What would you do to survive?
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Catfat | Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 08:58 pm     Suppose you were in this game (either tribe) what would you do to stay in the game? We've seen all the mistakes of everyone in the past games, we know why certain ones were booted (example: Jesse got sick) How would you play the game? |
Twiggyish | Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 09:12 pm     I'd play like Mammakim. I liked her strategy. She kept low key, formed an alliance and she was a good team player. She wasn't athletic, yet she managed to stay in the game. Tina was similar in her strategy. |
Joan | Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 09:18 pm     I would go with the flow. I would not want to be the leader right off the bat. A leader usually emerges like Hunter or Frank so I would watch for that person and then cooperate with them. If someone likes to give orders, I'd make like I liked taking orders. If someone likes to gripe, I'd make like I liked to listen but I would be careful never to add much. I would avoid lying whenever possible so that I wouldn't get stuck trying to remember what I said and to whom and also so that people wouldn't be able to confront me with conflicting stories of mine. Alliance-wise, I am not sure what I would do. I would have to see the partcular group I was with. Alliances are often formed early so it would be important to get into a group before everyone sits down and I am left without a chair when the music stops. Then again, I would be worried about joining an alliance with people who end up to be bad assets because then I might be guilty by association. |
Realtvfan | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 09:26 am     I would aim for the middle of the pack. I'm too old to be a mallrat, so I would have a diffult time discussing their pop culture with them. I would be the quietest worker bee who could sit and listen to them tell their stories. Let the Alpha types "show their feathers" and attack each other, not me. (This would not be the personality profile MB wants on the show, so I would have to act out very differently in the auditions.) I would be very gently sharing my knowledge about previous shows as we as a tribe try to outplan both MB and the opposing tribe. It seems as if significant knowledge about previous versions of the show has MB eliminate you from consideration. Given that 57 million people watched the last episode of SI, MB goes to great lengths to find people who either did not see, or did not learn from previous seasons of the show. For example, there is a 80% plus chance that the next challenge is the "S.O.S.". The first 4 seasons have been very consistent with the first immunity challenge a group race, the second immunity challenge being food. Why were these S4 survivors expressing surprise when the last immunity challenge was announced as food? That surprise demonstrates that they are not thinking! When one tribe is two ahead of the other tribe (US S3, UK SI, Survivor goes to the subjective S.O.S. display. (Both US and UK Survivor seasons included here) As a group we can start preparing for the S.O.S. challenge quietly and immediately, rather than waiting 2 days until the official notice. I would also be working to have as many discussions off camera as possible. We as a tribe have to outplan MB, who is seeing the dailies for the show and adjusting the challenges accordingly. The more planning that happens off camera, the less invasive/devisive the 20 or so of Jeff's questions can be at tribal council. (On TV, they only show about one-third to one-half of the actual questions asked at a tribal council. This is a paraphrase of a comment from Tom of S3.) A lot of time spent distracting the camera people so others can then have a conversation in private. Private meaning without MB there in proxy via his camera people. |
Awareinva | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 09:37 am     Wow, realtvfan, you should definitely apply for the next edition!!! Great strategy! I would also adopt the UTR strategy, but make an alliance with people like myself within the first two days. I think you could watch how everyone faces the first day challenges and then decide who you can get along with. If I found myself outside an obvious large (4+ person) alliance, I would be gathering the remaining outsiders for alliance asap! I would try not to say much in the way of leadership, but make lots of efforts to ask about everyone's home life, family, job, etc. Those who have shown the most interest have gone on to win the last two times around!! (Good sign for Gabe!) I also think I would keep my thoughts to myself in the confessionals because I agree Mark B uses them to skew how things are portrayed. |
Knightpatti | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 11:41 am     Well we know definitely how not to act. No bossy or loud mouth woman lasts long. Except for Nicole on BB2 and Kent told her to tone down. That is one thing I do not understand is why Hunter or Gina did not tell Patricia in private to tone down so they could try and keep her. They may have told her, but she did not listen either. The best example of strategy for these games is Will. But I think it is harder to play Survivor JMO. Tina says alot is luck. An alliance is needed to stay in the game, though. THe tricky part is who to align with. Personally, this is a very difficult game to survive and I would probably not last long at all. |
Joan | Sunday, March 10, 2002 - 12:31 pm     RealTVfan, Paschal said right away "This is the food challenge!" when Neleh read the clues and someone last season also said "Ooh! The gross food challenge!" so they obviously knew it was coming. John has a taytoo of the past 3 seasons on his arm. Also, when Silas was making fire, Kim kept saying "Don't pass out dude!" so you know she saw Michael. I'm sure MB does pick some people who have not seen the previous shows but it looks like being a fan is not necessarily going to remove you from consideration. |
Tbear | Monday, March 25, 2002 - 04:19 pm     I would like to think that I could play it like Tina. But, I am hard working, kind but also pretty outspoken and can only put up with so much for so long. With the money dangling in my face, I might be able to bite my tongue. I am not sure. I don't know that we can truly imagine what anyone feels like on these shows due to the ups and downs and lack of food, no sleep due to rain, etc.,  |
Squaredsc | Monday, March 25, 2002 - 05:55 pm     i would treat my other teamates like monica on bb2 did, like my co-workers. find a couple of people that i can tolerate and duck when the bull sh** flies. i would certainly participate in my "fair" share of the workload. but in reality, i ain't staying nowhere if there isn't a properly functioning toiled with pipes and running water. |
