Board Thread:Season 24 - Cape Verde/@comment-7785749-20150224230619/@comment-9755360-20150225140533

First off, congratulations on becoming the highest-ranking member of your tribe - although that doesn't sound too good when it's only the top eleven. Similarly to Lindsay's question, you just saw Laure go home. Do you think being the only original Zaranha on this tribe - or taking it a step further, the only original non-Corvo - puts a target on your back that you can't shake? Have you had any opportunity to find a little crack in the tribe to work your way into?

Thanks! It really isn't something to celebrate though, since it unfortunately means some great people have gone out of the game. And I definitely think I have some sort of target on my back. As you said, I'm the only non-Corvo in the game, and teh others on my tribe have had weeks to talk before I joined them. Nothing is completely without cracks though, and I hope I can manage to stay a little longer in this game by the help of that small crack. The crack is almost non-existing though, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if I went home tonight. I do feel like the old Corvos have accepted me (at least somewhat) though, and it feels like we're not Corvo and Zaranha anymore, but Alto Mira. However, seeing only Blake and Laure (the two "outsiders") getting vote last TC was a bit worrying. I really hope these great people think a step further though.

How tough was it having two live challenges back-to-back? You guys won the live trivia, but then lost Guess Who and Hands on a Hard Idol. Are live challenges something you'd like to see again in the future?

I'll be honest - I completely and utterly hated the live challenges. Not only does it put me in a disadvantage as the only European, but also my tribe goes down when people don't have time to play. The live trivia was planned way ahead, so we had time to prepare for that one. Also, Lindsay just ruled that challenge. We wouldn't have won it without her. Guess Who was a close match. Corvo and Alto were literally writing answers at the same time. Unfortunately we were down to two options though, and we picked the wrong one. Corvo was lucky enough to pick the right one, and so they won. That last challenge I don't even count as a challenge to be honest. I mean, it wasn't announced or anything, and when it began most people were away. You also obviously planned it really poorly, since you even had to add rules mid-game. Finally, that challenge could have gone so different. I mean, had it been posted now (Josh and I are the only people ever on at this time), we would've won the challenge instead (a tie because of their advantage, but still). I completely understand why you did what you did though - having 2 tribes of 5 merge is funnier than a tribe of 6 and a tribe of 4 (the merge is obviously next). Please don't take what I just said in the wrong way - it's so hard to write out what I'm trying to say. Anyway, live challenges is something I definitely don't want to see. It's so hard to come up with a time that works for everyone, and if something happens and you have to leave, you can't finish it later. There are good things with live challenges too though - they're relatively fast to play and everyone socialise, something that otherwise doesn't really happen to that extent. Overall I feel like the bad things outweigh the good things unfortunately, but one or two live challenges further down the road is not an impossibility!