[Danni Boatwright]

Another wild night of Stranded! Another player out the door, new tribes, and 3 full days to get to know each other before your next move. As we head into the weekend, here are a few questions for you to think about:

1-Who are you most excited to see on your tribe? Who are you least excited to see?
2-Were you surprised by Michelle and Ace's tribe choices?
3-Whats your plan to survive on this tribe?

[Lauren]

Well this was an ideal time for a tribe swap I'll give ya that. You know the meme with the dog in the burning room as he's like "This is fine"? That was me coming out of tribal. I'm stoked that Michelle is here as we're pretty solid. Would have preferred Crystal to Reem but I don't think Reem dislikes me as much as the other two. Plus I apologized first. I think Michelle did a really good job setting up the tribes so that she'd have a good set of allies on each and wouldn't get screwed. Charlie seems to think we've got the stronger challenge tribe so we'll see. He's definitely hamming it up. To survive I am back to square one. Good thing is the guys are ready to cut some throats because they haven't been to tribal yet so I'm going to try and capitalize on that.

[Danni Boatwright]

My favorite <3

[Gary Hogeboom]

Well this was an ideal time for a tribe swap I'll give ya that. You know the meme with the dog in the burning room as he's like "This is fine"? That was me coming out of tribal. I'm stoked that Michelle is here as we're pretty solid. Would have preferred Crystal to Reem but I don't think Reem dislikes me as much as the other two. Plus I apologized first. I think Michelle did a really good job setting up the tribes so that she'd have a good set of allies on each and wouldn't get screwed. Charlie seems to think we've got the stronger challenge tribe so we'll see. He's definitely hamming it up. To survive I am back to square one. Good thing is the guys are ready to cut some throats because they haven't been to tribal yet so I'm going to try and capitalize on that.

[Lauren]

My favorite <3

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God I love that meme so much. Nothing I relate to more.

[Lauren]

Just realized I never did a confessional yet today. Basically, at this point I've talked to all the guys. They're nosy and all trying to figure out if we're working together or not so I've just been telling them the truth about last vote because I was sure the others would too and lo and behold they have been. There's a group-chat for the girls because apparently we're "sticking together" which honestly is probably a load of bullshit but. Michelle is still caught up on not trusting Reem which is driving me crazy. She's all concerned Reem is going to flip and work with the guys which is probably true but I'm pretty sure not all of those men are working together. I guess Ron's already been a target so they may want to focus on him. I'm also expecting at least a few are considering whether it would be beneficial to them to just work with the girls. At this point I would say Gillian can be a sacrificial lamb but I'm waiting to see if she's going to vote with us. I guess we'll see, nothing concrete as of yet.

[Jeff Probst]

Do you think the men having been together for so long without going to council will help their unity or hurt it? Do you think some of them have been waiting to get rid of others?

[Lauren]

I think them not having been to tribal council for so long is going to really hurt their unity. The paranoia that we had going into our last tribal where no one knew where they stood is pretty much how the men feel now. They haven't had anything to test whether or not they trust each other. Even though a good strategy for them would be to try and Pagong the women that won't work on this tribe as there'd be a deadlock so they all want to jump ship. I think part of it also has to do with them realizing if they just take out the girls if it just so happens they're at the bottom on the guys they're straight out of luck. I don't want to sound overconfident but I feel like we really have the upper-hand in this tribe just because they're so anxious to start playing and because we've already been dealing with the paranoia and figuring out who to trust and tell what information to. Hopefully we don't have to go to tribal council after this next challenge but if they do I really think the women are pretty much not in danger.

Unless Reem is trying to flip. But I don't think she's dumb enough to flip on a woman this vote and then risk being on the bottom and an easy vote-out since the guys would then have the numbers. I'm sure she'll consider it but I really don't think it's something that would be in her best interest until the vote after this next one.

[Lauren]

So. Reem and Gillian and really sharing information with me and Michelle which is kind of weird to me just because everyone seems so hunky dory and like we're not targeting each other? Which I still find hard to believe but it's in our best interest to vote a guy out this time so I'm not too terribly worried about it. Right now it seems we've got two main options. The first being the group of Wardog, Ron and Charlie. In which case we'd let Marcus know they're throwing him under the bus and just give him a random name to vote then target Wardog because none of the guys like Ron anyways. The second option would be to vote Marcus just to make sure the other three would probably be on board. If that were the case and Matty were to join the tribe we already know he doesn't get along with Wardog and Ron so that would probaly work even better for us. It's still early though and we've yet to see if we're even going to tribal council so time will tell.

Also if the guys really aren't scheming anything behind our backs right now they're really really dumb. Like, even if they were planning on working with Reem there's no way they don't even bother to feel out Michelle or I. Everything I've gotten from them so far is that they want a guy out. Which could make sense if they're going stir-crazy but the lack of strategy in that kills me.

[Lauren]

My lovely tribemates have decided upon a hair-brained scheme that involves throwing the challenge and then voting with Marcus to get Wardog out. All the logic behind it makes sense with Wardog being super connected and it being more likely that we can work with Matty and Marcus. Also the added benefit of stopping the other tribe from pagonging the girls while keeping Matty away from the rest of his alliance. I'm just not sure about the whole throwing the challenge aspect of it. I was totally down with their plan assuming we lost and were going to tribal but throwing it puts a bad taste in my mouth just because so many things could go wrong. I also don't think it's a good idea to tell Marcus about the plan just yet, he'll probably just think we're trying to get him to turn and go run and tell the rest of the guys. I was doing number crunching though and we literally don't even need Marcus' vote. If even just Ron is voting towards Marcus then we'd be casting the most votes anyways. The worst that can happen is all the guys vote together and it's a tie in which case they flip because they're too eager to play and they're not going to rocks.

My task for today is to try and talk some sense into my lovely lady friends. Throwing the challenge to get someone out is one thing, throwing the challenge and then telling a guy what our plan is and that we're not actually working with the other one's we told we were going to work with? Disaster in the making. The only reason I support the trying to get Marcus to vote with us is because it if he doesn't vote with the men, Reem won't flip. I just don't think it's a good idea to send him receipts of our messages with the other guys than could easily just be relayed back to him. It's like these people over here are trying to play 4D chess in a checkers tournament, it's not that complicated stop over-thinking it. Unless I'm wrong about the girls working together and Reem really is going to flip with Gillian, in which case I'll eat my words. But as it is I feel like we really don't need to be playing that hard yet. All it's going to do is put a target on our backs for if we make a merge and I'm just really not in the mood for that.

[Lauren]

I have officially heard that my name was thrown out as a target so now I'm pissed. Two scenarios: either Wardog really did tell Reem he wants Michelle or I out next or Reem is just making it up to ensure the two of us vote where she wants us to go. Kind of like I tried with Gillian last vote, oops. But anyways I'm really annoyed because here I am trying to play my little under the radar game being so easy to work with and these little snakes are trying to make me collateral damage. So I'm mad because now I have to be aggressive and I was really trying not to because now I'm just going to get mad at people all the time and it's gonna be a whole big mess.

ALSO apparently my female friends told Charlie about the plan. Even though I've been telling them to just make it a blindside and not clue any of the guys in. Why are they like this? Why does no one understand that this is why plans blow up? We literally just needed the four of us to vote one way but no, we have to tell Charlie and Marcus to throw the challenge. I swear if Wardog and Ron find out about the plan because these people don't know how to keep their mouths shut I'm going to lose it. If flipping to the guys wasn't a sure way to put a target on my back and ensure I'll always be on the bottom I'd do it in a heartbeat. I am so over it right now omg.