Neko | Monday, March 25, 2002 - 06:06 pm     LoL Squardsc!!! I'd be like Ethan. Nice to everyone make one rock hard alliance and keep under the radar at most times. I'm a naturally nice person unless rubbed the wrong way badly so I could pull it off |
C1mag | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 07:44 am     I think the best approach is to play it in the middle. Don't be a leader and don't over kill it on the challenges. Be a part of the team and find only one other person to align with. I'm young and have one of those take charge personalities so I'd be booted the first part of the game unless I played it real low key. This game would be a challenge for me. I'd have to keep my mouth shut... I don't think I would win. I might make it to the merge, but I think I would be considered a threat. |
Alaskagal | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 03:08 pm     I would take the Britt from BB1 approach. Just be happy and entertaining and love everyone. They'd keep me for entertainment purposes. I think the key is making everyone feel as if you think they are the most important person whenever their around. THe hard part is though I am not into the backstabbing or making false promises, but I think there are respectable ways around that... |
Tbear | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 10:26 pm     C1mag: LOL, I think that we have some similarities. When I said that I would have to bite my tongue, I think that my tongue would be bleeding all of the time and pretty much (gross part) ready to fall off if I made it to the merge.I also couldn't lie to someone's face like that-It would feel somewhat to me like dirty money at the end. |
Maris | Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 10:07 am     The only thing I can answer is what I would not do. And I have to say, eating live worms and animal organs would pretty much get me kicked out pronto. You can play it two ways either try and stay under the radar as far as being perceived as a threat. You have to pitch in and pull your weight. The other alternative is do a Richard be so obnoxious that everyone assumes you will get booted because nobody likes you and then you end up last man standing. |
Tbear | Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 11:13 pm     Maris, Never go on Fear Factor then...LOL |
Maris | Saturday, March 30, 2002 - 11:18 pm     I cant even watch fear factor. |
Llkoolaid | Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 08:42 pm     I'm with you Maris, I would be gagging and vomiting just looking and smelling that stuff that they have had to eat. No way, no how could I do it. I would lose immunity for the team and the only way that I could get out of it is to hopefully have a tight alliance and explain to them that I can't do it so let me throw this one and boot someone we wanted gone. It is the only part of survivor that I don't like and I have stopped watching Fear Factor because of it, the eggs with legs one did me in. I haven't eaten eggs since. I would never make it past the second week because I tend take charge of things, I have no patience when people bug me. I would be worst than Kathy, I would have said we need an F#$#ing fire you morons. I would have asked the boob girl to put them away or at least let some air out because they were taking up space. I actually would have gotten along with Rob and Sean. I don't like what they say but I do have to admit that I agree with some of it. I also could have gotten along with Patricia unless she talked to me like she talked to Rob, then I would have told her where to shove the knife. I can be a very nice person and I work very hard at being fair to others but I have a problem with trusting other people, especially people that are being nice to me. I tend to attack before I am attacked. It from my childhood and I am working on it but in a survivor type situation with the stress I don't think I could handle it. I think I would be a combination of Patricia, Kathy ,Sean and definately Rob. I probably would be thrown of the boat on the way to the Island. The only way that I would survive is if I were approached to form an alliance of 4 on the very first day and then I would have to work very hard at trusting them. If I was on survivor I think the biggest thread on TVCH would be "Who hates LLkoolaid". |
Muse | Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 12:13 pm     I'd basically do what Tina and Ethan did. Within the first two or three days, I'd try to find a strong alliance of three people (two people that I felt I could trust, and who wouldn't end up pissing off the rest of the tribe for whatever reason), but buddy up with the rest of the tribe (and perhaps create additional alliances with one or two other people, but keep the core alliance a priority). I'd try to be nice to everyone, even people I didn't really like, and would try to maintain tribal unity. And I wouldn't make myself out to be the leader of the tribe/alliance or try to win every single challenge. Some challenges, maybe. But I wouldn't pull a Colby or Lex or Kelly G. streak. I think that this sort of strategy might be used to win S4, btw. John is making himself out to be the leader of his alliance, which makes his chances of winning very slim. Rob and Sean might make it far because they have a decent alliance (especially if they and Vee form a side alliance with those from Maraamu), but they aren't nice to everyone. So unless they go up against each other in the F2 (or if other contestants start being a lot nastier than they have been), neither one will win. So I really think one of the other contestants will win it all...as to who exactly that person might be will depend on the alliances formed after the merge. |
Niceguy | Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 02:23 pm     Keeping the desire to win and endure for those 39 days must be tough. You're settling yourself into extremely antagonistic situation. You could get seriously injured out there. Because of my size and stature I'd have to try to be a little like Clarence and a little like 'The General.' I'm no Colby. One thing I'd do is I would offer information and misinformation. Not lies mind you, just stuff to make it seem I'm less intelligent than I am. Of course that requires a lot of quick thinking. There would also be times when I honestly wouldn't know an answer. I would try to find alliances in people who are more hungry to win than me. All this is moot, I'd likely get the first week boot. Flexibility is definiteley the key here. Physical and ethical. |
Tntitanfan | Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 08:26 pm     I am definitely a Mamakim type agewise but could kick her b*tt three ways from Sunday physically. I would be giving 150% in the challenges and being Little Miss Homebody around the camp - very good cook, given anything to cook! After years at fund raisers around town, I can schmooze with the best of them! As a special education teacher, I had many non-verbal kids, and am very tuned in to body language. I would be a shoo-in, but can't eat disgusting things! |
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