[Jeff Probst]

- Wed May 10, 2017 9:18:19 pm #3504 So that was an unexpected vote.

Where do you stand now and how does this change your game going forward? Have you ramped your game up in an effort to win?

[Andrea]

- Wed May 10, 2017 10:48:18 pm #3675 Pshh, unexpected for YOU, maybe :P read my confessionals! Wigles knew it was coming!

Also step off my Natalie.

My game going forwards depends on whether LJ, Lindsey, Tai, Nick, and Morgan are smart enough to team up and vote out one of my four.

Tune in next time and find out!

[Ozzy Lusth]

- Thu May 11, 2017 9:49:06 am #3694 I'm tuned in. What's you next move? Are alliances the same as before or are things shifting?

Also, how do you think the other players perceive you?

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 10:25:38 am #3698 Well, I actually think they think I'm a nice person at this point, they just don't trust me...so that's an improvement, I guess!

Alliances are pretty fluid at this point--LJ and Lindsey are bonded with Tai a little less tight, I guess Nick and Morgan are bonded, and Steve, Nat, and I are bonded (but people STILL DON'T SEEM TO SEE IT?) with Aubry a little less tight.

Barring a miracle I'm going home tonight. I have no idols or other tricks up my sleeves, so today I just gotta throw everything I have into my social game and cross my fingers. It's been a great run.

[Ozzy Lusth]

- Thu May 11, 2017 11:07:18 am #3699

Barring a miracle I'm going home tonight. I have no idols or other tricks up my sleeves, so today I just gotta throw everything I have into my social game and cross my fingers. It's been a great run.

Who do you think you need to be talking to in order for the miracle to occur? Don't quit just yet, I've seen crazier things happen in Stranded.

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 11:18:32 am #3700

Barring a miracle I'm going home tonight. I have no idols or other tricks up my sleeves, so today I just gotta throw everything I have into my social game and cross my fingers. It's been a great run.

Who do you think you need to be talking to in order for the miracle to occur? Don't quit just yet, I've seen crazier things happen in Stranded.

I talked to Steve and Nat and we decided the best bet was to go to Morgan and tell her "Hey, voting out Andrea is Lindsey's move, do you really just want to pull off Andrea's move or do you want to do your OWN move?" which might work because Morgan and Lindsey hate each other. (At this point, everyone in the game gets along really well besides Tai and Nick, though that's more one-sided with Tai just hating Nick, and Morgan and Lindsey.) Problem is, I talked to Tai last night and he told me he won't write Lindsey's name down. Tai's got a list of people he will and won't for and he really doesn't want to deviate from that. I'm on the list of people he won't vote for, for some odd reason, but I'm a little lower on that list than Lindsey is, so...if it comes down to her or me for him, it's me.

Without Tai, we have no shot of getting the majority, so okay, I ask Tai who he wants to vote for. He says Morgan. Fine by me.

I have to convince Steve and Nat today that that's the better option.

I talked to Lindsey some about it last night. I'll continue working on her and LJ.

I'll play dumb with Nick and Morgan. I think they want me to think it's LJ or Lindsey, maybe Tai.

And I gotta hope that my closeness with Aubry means she wants to keep me over Morgan.

Basically I need to talk to just about EVERYONE, which I do anyway, so it's fine, but like...there's nothing more I can do than what I ordinarily do, I guess is my problem. I want to go to the extra mile or put in some effort that I haven't already been doing, but...all I can do is talk to people and try to get them to like me and not vote for me when it would be in their best interest to do so. And I've done that fine so far--I have no votes against me at this point. But that strategy was gonna reach its limit at some point and it might be tonight.

There's just no way a player as visible as me gets to the end without a well-played idol or well-timed immunity wins. And I have no idols to play, well or otherwise, and no immunity necklace. Nobody is bringing me to the end, here. I just gotta keep fighting and get as far as I can. I hope that's further than tonight, but I'm far from confident.

I'll be sad if I go but there won't be any hard feelings at everyone. I've promised a classy exit and a classy exit you will get.

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 11:19:12 am #3701

Barring a miracle I'm going home tonight. I have no idols or other tricks up my sleeves, so today I just gotta throw everything I have into my social game and cross my fingers. It's been a great run.

Who do you think you need to be talking to in order for the miracle to occur? Don't quit just yet, I've seen crazier things happen in Stranded.

