Episode 8 & 9 - MERGING

[ohenry]

The last TC leading to rocks i feel like is leading the merge into a bump ride for all left in the game. We can not expect anything to happen now. Alliances are crumbled, people are more distrusting and the Power House 7 has taken 2 huge hits causing them to abandon ship.

Whitney and Brady will have to work together from here on out. And it is more Whitney will not leave Brady's side now after what has to be one the biggest acts of loyalty I have seen (which is weird since I never saw brady as the loyal type).

Gannon feels alone for the first time in this game. He feels on edge with the 3 who stayed on the m side , and Tanya leaving means he can't work with New-Kuban and longer (unless it is with Natalie).I feel like he will try to jump on the "the wee alliance".

Felix and Will are breathing some fresh air, which might give them the second wind they need to go on to the end

Natalie is on edge because she almost left and that will cause her to play the game harder now I feel

Daniel, Rachel, and Georgina are not going to be sitting pretty. They had a nice pedestal all game but,unless they can keep hold of Jessica and maybe pull in Whitney and Brady (which will i feel gaurentee hunter with them), there pedestal might have just broke and they will fall to the doom. 

Hunter and Jessica...No idea what they will do. I think Hunter wants to go and work with Whit and Jess seems pretty head strong on sticking with New-Malka

Anything can happen and I excited to see how this turns out.


P.S. please don't hate me for typo's I'm on my phone. 

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Brady (despite his argument and attempt to take out Natalie) has performed consistently well for his tribe but has come to blows with his fellow Americans. His closest ally may be Whitney at the moment, but if the Natalie argument comes round again it would be best for her to distance herself to prevent a target being painted on her. He needs to tread carefully in these opening days of the merge otherwise it's a big blow to Team USA.

Daniel is really a credit to how well Foreigners can play the game, guy is hardcore, he knows what he wants to do and when to do it and because of that people naturally gravitate towards him so he will be tough to take out but not impossible if the rest of the cast decide to take a stab at him.

Felix is very love/hate, he's loud, brash, annoying at times but goddamn he can hold his own. Despite the negative criticism he may get he is building up an impressive track record in the game, he eliminated Axel in a duel, survived an attempt to vote him out in the early rounds, formed good bonds with his Likhi tribemates and he's always there to confront you when the cards don't fall where they're supposed to. Keep an eye on him.

Gannon has been very good with his social game and his intuition is pretty on-par as well - he's smart enough to know what's up and can identify when he needs to make moves. He avoided a massive blow-up with the Tanya boot while he was at Exile which should save him a few more rounds if he's able to capitalize on it but he needs to be on his toes as those people who wanted to take him out are still around.

Georgina is performing at a very strong level of the physical and social game but is able to hide it well by masking one game (the physical) with the other (the social) and nobody has ever spoke about taking her out. Her problem like O'Henry said will be that she's comfortable enough to sit back but won't know when the hit is put out on her, hopefully she will be able to identify and source enough votes for the future.

Hunter is a bit of a question mark, I can't put my finger on him. He can go either which way right now, very free-agent vibes coming from him.

Jessica is a contestant I'm starting to appreciate more as the game continues, well liked and seemingly able to calm a situation down with relative ease and success. I can see her navigating the rest of the game until the mid-merge and that's where she'll start to have trouble. I don't see her in any major deals or alliances and that can work for her at the moment but she had better start building trust otherwise she could be gone before her prime.

Natalie is fascinating, she's very loud, antagonistic and this is only since the rock draw! This merge marks a turning point for her game where she shifts from thinking like a tribe and more as an individual. Despite being on everyones radar since the blow-up, she could be easy to pick up and use as a vote down the line.

Rachel, like Hunter, is a question mark. I can't get a read on her, there's something I just can't connect with. If she left first I wouldn't be overly upset.

Whitney has been a firecracker for most of the game but her relationship with Brady will come into play if the blow-up is still in the forefront of peoples minds when it comes to the vote. She'll need to plan her next move with caution and whether or not she stays with the guy who helped save her and risk a rock draw for her.

Will is playing a very interesting game which I don't think people give a lot of credit for. Constance called him a Villain for her boot, he didn't need to flip but did when Paulina flipped to join him... he's got options available to him right now it's a question of where he's going to place his cards and how he's going to move now that he's become an individual player.

[Phil]

Aw shit I feel like I missed a lot. Thanks for the updates y'all. Can't say I would have predicted a Tanya boot quite this early. There are some people I definitely did not think would make merge -- and here they are! I'm kind of enjoying this subtle powershifts going on, and it seems like the game shifted yet again with this merge. I'm honestly still impressed that Hunter has hung on, because he was very nearly the first out and I legit thought he would freeze to death.

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Daniel and Whitney are building a good relationship and exchanging a lot of information between each other regarding the rock draw and Whitney's history with Brady. This really puts Daniel in a good position with her, he didn't ask for anything more than a generalisation and she didn't have to say how loyal Brady was to her plus she knowingly exposed her relationship with Gannon as she hinted at a Whitney/Brady/Tanya/Gannon alliance come merge time.

Whitney mentioned a Natalie/Will/Felix connection and suggest to target one of the three. Daniel puts forward a split vote with Brady, Gannon, Georgina, Jess, Hunter and Rachel being in on the deal then throws his Malka roots under the bus knowing that he's on the bottom of the totem giving Whitney the notion of Georgina/Gannon being the head of the snake but will have to work something out down the road - they agree it's too early to form a team against them.

[ohenry]

just minutes away from the 1st TC of merge and big moves are being speculated. Heartbreak will happen and friendships wills be ruined. This is picking up from the last episode and I expect episodes later on to be just intense.

[Host Jared]

And then we hit the colossal tribal fights, oh how this stuff is legendary!