[Danni Boatwright]

FINAL 8!!! We're entering the final week of the game and the finish line is in sight! Hopefully you'll recharge this weekend and come in hot for the home stretch.

1-A lot of secrets were let out of the bag during the challenge tonight. Were you surprised by any of the answers you got? Feeling nervous about how you're being perceived?

2-That jury bench is starting to fill up. Who up there do you think would vote for you? Who wouldn't?

3-Can you see your path to the end? DO you have any deals to get yourself there? If not, what is your plan?

[Nate]

Lurker Here,

Here to provide some final questions for my winner pick, as we head into the FINAL WEEK,

As a three-time final week alumnus, I know that this is where dreams are made and hopes are crushed, and I don’t just mean the ones where I’m naked and have to give a presentation while simultaneously falling to my death. The decisions you make in this next week are either going to be in your winning montage or haunt you so much that you are forced to play time and time again in a perpetual state of Samsara finally waiting for your chance to clinch that W.


So, consider me to be the Dickensian Jacob Marley to your Ebenezer Scrounge as I ask you a question about the past, the present and the future of your time in this game to hopefully push you to the next level to get that bag.


THE FUTURE.

Former Nate Winner Pick, Jean-Paul Sartre once said “everything starts with a plan - and then you end up with shit all over your Ford Fiesta”. In terms of your plan, if everything were to go your way – what is the boot list for the rest of the season? Who do you take with you to the Final 3? How do you plan on making this happen?


THE PAST.

While there’s still a lot of game to play, nobody can win Stranded off the final week alone. Previous Nate Winner Picks have run marathons on one leg, have competed on the International Underground Hungry Hungry Hippos Circuit and walked on water. As a Nate Official Winner Pick, do you think you’ve done enough to earn that notable distinction? If Final Tribal Council was tomorrow, what would be your pitch? If you get to the Final 3, do you think you can win it?


THE PRESENT.

In the film Kung Fu Panda, the main character creates a social networking app from his college dorm, but dies before he can tell his story. Here is your chance to tell your story. If/when you win this season, what would be the first words that they play during your winner montage and/or in memoriam segment?

[Lauren]

1. The biggest answer surprise I got in the challenge was me being ranked most likely to win the game. I guess I was just always so focused on everyone else's threat levels that I never kind of ranked mine up against them. I mean I knew mine was up there but I guess I never really thought about it. But that does make me really nervous going into this week just because it drew more attention to me as a threat even though people already believed it. So now I'm really pretty worried about going forward as I'm sure my name is going to be coming up, especially after the Reem vote as that's kind of a big move and I ended up being the swing.

2. I don't necessarily think anyone one the jury absolutely wouldn't vote for me. In terms of who votes for me it depends on who I sit with. I'd say the most likely vote for me would probably be Aurora just because we were tightly aligned while she was in the game and she saw me vote with her and kinda maneuver my way back after being in the bottom that vote. The rest I think are going to base their vote more off of the facts once FTC comes around. There's still a lot of moves to make so I think even the people I'd want to go with to the end are likely to change based on what goes down.

3. My path to the end got a little bit tricker after yesterday but I wouldn't say it's impossible. As of right now I have a final whatever deal with Chris but also he could easily be lying so I'm not completely relying on that. As of right now, it's beneficial for both of us to keep each other in though. Michelle has also mentioned working with me but that's probably out of desperation and because she feels kind of trapped so if she were to try and go against me I wouldn't doubt it at all. I would feel a little safer sitting with her in the end though instead of Chris just because I feel when comparing our games side by side, we both flipped at some point but I flipped to the complete other side and therefore have stronger relationships from both Taraku and Atlasova. That'll be pretty obvious to everyone though so I'm sure that's going to be fun to deal with.

[Lauren]

Lurker Here,

Here to provide some final questions for my winner pick, as we head into the FINAL WEEK,

As a three-time final week alumnus, I know that this is where dreams are made and hopes are crushed, and I don’t just mean the ones where I’m naked and have to give a presentation while simultaneously falling to my death. The decisions you make in this next week are either going to be in your winning montage or haunt you so much that you are forced to play time and time again in a perpetual state of Samsara finally waiting for your chance to clinch that W.


