Round 6... A new swap

[survivorjoshua]

I was very fortunate to have gotten the spot that I am in. At first glance on paper i bout cried do to the tribe lay out, 4/5 of them i had never met before and all 5 of them were on the swapped blue tribe so i would basically be coming into a new spot. However looking at the bright side of things i am now the most connected person in the game and have an early start meeting everyone in the game (with the exception of Marcellino). This is a very critical point of the game for me as i believe i am in a very good spot on my tribe to be honest. I had sort of a pre game relationship with Alex from another game were we had talked a while and gotten to be decent friends so i have him sorta as my "older brother" thats what i would call our relationship. I think hes definitely going to do what he thinks is necessary but i also have faith that even we are on the opposite side of the numbers he will have enough pull in his original tribe to get the vote off of me... which does bring up a good point as well is i am sitting on paper in a 3-3 spot which is very good for me. I have gina who is someone i feel i can trust very much and Ben who is kinda desperate for numbers as he has seen the pink tribe getting picked off. So i affectively have 2 people who need me, which is good you always want to be needed not be the one who needs others. I had a chance to speak to Alex and Antoinette and they both give off vibes that the blue tribe arent as tight as they make out to be which is wonderful because i have been thinking if they arent as tight we can make the illusion that Gina, Ben and I are really really tight and vote together and when the vote ties 3-3, then we just get all big and bad and say "we aren't flipping so if you want to go to rocks lets go to rocks but if youd like to guarantee you stay here then vote so and so out.
In my personal opinion i want to go the 3-3 split as of right now cause i really want to see Ali go home. He is a super likable guy and as far as i can tell everyone loves him and people like that get far into the game where as somone like Alex is always pinned as a target early merge. The reason i want a blue to go home is so that i have leverage over them at another possible tribal where again they will need me and i will be needed by both sides and thats what i want to happen in this game.

[survivorjoshua]

I didn’t mention but at this point I will have been to the most tribals and I want to keep that up but not bring any attention to it if I can for as long as possible. Losing can be very beneficial for ones game, but it can also hurt many people’s games. I feel so far going to tribals have been good for me.

[survivorjoshua]

I am covering all of my bases and I honestly think I have a good shot at making it far in the game, very dependent on that first merge tribal and how it goes but I’m not afraid because there’s always bigger fish to fry than me, and even if there isn’t I’m gonna be able to make other people believe there is haha. I think I can work with Gina long term and I think I can work with most of galaga for a bit but at some point I’m gonna have to vote out Ryan and especially Kilby just for the fact that they are huge social presences in the game as well as Kilby being a major strategic threat.
Alex I don’t mind keeping around because everyone thinks he’s not that good strategically but is gonna be a physical presence when I now he’s more than just that, he will dig his own hole at a merge leaving me out of the talks. I’m really excited to get this tribal done with and on to the next one haha