Round 1

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Well, looks like GvsE All Stars has officially started!

Tribes were revealed today. Overall, I like my tribe. I honestly think I would have been okay with any combination of people on my tribe, just because there are so many people I like in this game. But for the most part, what I have works out.



Honestly, I didn’t want to be on a tribe with Cassie. Everyone knows that Cassie and I are close, and that puts a huge target on us. Also, it’s just harder for me to play my own game with her around. I really am going to try to put my own best interests ahead of her in this game. I don’t think our friendship will really be a big deal for right now, just because of our tribe dynamic and who else is on it. But it’s amazing how much less than usual I trust her, though. I feel bad saying that, but normally it’s like SO comforting to have her on my tribe just because in the past she has always been someone I could talk to without having to monitor myself, and someone I know would never use any information against me. But after season 3, I’m much more conscious about what I tell her. It still is nice to strategize with her and stuff, but I am just anticipating she is going to start trying to control me any second.



I guess Chase is out of town, and I am totally annoyed he didn’t tell me! lol. Kidding (kind of) but anyways, I am SUPER happy Chase is on my tribe. I would be a little more excited if I had been talking to him the last couple of days, but I would be WAY more excited if Cassie wasn’t on the tribe too. Honestly, Cassie being on the tribe takes away almost all the excitement of Chase being on my tribe. Cassie says the one person she is nervous about is Chase, and I would not be surprised if Chase wants to immediately target Cassie. Like I explained in my pregame assessment, I think under any normal circumstances, Chase and I would work super well together, but I think it’s still on his mind that I was going to vote him out for Ryan in season 3. And so because of that, I feel like he won’t trust me 100% right now because he’ll be nervous I’m going to tell everything he says to Cassie =/ And I really don’t want that strain on our relationship. If he just puts all his trust in me, everything will work out so much better. Granted, I haven’t talked to Chase about anything yet. These are just all my predictions.



Once again, not a lot to say about Colleen. I feel bad saying that, but I just never talk to her. I seriously think she’s so nice, but honestly I just don’t ever see myself getting that close to her. I haven’t talked to her at all though, so I definitely need to do that whenever she gets online. I guess there will be a timezone barrier but I’m sure I’ll still get a chance to talk to her. But yeah, nothing much to say.



I seriously love Henry. He’s sooo much fun to talk to. He doesn’t even write a whole lot in his IMs, and he gets one-wordy sometimes, but he’s still fun to talk to. So that should say a lot, haha. I said in my pregame that I couldn’t really see myself working with him, but I kind of take that back now. I think I could actually work pretty well with him. I kind of just automatically trust him for some reason, I’m really not sure why, but maybe it's just a characteristic about him that makes him such a great player. I just feel so comfortable talking to him. I’ll probably end up spilling too much information to him while he just “Mhmm”’s the whole time. I really don’t know what tricks he has up his sleeve.



I finally met Quincy today! I really like him!! He gave off a great first impression. He is really easy to talk to and super nice. I guess I could see myself working with him at some point, but we still have a lot of trust to build up with each other obviously. But I'm definitely looking forward to getting to know him more.



I love Thiago. I really enjoy his company. I love having deep conversations with people, and he’s just so open about everything and it makes it so easy to connect with him. And when you talk to someone at that level, it makes it so easy to trust them in games. This is clearly why he’s such a good player. Cassie even admitted to me that it was working on her already. He really does have a mist, and I don’t think it’s working on me as much as it is on Cassie, but it is still working on me a little. So while I absolutely love talking to him and ideally I’d love to align with him, I’m honestly just really scared of him.

So yeah, I’m definitely not disappointed with the tribe. I think what I like about it is just the general sense of comfort I feel on it. I can talk to anyone on it without having to "put on" in any way. I just have a totally natural relationship with everyone, even Quincy who I just met. There's no one on the tribe who I feel like I need to try to work over, or who I feel is hardcore out to get me and i need to get in their good graces. It's just a really good position to be in right now, honestly. I hope that I'm not completely off with feeling that way =/

A couple other things I wanted to touch on:



I finally got to meet Perry last night. He’s really friendly and relaxed, and I liked talking to him because I didn’t feel like I had to try and sound intelligent lol. Honestly though, I couldn’t even imagine talking strategy with him. I know that sounds weird, but he was just so relaxed and chill. I obviously don’t know him well yet, so that’s probably why. And I also didn’t keep up with season 4 so I don’t really know what he’s capable of. He reminded me of Joel from Big Brother Prime.



Another thing is Dominic. I absolutely love him soooo much. But the thing is like, I can feel him subtly working me in a way. I don’t know if it’s intentional or not. I just feel like as the game was beginning to start in the past few days, he’s just been like, nicer than usual. He’s always been really sweet, but recently he’s been IMing me first which he usually doesn’t do, he’s been texting me back more, answering my calls, and just been saying really sweet things. He even skyped with Selena and I yesterday. In all honesty though, if it's strategy in any way, it’s great social gameplay because it's working on me. He knows me well, and I honestly do appreciate him taking the time to talk with me whether it's strategy or not. If he ended up backstabbing me, I honestly don’t even think I would be that hurt just because I love him so much.