So, consider me to be the Dickensian Jacob Marley to your Ebenezer Scrounge as I ask you a question about the past, the present and the future of your time in this game to hopefully push you to the next level to get that bag.


THE FUTURE.

Former Nate Winner Pick, Jean-Paul Sartre once said “everything starts with a plan - and then you end up with shit all over your Ford Fiesta”. In terms of your plan, if everything were to go your way – what is the boot list for the rest of the season? Who do you take with you to the Final 3? How do you plan on making this happen?


THE PAST.

While there’s still a lot of game to play, nobody can win Stranded off the final week alone. Previous Nate Winner Picks have run marathons on one leg, have competed on the International Underground Hungry Hungry Hippos Circuit and walked on water. As a Nate Official Winner Pick, do you think you’ve done enough to earn that notable distinction? If Final Tribal Council was tomorrow, what would be your pitch? If you get to the Final 3, do you think you can win it?


THE PRESENT.

In the film Kung Fu Panda, the main character creates a social networking app from his college dorm, but dies before he can tell his story. Here is your chance to tell your story. If/when you win this season, what would be the first words that they play during your winner montage and/or in memoriam segment?

Hello again! I have been trying to perfect my answers so here goes!

THE FUTURE: The bootlist for the rest of the season, if I could create it would probably go the next three votes being Gillian, Charlie and Eric but not necessarily in that order. With the goats gone my threat level should be easier to manage. Which then means it'd be time to work on the rest of the threats. If I go to the end with Michelle I won't be too pressed, she hasn't been a strategic mastermind so far. I'd say Ron would also be a good choice but I don't like Ron so he'd probably be better fit for the forth boot this week since others would be ok voting him. Out of Chris and Randy I'd probably rather go with Randy just because I feel like I'd have a better chance of beating him that Chris even though that's who I have a deal with. So ideal final three Michelle and Randy/Ron unless Michelle suddenly starts pulling out all the strategic stops.

THE PAST: I don't know how I'm living up to past Nate Official Winner Picks but I'd like to think I haven't been doing the title dirty. If final tribal council were tomorrow my pitch would be that I played loyal to my allies and wasn't afraid to flip when it was needed. Out of everyone in the game so far, my only proclaimed "ally" to go home was Aurora and I voted with her. I've voted out people I was supposedly working with but in my opinion that's a different beast. Everyone who I've entertained going even remotely near the end with is still in the game even if I've helped get their allies out. The other big thing would be me not being afraid to flip. If I had just stuck with the girls I would have been complete toast. No way they didn't end up cutting me way before the end. By flipping to the guy's alliance I ensured I'd have deeper relationships with them as they'd trust me more than the other women, but I put the women in a situation where they also had to work with me in order to keep their standing. The other big thing to throw out would be the Reem vote. The vote itself was Ron's idea however, I was that final vote they needed and it was a calculated risk. Taking out Reem changed the course of the game. With only three women left I made myself a lot more vulnerable but it should have reduced my target level a little as I don't have this other strong alliance to just jump to. If I had stuck with the women and voted Eric I would have guaranteed the men would go after me and more than likely succeed as Reem would flip as well as probably Ron and Charlie if not Michelle even.

THE PRESENT: My winner montage (because we are not entertaining the idea of an in memoriam smh) would most likely be a compilation of my confessionals in which I called other players weird, dumb, stupid, idiots etc. I mean I like to think I have relatively good relationships with the contestants in the game but let's be real, the large majority of my confessionals are me ranting about how other people are annoying and making dumb decisions. It'd be perfect as it'd show my true personality while also demonstrating that my absurd amount of confidence (so much that I could just critique everyone else) paid off in the end and wasn't unguided. In the event that I did however get cut early, it'd probably be the same thing because it'd be amusing to see the people I was hating on for not playing well cut me. And people are normally way too nice when they play the game nowadays so I'm sure they'd be all over that.

[Lauren]

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[Jeff Probst]

One is incorrect.

[Lauren]