What were your biggest takeaways from the last tribal council?
Wow, what a short and open-ended question lol. *looks at everyone else's questions in comparison*
Well, I will say, that for as much information as people gave out in Tribal Council, I was still surprised by the votes. Not as much for the wolfden and lawchicky ones (mainly because there was a lot of talk about fairness and the challenge polls and how to determine that), though I was surprised by how close it was. But I was surprised by the three other votes. Not that I think voting for who you want to vote for isn't fair — it's a game and people need to vote by whatever reasons they want to vote by — but except for lawchicky last week, no one really fessed up to wanting to "play the game" so to speak, but there are definitely people playing the game. Which is to be expected, of course, but it was surprising but also nice to have it confirmed.
Of course, I have no idea who those people were who voted that way so that part doesn't really help me :)
Going along with that, it also just confirmed how hard this game is. Regular Idol you just write your entry and then hope you wrote well enough that people will vote for you to make it to the next round. It's scary as heck, but you have one main job! This is a whoooooole other thing. Tribal and voting is (for me at least!) way harder than writing an entry every week. First, it's figuring out your own personal strategy and what feels right to you. But then it's also trying to figure out everyone else and how much of the truth they're telling all while hoping everyone else isn't voting for you.
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Wow, what a short and open-ended question lol. *looks at everyone else's questions in comparison*
Well, I will say, that for as much information as people gave out in Tribal Council, I was still surprised by the votes. Not as much for the wolfden and lawchicky ones (mainly because there was a lot of talk about fairness and the challenge polls and how to determine that), though I was surprised by how close it was. But I was surprised by the three other votes. Not that I think voting for who you want to vote for isn't fair — it's a game and people need to vote by whatever reasons they want to vote by — but except for lawchicky last week, no one really fessed up to wanting to "play the game" so to speak, but there are definitely people playing the game. Which is to be expected, of course, but it was surprising but also nice to have it confirmed.
Of course, I have no idea who those people were who voted that way so that part doesn't really help me :)
Going along with that, it also just confirmed how hard this game is. Regular Idol you just write your entry and then hope you wrote well enough that people will vote for you to make it to the next round. It's scary as heck, but you have one main job! This is a whoooooole other thing. Tribal and voting is (for me at least!) way harder than writing an entry every week. First, it's figuring out your own personal strategy and what feels right to you. But then it's also trying to figure out everyone else and how much of the truth they're telling all while hoping everyone else isn't voting for you.
It's hard. I love it. But it is hard.