Round 06

[Matt Elrod]

We won the challenge. Honestly, I didn't have to do a lot. I was going to start making a chart for organization, but Abi had already done it and was calculating moves for everyone. Abi and Tina did the most work, and I basically followed their instructions. Jonas put a lot of thought into it as well.

So I'm pleased that we won. This tribe's strength is the fact that we have so many strong players willing to step up and lead in competitions, and everyone will listen to them so we can come together and follow whoever knows best for that specific competition. The other tribe really only has Jay, so I believe we can keep winning.

My biggest fear in this game is getting caught having too many alliances, so the more that the other tribe loses and I can avoid going to tribal council, the better. My hopes are that some of these potential alliances get wiped out before I have to get my hands too dirty. However now that original Menba will be up 8-4 over original Luoba, it may be the time to make a move and get Brandon or JT out next round. I am aligned with Brandon, Lisa, and JT, but the three of them are just too tight and Brandon's hardly been around recently. Jay told me that Danni wants to get Brandon out (even though she's telling me she wants to wait) so I might get off even easier by letting them vote out Brandon without even having an involvement - even though I'm the one who told Danni the information that led her to targeting Brandon in the first place.

We'll see how this all works out. Once we merge, I need to go through each person and see who I can count on the most as a possible number to try to figure out a path to the end. Jay said he wants Alexis out, and I'm fine with either her or RC going because they're the last two players I'm not connected to.

[Matt Elrod]

Jay's going to try to get JT out, and he wanted to make sure I'm comfortable throwing the next challenge to get out Brandon. I completely am. I mentioned how I wanted to get those two out, and if we did, it would free me from my predicament of having so many alliances at the merge and getting the backstabber perception. It would then force the Menba 6 to stick together, plus I'd have a few other options from original Luoba.

[Matt Elrod]

Jay's biggest obstacle is that JT and Lisa are aligned, so this may COMPLETELY bite him in the face since he's going to talk to Lisa about it. His best approach would probably be getting Alexis, RC, and Rory to vote with him. I don't think he'll get voted out for trying this, but it's still a big risk.

[Matt Elrod]

Jay went to Lisa and couldn't get her support. So he wanted me to talk to her and I tried, but it resulted in a super awkward, hello chat where she downplayed JT's danger in the game and we just ended up agreeing on how original Menba should stick together. Basically it was a useless chat, but I wanted to appease Jay.

Now Jay's trying to get Alexis, RC, and Rory on board with the plan to eliminate JT.