Hello, hi and welcome to yet another episode of “Survivor According to Zeke” where I babble about everything and try to be funny. I am Zeke, the person in the title and I hope you’re having a great day, today. In this episode, I will unveil my endgame plan alongside talk about what exactly happened and just generally explain whatever I have in my mind right about now.
In today’s episode, we will be talking about:
- The Immunity Challenge
- The Tribal Council
- Questions + Endgame Strategy
Let’s get started then.
The Immunity Challenge was all about what we all thought. It was the regular stuff of Majority Rules themed questions. And whoever had the most guesses correct won the Immunity. Along this Immunity challenge, a lot of things came out into the open basically and some opinions were rather…interesting.
Jeff Probst wrote:
11. Who's the most unbearable to talk to?
Zeke.
But that’s besides the point. Lydia has won the Immunity. Now Dale has simply been fucking over everyone and when it was announced that he was not winning Immunity. Everyone simply rejoiced and started to head into their voting confessionals and vote for Dale as per everyone’s request basically.
And in the Tribal Council. Everyone was just simply talking between one another and just answering questions that Jeff was giving us. Once the deadline reached its point. Dale decided to give us a good old jumpscare when he pulled out an Immunity idol. And everyone looked around to one another and realized that “Holy shit, one of us is beyond fucked now!” even I was shocked and absolutely ready to start writing my exit speech because god damn, that was an absolutely intimidating moment. But then the smartest of people said out loud that this Immunity idol was fake and it was from another game. And in such, Dale went out unceremoniously from this game.
And then, there were 8 of us left. And honestly, watching this whole journey go by. It’s absolutely insane to say the least. I really feel absolutely mindblown at the fact that in about few days, this will be over and honestly. I feel happy about coming this far. This game has been more than anything a beautiful experience and come hell or high water. If I win or if I lose, I can definitely say that this series has definitely shown me why exactly have I been playing ORGs. I really just feel happy to know that I have made it so far. I never even imagined that I’d be in this game till god knows when. I have been working my way throught this game and with every round that I see people voting one another off, I absolutely feel just amazed that I can still be part of this. And I don’t want this to stop because I genuinely care about winning this and taking the win home. So, come hell or high water. I know that whatever will happen here now. I know that I will be happy with what I have done here.
Anyways, with this little piece of appreciation out of the way. Let’s get to the questions. First set of questions comes from Sarah, who asks:
Sarah Jones wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:56:38 pm
Congratulations on making it to the top 8! How are you feeling now that we're getting closer and closer to the top 3? What are you going to do to push yourself to the finish line?
Tonight's challenge involved matching contestants to statements. How do you feel about the outcomes? Do you think they are reliable to how people actually feel?
Who do you think is the next to go and how are you going to make sure it's not you?
1. As I said before. I am absolutely happy to know that I’ve made it so far and the fact that we’ve also started few weeks ago, it is absolutely surreal to me and I cannot believe that this is even happening to me. I’m absolutely more than anything ready to take this game. I have made it this far and I am here to take this. No matter who stands in my way, I will just simply have to let them out of this game but at the same time not burn any bridges that I will have underneath me in order to make sure that I will not ruin any great relationships that I will have. But at the same time, I need to get rid of obstacles that are in my way and also kill off people that are gonna stand in between me.
2. The “Who Is Unbearable to Talk to?” wasn’t really something that bothered me, I do know that I sometimes can be a little bit incohesive and just absolutely obnoxious. But as long as people are gonna try to talk to me. I will however admit that when people considered me a “Who is the biggest strategic threat in the game?” I really was surprised by that because I mostly kept things to myself. And I am not sure if that could give everyone a big red flag that I am more than just a big set of lips that spouts dumb stuff.
3. I think that would be pretty simple. I could definitely use my argumentation of that “I would be pretty easy to beat in the final and that most people don’t really seem to consider me as a winner and that there were better people that could take the crown”. And as for who could be the next person to go. I feel that I have worked out my blueprint of who I should get rid of and who needs to leave in order for me to stand in the final 3.
8th – Chrissy/Danni – These two definitely have a lot under their sleeves and these guys seem very easy to win the game. And I am not letting these girls slide by without me having any say in this game. Not to mention, I find both of them to be pretty strong contenders in both challenge-wise and social-wise. Danni more than likely has an Idol. So, we’d have to clean Danni’s idol out in order for me to stand a chance to survive that particular point. Chrissy would then leave unless she’d be the one to have an idol which is where we’d have to do the opposite and boot Danni instead of Chrissy
7th- Chrissy/Danni/Lydia – Here is where basically the option becomes clear here. Whoever survives and doesn’t have the Idol anymore gets unceremoniously voted out. Simple as that. However, I could definitely make a case for Lydia to be voted out here if either of these girls win Immunity.
6th – Lydia/Caryn – Lydia is a very sweet gal, I really love talking to her. However, I see her vacuuming all of the votes in the nearest vicinity and she’s someone who I really don’t think that could help me win this game at all. Caryn aswell, I feel that she’s really dangerous in this game. Now that I see her, she hasn’t been able to win any challenges so far, so that’s a plus but I do think that letting her slide by would definitely not be great in the end. And I think that I need to take a stand and shotgun blast her out of this game. Caryn would have to be the vote only if Lydia wins Immunity. If the opposite happens, Lydia leaves and we move on.
