Round 19

[aubra]

Ding dong Ricky's finally gone.  WOW.  I can't believe that actually worked.  Taylor's idol is gone, Ricky's gone.  This is amazing. Normally I'd feel bad voting someone out on their birthday but after the things he said to me this round... nope I don't feel bad at all.  I've been trying to get rid of Ricky since the merge began, turned out I just needed his alliance to help.  

I feel pretty good about my spot right now.  Taylor is the only person I'm not working with.  I did message her after the vote, I hate when people blindside me and then ignore me after, so i didn't want to do that to her.  Plus I don't want her to idol me out of the game.  I believe she still has an idol.  When she played her idol she said I want to play the swap idol.  So does that mean she has more than one?  Is the other idol different and that's why she had to differentiate between the two?  Or did she just want to prove the point that it wasn't the orange idol, like I said it was?  I still don't know where the merge idol is.  Ricky clearly didn't have it.  Knight claims he would've played it tonight if he had it, but idk if that's true.  Still hoping Danny or Knight have it.  I do want to take out Danny eventually, so I guess him having it isn't best case but we can always try to cut him at 4 or 3 if it's a f2.  

So Jordan is still my f2 (or one of them) and thinks I will be easier to beat than Danny so not too worried about him.  I'm not too sure what Danny's plans are next.  He's proven he's not scared to turn on an allie.  We still have Taylor in the game though who apparently was telling him he was a horrible person last night, so I'm sure we will still work together to get her out at least.  Knight was bummed he wasn't part of the move.  I just said I wasn't sure if it would happen but I had to just vote Ricky and hope for the best, and that I didn't want anyone to find out.  Jake says he still wants Taylor out.  Taylor I'm going to try to talk to today and get on her good side so that she doesn't target me.  Hopefully she will want to go after Danny instead or even Jordan.  

My preference is for Taylor to go this round and I think everyone else will target her as well but I know there's a good chance she wins immunity and/or has an idol.  I'm not really sure who my second choice to go is at this point.  Jordan is going to push for Knight.  I assume Danny will push for Jake? Knight will target Jordan.  Idk who Jake will target, maybe Knight? And maybe Taylor will target Danny? Hopefully I can stay out of the crosshairs or win immunity.  

[aubra]

So everyone decided to do tribal last night because apparently they are fans of Aubra getting no sleep which is exactly what happened. Last night was a ride.

So basically Taylor and Knight were trying to convince us all day that they were fighting and voting each other out. Everyone said it was fake. They were going at it in the tribe chat (publicity stunt), Knight said Taylor was being weird since Ricky was voted out (uh that was 12 hours ago), Taylor kept saying Knight hasn't messaged her, and the bottom line was that they voted together during the Ricky tribal so why would they be mad? The problem was Jake won immunity (which turned out to be a really good thing) So it had to be one of them. Of course, I always wanted to be one of them I was just scared they had an idol. So basically Danny wanted Taylor out and like everyone did but I saw benefits to either leaving. Jake said he was good with either going but thought Knight was better at comps. I assume this is bc they are both good at the same type of comps.

I decided last minute I wanted to go for Knight because 1. I could see Danny and Knight working together before Danny and Taylor, 2. Jordan told me Knight was talking about voting me out next. 3. Knight started telling me he thought I could win and seemed to now want to go to the end with Jordan. Bottom line is either leaving was fine but that I decided we should do. We told Danny we were going to split and I was going to vote Taylor even though I wasn't. And then I was just going to say I got spooked that she was going to play an idol and flipped to vote Knight. So Jake told me he was def voting Knight and he knew Danny wasn't a part of it. Jordan and I called Taylor together to tell her we were voting for Knight. She claimed she would as well. I was messaging her all during the tribal. And then my name comes up... I thought for sure I was gone when I got two. Like why would I get votes if they weren't sure they could pull it off? I thought I was destined to get sixth again just like my last and only other skype game and that was going to suck. But somehow I'm still here. And that somehow is Jake Round apparently. I messaged him right after and said wtf just happened? He said Me, you, Jordan voted Knight, Danny voted Taylor, Knight and Taylor voted for you. So somehow I guess Jake was the only person who knew where all of the votes were landing this round. Apparently they tried to get Jake to vote for me and thought he was. I think it was last minute? Who knows, that what Jake told Jordan I think. Taylor didn't message me after until Jordan said something to her. And then she said she was just trying to give me space bc I probably thought it was her even though it wasn't. That makes no sense to me. Her story was that she didn't know they were voting for me and that they probably wanted it to be 2/2/2? Lmao why would they want that? It makes no sense. SO whatever, I'm her target which is not surprising in the least but I think it's dumb. Why not go after Danny? I was actually trying to semi work with her, but ok girl. On the brightside the fact that I got votes kind of helped to take away from the fact that I didn't vote for who I said I was voting. Danny still asked about that of course and wished we voted for Taylor but they both voted for me so I don't really care who left. They both need to go and everyone left recognizes that.

So I probably was stupid to split the votes and let her know... But thank God for Jake Round. I don't see why he would vote for me though, so I don't think I was in real danger, but it's always risky to rely on Jake's vote. Which was their fatal flaw. Right now Jake's plan is to win comps. Yeah, I won two comps but they're not the comps that are probably coming up and the ones Jake is banking on winning. He wants to win the endurance and physical comps which are often seen in the end. So getting rid of Knight made sense for him. I don't think I'm a threat to Jake. I still think Taylor could have the idol and maybe I helped myself by letting her know it wasn't her going, bc if Jordan and I did vote for her she could have sussed it out and played it and I would have left. So I'm still scared of this idol going into round 5. But we'll figure something out. I might have to end up targetting Danny this round, we'll see. I def want Taylor to go but I have to be careful. It might be safer to wait til 4 to take a shot at her. I think it'll be a final 2 so I should have a couple of opportunities left.