PW Questions

[erikc]

Howdy!!  

I just have a few PW questions for you.

1.  What do you think I your new tribe?  Are you happy with how it turned out?  How do you think you will do challenge wise?

2.  What kind of alliances do you see forming with the swap?  Are there any other groups forming?

3.  What about your old tribe?  Did anyone fair well with the swap?  Is anyone from your original tribe on their way out?  Do you plan on sticking with them?

4.  In the words of your character, give me a quick state of the union on your situation.  

EX:  If you were Parvati and in trouble you might say "I'm in a hot pickle"; if you were in a good spot you might say "we've got them right where we want them."

If you were Russell Hantz you might say: "I'm Russell Hantz"

Thank you and I look forward to your answers!

[Russell Swan]

1. What do you think I your new tribe? Are you happy with how it turned out? How do you think you will do challenge wise?
I think I my new tribe am pleased with. Just the fact that I already know 4 people gives me an excuse not to struggle through bonding conversations with them and get right to business with strategy and challenges. I don't know the other players that well, but I guess it seems like a pretty social, active group. And I'm pretty sure that just the fact that I'm on this tribe means we'll continue to win the challenges until we have the next swap. And then whichever tribe I'm on will dominate those as well.

2. What kind of alliances do you see forming with the swap? Are there any other groups forming?
I see the original Gunlom 5 sticking together, and I either see a counter-alliance of 6 forming or several individuals out of those 6 just joining in with the other 5. Chicken thinks he has recruited Ralph with the main 5 from Gunlom who are here, but I talked to Ralph and can't get a read on him. He may just be collecting information. Greg is hosting Yul in a game and wanted to try to get him to vote with us as well. If I controlled negotations, I could easily make it work, but hopefully my former/current tribe mates aren't unnecessarily making our situation worse by emphasizing how great it would be if they stuck with original Gunlom down the road because we're so amazing. :rolleyes:

3. What about your old tribe? Did anyone fair well with the swap? Is anyone from your original tribe on their way out? Do you plan on sticking with them?
5 of the 7 members of original Gunlom are together, so I'd say that we fared well. Colby's either an annoying, inexperienced newbie or he's an experienced player doing a poor job of pretending to be a newbie in a way that helps him go far in the game. So I think he's one of the more vulnerable players if his tribe loses. I hope he goes home because I have a hard time putting up with talking to him. Richard is probably fine because he's a valuable challenge asset, but it's also possible that Gunlom looks so intimidating right now that the rest of his tribe will play scared and vote for him.

4. In the words of your character, give me a quick state of the union on your situation.
"At the end of the day, there's going to be a lot of underground strategizing going on. And you're going to have to look like you're smiling but at the same time, have a nice frown on your face and stab people in the back." - Taken from Russell Swan's intro video. This is sort of a general outlook on the game, not really my current position.

[Tom Westman]

I have a question for you. Why are you playing as Russell Swan

[Russell Swan]

Someone thought it would be amusing if I picked him and used the nickname 'The Black Swan' so signing up as him is sort of a joke.

[erikc]

The black swan has a nice ring!

[erikc]

PWQ'S

Howdy!  

Here's some PW questions (remember nobody is forcing you to answer, these are just for insight for the hosts and for fun)

1). With a double tribal coming up, how are you feeling?  Secure, Nervous?

2) What do you think is going to happen on DMI?  Who do you think will be coming back?  Who do you think would pick you for their tribe?

3) Now that you are at the Jury stage of the game, does that change your strategy?  

And finally,

4). BEST CASE SCENARIO:  who is in the final 3?

Thanks!

[Russell Swan]

1). With a double tribal coming up, how are you feeling? Secure, Nervous?
I would have felt relatively safe actually if we would have had to vote without JT leaving the game because I was comfortable with the majority of my tribe (Chicken-Ralph-Erik and possibly Silas) and we had a plan down to split votes and do everything in our power to avoid having an idol played on us. There's always the possibility of being taken out with a prize, but I'm not worried about that as long as I do everything in my power that I can actually control.

2) What do you think is going to happen on DMI? Who do you think will be coming back? Who do you think would pick you for their tribe?
I'm realizing that I definitely should have answered these questions before I knew all the answers. Bob Dawg and Silas came back, and Erik and Ralph apparently convinced Silas to pick an amazing tribe for us where my alliance would have the numbers and hopefully enter the true merge more comfortably.

3) Now that you are at the Jury stage of the game, does that change your strategy?
No, I've been playing a really risky game so far. Socially I have room for improvement (although my allies seem to the love the Black Swan), but I've been putting my heart into most of the key challenges and not worried about making myself a huge target trying to assure my own success and my allies' success for my own game. If someone was idoled out or blindsided from my alliance, pre-jury, it was likely going to be me. I'm going to continue to try to dominate what challenges I can and strategically work to eliminate the threats outside of my alliance to give my alliance the numbers or most of the numbers and then come up with a plan to break down the alliance and make sure I'm positioned in the core of it to reach end-game.

And finally,

4). BEST CASE SCENARIO: who is in the final 3?
This is a good question. Erik Huffman has been my closest ally this game, but I'm not sure I could beat him in the final three. However, I think I'll stay true to him out of loyalty because even though I plan on lying/backstabbing pretty much everyone, I like to have at least one person I'm completely loyal to. Then it comes down to Chicken and Ralph, who I'm also very close to. I think I'm closer to Ralph and would bring him there out of loyalty. It's just a question of whether I could compete for the win with their crazy social games and huge personalities... The jury might actually like Erik and his cockiness or Ralph and his crazy drunkenness. But I'll figure that out later.