5th – Caryn/Drew /Lucy– Caryn would have to be voted out here if she doesn’t get the Immunity. Because if anything. Letting Caryn get into the FTC would be the equivalent of letting a burglar into your own house with your own permission. It’s not gonna be good and it’s not gonna fly easily by many. Drew would also have to be voted out, if in any case that Caryn wins Immunity here. I could make a move here to backstab Lucy but this one would be the most difficult one for many reasons.
4th- Caryn/Drew/Lucy – Now this one is very difficult for me because as much as I really like Drew now and I find him to be really cool. At the same time, I have a lot of love for Lucy because she’s been with me and Adam since the dawn of this game. However, both of them have a lot of pros and cons for themselves. So here, I will have to watch this situation because if I do the wrong decision here. It could cost me my win here. If in an event that Caryn does lose the Immunity here in some way than other.
Final 3 -
Here are two options that I could have:
Me/Adam/Lucy – The Taino OG’s. This one would be definitely interesting because this would be unexpected to some (Unless everyone has figured out that 2+2=4 here and they are aware that we are all in an alliance here) and to many that would be the obvious. And obviously, a Taino F3 would be the most obvious thing here.
Me/Adam/Drew – The All Male F3. I think that out of three people here. I’d have the biggest chance of winning this in this squad? I don’t wanna put my foot in my mouth here if anything, however. I do think that I could be able to attract the most votes. Drew and Adam haven’t been doing that much work in this game and I think that letting him into the game would be easy for me to just get this happening.
And here come the questions from the man himself. And these ones are very interesting!
Jeff Probst wrote:So let's do this... I like doing this right after the quiz challenge because it allows you to see what the end-game might look like.
Rank the players in the game from Most threatening to win down to Least. Include yourself.
Where do you fall in this ranking? if you are towards the bottom, how can you improve your optics for the jury in order to have a shot at winning the game? If you are towards the top, what can you do to convince the others to stay over less-threatening players?
Are you a goat? Are you fighting with the others over sitting in the final 3 with the goats?
Hmmm, looking at where I stand. Here is how the list would look like:
1. Danni
2. Chrissy
3. Caryn
4. Lucy/Drew
5. Me
6. Lydia
7. Drew/Lucy
8. Adam
As you can see by this ranking. If I placed my gut feeling about everything. I’d be slap bank in the middle here. I could look great for many people. I could look not so great here.
Danni/Chrissy/Caryn are definites in this rank. These three, if I let them near the end. I might aswell be the ring lady who walks around and shows off the title card for at what round we are at because these two have been impressive at their gameplays and I feel as though it has to be them to leave right now. Lucy and Drew are in a split position here. I am confused about these two and which is why I need to figure out if keeping either Lucy or Drew would be either beneficial to me or it would leave me to a certain doom here. Which is why I am just absolutely worried about how things could look like for me. However, I feel that between these two, one would have to leave in order to make me sure that I have the higher ground to take my own here. I on the other hand feel that I’m slap bank in the middle, I’ve managed to not piss off a lot of people and I don’t think that I have enemies in the Jury to the point that if they’d walk out back into the game that they wouldn’t target me for the most part. Besides, most of the people seemed to have okay feelings towards me. Which is why I think that I could be good with them to the point that they’d vote for me. However, I could be wrong and they’d start to do a manifesto in the Jury that I will not be getting any of their votes and such or that I could be in denial about everything. However, I don’t think I have made any people angry in this game to the point that they would see my head on a stick. Lydia and Adam and whoever is the least dangerous between Lucy and Drew from what I know are people that would definitely not seem to be the ones that could have any support to win this game and I could take them to the Jury so that my portfolio would look absolutely great. And overall that’s how I feel here. As for what I could do to improve my position. Definitely take out the stronger ones that are on the top of the food chain to be the one that will be first in the first place. But at the same time, I don’t want to ruin my relationship between the two of us and just generally see how we both stand so that I can just improve upon that and make them realize that I did this with as much finesse as possible. As for how I could make sure that I will stay above everyone. It’s gonna be pretty simple, just play into the ability of me not being aware if anyone would vote for me and just play to my weakness to that they would keep me in until the Final Tribal Council.
Looking at all of this, I do think that if I take the game now and that I increase my likeability to the point that I could become a major contender to the win. The chances are that I win could be likely for sure. However, nothing in this game is for sure and for all I know. I could get voted out just this round and I will be sitting at the Final Tribal Council with Dale/Ryan/Jim/Gary/Brian and Joaq because the girls would team up against the guys and just clean them out and just vote out two of the other guys and leave me as the lonely palette cleanser to make them look good comparatively.
Overall, I do feel that getting rid of Chrissy/Danni/Caryn for the first part is the best course of action. These three are definite strong players and letting them go by is without a doubt costly to my gameplay.
Anyways, I would like to conclude this entry, I have talked enough about how I see my gameplay from my POV, now what’s important is that I put my words into motion and just work this whole thing out for myself.
So, this is it for this episode of “Survivor According to Zeke”. Tune in next time, to see if I make it to Top 7 and if I actually get to where I want to go.
Until next time, see ya later aligators!
