Svinoy Tribe

Hey, I'm John Cochran, WINNER of Stranded in the Marquesas (All Stars).

Welcome to Stranded in the Faroe Islands!

You'll be seeing a lot of me here, as well as our 10 other co-hosts as we pick your brain to see what's really going on in your head throughout the game. Feel free to ask any of us questions in here if you need to, we've all been through it before and are more than willing to help.

Each round, we'll start by asking some introductory questions, and I just want to ask that you answer in complete statements. We will be actively blogging on each episode, and it's easier to do so if we have real quotes and complete thoughts as opposed to simple yes or no answers. We hope you keep up with your confessionals daily during the week as a way to vent and discuss the events of that day. The more you update your confessional, the better idea we have of whats going on in your head, and also the more fan favorite points you'll earn yourself come the end of the season . You don't have to only update when you are prompted to, whenever you have an idea shoot it at us because we want to know everything.

So..

How confident are you going into this game that you will win?

What are your opinions of your fellow tribemates?

What is your strategy and approach to the game?

How do you think your rep fits you? Do you think being this character will affect your gameplay at all?

What are your thoughts on the twist? Change your strategy at all going in to these first few days?

Best of luck out there.

I will get to all these questions over the next day or so but I really need to meet all the tribe before I give a good assessment. It's obvious just at the start that some are pretty green when it comes to ORGs but I'm typically good with "green." I just have to tone back the gamebot a bit and realize they are new to this and take a tone that works to that type of person. Maybe nurturing and not overpowering. That's what I'll probably go for. But on to some of the other questions.

How confident are you going into this game that you will win?

0 confident. Don't get me wrong, I am 100% confident I CAN win but I've played about 25-28 games. I've won 3. I've finished Top 3 maybe a total of 10 times. So I can make end game if I play it right and if luck falls on my side in just the right times. But I never enter a game thinking I'm going to win. I just do the best I can with the knowledge I have and take it from there.

What is your strategy and approach to the game?

My strategy always works around numbers. I'm a total gamebot and I know this. I'm really not out to make new friends and chit chat about stuff I am totally uninterested in. But I can fake the shit out of that and seem like I am if that's what I need to do to make a strong alliance that can control the game. And if I can't control the game by numbers, I am a strong debater of why I am a good ally and why I am a solid choice to keep around until hopefully I get my footing.

In regard to this game in particular, like I alluded to above, there seems to be a lot of green players here. I could be right; I could be wrong. But I have to keep that in mind. I am very aware of my good and bad points. I will start talking down to people if I try and try and get NOTHING in return. This is a bad thing to do but I'll do it. I have got to dial back my "experience" and fit in with non-experienced. That is the only way to not seem threatening and come across genuine. So count on that as a big part of my approach this game.

I want to subtly influence. I want to be the person everybody counts on and the number everybody needs. I say this all the time. I do not need to be everybody's #1. I just need to be everybody's number. If I can stay in that role, I can maneuver which ever way I think best suites me from round to round.

How do you think your rep fits you? Do you think being this character will affect your gameplay at all?

I'm not really a Candice fan but yeah, I think it fits me just fine. Kind of cold. Thinks you are smarter than the average Joe. Yeah, I am that way. It's won't be a big deal, though, in my game play. I might play it off a bit with Adam. But overall, I'll be me just with a Candice avi.



More to come...

I'll add one more question for you, how do you think your experience in games like these will come in handy over the course of the next few rounds? Do you think that people might see you as a threat if you show your experience?

Lisa Whelchel wrote:I'll add one more question for you, how do you think your experience in games like these will come in handy over the course of the next few rounds? Do you think that people might see you as a threat if you show your experience?

I definitely think I'll be seen as a threat at some point. But I'm trying not to be THAT girl. But damn, I'm going to end up being THAT girl because I think some of these players need steering in the right direction. I'm probably wrong. But it certainly seems that way, as most cannot carry a conversation. (Or maybe they can't carry a conversation with me. I usually would lean to the latter but I think it is the first option here.) That's the one thing I do not want to do is seem like I'm "teaching" and manipulating things like I'm all like "oh I know best."

That would be horrible for me. But in that uncomfortable pause, I always tend to be the person who rushes in to offer a solution or create a conversation (at least where games are concerned yet not so much in RL). And I think there might be a lot of uncomfortable pauses especially in the early going here.

What I don't think though is that these folks are dumb. They aren't. They are not big time gamers as I define it. But at some point they will realize I've been the take-charge, steer-shit-a-certain-way type player and those do tend to get targeted.


All that being said, I'm really trying to be patient here. Not rush too much too soon. And the only reason I've still not done a ranking is that I have yet to get a good feel for JP or Nate. Actually I have an opinion and it's not good. But Cecilia thinks JP has lots of potential so I'm waiting til I talk to him to see if I agree. But I won't. LOL.

After that I'll do a ranking.

What are your thoughts on the twist? Change your strategy at all going in to these first few days?

As for this, I think it is a fun twist and it certainly gives us something to talk about. Was I even tempted to take the idol. Hell no. I've held and idol all game before and it's stressful as hell. You never know if a relationship is genuine or based on protection you might get from the idol. Or fake as you are set up to be blindsided holding an idol.

I'd never put myself through that again. Plus I'm not a fan of idols in regard to security. I typically think they buy you one round. Good allies buy you a shit ton more than that. I'd rather put my efforts there and try to garner relationships that protect me instead of grabbing an idol that will ultimately put a big ole target on me.

Unless Yau is super perfect and creates this air of stellar ally to have, I'd take his ass right out of the game if I were on the other tribe.

