Stranded in Indonesia

Hey Val. 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 and the perception the jury has of you and your game?

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?

1. Some people felt too comfortable and felt they could get loud too, wtf and some people were way playing on the edge and fighting back in the most bizarre way.

2. Yes. Mostly, but only mostly because the comfortable people felt they could play with the votes.

3. Yes:

So wrote:

Val wrote:

So wrote: Great thing to say if you're trying to blindside someone

So, what are you trying to achieve? Alienating your damn self from everybody?

Val you already have this game on lock. I'm just trying to expose the cracks in your alliance

Not that that is necessarily true, but at leas people know that I'm here.

4. My path to the end is hard, because I'm probably going to have to cross a more people than most in an alliance with me to get there. Unless I can finesse a vote at someone where I'm not participating, Imma get some bitterness.

Do you feel you could win against your current alliance if say... you all pagonged everyone else in the game?

Not Drew and not Reed. Nadiya and her Idols are kinda iffy, but I think I could definitely beat Jaclyn at this point. But maybe people liked that fight. It's hard to tell. I am the one who made these alliances, and most of them will know that. Certain heads wouldn't have come together without me.

Hey Val, with all the fireworks going on around camp, how do you feel you stack up compared to each of your other tribe mates? Do you feel like you can build a convincing case to a jury that you deserve their vote more than them?

Haha, yeah, I told Jeff. It's hard though, the more I think about it, the more I realize there is a boys club here and I'm not exactly a part of it. Two things came back to mind. The gender thing, with way more force knowing how many of the girls are guys. The second is that Drew'll be tough to beat... yeah. Shit.

Val wrote:Not Drew and not Reed. Nadiya and her Idols are kinda iffy, but I think I could definitely beat Jaclyn at this point. But maybe people liked that fight. It's hard to tell. I am the one who made these alliances, and most of them will know that. Certain heads wouldn't have come together without me.

But do other people know that, and do they care who made the alliance? IDK, you gotta think about if you are standing out enough to warrant a win or if you are fading too far into the background. Just some food for thought. Jury started now and you gotta find a way to impress them.

If they didn't come together, then they wouldn't be safe. That's going to be verifiable as the people start falling and if I'm still here. But, obviously, I'm not done here, yet.

hey Val, you were talking about a boys club, you mind explaining that a little more? Who's in it? and why are they in power?

I don't think they're in power, per se (unless there's another strong alliance that I'm not aware of, which is entirely possible... in which case, that's why they'd be in power), but they've got jokes and connections that I just haven't been able to jive with and I think that'll alter some jury perceptions. That's real power. Likability in the most general of ways, and these bros can be general.

Does it matter at this point if there is a boy's club if you don't think they're in power anyway?

Yes, because that means I can't let anyone in the boys club be at the end, period.

I'm always so nervous about Nadiya. She gets me soooo anxious.

Why? what makes you nervous about Nadiya?

Her responses are vague and she said something about gunning people being in too many alliances (me?!). Like girl, you're supposed to be in my top 3, you can tell me who to vote for.

Are you in too many alliances? How would she know that?

Cuz I was a big part in the reattaching of Yali's "Supah Fine 5" with a Jenn addition. I hope she's not thinking I'm playing all my angles. That was really for all our benefit. You really can't just think of yourself in this game, or else it becomes very obvious.

Dammit, Jeff, you were right. I'm in a sticky situation. Where's my mobility?! NOWHERE!

Val wrote:Cuz I was a big part in the reattaching of Yali's "Supah Fine 5" with a Jenn addition. I hope she's not thinking I'm playing all my angles. That was really for all our benefit. You really can't just think of yourself in this game, or else it becomes very obvious.

Well wouldn't that just count as 1 alliance though? What exactly was your part in the reattaching of that alliance? Walk us through it.

Nadiya was not ready to trust them. Maybe I should have seen that. I think that my damnable proclivity to unite was a little too much too soon. All I imagine Nad thinking is "Why I gotta play with them?" and "Wait! How long have YOU been playing with them?!"

She seem good with me now. But I'm in this spot where I gotta stick with it and risk being this mild ass motherfucker or challenging what I said I'd do with people I've built trust with. Nadiya is affecting my game too much for my own damn good.

I'm confused, so you're saying that you convinced Nadiya to work with your alliance of 5? Why do you feel your willingness to unite was too soon? You all seem to have a good majority alliance.

It looks like you're main ally is Nadiya and that you intend to go with her to the end, how much do you compare to her game-wise? Do you think you can realisiticaly win against her in the finals?