I talked to Steve and Nat and we decided the best bet was to go to Morgan and tell her "Hey, voting out Andrea is Lindsey's move, do you really just want to pull off Andrea's move or do you want to do your OWN move?" which might work because Morgan and Lindsey hate each other. (At this point, everyone in the game gets along really well besides Tai and Nick, though that's more one-sided with Tai just hating Nick, and Morgan and Lindsey.) Problem is, I talked to Tai last night and he told me he won't write Lindsey's name down. Tai's got a list of people he will and won't for and he really doesn't want to deviate from that. I'm on the list of people he won't vote for, for some odd reason, but I'm a little lower on that list than Lindsey is, so...if it comes down to her or me for him, it's me.

Without Tai, we have no shot of getting the majority, so okay, I ask Tai who he wants to vote for. He says Morgan. Fine by me.

I have to convince Steve and Nat today that that's the better option.

I talked to Lindsey some about it last night. I'll continue working on her and LJ.

I'll play dumb with Nick and Morgan. I think they want me to think it's LJ or Lindsey, maybe Tai.

And I gotta hope that my closeness with Aubry means she wants to keep me over Morgan.

Basically I need to talk to just about EVERYONE, which I do anyway, so it's fine, but like...there's nothing more I can do than what I ordinarily do, I guess is my problem. I want to go to the extra mile or put in some effort that I haven't already been doing, but...all I can do is talk to people and try to get them to like me and not vote for me when it would be in their best interest to do so. And I've done that fine so far--I have no votes against me at this point. But that strategy was gonna reach its limit at some point and it might be tonight.

There's just no way a player as visible as me gets to the end without a well-played idol or well-timed immunity wins. And I have no idols to play, well or otherwise, and no immunity necklace. Nobody is bringing me to the end, here. I just gotta keep fighting and get as far as I can. I hope that's further than tonight, but I'm far from confident.

I'll be sad if I go but there won't be any hard feelings at everyone. I've promised a classy exit and a classy exit you will get.

*First paragraph: do you really want to pull off LINDSEY's move, not Andrea's, sorry.

[Kelly Wigles]

- Thu May 11, 2017 11:53:50 am #3703 Why target Lindsey? What's your argument, to those that can be swayed, that you should be kept over Lindsey? is there anyone else in the tribe that you feel should go home already?

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 12:04:42 pm #3704

Why target Lindsey? What's your argument, to those that can be swayed, that you should be kept over Lindsey? is there anyone else in the tribe that you feel should go home already?

I'm not targeting Lindsey anymore, I'm targeting Morgan. Lindsey was Steve and Nat's idea, trying to exploit the Morgan/Lindsey rift because Morgan's obsessed with making big moves now that Jeff riled her up (thanks, Jeff) and maybe we could convince her taking out Lindsey was an even bigger move than taking out me. But if Tai won't vote for Lindsey, and he won't, it's impossible.

Morgan absolutely should go home already. I defended her at council because I didn't want to make it obvious and just defend Natalie (who is seriously not a goat--do you guys not see this? Every strategic decision I've made has been alongside Natalie. Aligning with Garrett and Spencer instead of Tai and Alecia back on Hadiboh was HER, and it was a damn good decision too). But she's never here and I don't like her moralizing about how it's because she's so much busier than we are. I mean I'm sure she's busier than me, I don't do shit. But LJ has a kid. Like, really?

Back to my parenthetical...A Funny Thing Happened After I Blindsided Spencer (that's a little musical theater reference if any of you are geeks like I am). For some reason...I'm taking all of the heat for it?

We even joked about it as a group--like, including with Nick and Morgan--after the challenge, because like I said, for the most part we all get along, and I get along with everyone, so we can just talk about shit. And that's great. But like...it's ridiculous that that move happened and Natalie's still getting looked at as a goat and Steve is still the golden boy who can do no wrong. Did y'all think I flipped on my alliance on my own? Was I all four votes?

It's the dangers of being loud, I guess, and I'm a loud and sociable person. I wanted to play the game as myself and I guess that means looking like the figurehead of group moves. Which is a fantastic strategy...at final tribal council. Where I am not. And have very, very little shot at being.

But hey, I made friends, and the challenge last night made me think people like and respect me. In a game with no real million dollar prize...that's not a bad thing to walk away with.

[Kelly Wigles]

- Thu May 11, 2017 12:28:55 pm #3705 Where is all the talk about Natalie being a goat coming from? (Also, sorry about what went down at tribal, us hosts usually try not to interfere with how the game progresses but I guess we get a little over-invested in the game from time to time as well)

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 12:47:16 pm #3709

Where is all the talk about Natalie being a goat coming from? (Also, sorry about what went down at tribal, us hosts usually try not to interfere with how the game progresses but I guess we get a little over-invested in the game from time to time as well)

I appreciate that. I think Nat and Morgan were really hurt by what went down and that's not cool with me. And now of course it lit a fire under Morgan's ass that's screwing me over, so...

