[Jeff Probst]

Bit of a reset here.

What are your thoughts on the game becoming 20 players? What are your thoughts on playing with the returning veterans?

With mostly all of the inactive players gone, do you foresee the gameplay ramping up? Will the returning players elevate the way the strategy of the game is played?

Who do you think will be the immediate target on the tribe? How will your game evolve with this new stage of the game?

[Mari]

What are your thoughts on the game becoming 20 players?

My thoughts on this twist can be summed up by Big Brother 20 Rockstar’s reaction to the eviction last night…
“I CANNOT! IT’S DISGUSTING, BOLD-FACED DISGUSTING! YOU DO THIS ON MY DAUGHTER’S BIRTHDAY?? DISGUSTING!”

Probst, you evil Do you not understand I was running things over Taino? I WAS TAINO! TAINO WAS ME! And now, not even ONE other Taino person is on my tribe whereas there’s FIVE of them on the other tribe which is basically the majority. I’m gonna have to watch my former Taino people run the game over there, knowing that could have been me, whilst I’m gonna be here on Lucayan scrambling every vote to stay alive. It’s torture We were maybe 2 rounds away from merge before the twist and now, it seems like there’s 837492047 rounds left!

What are your thoughts on playing with the returning veterans?

I’ll enjoy it while it lasts because they won’t be playing for long.

With mostly all of the inactive players gone, do you foresee the gameplay ramping up?

We’re finally in the post-inactive stage of the game! There’s no clear targets so I guess tribal councils should be less predictable than before and people will actually be forced to scramble to make sure its them so yeah, the game has been born again.

Will the returning players elevate the way the strategy of the game is played?

No. Their strategies must be trash since they didn’t win their first time. I’ve been looking at the previous boards and some of them are on their third try? Eek, I don’t think I need to be threatened by those people

Who do you think will be the immediate target on the tribe? How will your game evolve with this new stage of the game?

On NuLucayan, we have 4 returnees, 5 original Lucayans and then little old me so optics-wise, I’m for sure the odd one out with no pre-existing relations with anyone but I think my social game is strong enough to swerve the first vote. Also, If I’m out then the Original Lucayans would have the majority over the returnees and I might have to remind them of that What I need to do is vote out an original Lucayan member out first, probably Jim because he’s the least active so far I think. Then position myself as the swing vote between the 4 returnees and the 4 remaining Lucayans. This is an ideal scenario but it's been made very clear good things don't happen to me in this game and I still need to figure out the dynamics between them all first

...and that's the story in the life of Mari!