By Jeff Varner
#2928 Hi LJ.

1. What happened in tonight's vote? Were you surprised by any of the votes or did it go how you expected?

2. Have you started to consider your path to the end? If so, what's it look like? And how do you like your odds of winning?

3. Is it too soon to consider jury votes? If so, when do you start? If not, what do you make of our first juror?

4. Please give us a trust ranking and maybe include a score out of 10 for each person with a brief reason for that score.
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#2949
1. What happened in tonight's vote? Were you surprised by any of the votes or did it go how you expected?
The majority again thought they were smarter than everyone, and again got lucky that we blew it. Last round they decided to switch off the split for whatever reason and Nick survived, this time they convinced Julia and Aubry to hang themselves and Spencer survived despite Trish flipping. I wasn't surprised it didn't go our way, but I was surprised they chose Julia. That was dumb on their part. They should have done me or Lindsey for the challenge strength/idol potential.

The vote for me was funny. I'm assuming it was Morgan. I don't really care about it.

Honestly, and I know you aren't supposed to say things like this, but I just don't really like them. I don't DISLIKE them, I just don't want to talk to them or be around them. Andrea is funny but she's so fake, and Steve is actually cool, but the rest are just whatever to me. The thought of initiating a conversation with them is painful to me.
2. Have you started to consider your path to the end? If so, what's it look like? And how do you like your odds of winning?
In most situations, I'd say "well the bottom will realize they are the bottom and things will change" but outside of Steve? I don't see Natalie and Morgan realizing anything. So basically if Steve won't flip, we'll get picked off one by one until Andrea, Spencer, and Nick cannabalize each other and my money is on Nick and the two girls voting off Andrea/Spencer when the time comes. Steve is the Denise to their Amanda, Todd, and Courtney.

Trish "has a plan" but won't tell us any details so I'm assuming there is no plan.
3. Is it too soon to consider jury votes? If so, when do you start? If not, what do you make of our first juror?
If Julia were more stable this game would look drastically different right now, but she seems fun. I like her.

That's what I don't get about the way the top three are playing right now. You have the numbers to send Julia home there without lying so much. They're overplaying their hands and if someone like Aubry gets to the final three, or god willing, someone from the minority goes on an immunity run, I think you'll see a lot of angry jurors getting theirs.
4. Please give us a trust ranking and maybe include a score out of 10 for each person with a brief reason for that score.
Lindsey 1,000
I have no reason not to trust her at this point. She told me about her idol, she's always voted with me, we seem to approach the game in the same way. I want her to win.

Tai 5
I think he's a good guy who has been painted really negatively and people bought into it.

Trish 5
Probably should be lower. I've always been a little leery of her, and her selling us out on the Fran/Julia thing last round confirmed it.

Aubry 5
It's going to be hard to really trust her like I did before this weeks results. She would have been a 10 if she had voted Spencer or just told me she wasn't going to.

Steve 2
Just because I think he's funny.

Nick, Spencer, Natalie, Morgan 1
I don't think they are smart enough to really pull anything off without Andrea's help.

Andrea 0
She is the fakest person I have ever met in an ORG. I'm sure she's wonderful in real life and I wish nothing but the best for her in her life, but nothing she says to me rings true in any way in this context. She's smart enough to actually trick me at some point, unlike her minions.
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#2951 This is where I will work through my thoughts on how we can maybe turn things around:

There are 11 left. 6 for a majority not counting idols.

Andrea, Nick, Spencer, Natalie, Morgan, Steve

LJ, Lindsey, Tai

Trish

Aubry

So for anything to even get off the ground, Trish and Aubry have to vote with us.

That puts us at 6-5 which is actually kind of amazing considering how the last 2 votes have gone.

I don't think it's the time for Lindsey's idol now. She should have played it on Julia when Trish told us she was the target, but I don't think she wanted to just yet.

One benefit of this result is that those guys are totally exposed. After the Fran vote they had the cover of "oh it was Fran all along" and we had to play dumb. Now it's clearly us vs. them so I can actually have real conversations with someone like Steve about the vote.

If we can't flip Steve it has to be Me, Trish, or Lindsey going home, right?

The idol is useless in this scenario unless we somehow find out who the target is but I think we lost our chance at that.

So it sounds like the only play is flip Steve?

I don't like our chances.
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#2953 Ugh I take back the mean things I said about them all. I just think they are annoying and it's sour grapes.
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