Merge Questions

[Host Lex]

Congrats on merging! Just a few questions for you to answer now that we're at this next stage of the game.

1. Who is your closest ally? Do you plan on going to the end with them? Think you can beat them?

2. Who would you say is the biggest overall threat remaining? Strategic? Social? Physical?

3. Who do you want gone next?

4. What alliances do you have at this point? Do you plan on sticking with them?

5. What's your strategy from here on out? Will it differ from how you've played so far?

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[Shawna Mitchell]

1. Who is your closest ally? Do you plan on going to the end with them? Think you can beat them?

Thanks!! At this point I feel the closest to DD and Colby. Obviously DD is part of my alliance with Sydney & Kourtney, and I have doubts about all of them, but I talk to DD the most and feel safest with her. Colby and I aligned with the first tribal swap on Baci 2 and have remained close ever since, even though we were never on the same tribe again until merge. Obviously neither of them should know about each other but it would be my ideal F3 to go to the end with these two.


2. Who would you say is the biggest overall threat remaining? Strategic? Social? Physical?

Sydney, without a doubt, encompasses all three of those things. Individually, I'd say as far as strategic, Chase has shown to be pretty good when he has time to actually be online. Socially, probably Alexis. She's very likable and very well connected. Physically, I don't think anyone can beat Vee - Judd could be close.


3. Who do you want gone next?

Kim has been 'promised' but I think the longer she is here, the longer she'll stay here. I would like Kim to go in one of the next two rounds, but I'd love Candice to go next if it's not not Kim. I don't think there's anyone else I talk to less than Candice, besides Wanda, and she (Candice) has said she wants me out. Two great reasons.


4. What alliances do you have at this point? Do you plan on sticking with them?

I already partially answered this but I'll add Chase, Vee, Wanda, Alexis, Wanda and Miki. These are all people I've worked with or said I want to work with. Obviously there is partial trust but not full trust. All of them are people who I feel can help get me farther but will also need to go at some point. So, it's tricky. It's alll so tricky.


5. What's your strategy from here on out? Will it differ from how you've played so far?

I don't think I'd really change anything except, in retrospect, the Kim vote cost me some trust and then she was just injected right back into the game by a twist - straight to merge, no less. What was the point of what I risked just to have to deal with her now?

Anyway, my loyalty is important to me, but I'm not an idiot and I'm not handing someone the game if I can help it. Even DD, who is one of my closest allies, has told me her dream F3 would be DD, Judd, Me. She's basically admitting she may not be loyal to the F4. And now, with Kim back, her dream F3 is probably DD, Judd Kim.

I think at this point I see there are two "sides", made up of small groupings, and I don't want to be the target of either side. For me, that means, working in such a way that one side doesn't ever get "too" much power unless I'm a big part of that. For example, this round I could have helped rally votes for Kim, it probably could have been 9-7 or 10-6. But, what happens next round? Once a vote like that happens, what stops that group of 9 or 10 from bypassing Kim and picking off Sydney or DD or me instead? I do have allies on each of the sides, but so do a lot of people. I want people to still work for that Kim vote next round, but to be down a number. I want to be "needed" for people's plans and not disposable throughout the rest of the game.