This game just got insane. Episode 7

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Alright, so Tina, Gloria and Chad left. First thing that tells me is that Gloria is comfortable leaving to go on a tribe with Tina, and Chad is comfortable going on a tribe with the two of them. So, those three may be closer then we thought.

On our tribe we have Carly, Ben, Beau, Stephanie, Selena, Taylor and I.

I think Ben, Carly and I are going to stick together, because Carly was talking to Ben and said she didn't really like Beau or Stephanie.


I am hella cautious about trusting Gloria, Beau, Stephanie, especially since I think they have Tina and Chad as well.

Now, Gloria did show me the idol, but I think Gloria is both smart and cutthroat. Much like myself, she's only going to do moves that help her.

Basically, this is a point where we can either stay under the radar, or implode our alliance to get some control. It's going to get crazy. Stay tuned.

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I love being in an alliance with Ben. I tend to have a problem with actually making a connection with people, so to have somebody I can actually bounce ideas off of works great.

So here's the deal. We were kind of suspicious of the S4 peeps. so we're trying to figure out a way to get Taylor and Selena on our side. Basically, what we did was tell Taylor that Beau and Stephanie want to vote for him. That seemed to do the trick. Carly doesn't like Beau or Stephanie either, so we should be good on that front.

We were kind of worried about this whole thing because we were worried about the rest of the favorites flipping their shit when they found out we had voted out one of their allies. However, Gloria apparently just messaged Ben saying that she was ok with Beau going. So, we could potentially get a group of 5 favorites (Me, Ben, Carly, Selena, Taylor) which would be a majority of the favorites and keep the favorites alliance in tact. Being in a majority alliance within a majority alliance is awesome. When you're planning to backstab your alliance, then the person you're worried about alienating says go right on ahead, it is a good day.

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1. Who do you trust the most and the least on your new tribes?
I trust Ben the most. He's good to talk to and I doubt he'd have these strategic discussions as candidly with me if he were just planning to vote me out.

Beau is just doing the "Hey, we good?" thing. It just comes off as disingenuous and trying to use me as a vote. Yes, I know this is Survivor, but it requires a certain amount of subtlety. \

2. How has the swap affected your gameplay?

I think I've documented that in my previous posts. We were going to vote out Beau because we also thought it was weakening Gloria. But Gloria is on board with it, which means she doesn't have as big of a cohort as we thought. That's nice because even if she has the Tina/Chad group, that wouldn't be enough by itself to take control of the game. All in all, I *think* this swap ended up being a good thing for me. Allows us to solidify Ben/Carly/Taylor/Selena/me as a group, gets rid of at least one fan, and increases the odds of favorites having majority at the merge.

3. Is there anyone you don't want to win immunity? What would happen if they did?

Obviously I'm a little late answering this. We would not have wanted Beau to win immunity, but if he had, we probably would have voted for Stephanie.