It's shit Jeff's making up because Nat isn't a challenge threat, I think. But like...neither am I? And no one's calling me a goat. Natalie and I are playing virtually the same game strategically and physically, I just have a stronger social game. And that makes my game better, sure, but it doesn't make it ASTRONOMICALLY better. And no one's calling me a goat. And my social game might be the thing that's gonna get me booted for being too big of a threat while she stays. So who's reeeeeeally playing the better game, here?

[Kelly Wigles]

- Thu May 11, 2017 12:57:36 pm #3710 I think some of the hosts are coming from a point of view where it's more about entertainment, in my view that should in no way affect how the players play the game. Again, i apologize that this has put you in this tough situation.

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 1:18:52 pm #3711

I think some of the hosts are coming from a point of view where it's more about entertainment, in my view that should in no way affect how the players play the game. Again, i apologize that this has put you in this tough situation.

Nat and Morgan are both HILARIOUS though! Morgan blew up at Lindsey last night in the merge chat for NO reason (I mean, it was because she thought she was fooling Lindsey into playing an idol when the vote was actually tai because Morgan is soooo in control of this game...okay honey) and Natalie is a seventeen-year-old boy everyone thinks is a girl and is the sassiest motherfucker I've ever met. Like I'm genuinely sorry if they're not delivering in confessionals because confessionals are my fave...but they're so entertaining! And moreso, if you don't like them, why cast them?

I don't know what makes me inherently more interesting than either of them, anyway. I'm not blowing up at tribal. I'm not calling people names. I'm not causing drama just to cause drama.

But I find 'em plenty entertaining. And honestly I'll take their quiet weirdness over something OTT trying waaaaay too hard to be edgy like Garrett any day, the same way I do when I watch the show. I don't find stuff like him or Debbie or Brandon or Phillip (on the show, not our Phillip) entertaining, I just get stressed out and drained. I don't like to watch it or play with it. I love watching and playing with Nat...and Morgan, I suppose :P

Man, the last Aomak vote was so close between Krista and Morgan, though. Can you imagine if they'd kept Krista instead? My girl <3 what could have been. And maybe I'd have some damn clue where the Detwah idol is...if Steve has it and doesn't play it for me tonight I'm gonna be so pissed. (Not really. That's his idol! Keep it for you, Steve.)

[Kelly Wigles]

- Thu May 11, 2017 1:35:17 pm #3712 So what's the vibe been like in the tribe today? Any new developments?

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 1:40:11 pm #3713

So what's the vibe been like in the tribe today? Any new developments?

Silent so far for me except a little scheming with Nat. I talked to Tai and Lindsey around 3 AM but nothing else since then. Nat and I are...cautiously optimistic we can make things work today. We'll see. Tonight's a big one.

[Ozzy Lusth]

- Thu May 11, 2017 1:56:27 pm #3714 I'm pulling for you!

Not sure if Wiggles already asked this, but what got you into Survivor in the first place?

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 2:28:24 pm #3716

I'm pulling for you!

Not sure if Wiggles already asked this, but what got you into Survivor in the first place?

Aw, you're sweet <3

Oh man, I've watched since the beginning! Watched Borneo with my parents when I was a little kid. We kept on going and stopped around Palau, I think my parents got bored and it wasn't up to me what we watched on TV, haha. Years later when Tocantins was airing my ex-bf and I were bored and watched it all in one night, and then we picked up and watched from there...we broke up I think during One World, and I took a little bit of a break, but I jumped back in and caught up on everything before Caramoan, and I've been watching live since then.

Still have never seen all of Guatemala, though.

How about you?

[Kimmi Kappenberg]

- Thu May 11, 2017 2:37:19 pm #3717

Still have never seen all of Guatemala, though.

This is the one season I haven't seen all the way through either

[Andrea]

- Thu May 11, 2017 2:49:32 pm #3718

Still have never seen all of Guatemala, though.

This is the one season I haven't seen all the way through either

I keep trying. I start it and I'm like, "This time I'm gonna do it!"

This time I got halfway through the second episode before I quit and watched Panama instead, ha.

[Kelly Wigles]

- Thu May 11, 2017 3:13:45 pm #3719 (Guatemala starts slow and then really picks up, I think it's one of the more terribly underrated seasons)

What does the routine seem like in the tribe? Who do you find is online the most and least?