Speaking of Selena, it’s absolutely amazing how much I trust her. Like, I am more comfortable talking to her than with anyone in the game. I can seriously tell her anything, on both a strategic and emotional standpoint, and I just know she won’t use anything against me. She is a really good listener and I appreciate her taking the time to talk to me. It’s seriously so comforting to have someone like that in the game.

Finally, I just need to watch my mouth. Especially if I’m on Skype. Yesterday when I was skyping with Selena and Dominic, I was just talking non stop, gossiping about everyone. I’m not really worried about that particular conversation; I’m not concerned in the slightest about Selena saying, and I honestly think Dominic was too distracted by his AIM to really have been paying attention and analyzing everything I was saying. But it was a good wake up call to me. Anyone in this game can use anything I say against me. I need to be more careful, otherwise I am just going to slip out too much information, and it will come right back to bite me.

Alright, well I think that’s about all for now! Ready for the challenge tonight!

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Wow, so last night was one crazy night. Way to kick off the season! Haha.

As 10:00 approached, our tribe started to gather in our chatroom. We had decide who was going to do 2 colors in the challenge, to make up for Colleen not being there. Well someone asked in the chat if anyone wanted to do the two colors. I didn’t even consider for a second doing 2 colors, because everyone knows I am terrible at challenges, and that would just destroy us! As Jonah put it in season 3…

Dec 22, 2012 14:49:25 GMT -5 @jonah said:

ALSO I FEEL SO INCOMPETENT IN THIS CHALLENGE i couldn't do a slider puzzle if my life depended on it, however AJ was even more fucking incompetent

So at least I'm not the dumbest of the dumb.

So, that's how I am. But no one else was stepping up! I mean anyone could have done it! Which brings me to my first strategic move of the season…I volunteered to do 2 colors, because I knew NO ONE would let me, since that would obviously be a disaster! And sure enough, it worked. Henry send this IM to Cassie:

Billiam: (9:59:02 PM) you should go twice
Billiam: (9:59:11 PM) your better at comps than kirin

I was dying!!!! Hahaha. I guess some people would be offended if someone said that about them, but I found it hilarious. I love Henry.

Anyways, so onto the challenge.



I feel really bad about this, and I hate to admit it, but Annie actually helped me quite a bit with that challenge. In the first station, we had to determine if a number of facts were true or false, and she helped me with a couple that I was unsure with. Then in the next station we had to unscramble words. I figured out the first word and gave her the answer, but she didn’t seem very grateful, so I got worried she was just totally using me. I actually finished that station before her and didn’t give her the answers, but then she IMed me with the answers once she figured them out =/ So I felt super bad, because she actually was being honest. But I just pretended that she did it for me and I acted super grateful. Then in the final station, when we had to guess words that described the picture, it took us both awhile, but she ended up giving me the word. It was after her tribe officially won immunity, but I still really appreciate her helping me. She knows I am absolutely terrible at challenges, and she just seemed happy to help and was being so nice about it. I definitely feel in debt to her about it. I know it’s definitely her strategy, as she is probably going to do small things like that to start working me over in the event we’re ever on a tribe together, but still, she didn’t have to help me. I made sure she knew how grateful I was, I said thank you at least like 20 times.

I only told Cassie and Chase about it. I don’t want the rest of my tribe to think I’m so bad that I can’t even do anything myself! I mean, yes I could have done the challenge without Annie. But still, Cassie helped me the true/false part, Henry helped me with the unscrambling, and Annie helped me with the guessing the picture. Like, I didn’t even do any of it myself. It’s just so terrible ):



Speaking of Cassie, the challenge last night reminded me why I love being on a tribe with her. It’s just so incredibly comforting to have someone there who knows you so well. When I didn’t understand the challenge rules or what was going on with our tribe, I just IMed her on the side because she knows me and knows how I get confused easily. It’s just so nice to have someone like that around.

But yeah, we won, and I couldn’t be happier. There’s no way I want to vote anyone out at this point. Our tribe worked so well together at the challenge and I loved it.



In other news, Chase is being ugh. Actually, it's not him, ir's more me. I'm just such a baby sometimes. I guess you could call me a high-maintenance ally. I know Chase said he was hungover and tired last night, but still I was SO excited to be on a tribe with him and he was just kind of being “whatever” about it. I know that's just his personality, but I still was just hoping he would seem more excited. We talked a little after the challenge and today, and he said he trusts me and he won’t go around saying things I tell him. But still, it’s almost not convincing to be honest. I hate admitting this, but I guess I just need an ally who constantly assures me that they’re truly with me, and just is like, super sweet. Ugh, I hate that I'm like that, but I'm just being honest. It honestly just makes me paranoid when Chase is being so nonchalant about everything. He’s probably going to vote me out just because I’m so fucking annoying.



One last thing I wanted to say is kind of random and out of nowhere, but I just LOVE being on a tribe with Thiago. I just feel like it’s so cool! He’s such a well rounded player and just encompasses everything about the perfect ORG player and person. I feel like everyone in the game loves him and wanted to be on his tribe, and so I can’t help but feel cool that I’m on the tribe that he’s on.

I have no TC predictions for the other tribe at all. I honestly don’t really care who leaves from that tribe at this point.

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KIRIN YOU CAN'T JUST QUOTE ME LIKE THAT