~Welcome~

[jessicafrey]

If you don't like Tom..look at your life look at your choices.

That being says this game favors the selfish and I want to see Tom be selfish in the end game because I love him

[Host Brandon]

KATE <3

Elise <3

[youngmatthew]

Who could that be?? The love of my life Sara??

I had the pleasure of hosting Sara in her very first ORG and she is GLORIOUS. Such a great person and I'm so excited to watch her branch out!

[youngmatthew]

obligatory rooting for jordan/tom/bryce/yap/jack post too. So many baes to root for, but I'm going to be #teamsara till I die.

[Host Brandon]

The three girls may be in the minority but they are EPIC!!! #girlpower

[lindsaybelle]

Who's ready?!?!

[jared]

Jun 28, 2015 20:28:20 GMT -5 lindsaybelle said:

Who's ready?!?!

my body is ready!!

[jessicafrey]

This would be the cutest final 2 ever

[notstephen]

FINAL BATCH OF CAST ASSESSMENTS:

Andrew: Anthony Demott's Brother. However, I can't see Andrew make merge in this game. He has the bro attitude, but I don't think it meshes well with this cast.

Sara: She has such an upbeat energetic personality! Duke educated as well, so she's no dummy. I think she's going to play a smart game, and being in the minority of females she'll be able to use that to her advantage to make it far.

Daniel: A nurse! First ORG! I'm excited for Daniel to play. I think he'll be smart enough to adjust to the learning curve quickly and be able to be a helluva cast member. He's also Josh's twin. I feel like Daniel may give off a threatening demeanor to his tribe and he'll be out pre-merge. To be honest though, I can't see most of this cast leaving pre-merge. It's just going to break my heart.

Nav: ELEC ENG <3. AN ENGINEER! ONE OF ME! Nav seems chill, but this is his first non-alias (edit: I was misinformed it wasn't). I think he may struggle socially on his tribe, since this is a learning curve to go non-alias (what the hell am I saying? what do I know? I've never played an alias! I'm just making general assumptions that are probably correct). Also not to generalize engineers, because I wouldn't categorize myself in this field whatsoever, but engineers are rather social butterflies or awkward turtles. From a 50 second video I can't determine which one Nav is of course, but really I think that it could be difficult for him to fit into social situations. We'll see though.

Paul: "I plan on beating you" ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your intro was going well until you said that Paul. Thaaaat's a tad shady to say in an intro video. Up until that remark I was cool with Paul and I thought he could fly under the radar to make merge. After that remark though, if I were in the game, I'd be thinking "change your plans, bud." Of course it's a generalization for a first video, and if this is his first game (my assumption) I think it's just rookie mistakes to say things like that. I don't know if it'll hurt Paul, but it would in my books.

Kategoddess: "I thought if you lost survivor they actually killed you" <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 and did I mention <3. I get a read off of Kate that she's smart as a whip and will know what she's doing strategically and socially. If I were to pinpoint any major threat in this game I'd be pointing at her. I feel she's going to be the type of person to really think out her moves and do the most cost-benefit analysis opposed to someone like Jack who is loyal to a fault for better or for worse. As long as Kate plays it slow and doesn't jump to any conclusions that could jeopardize her, there's one of your three/two? finalists.

[notstephen]

Finally! I'm not going to do a ranking based on who I "like" because I genuinely like them all for different reason. Some of them are my friends, some of them I want to become friends with, and all of them I find were cast for a certain reason and all deserve to be in this game. There's no clear cut favourites here. Instead I'm just going to predict who I think will do well and who I think wont.

Assuming a final 11 merge I predict the merge to be definitely comprised of:
Elise
Justin
Kate
Josh
Yap
Patrick
---I feel as if all of these are definite locks for me.

On the bubble:
Tom
Daniel
Eric
Jordan
Sara
Derek
Stephen
---7 names, 5 of which would make it. Really I could throw anyone into on the bubble, it just depends on how the course of the game goes.
Eric's intro was everything I wanted and more, but I just wonder how his personality is going to fit into his tribe.
Also I'm just team Jordan because I know he's passionate and wants to do well. I just hope he uses it as fuel not exhaust.

I definitely think Albee wont make merge due to his ability to be polarizing.
I also think Bryce wont make merge due to his recent status in the ORG community.
If going off of the first video, I think Nav will have trouble communicating within his tribe at some point, which will cost him.

I'm hoping I'm totally wrong with this predictions, because for example I <3 <3 <3 Jack and I want him to make it far since he's literally one of my favourite people ever. Same with Bryce. Hell, even people I don't know like Andrew or Tom but I have great first impressions off of and want to see make it very far.

If I were saying who I thought were the contenders based on an intro video and my initial reads I'd say:
KATE
ELISE
PATRICK
JUSTIN

[Host Brandon]

I completely agree with a lot of your merge picks tbh!

I have a strong feeling Kate and Eric won't be able to hide their relationship for very long. Who will be the first person to figure out they are dating?!

[notstephen]

Jun 29, 2015 1:32:28 GMT -5 Host Brandon said:

I completely agree with a lot of your merge picks tbh!

I have a strong feeling Kate and Eric won't be able to hide their relationship for very long. Who will be the first person to figure out they are dating?!

Oh if this is the case, depending on how tribe swaps go, Eric is immediately rocketed into the merge locks. However it would be fucking awesome to see Kate mist her boyfriend <3. 

[tricks]

kate's my fault, i'm the friend that asked if she wanted to play an org <3

PATRICK ARAGGAHARAGGH NAMETWIN. this is why i go by tricks

tom is bae and i just kinda backstabbed him in a game like four days ago and i still feel really shitty about it so i hope he does well lol

[tricks]

also a thing about kate. she's super duper loyal and will genuinely throw all semblance of gameplay out the window for the sake of loyalty so i hope she doesn't do that again

[Anthony]

Jun 29, 2015 6:34:05 GMT -5 tricks said:

also a thing about kate. she's super duper loyal and will genuinely throw all semblance of gameplay out the window for the sake of loyalty so i hope she doesn't do that again

He's not lying. See: Chronicles season 14. My hopes and dreams were shattered.