Pre-Game Questions

[Kat]

Welcome Porsche! Glad to have you back for another season of Rise & Fall! Please answer these questions when you have the chance

1. Do you have a strategy coming into the game? If so, what it is?

2. Since this is an All-Star game, do you know anyone coming into it? What is your relationship like with each of those people? Friends? Rivals? Also, if you do know anyone, do you plan on working with them at all?

3. Is there anyone that you don't think really deserves to be here? Why or why not?

4. What is something that you would like to correct since the last time you've played? Are you worried that your reputation from your previous season could hurt you coming into this?

5. Do you have what it takes to win this game?

6. Any final comments before the game begins?

Good luck!

[porsche]

Jun 12, 2017 13:50:16 GMT Kat said:

Welcome Porsche! Glad to have you back for another season of Rise & Fall! Please answer these questions when you have the chance

1. Do you have a strategy coming into the game? If so, what it is?

A lot of it depends on the twist. How is the house going to be split up? Is it going to be divided into two different houses? Are there going to be cliques?

If all 20 of us are in one house, then the strategy I used last time won't work this time. I can't be best friends with 19 different people, and if I try, the people here are definitely smart enough to see through it. What I need to do instead is to have working relationships with everyone so I'm safe no matter who wins HOH. Every game I say that I need to play under the radar and then end up being seen as a threat, but it's even more important for me to be under the radar this game. Once I get past the first few weeks, then I can look around, see who's close to who and adjust, but the important thing is to make it through the past few weeks. I'm in a pretty terrible spot coming into this game, being a previous winner and not being part of this community. The important thing right now is to survive and to lower the target on my back.

I also wouldn't mind working with the other winners. The longer they stay in, the better for me. I don't necessarily want to be the one who starts a 6 person alliance but I think having an unspoken thing would be good.

2. Since this is an All-Star game, do you know anyone coming into it? What is your relationship like with each of those people? Friends? Rivals? Also, if you do know anyone, do you plan on working with them at all?

I don't know anyone, and I'm pretty nervous. The only people I have relationships with are the ones who were on my season. And even with them, it's been a year since we played together, and I haven't kept in contact. I'll happily work with any of them if they're interested though. Me and Cody were on opposite sides of the house last time, but I have nothing against him and I'll work with him if he wants to.

3. Is there anyone that you don't think really deserves to be here? Why or why not?

There are a couple people who weren't chosen as all stars in their season but made the cast anyway. Becky, Erika, Jackie and Arlie. I didn't follow 12, but Erika tried to make a move against Kalia which failed, and Arlie was kind of a goat. But if people underestimate the alternates, they're in a good spot. I'm also confused how Ika made it when she hasn't played since the last all stars.

4. What is something that you would like to correct since the last time you've played? Are you worried that your reputation from your previous season could hurt you coming into this?

In 13 I played a pretty good game but made some mistakes. Pretty much everyone recognized me as a threat, and my game got blown up at Will's eviction. This time around, I want to start off playing more under the radar. Being the big threat of the season won't work against all these really good players.

I'm definitely worried about my reputation. Not only will I have a target on my back for being a winner, but I also, at least in the beginning part of the game, was close to pretty much everyone. I don't want to make a genuine connection and then have that person wonder if I'm just close with everyone again. Erika was talking about hating Kalia and hoping she didn't even check in, and I played a pretty similar game to Kalia

This didn't happen in RNF but in other games, I have this bad habit where I'm aware of who is a threat to my game, post in my DR that I need to get them out, but keep deciding that the time isn't right and then they take me out first. I don't want to make a kamikaze attack in round one but I'm fine playing aggressively later on as long as it's smart.

5. Do you have what it takes to win this game?

Yes! I think I proved that in 13. Will I win the game? Ehhh, probably not. But hopefully I'm wrong.

6. Any final comments before the game begins?

Good luck!

Thanks for hosting this, Kat! It's a great series and I couldn't turn down the chance to play again.