. So I quickly tried to make a bond with John even before the swap because I knew he would be a powerful person to have on my side. So Ashley, Marisa and myself worked our magic and got both John and his closest allie Brett, to flip to our side and vote out Monica. This alliance was able to stay strong until the merge.
At the merge I met back up with many of my people from earlier on. However I still formed key bonds with Kelly and Betsy. At the first tribal the consensus of the group was to take John out as he seemed like a big challenge threat, even thought he claimed to not be an individual challenge threat. Then with ten player remaining Brett had no other allies so he went next.
This is when I started thinking longer down the rode. This is when Mick and I had the idea of a 5-person alliance. We decided to bring my two closest allies in (Marisa and Ashley) and Mick wanted to bring Nat in. I didn’t want to bring Nat into the alliance, as I felt closer to Kelly, however I decided to go along this Mick’s plan to keep him happy with me. Every one was down for the alliance and we took out Betsy, as she was an obvious social threat for figuring out Kelly had in-rounds in Foa Foa.
Then came the double elimination. I was very paranoid here. I thought if we could get Nat to loss immunity this would be our chance to get her out and bring Kelly in. However it didn’t go that way and apparently Mick and
Kelly were closer to Nat than me, so when someone told her I was targeting her, Nat rightfully targeted me. However, fortunately I could still trust my allies from the start Jaison, Ashley and Marisa. And we came up with a plan to take out Kelly and Mick. I didn’t want to vote Mick out as I felt we had a close bond. However after chatting with him on AIM I got the impression he was going to vote me out, even though later I found out he wasn’t lying to but just changed his mind later. This made me feel REALLY bad.
However after the vote it was 3 v 3 and Nat won immunity (for like the 100th time
) . So Ashley and Marisa stayed loyal to me and it was a tie. I won the tie-breaker challenge against Laura. So Marisa, Ashley and I had the majority. But then Mick quit the game, for reasons I’m still not sure of.So in the final 4 challenge I knew Nat had an idol so I knew I needed to go all out to win immunity, because I didn’t want to be at the mercy of Nat who already hated me. (Only kidded. You only strongly disliked me, Nat
)So I was able to win immunity and than Marisa shocks me! By telling me she had another idol
. So the only person left that didn’t have immunity was the person I’d been loyal to from the start, Ashley ☹.But in one of the most selfless and generous acts I’ve ever seen in an ORG. Marisa sacrificed herself to give Ashley and I a better chance at winning ☺. And she gave Ashley the idol.
At the final 3 challenge Ashley and I had a final 2 deal. If she won she would take me and if I won I would have taken her. However Nat won immunity and I had to say goodbye to yet another one of my closest allies.
So basically that was the game for me in a nutshell. If you have any questions about my game play or anything else. Please don’t be afraid to ask me. ☺
And thank you guys again for what I have found to be a very competitive game and active game.