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What are your opinions of your fellow tribemates?

OK finally I'll go a little ranking of these players.


9. Nate. No. I get that he is new. I mean he posted that he wanted to give ORGing a try because he thought it seemed fun. But dude, you are reading messages, why are you not replying to messages. He'd be my first boot option honestly.

8. Rebecca. No. I can already tell I'll have to try too hard to keep a conversation going with her. And honestly, I do not want to try that hard.

7. Ozzy. No. But I hope he turns things around and will talk more once the challenge ends. I get the feeling he will so I've not totally written him off. OK, I have honestly, but I could try again if I got anything from him to indicate I should try again.

6. JP. Why does Cecilia keep asking me about him and talking him up? That concerns me because I want her to have a good judge of character because I am investing in her but this is NOT a good judge of character, IMO. He did say he was having trouble with the PM system and that is why he is slow to repsond. OK, I can buy that. But being the little lurker bar spy that I am, I could see him composing messages yesterday and they were not to me. Cecilia wants him included in stuff so he will be. But yeah, no to him as well as far as I am concerned.

5. Adam. There needs to be a little showmance between me and him just because and I plan to push that somewhat simply from a numbers point of view. He's got a sense of humor and he talks more like a typical gamer talks so I will continue to play up to him.

4. Stephannie. I got great vibes from her the first night but totally missed her yesterday but she started a BRB thread so I have to assume she has gamed before and won't be totally incompetant. I want to work with her pretty regularly.

3. Flicka. Cecilia thinks she is useless. But trust me she is NOT. At least not for me and I need to protect her and make her mine. And that's my biggest mission right now. Make her secure and use her as along as I possibly can. I actually like her and I know she has enthusiasm for this game. I hope she can get her footing and that she becomes very much a part of my game.

2. Penner. OK I'm ranking Cecilia above Penner because I've talked to Cici more. But Penner is MY type of player. He is interesting. He is level headed as far as I can tell and he gives as well as he gets. This is the person I want to make my #1 at this point and I think I've laid great groundwork with him. I'm worried about the timezone difference but for now, I'm totally invested and think he and I will be a strong pair in this game.

1. Cecilia. She and I talk a lot. I like her. She wants to do well here and I'm officially aligned with her. But something about her worries me. Like I'm not sure how trustworthy she will be. And I'm not sure she and I will ultimately want to handle things the same way. She seems really young to me for some reason. But hell, you are all really young to me. But for now, she's my girl and I hope I am hers.

My opinion of JP is definitely going to change. He can carry on a conversation! Yay!

Quelle surprise to log in and find you in the cast. Good luck of course!

Let's talk alliances, shall we?


Me/Cici. This is a done deal. Again, she will not be my ultimate favorite in this game but I'm true to her.

Then there is a group forming with me/Penner/Steph at the heart of it with CiCi strongly in there. With some peripherals like Rebecca/Adam/JP. Penner strongly wants Rebecca. Ugh, I am willing to concede this but she's terrible. I know CiCi will strongly want JP, who is actually great. And Adam is just there. But he's cool enough. (FYI, I did hint that there should be a showmance between us which he totally ignored, so points subtracted from him. )


That is going to make my saving Flicka very hard. She I have to admit, Flicka is NOT a great PMer. I just think she would be useful to me at some point. So best case we win regularly and stay in tact. Worse case Nate/Ozzy leave before her and maybe other would want to replace Rebecca with Flicka.

That's all long-term. But it's basically where my head is at right now.



First Boot
Nate is scheduled to go.

Is there any saving Flicka, in terms of improving her PM game. Coach Candice to the rescue? XD

I am going to coach her, don't worry. I just do not want to come across as "coaching." Or condescending. I'm a condescending bitch. I must avoid this, I really must.

Lol <333. Yea how awkward... "So you suck at PMs..."

I want to kill myself at this challenge discussion. Seriously.

And THAT is why I do not play live games that require me to do challenges. I cannot do them. I do not like to do them and I suck at them all.

I said I was bad at puzzles. LOL, I am bad at all challenges that are not luck or social.

And the mentoring of Flicka has begun. She is totally clueless but she will be mine.

Other than that, yeah, I got nothing. That sucked. And I have that same feeling of wanting to throw up that I always have from live games.

So why do you feel the need to mentor Flicka to get better? Obviously it'll be easier to communicate, but helping her with her social game could set you up into a really spot, don't you think? How far do you plan on mentoring her?

Lisa Whelchel wrote:So why do you feel the need to mentor Flicka to get better? Obviously it'll be easier to communicate, but helping her with her social game could set you up into a really spot, don't you think? How far do you plan on mentoring her?

Well at this point I just feel sorry for her. She is trying so much harder than over 1/2 this tribe and yet gets a bad rap. I just don't care that she is a bad PMer. At least she is here and if I can help her stay over other people, I want to do that. I also want somebody that is more loyal to me than anybody else. And I'm not going to be ever worried I will help her social game to the point of her being stellar. I just want her to seem more valuable than others.

She also needs direction on challenges. Look I suck. I will always suck. Until last night I'd not even cared about a challenge in 2 years. But I do know WHAT to do, I just can't do it. She couldn't even find where Jeff posted the 6 T/F questions. It's just wrong not to help educate her and I guess "Mentoring" might be the wrong word. Maybe it's helping with her self-confidence. She was just angry last night because she did not do well in either challenge. I don't want her sitting around being angry. That's no fun. (My co-host is showing I know.) So if I can help, I'm going to.