Svinoy Tribe

This, may be the most important place in the game. It's where you will vote and more importantly, talk to us! Feel free to divulge your darkest secrets, current strategies, alliances, and hell... just pure hatred for other players. You are the only player that can view this forum. Outside of Alumni and Hosts, it is completely private. We love getting the dirt and there are plenty of us here to ask you questions. As you can see, this thread is labelled "Episode 00". Each round (meaning challenge + council) we will start a new thread with the title of each episode. After every Tribal Council, a host will start a new thread asking you more questions. Again, this is your forum and you can feel free to start whatever topics or make whatever posts you like. We will be here to help you out, make you think, get you to talk and really just lend an ear.

We take confessionals seriously because we're genuinely interested in your story. We want to know everything you're thinking and more importantly, what you're feeling. Think of it as free therapy. But more importantly, we will be guiding you along the way and asking you questions. Provoking thought and helping you think about things you otherwise might not have. We find, just talking through your situation can help you get a fresh perspective on things.

Beyond that, it's just fun. What's more fun is having a record of what you were thinking at different stages of the game, and being able to look back on that is priceless so take advantage of it!

Here is a practice mini-challenge for you to work on. It is a challenge that might appear once or twice throughout the season in a different form. Image posting is something that will pop up in multiple challenges and is a skill that you should perfect. Please refer to the guide in the Camp forum for detailed instruction on how to post images.

This particular challenge is a 4x4 16-piece puzzle. You must correctly unscramble the puzzle using the ORIGINAL image links. Meaning, you can't simply rearrange them in a photo editing program. You must use the original images by using the IMG tag. (more information on this in the camp how-to threads.

Good luck, please ask us for any help or further instructions :)

oo finally found my confessional!
game starts tomorrow, eh?


When is the first challenge? (Well I figure it says on the board somewhere)

excited for this ORG!!
more pre-game thoughts to come!

I work tomorrow so hopefully I don't miss the beginning of the game, introductions, etc!


should be fine either way though.

I guess I can start talking through my thoughts here now...

I'm historically average at challenges, but in certain games I've earned a reputation of being "bad at challenges," and it's gotten me eliminated. My plan is to be a vocal member of challenge discussions and never say anything along the lines of "Oh put my name last I don't think I'll be good at this."

I did that in an ORG before and earned a reputation of "The top 3 challenge performers" even though I wasn't actually -that- good at challenges :P
Should keep me safe in these early pre-merge rounds.

The only time I've ever been eliminated early from an ORG was for being bad at challenges... but at the same time I've only played 5 ORG's total. I'm counting on being able to connect well with my tribemates.

Ever since my first appearance I've always been able to work my way into the majority.

in terms of social strategy in itself... I'm not sure.

I've found an easy route to take is to just weed out the more inactive players... though I don't know how these players will approach things. Maybe there are people who will want to "shake things up" and keep inactives around as some sort of "wild and crazy" strategy?

Or will everyone be so scared of not wanting to be an early boot that they'll "play it safe" and get rid of those inactives?

It can't really be predicted, so I just plan on making good individual bonds with people so that no matter what route people go with, my name will never come up as someone to be voted for.... but that's just the general strategy of these things anyway.



So I guess all this means is that I don't have much of a "big plan" going into this. If I want to have one, I guess I'd have to do some thinking tonight? Though really I like being able to keep things open... a lot of the time when I get too confident and lock myself into a set "f8 boot is ______, f7 boot is ______, f6 boot is _____, etc." mentality I end up getting eliminated.


Will I have a schtick though...? I've never done a schtick before and they do look like fun. I guess that'll be determined tomorrow when the game starts.

but like... pre-merge is not an option this time around OKAY!

Serving on the jury 3 times I've learned that even if you're an early juror, finishing post-merge is WAY more rewarding post-game because everyone in Ponderosa still keeps up with the game.... plus giving a jury speech is always fun


Also if this is going to be my 6th ORG I want my track record to be "Juror 4/6 times" instead of "Is voted off pre-merge half the time" y'know?

ya sorry about all these posts I just want to get my pre-game thoughts IN because once PM's are turned on the game has BEGUN and I want all my pre-game thoughts out on the table before things start.



Hm.... what should my schtick be?
OTTN drama-starter?
Some sort of accent?
Only using quotes from my rep?
F.ierce Demi Lovato gifs?
Only talking to people in emoticons?
Using a specific color/colors?
ALL CAPS?
tAlKiNG liKE tHis?
Or like this?
...

...
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
like... I really feel like ~it's time~ to play with a schtick but obviously it's a big turn off to some people and could just backfire into getting me the first boot.

ugh there was a website someone linked to me a bit ago where you could move those image puzzles around visually and it maintained the img tags for you... if only I remembered where they told me about it and what the site was :P

holy heck it only took me digging through my browser history.... but I think I found it? hopefully this is it

http://www.sceditor.com/

ugh I solved the puzzle but can't figure out how to get it back in image tags lol

just some initial impressions based on post counts... (omg am I allowed to look at that... or is it considered a violation of the rules? idk I frequently check the cast list and the "who's online" thing in ORG's and nobody has ever said it's not allowed).

Adam, JP, Ozzy, Penner, Rebecca - 1 post
Flicka, Nate - 0 posts
Candice - 3 posts
Cecilia - 6 posts


so it looks like Cecilia might be a more social player?
The rest seem pretty calm for now... I have the most posts of everyone so far... wondering if anyone is doing the same thing as me rn and viewing me as a thread because of that?


oh well...
Excited for this to start tomorrow!

Oh good I didn't miss the start of the game

what time are PM's and introductions, etc. turning on?

I'm not asking to nag I'm just wondering so that I can plan when to run some errands tonight.