Round 1

[Gary Hogeboom]

Damn gotta be stuck on the sausage fest tribe can't a guy get some nice eye candy around here? That's alright, I'll take winning over boobs any day, well maybe not EVERY day, but most days....

I think we will have a solid crew, though I won't know for sure how we stand until after the first challenge. Right now I'd say two weak links are Russ and Bob but you can't judge based on first looks I know that. So at 7pm the "Gun" show will be on for our Gunlom tribe and we'll kick some ass!

[Rob Mariano]

So you won, have you managed to talk to most of your tribe yet?

[Gary Hogeboom]

You beycha. I got along well mainly with everyone. The two however that I feel closest with is Chicken and Hatch. I think we can name ourselves "The Gray Panthers", obviously cus of our hair color. Us three were the difference in our tribe winning immunity, and are clearly the three strongest.

Russell seems ok, he wasn't a challenge liability or a big-time player either. He's basically in the middle in terms of both strength and social gameplay for the tribe.

Bob is pretty boring to talk to. Doesn't seem like he's very likable, but not disliked either. He is just....there :/ I didn't really expect much from Bob, but I think he might be a person to easily slide under the Gray Panther's spell to give us a majority within the tribe.

Colby is interesting. He told me this is his first game and I don't buy that for one second. He asked to have me bring him "under my wing". Jeez this guy just blew his cover right there. From being a noob a LONG time ago, I can pick noobs up pretty well. This dude is not who he says he is, and trying to play me is frankly insulting.

Greg, who is obviously the host of the Nemle series games, will be an interesting case to study. He was pretty awful at this first challenge, and atleast to me, barely tried to make conversation in a personal AIM chat during the challenge. This surprises me much, but maybe he's taking it slow. Hey this is a 42 person game, gotta pace yourself like a marathon runner. I hope for him he steps up, or I won't hesitate to bite his neck even if he's a household name.