Welcome back! We're so happy to have you back on board for our 2nd All-Stars edition! We're honored and excited that you are here to play again and we can't wait to see how you do this time around. However, we're also dying to know what your thoughts are coming into the game and with this being an All-Star season, we're expecting you to really step it up and go all-out in your DR. What better way to start than to have some Pre-Game questions to answer while we wait for the game to begin?
1. Do you have a set strategy coming into the game? If so, what it is?
2. Since this is an All-Star game, do you know anyone coming into it? What is your relationship like with each of those people? Friends? Rivals? Also, if you do know anyone, do you plan on working with them at all?
3. Is there anyone that you don't think really deserves to be here? Why or why not?
4. What is something that you would like to correct since the last time you've played? Are you worried that your reputation from your previous season could hurt you coming into this?
5. Do you have what it takes to win this game?
6. Any final comments before the game begins?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer these questions! If you have any further comments or concerns, please contact a Main Staff member and we'll try our best to promptly help you. Best of luck as you venture into the game!
I was going to do a video DR for these questions, but I have a small zit on my chin that I don't want ya'll to see. SO TEXT ANSWERS IT IS.
1. Do you have a set strategy coming into the game? If so, what it is?
I don't really have a set strategy coming into the game. I feel like anytime somebody says they have a definite strategy, the game almost always works out in a completely different fashion. I think once we are put into houses, it'll be easier to form some kind of early game strategy. This is such a long game too, so I see myself changing strategies often. So for right now, I just want to get to know people I don't know well and catch up with people I do.
2. Since this is an All-Star game, do you know anyone coming into it? What is your relationship like with each of those people? Friends? Rivals? Also, if you do know anyone, do you plan on working with them at all?
So as many of you know, I just played a good chunk of people from this game in Shadow All Stars. However, I didn't really have a negative experience with any of them - so I don't think I have any rivals coming into the game. Also, I wasn't on my top game for Shad Surv, so I don't think I'd be a big target in that sense.
I do have friends coming into the game. Zach, Nick, and Brittany. I'm really excited to be playing with Zach because I've know him for like 7 or so years now and he's one of my best ORG friends. We haven't played an ORG together in forever. Our last game together was URTV6 back in 2009 (where we were tragically torn apart in the pre-jury rounds). But yeah, I definitely think I have a good relationship with Zach, Nick, and Brittany coming into the game. League 2.0 with Nick and with Brittany, I was the one who introduced her to the series and I think I'm really the only person she's stayed in contact with. I trust all 3 of them. The only one that I have slight reservations about is Nick - because I know he's a hardcore player. I don't think he'd ever put me up or anything but if he's in a position where he has to vote me out, I don't know if he'd go out of his way to try and save me.
3. Is there anyone that you don't think really deserves to be here? Why or why not?
No. I mean, I kinda flopped as a housecaller after RNF7 so it's not really my place to say who deserves to be here and who doesn't.
4. What is something that you would like to correct since the last time you've played? Are you worried that your reputation from your previous season could hurt you coming into this?
Looking back at my game in season 6, I think I played really well. I made good connections with people and even though my alliance was evicted one-by-one come jury time, I was the last of my alliance to survive because I had a built a good relationship with the opposing alliance - to the point where they liked me and didn't target me until the end. I think my biggest regret from that game is not being able to do well in the challenges because had I won my way to the finals, I definitely think I had the votes to win. So my challenge game needs to be upped this season. Although with challenge threats like Heaven, Sofia, Ryan, etc all in this game - we'll see if that ever happens.
I don't think my reputation from my season will really hurt me going in. I think if I was someone like Heaven with 6 HOHs and 7 POVs, then maybe. But I was loyal, nice, and inoffensive - so I don't think people will want to target me because of that. The only thing I could see people bringing up is my alliance with Nick. But we're only two people in a 27 person cast, so not a huge threat.
5. Do you have what it takes to win this game?
I do. I came close last time in a game with a cast of 20, and here we only have 7 more people. I think if I can get the challenge threats out as soon as I can, I think I'll be able to go very far.
6. Any final comments before the game begins?
So ur wid yo honi and ur makin out wen the phone ringz. U ansr it n da voice sayz “wut r u doin wit ma daughter?”