Round 13

[Matt Quinlan]

Lot's happening. I'll update tomorrow.

[Matt Quinlan]

Last round was simple. Sekou left, and Shawna winning immunity forced our 9-person alliance to stay on the same page in order to be united to be able to get out the biggest threat this round. Stephanie basically guessed my identity which makes me suspicious since I was trying to disguise my typing style with her and everything. So she now knows about some of my connections to other people in the game including Jay, who I just made it to the final three with in a Big Brother game (even though we were against one another at the end). Since Stephanie knows my identity, I can only assume that other people do now as well, and that will make me look like a threat later.

I feel like I would have for sure beat Savage in the challenge and scored between like 7 - 12 minutes, but it took me about 20 minutes to even get the pieces of the rope to display together due to my browser acting funny. So at the point I did the rest of the challenge in 9 minutes but was still taking my time since I figured I was already out. So that's frustrating, but I don't think that I'll be targeted right now so it looks good and might make the people who don't know who I am think that I'm not a big challenge threat for later.

This vote is a little tricky. Shawna's an obvious, common sense target. The second vote was between Mike and Stephanie. I personally would like to see Mike gone more because Stephanie wants to work with me and I do think she might be loyal to me over others, but at the same time, she's been too inconsistent to rely on 100% so I'm not going to push for her to stay since others in my alliance are pushing really hard her to go. So I'll compromise. I expect an exit speech where she may reveal certain things and call some of us out, and she'll be really bitter and bring up how we made a mistake voting for her because she was loyal to us. I feel a little bad betraying her since I know her outside of the game, but at the same time, it's the best strategic move I can make right now in the game.

Assuming I survive, final 9 will be interesting, but I think I have the strongest strategic forces on my side and the core of the Capitol alliance so don't expect to be targeted yet. The obvious two targets would be Mike and Savage. Jay wants to recruit them to make a move, and I'm intrigued by this. I'm not sure it's necessary because I think I'm already safe and he may end up going after my allies, but at the same time, I do want him to make it to the end of the game with me so will keep my options open. So this round, the excitement is over assuming Stephanie doesn't play a mystery prize. But next round will be big.