[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?

[Ron]

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?

Yes, very much so. The theme of that challenge for me was "ron will stab you in the back and will sneak his way to the end" and I am pretty sure that's my perception. I am the decoy people use as an easy target, and I think I can use that to my advantage. The perception also revealed I think I have more power than I actually do, which means people might be willing to take me to the final 3.

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

I think I would need to win over Matty and Reem the most at this point. Susie might vote for me, maybe devens. It's a matter of how much people respect gameplay vs who they like.


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

I have no F2/F3 deals apart from Charlie who I call my "Day 1" alliance. If I brought him to the end he would win on pure likability because he has made no moves this entire game. Michelle and I cooked up a devious plan that would knock out Eric but I am not sure it will happen. Basically 5 of us (Eric, Chris, myself, lauren, randy) vote Gillian, 3 vote Eric (G, Michelle, Charlie), G plays her idol that only me/ michelle know she has, Eric goes home, I have no blood on my hands. That is the easiest way to shake up this game and force Chris to find a new "ball and chain". This requires me to raise paranoia about G, and I am trying to make that happen. Chris I think wants Michelle out and I am not sure I am down with that plan.

Ideal Boot Order:
Eric
Randy
Gillian
Chris
Michelle

F3 = Ron, Charlie, Lauren

[Ron]

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?

FUTURE
Boot Order:
Eric
Randy
Gillian
Chris
Michelle

F3= Ron, Charlie, Lauren

I can make this hapen by working with Michelle, dragging along Charlie, and deceiving Chris. I am acting as a double agent to weaken Chris' numbers with knowledge of Gillian's idol. That's how we get out Eric. I need anyone but Michelle to go home next. Lauren isa random F3, I think she hasnt made enemies but she also hasn't made moves. I am taking a gamble on bringing weak, likeable players to the end. I have a better chance of betting them over Chris or Michelle or Gillian honestly.

PAST

To the Jury: I have worked from the bottom this entire season with a target on my back. I had to carefully pick who I could work with, who I could vote with, and who I could give information to. I managed to save myself from the edge a few times, and I've worked hard to manage good relationships. Getting myself to the end came at the expense of people I trusted - Hi Reem - but ultimately I had to get out targets that were bigger in me. I have always been thinking at least 3 votes ahead, and that has informed every move I've made in this game. I played an individual game. I had no F2/ F3 deals, I wasn't working in any alliances. I have been a free agent every time, and I have brought a plan to the table for every tribal. The only time I was blindsided was the Susie vote. That was a turning point in the game for me. I seized control and worked quietly to keep any power I had. I outwitted, out played, and outlasted every person on this jury and I think I played a better game than my 2 tribe-mates next to me. If you respect good gameplay, even If I am not the most likable, then I hope you will vote for me.

PRESENT

"HERE LIES RON: a traitor to some, a winner whether you like it or not."