Yali Tribe

Hey, I'm Vytas of Stranded: Portugal and Stranded: All-Stars in Marquesas

Welcome to Stranded in Indonesia!

You'll be seeing a lot of me here, as well as our 10 other co-hosts as we pick your brain to see what's really going on in your head throughout the game. Feel free to ask any of us questions in here if you need to, we've all been through it before and are more than willing to help.

Each round, we'll start by asking some introductory questions, and I just want to ask that you answer in complete statements. We will be actively blogging on each episode, and it's easier to do so if we have real quotes and complete thoughts as opposed to simple yes or no answers. We hope you keep up with your confessionals daily during the week as a way to vent and discuss the events of that day. The more you update your confessional, the better idea we have of whats going on in your head, and also the more fan favorite points you'll earn yourself come the end of the season . You don't have to only update when you are prompted to, whenever you have an idea shoot it at us because we want to know everything.

So..

How confident are you going into this game that you will win?

What are your opinions of your fellow tribemates?

What is your strategy and approach to the game?

How do you think your rep fits you? Do you think being this character will affect your gameplay at all?

What are your thoughts on the leader twist? Change your strategy at all going in to these first few days?

Best of luck out there.

Okay so I'm super stoked to (finally) playing Stranded. Obviously i wanna talk to everyone on my tribe to get a good feel of them, and so far it's been going good. To answer your questions:

How confident are you going into this game that you will win?
-Confidence is key. But overconfidence leads to your downfall. So whoever is going to reply anything above 75% is lying to you and to themselves. I'm probably at a 70% right now. This is my first game, so of course I would need to adapt to the game format and such, but I came here to win, so I will do just that.

What are your opinions of your fellow tribunates? Ok lemme give you the rundown..
-I'm in a core 4 person alliance with Val, Reed, and Nadiya. i really trust Nadiya the most, then Reed, and then finally Val. Val rubbed me the wrong way when she insisted to vote John as the leader when I already volunteered to be the leader, since everyone was hesitant to decide on a leader. At first the idea was to vote Keith since no one talked to him, but that was just a bad idea to begin with since he was inactive and if the leader has powers, we would have been screwed. I suggested that one of us 4 should be the leader so that we have the power if there is a power. But Val insisted John should be the leader because she thinks he has "group dynamics". Group dynamics my ass, I'm sorry girl but that's just game suicide to give power to John, who PUBLICLY insist we have a final 9 alliance... Dafaq? No that don't work here. But using my great charm, everyone that's online is on board of electing me as the leader and I couldn't be more happier. In this game, power is everything and if the wrong person has the power, you are DONE. I'm making my own path.
-I have a side alliance with Drew to make us a five-some alliance, so we have the numbers just in case we go to tribal. I like Drew and i see him as an "escape" route" if the core4 erupts.
-John is a total wild card. i lowkey thinks he's supposed to play the personality of John Rocker, which is hilarious because i can't wait until that blows up his game. But he likes me, I see him as a number, so thats good.
-I haven't talked to Keith, Missy, or Dale.
What is your strategy and approach to the game?
-With the core4, Drew, and John I would just like to win challenges and hope we don't go to tribal. If we do go to tribal, unless someone in the core4 pisses me off, I see our votes going towards with Keith/Missy/Dale since they weren't online to chat with us.

How do you think your rep fits you? Do you think being this character will affect your gameplay at all?
-I definitely feel Jaclyn's sassiness inside of me and I like it! It's a blast to write confessionals up haha. But I do intend to keep my sass down in the game just because i feel it can rub people the wrong way.

What are your thoughts on the leader twist? Change your strategy at all going in to these first few days?
The leader twist obviously has power to it. At first I rather not be the leader, but with Val/Reed bringing up nominating people like Keith/John, i was like HELLL NO. I'm not going people who post "#final9" "#love" on the camp forum. I'm controlling my fate in this game. And if it means to volunteer as leader, so be it.

