[Jeff Varner]

- Sun May 01, 2016 9:58:53 pm #3628 Hey Joaquin. Congrats on surviving that tribal council.

Here are some questions:

1. That was a pretty hectic tribal council with a lot of drama. What was your take on what went down?

2. Did that vote go as you expected? If not, what'd you expect and what do you suspect went wrong?

3. With Kelly being the first member of the jury, at what point do you have to start considering jury votes?

4. Give me a status update on your game: How are you feeling about your place in the game this round? What's your path to the end?

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 1:10:07 am #3743 Sup Varner

Now that all the dust has cleared (for the time being) and I've answered more PM's today than ever before, time to give my before-bed confessional.

1) It was pretty much what I expected actually. Told Probst beforehand I expected a straightforward vote with craziness at the council, with people trying to scramble and all. I'm actually loving all of the craziness, because it makes people paranoid and emotional. When people get paranoid and emotional, they don't act rationally or in their best interest all the time and that's when Joaq swoops in. I also somehow cleared this round of votes without really being in the crossfire at all.

2) Went exactly as expected. Knew Kelly was going home for a bit now.

3) Jury votes are weird. The way you play should always be influenced by the fact there's a jury - it's bad to fuck people over and flip when it's not rational, it's bad to lie when you don't have to, backstabbing can hurt. Ultimately, I think in general my play style lends well to the jury (as been historically proven, won my last season in a 6-1-1 vote) so I'm mostly focused on my path to the end. The more important thing with the jury is who are you sitting next to at the end?

4) If you were to just look at my position, you'd probably think it doesn't look too hot. So and Jenn appear to be dead men walking, and after then, the Old Yali will just take me and Dan out. But whether people realized it or not, cracks were exposed tonight. Jac and Val are tight. Reed made a poor choice during the challenge in showing his relationship with Nadiya. Drew put it best at tribal when he said people have their hands in multiple cookie jars. Someone's gonna get caught, and I'm gonna pounce on that.

By the way, I love Drew. He and I are so similar (besides the music taste). I look forward to hopefully starting some chaos soon with him. My goal is at F9 to pull him and So with me and Dan, as well as one other person afraid of everyone's trillion F3 alliances to blindside a Dale or something. From there, who know's - gotta take it one vote at a time. And having the idol with Dan don't hurt

[Kelly Wigles]

- Mon May 02, 2016 1:15:03 am #3745 Hey Joaquin, so you say you have a game plan for around the F9 round, what's on the docket for this round? Is it in your best interest to maintain the chaos going on right now? What happens if it dies down?

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 1:28:37 am #3748 Well, I mean, you have to play it by ear. I expect it to die down a little bit now that "lines have been drawn", and we'll have another predictable boot next round (hopefully Jenn), but then to start it up again.

My plan is pretty much me + Dan + (hopefully so) + 2 recruited people who should realize that they are on the bottom of Yali. And that shouldn't be too tough to do considering the HUGE number of fucking alliances Dale is in.

[Kelly Wigles]

- Mon May 02, 2016 1:37:49 am #3753 What makes Jenn such an obvious target in this next round?

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 10:29:30 am #3782 Well, as you saw in voting,there was an 8 person voting bloc/alliance consisting of the OG Yalis + Dan and myself, and a minority alliance of Kelly, So and Jenn. With Kelly gone, the next target falls on So or Jenn. Some seem to believe that after last night's outburst, So is either too big of a goat or that no one would work with her because of it (lol) so that way Jenn should be the target.

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 1:37:32 pm #3793 Jk lulz everyone got way too fucking paranoid and everyone's trying to blindside each other

[Jeff Varner]

- Mon May 02, 2016 2:10:00 pm #3796

Jk lulz everyone got way too fucking paranoid and everyone's trying to blindside each other

Care to give a brief rundown on what's going on?

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 2:16:36 pm #3798 Paranoia that there's an all girls alliance brewing. Dale wants to blindside Val tonight. Drew wants to blindside whoever has the most power tonight, though I think he wants to go F4 with swapped Asmat so I'll have to be careful with numbers about him. Apparently Val wants like Dale out or something. Honestly, like I said before, seemed like I was in a shit position but they're all gonna eat each other. Just gotta play who against who at the right time and I should be good.

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 3:32:15 pm #3802 Now it's Jenn again.

[Jeff Varner]

- Mon May 02, 2016 4:38:54 pm #3806 With all the different names being thrown around, who do you personally want to see gone tonight?

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 5:05:51 pm #3807 anyone but me, i don't give a fuck who it is. Right now Drew is trying to cause chaos.

[Joaquin]

- Mon May 02, 2016 6:06:42 pm #3812 Everything has become clear in the last half hour. The lines are drawn in the sand -

Side 1: Drew, Reed, Jenn, So
Side 2: Dale, Jac, Nadiya, Val

Drew trying to get us to flip there to take out Nadiya's idol. "Apparently" Nadiya trying to take me out.

Personally, I am leaning towards just dumping my entire conversation with Drew to side 2 and blindsiding him tonight. He is just too good and manipulative. We can flip back to side 1 after? Though Reed might flip to side 2, but we could also idol at 9. Idk. Drew is super dangerous. Won't be available in 20 minutes (again) sorry for all the messages but let me know what you think and we can organize in between challenge and tribal.