Pregame Questions

[Host Brett]

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1: Would you describe yourself as a Hero or a Villain?

2: What's your strategy going to be like?

3: Any pre-existing friendships or rivalries?

4: Knowing how people played in prior seasons, are there anyone that you're wary of? Anyone that you might want to work with?

5: What's one word you would use to describe your gameplay or personality?

6. What did you learn from your last time playing? Are you going to play similarly, or are you planning on changing things up?

7. What do you think of your title? Do you plan to live up to it, or defy it? If you could change it, what would you pick?

8. Any other comments?


- In the event that you're tied with someone else for most votes after a re-vote at Tribal Council, we'll move onto a tie breaker challenge between the two who are tied. Please rank these in your order of preference.

1: Posting (Spamming)
2: Puzzle
3: Endurance
4: Trivia (Survivor)
5: Logic (Word Search/Unscramble)

[John "Swag" Cochran]

1: Would you describe yourself as a Hero or a Villain?

I still can't see myself as anything other than a Villain. I still view the other players as pieces in a chess game, each with their own level of use. Once a player reaches it's capacity of use fullness, you sacrifice it. Nothing more. I fail to comprehend how people get emotionally attached to other players, in a game about deceit and betrayal. Like they think this is a game about friendship and rainbows or something.

2: What's your strategy going to be like?

Well, to be honest, nothing yet. I have various ideas floating in my head at the moment, branching off into different pathways each. I can't decide on anything to do till I see the tribe layouts though. I've kept an eye out on the games though, so I know most everyone's play style, and I've read the older games as well, so hopefully I can use that to my advantage. I have to keep in mind though that there are people out there that will attempt to completely change their playstyle. Of course, my original strategy in my old game is still tucked nicely in the back of my head, as I still think it's a solid strategy, just needs to be better executed.

3: Any pre-existing friendships or rivalries?

Actually, there are plenty here this go around. Coach is a good friend of mine, we've played in countless online games before, and I've been around for his Lab games since the first. I've know Boston Rob for close to 8 years now, from a different board. DDanielle and me played a ORG about five years together and became pretty close during that. Sekou was my closest ally in the Sausage Island season that I played in. Of course, I also know Phillip and Rory, though both are completely unstable people and I can't decide whether they're friends or enemies until I'm either saved or killed by them.

4: Knowing how people played in prior seasons, are there anyone that you're wary of? Anyone that you might want to work with?

I want to work with Coach or DDanielle. Both are extremely smart players, and both are very aware of their surroundings. Immediately, I'm wary of Phillip, Rory, Vecepia, and Ted. Of course, being wary of Ted is a given. That man thinks exactly like I do. But he has the charisma to accurately abuse that way of thinking. He completely abuses a player until their capacity of usefulness is reached, and then quickly disposes it. With terrifying perfection at that. I think he only made one major mistake in his season of Sausage Island, and that was what caused his loss to Bob Dawg. I'm wary of Vecepia due to her ability to draw up a storm the instant she needs to do so. Such a powerful social game could be detrimental to any strategy I devise. Phillip and Rory are just plain wildcards. I can't read them whatsoever. They do what they like on an impulse, and are completely untrustable and unusable. All I can do is keep an eye on them and dodge their paths myself.

5: What's one word you would use to describe your gameplay or personality?

Electric.

Most people would say that this word doesn't make any sort of sense. But, that's exactly what describes my gameplay. I don't come here to dick around, or make a new best friend. I don't have to pander to anyone's emotions just to work together for survival. Here on the internet, I'm not physcially next to any of the people here. Here on the internet, this isn't about a physical survival game. I don't lose muscle mass. I don't feel the hunger from starvation. I don't pant from how thirsty I've become. What I do do though, is play one of the most psychological mind games in the world. I sit and think for hours about what other people could be thinking. I go to work, and in the back of my mind, I run scenarios that could be playing out. And I feel like a lot of people that come play this game don't think similarly. Of course, the majority of the people here in this season of Sausage Island do think like this, because these are the types of people that win. Because they play to win. A simple emotion of guilt isn't going to deter them from that. But, what exactly, links this to my word, Electric? It's because of the electricity that runs through my body when I think about winning this game. The primal desire I have to be the mastermind behind everything, behind every twist, every betrayal, every survival. I crave, with every inch of my body to see one of my scenarios unfold across the battlefield. That's why the word Electric describes my gameplay, my personality.

6. What did you learn from your last time playing? Are you going to play similarly, or are you planning on changing things up?

I learned that the social game is extremely important. Period. After the collapse of what I felt was an extremely strong strategy (in which I still believe that the onion web strategy is virtually unbeatable when properly deployed), I realized how unattached to the rest of my tribe, to the rest of the game I was. I was so caught up in my own strategy, that the web strategy had caught me in it. I fell back on the person I most trusted after that, and was still completely unable to slip back into the game, quickly being disposed of. I don't plan on changing my basis of my playstyle. I still plan on being wary of everyone, but I have to play a stronger social game this time around. There has to be fail-safes just in case this go around.

7. What do you think of your title? Do you plan to live up to it, or defy it? If you could change it, what would you pick?

The Spider. I love it. If I can, I would love to live up to it, the idea of Cochran ensnaring his opponents in a web of lies, slowly killing them off with his poison is a wonderful mental image and perfectly captures my playstyle I think.

If I could change it, clearly I would change it to "The Swag." Because you know, he exudes so much awesome that everyone wants his D.

8. Any other comments?

Nah brah. Ask questions PW's!

- In the event that you're tied with someone else for most votes after a re-vote at Tribal Council, we'll move onto a tie breaker challenge between the two who are tied. Please rank these in your order of preference.

2: Puzzle
5: Logic (Word Search/Unscramble)
1: Posting (Spamming)
3: Endurance
4: Trivia (Survivor)

[Host Lex]

So glad you're back. Excellent answers. Can't wait to watch you play!

[Purple Kelly]

Every answer I read I could actually see Cochran saying it as one of his confessionals!

Great answers!! Cant wait to see what you have in stores!!