Sent: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:57:35 pm
by Jaclyn
haha i know i can feel the chaos erupting lol hopefully it'll cool down soon

Sent: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:49:50 pm
by Val
It's way better to avoid chaos when we're all just beginning... I mean, because, it is already that.

Sent: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:45:12 pm
by Jaclyn
omg thanks girl i really appreciate it! And it's very comforting to have all yall support!
And to be honest, I rather just volunteer so that I can look out for the best interest for you and me :)

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this BITCH obviously doesn't see the point in me volunteering as the leader. I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT IN ANY HARM WITH THIS TWIST! Yeah it's better to avoid chaos, but wouldn't it better to be the one that's causing the chaos? Like Val, TURN ON YOUR BRAIN. She really doesn't make any sense to me.

I was really considering giving the public idol to someone like Keith/Missy to place a big target on them, but having an idol in your pocket just gives you extra cushion of protection just in case. Also I would have to do damage control with my alliance, who will probably berate me for giving my idol to a non-alliance member. And I aint go no time for that this early in the game.

Missy is pissing me off about the whole rice shenanigans. i get it, you're trying to play in character, but it's getting over the top and I'm not having it.
She gave me "extra rice" in private (PM), so I guess she likes me. But right now I really don't want to deal with Missy's BS right now

and I notice keith/John is having some "bromance" alliance going in the camp forums and from secondary sources from other people via PMs. I don't trust John because I believe he's an absolute wildcard and it's hard to read him, so by default Keith is not on my good side right now. They can easily pull in Missy and Dale in their alliance and just one person from our core5 and they have the numbers. I need to make sure my alliance is the majority and if it takes throwing the first immunity challenge, then so be it. I just need to lay low until the next immunity challenge and see if Keith/John are wise enough to realize they are at the bottom and they will try to stir something up.

Jaclyn wrote:Missy is pissing me off about the whole rice shenanigans. i get it, you're trying to play in character, but it's getting over the top and I'm not having it.
She gave me "extra rice" in private (PM), so I guess she likes me. But right now I really don't want to deal with Missy's BS right now

I too hate it when people try to give me food I didn't ask for. Bitch!

Trashley Markwood wrote:

Jaclyn wrote:Missy is pissing me off about the whole rice shenanigans. i get it, you're trying to play in character, but it's getting over the top and I'm not having it.
She gave me "extra rice" in private (PM), so I guess she likes me. But right now I really don't want to deal with Missy's BS right now

I too hate it when people try to give me food I didn't ask for. Bitch!

OMG TELL ME ABOUT IT? i'm trying to be a leader and it looks so bad accepting extra food when i should be sharing with the others. How dare I act like the queen of Yali! even though i am

So Missy Pm'd me about starting a "family" alliance with her as the mom, Keith as the dad, and me as the daughter. At first i didn't even want to bother with missy, but accepting this alliance puts me in the middle in this tribe, which is great since if we have to go to tribal, not only am I not in anyone's radar, I decide which person from which side will go home. This is huge in a game like Stranded.

I do intend though to keep my word with the core4 and Drew, so by process of elimination, my intend target would be Dale since he hasn't brought up with me any alliance deals. He's nice and all, but if you're not with me, you're against me.

ALLIANCE RUNDOWN THAT I AM IN:

-Core 4 with Reed,Nadiya, and Val. I intend to stick with this alliance because I feel these people are the most logical and level-headed out of the tribe.

-Core4 + Drew. Drew is considered "that 5th person to have majority", but I've been working on him to get him closer with me. I actually trust Drew more than Reed and definitely Val, so we'll see what happens.

-Family alliance/Mom-Dad-Daughter: Missy (mom), Keith (dad), me (daughter). Missy hit me HARD with this alliance and it was just so hard to say no hahaha. But really this puts me in an excellent position - right in the middle. Never talked game with Keith, and i believe Missy is delusional, so this alliance is merely to solidify me in the middle of the tribe

-"Keeping up with the Yali-Dashians" or simply "Yali-Dashians" w/ Missy, Keith, me, Naidya, and Drew. This is just an extension of the Family alliance in order to have majority. I'm actually happy with Naidya and Drew being in both alliances because those are the two i trust most in the game right now and them being in the middle with me is great because we can make the decision to go with the core4 or with the Yali-dashians.

