The Syndicate

All right, well I want to be here. And I hope that my fellow tribe members will agree that it's actually in your best interests to keep around someone who is committed to playing this game. Not someone who isn't fussed either way. Because someone like that will drop the ball when you're counting on them. I love survivor. I joined this site specifically to play this game and it would suck to go before someone who doesn't care either way.

notsawyer540 wrote:The other team got lucky on that challenge. If ya'll think we'd be more inclined to keep my willpower bonus around then I'd be more than happy to stick around, but if somone has to go, then I don't want do impede the rest of you in your future endeavors. I was originally going to vote for the original Mamana members since we outnumber them. So vote for me or vote for Opt_Outside. That's where my vote is going. He/she was around during the challenge, but didn't participate iirc.

Seriously? I said I'd be around throughout the day to check in but I didn't have a whole lot of time and that's why I weighed in on strategy before the challenge started. You're the one who just said "too many people thought it was a race" which is exactly why when I checked in I didn't want to start throwing a bunch of random guesses. I weighed in where I could. I threw one guess and it was a miss- by the time I refreshed the page people had covered all of the bases I was about to suggest. There were already too many cooks in the kitchen- as someone also already stated. What would you have preferred I do? Added 10 more unnecessary guesses to our score?

What about notsawyer and epi? Would you be down for btsc?

Sorsha wrote:I sent for golden and long Con

Ah damn. I wasn't paying attention!

I'm chatting with long con now so maybe I could get to know epi and sorsha for btsc tonight?

NICE!! I bet we've got it.

Golden wrote:Although I'd look dumb if I'm wrong.

Nah, it could literally be anywhere. They're bound to have tried to reverse reverse psychology us. No ideas are dumb- we're just going to have to get lucky

Scotty wrote:color=#BF00FF]Thanks for updating the chart as you go guys, it's incredibly helpful. I'm just popping in during random downtime during the show to respond right now[/color]

Golden wrote:B8

HIT!

You uncovered their shovel.

This means there are two items placed next to each other right there so we should look at the top either horizontally or vertically

H8

(Also looking elsewhere for the other items)

notsawyer540 wrote:Let's wait for a response now before we send more.

I agree. Then we'll know exactly what was guessed and if we hit. If we do hit, we also need to dig up the rest of the item so our next guessed would want to be right around it

Can we see what we've already sent in? I'm confused as to what was actually guessed and what was a suggestion because I see that sorsha wrote a bunch in a row earlier?

Scotty we will definitely submit one at a time- those are not our final answers.

Okaaaay no response and we have five minutes left so I'll get our submissions in based on what was listed above.

hiding items at E1 E2 F1 F2 sign, B2 B3 B4 oar, B6 B7 hatchet, H2 H3 shovel, D7 pot.

So our final submissions for burying items needs be in within 40 minutes- do we want to change anything or should I {dead} what we've got?

Opt_Outside wrote:

Long Con wrote:

notsawyer540 wrote:I say move the oar to the left one column, but otherwise I think it's good.

Good idea.

[A1] [B1] [C1] [D1] [E1] [F1] [G1] [H1]
[A2] [B2] [C2] [D2] [E2] [F2] [G2] [H2]
[A3] [B3] [C3] [D3] [E3] [F3] [G3] [H3]
[A4] [B4] [C4] [D4] [E4] [F4] [G4] [H4]
[A5] [B5] [C5] [D5] [E5] [F5] [G5] [H5]
[A6] [B6] [C6] [D6] [E6] [F6] [G6] [H6]
[A7] [B7] [C7] [D7] [E7] [F7] [G7] [H7]
[A8] [B8] [C8] [D8] [E8] [F8] [G8] [H8]

That looks great! So per scottys instructions do we have to submit those one at a time?

Oh never mind, we can submit that as a group and our guesses have to be one at a time. So does anyone have more thoughts on the grid? I have a long day at work so I'll be in on breaks as much as possible

I assume for some reason we just need to rebuild the shelter because new folks have arrived. Cool- we look pretty balanced on taking care of camp here today!

Long Con wrote:

notsawyer540 wrote:I say move the oar to the left one column, but otherwise I think it's good.

Good idea.

[A1] [B1] [C1] [D1] [E1] [F1] [G1] [H1]
[A2] [B2] [C2] [D2] [E2] [F2] [G2] [H2]
[A3] [B3] [C3] [D3] [E3] [F3] [G3] [H3]
[A4] [B4] [C4] [D4] [E4] [F4] [G4] [H4]
[A5] [B5] [C5] [D5] [E5] [F5] [G5] [H5]
[A6] [B6] [C6] [D6] [E6] [F6] [G6] [H6]
[A7] [B7] [C7] [D7] [E7] [F7] [G7] [H7]
[A8] [B8] [C8] [D8] [E8] [F8] [G8] [H8]

That looks great! So per scottys instructions do we have to submit those one at a time?

All right team! I've done a little research on strategies and here's what I've got. I won't be checking in until around 11 tomorrow so wanted to get this out there now as this is what I've found:

-It's statistically best to target the middle of the board so we might want to start there.

-If we miss twice in the same area, try a completely different area because it's more likely to be somewhere else entirely and less likely that we "just missed it".

-As far as our own items, avoid the very middle and the farthest left and right columns.

-Vertical placement is better- people read left to right so they tend to think horizontally.

-We might want to try hiding items in clusters. After they find one, they're more likely to look in a totally different place than right next to the discovered item.

Bear in mind that these are internet strategies and we should obviously pick and choose what we think is best. Maybe the other tribe has even seen some of the same ones! Feel free to say "nah I don't think so" to any of these and we'll move on sorry this was a long post but hopefully it has some use!

Stoked to have you all!! I've been looking forward to this tribe swap.