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Post by John on Dec 6, 2015 4:39:08 GMT
ROUND 10
Another one bites the dust! Goodbye Corey and Feji is blindsided AGAIN!
Was it a smart play? Will Feji follow through on her threat to quit? Will Blake try to fight Feji again? Will Feji and Poteet forgive Mike? Will Regan continue to have a social game that's on point?
We'll find out this round on CONQUEST!
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Post by Ashlee on Dec 6, 2015 8:22:11 GMT
I dont think Feji will quit, but I do think she'll make good on her threat to never talk to people again. She's a very emotional player.
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Post by John on Dec 7, 2015 17:34:41 GMT
Can confirm, if I was playing with him this round, I would absolutely hate Blake. Ashlee called it out in the round table, due to his own actions Blake has been pigeon-holed as two characters: minion and troll. The biggest thing working against Blake is the fact that he doesn't recognize the role he fills. Which is good, you don't want someone just actively being a lacky, but he's going to have his allies really pissed off at him.
Last night the challenge happens, strategy talk follows, Blake is nowhere for any of it. Who's doing his own thing, his livin life, as Blake would say cool shit. The problem is this morning Blake comes online and starts messaging in the Squad alliance chat and starts telling them how dumb it is to vote out Feji, how bad there plan is, she's going to play her idol and they should split their vote on 3-2 on Johnny Poteet and take him out. Are those great concerns? Yes. Is this the right plan? Maybe. Is that the right way to address your allies? No.
And thus far the only person to go at Blake about this is Regan, she said "Since you didn't get on call last night you don't know what the plan is. Like yes its all on Feji but like we have reasons why." And whether or not Blake will actually read into that or just ignore Regan, he can't just come out of nowhere and try to get things shifted around, even if he has great plans, you need to be on those calls, you need to be putting in the work. You can't just be like "you guys are dumb, do this" and so you're all aware this is how Blake started his messages out of nowhere "I know I missed the call earlier, but how are we doing the vote, if we're putting all our votes on Feji, that's fucking stupid." Say what you want about Regan's social game, but Blake makes it look like god-tier.
Blake has the right mindset for these games and the right strategy, but he totally blocks himself out due to his mindset that he can't be good at these games and he has no shot of winning. Blake has been so interesting because he's trying to be the hero and eeyore. He pulls these kinds of stunts trying to take charge and run the show, but then at other times he's saying he'll never win, playing the troll and not doing anything. He's a very frustrating character, I would absolutely hate working with him and relying with him strategically at the later stages of the game.
If he wants his strategy to happen, because legit targeting Mike is a good move, he needs to work for it, he needs to put in the time, talk it through with Casey/Regan/Kyle and do some work. Not just throw it out there and hope it sticks. Blake needs to work a bit harder and the only person holding him back is himself. It's not that he needs to put in significant effort, he just needs to put in some and it would do wonders for him.
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Post by Ashlee on Dec 7, 2015 18:57:15 GMT
Now you know why he was voted out 4.5 times in Endure season 3
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Post by Ashlee on Dec 7, 2015 18:58:32 GMT
I love Blake outside of games, but I could never work with him because while he is actually very smart about the game and does have good ideas, this is how he goes about it. He makes himself this character that puts him in a hole that it's hard to get out of and then tries to force things instead of being strategic with his allies. I'd be the same way as Regan in this situation.
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