With the finale so close, what will you be looking for tomorrow?

What's the plan to bring with you to the FTC now that Christy is gone?

Ugh, Helen's going to win. I have to get up early tomorrow and have plans all day. It's a shame because my Internet is fast enough to beat her if I didn't have anything else to do. Having a life. </3

I assume Helen and I will vote for Joanna and hope Penny doesn't force a tie. If Helen betrays me, that would be ridiculous, so I hope to at least force a tie.

Should I try to convince Helen to vote for Penny? I need to put some thought into this. How can I win? I need an angle.

I need to do my research and see if I can find any other winners who basically said, "I didn't have the time to be on all the time, multi-managing all my alliances. I didn't talk to people, and I couldn't post 24/7 in endurance. But I spent the time that I had wisely and came up with an approach that got me to the end, despite being targeted the last several votes."

...or something. Ugh.

I'm assuming I won't be voted out tonight. If I am, it saves me a lot of time and humiliation at least. This may be the only pre-final tribal council post I have time to make since I'm going to be rushing up an opening when I get back before it starts.

I'm not delusional; I understand these games and juries really well. I'm going to be absolutely crucified tonight. The jurors are going to say I didn't make any big moves and just followed Helen. They're going to say that I was boring and that I didn't talk to them nearly enough. All of that is completely true, and I'll likely end up in 3rd place without receiving a vote. If I do somehow win, I'll possibly be considered one of the worst winners in Stranded history and not All-Star material.

However, I'm still going to try AS HARD AS I CAN to steal that win. The issue is that every juror votes so fundamentally different and what crazy angle I can make to appeal to one juror may not appeal to the others. I'll try a lot, though. My biggest weakness is the lack of PMs I sent to people not named Helen. That's going to bite me. I'd have a much better chance if I just made casual conversation with the other players, even if I had no intention of working with them. So that's a weak angle I'm going to have to find a justification for (the actual truth is that I just didn't have time, but I need to make it sound better than that).

Angle against Helen: Helen was my shield, I'd wake up in the morning with detailed scenarios about strategy all written out so she did all the work I could've thought of for me, I could easily have brought her down with the information she showed me. Final 7 if Erin wouldn't have left and Christy did, I was planning on recruiting Erin to take her out at f6. But Erin leaving forced me to stick with her at f6, and then she won immunity until the end where I didn't have the opportunity to turn on her. Even without immunity, I stayed safe. She wouldn't have. She needed immunity to stay based on the poor strategy of making herself an obvious threat.

Angle against Penny: Strategically would discuss plans with me and Helen for days, only to propose something completely new and crazy minutes before a tribal council started and force me or Helen to either completely change our plans for her, or stick with what we thought was safer and were already talking about. Some of Penny's plans were amazing (the Daniel vote with the help of Erin), the Rob vote, and some completely sucked (the Erin being blindsided because we made our target obvious plan). She was a total wildcard.

I made my position quite clear the whole time, and didn't say a word against Helen knowing that if I did, she'd probably get it and not trust me. So I generated that full trust with her the best I possibly could knowing that I'd be in the core of her plans and that even if they went wrong, I wouldn't be the one who went home.

Weakness: Need to figure out how to justify Penny saving me in the final 6 round by convincing Rob to vote Christy.

- Also need to hope that I don't screw up Helen's chances of winning and give it to Penny. As a juror, I'd vote for Helen

Tentative theme of intro: A Day of Stranded in the Life of Brian

Is a Joanna boot tonight a foregone conclusion then?

I think Joanna is going home. She may get the Asterian sympathy votes, or something. I'd be surprised if I'm blindsided by a tie or go home 3-1, and I don't think Helen and I should push for Penny going at this point. To be honest, I think I want Joanna gone so I can kill her chances at working on an angle I'd possibly want to pursue.

Lol, time to write my opening.

Congrats on making F3. It's been a pleasure getting a host view of you play a legitimately solid game and I hope you can communicate that to the Jury.

I'll leave you alone to work on your opening now.

Good luck tonight!

And of course, do continue to post any thoughts you have during FTC in here if you'd rather not think them aloud in front of a Jury.