-Side alliance with Dale. It's really a weak one, but there's something. I do see this developing though going forward since the sole reason this hasn't developed yet is because we aren't online at the same time to have long PM's about strategy. I don't see Dale as a long term ally though.

TRUST RANKINGS (from I trust the most, to i trust the least):
1. Nadiya
2. Drew
3. Reed
4. Val
5. Missy
6. Dale
7. Keith
8. John

PLAN IF WE GO TO TRIBAL:
-I intend to play safe and see if someone is visibly weak in the immunity challenge since that is an easy vote. This also determines which side i will go on moving forward. I do prefer to have strong challenge participants over people i trust because lets face it, at this stage winning immunity challenges is the only way from going to tribal. And I'm trying to avoid tribal as much as possible.
-I am thinking of just playing my idol for the sake of just flushing it out and remove any type of target I have because of it, but I'm still undecided. I have a gut feeling that I'm playing a little too hard at the moment and there's always a chance that someone might catch me playing both sides. And that's a scary feeling

i feel like a huge disappointed as our leader and as a game player.. I admit i didn't take the practice puzzle seriously, therefore i had no idea how to even attempt to solve the puzzle. I literally just looked at it for 10 minutes and didn't even know how to attempt to figure it out. We won because So screwed up her post. I feel so down right now. I sucked so bad.

I sucked even before the challenge started. Team 3 was meant to be Nadiya and me and Team 4 would have been Reed and Keith, but I guess I posted the wrong list and my tribe were in agreement with it being Nadiya/Keith and me/Reed. I wanted to be with Nadiya first because she said she was excellent in the puzzle, thus I would have been able to help the other teams, even though my help wouldn't been needed.

God that was awful. I really need to prove myself in the second immunity challenge or else my tribe will conclude i am this tribe's dead weight and I'll be voted off.

Everyone is in agreement that if we lose immunity on Tuesday, that John would be voted out unanimously.. However I feel as though that will not benefit me at all.

The reason why everyone wants to vote out John is because he's annoying, starts drama with the other tribe, and is kinda douchey to us. Everyone on our tribe believes if we do merge/swap with John still in the game, he will most likely be a reason why we are not able to pull people from the other tribe to vote with us OR he may ruin some of our games by throwing us under the bus to the other tribe. In addition, he made it clear he will not be beneficial in the immunity challenge, which rubbed people the wrong way- they saw it as John was not willing to try in solving the puzzle because he knows he's not good at. I knew i was bad at the puzzle, but i didn't stop trying.

Even though I agree about the above points why we should get john out now, I feel like keeping John will benefit me. After showing my weakness in the challenge yesterday, I feel like I am vulnerable for a blindside down the road. By keeping John, I have a "meat shield". John would always be a target before me, therefore it keeps me in the game a few more rounds.

The tricky part is I need some people to back me up on this idea of keeping John. Everyone is on agreement on getting him out, which is the "easy" vote, which it is. I might need to read on people if they genuinely want John out, or they are just following the bandwagon. If it was up to me, I would like to vote out Dale because I haven't talked to him that much and I believe he knows he's in the minority, therefore a bigger chance of him trying to start a minority revolution. He's a smart guy and he could definitely could try to pull some strings and cause a blindside.

Do you have anyone you can share this with that you trust?

Yes I have already discussed this with Nadiya, who I trust the most, and she also sees keeping Jeff is beneficial, however she feels as though it's too early to piss people off, particularly Missy, and rather we just focus on winning challenges for now. She feels that John is a wildcard and is hesitant to put all her cards on John. In addition she does not know who would we vote out instead of John.

So as of now, I have no one supporting me in keeping John safe which sucks.