Russell's Ranting

[Russell Hantz]

It's been a long time since New Zealand but here I am, back and ready to play this game a second time around. I know the reputation I have around here, and that's playing some what identical to the real Russell Hantz. That's going to hurt me while I play against these people. I don't expect to last very long, but that does not mean that I'll try to play every page in the book to try and stick around as long as I can. I already have a loyal friend and follower in Boo, who's helped me greatly so far. He's helped me in finding the idol, even though it was taken by the time I reached it, filled me in on who supposedly has the other idol's, among other things. I did have plans to play with Boo here on the Villains tribe but with the tribe swap, that couldn't happen. So I had to bounce back to my second option and that is Parvati. I don't have any other options and she's the only thing I have right now so I'm going to suck it up.

The challenge was torture. It wasn't something I wanted to come back to, but this is All Stars. It's the best of the best, so the harder challenges are going to be implemented in this competition. It's to weed out the babies, to weed out the little kids who can't keep up with the rest of the pack. I did fall somewhere in the middle, but I think that's the best place for me. I didn't want to over post and be a threat and I didn't want to post hardly anything at all and look like someone who doesn't give a damn about my tribe. I thought it through and I figured going about 500 posts was the way to go and where to stop without overdoing it so much. The Neutrals won the challenge so that meant that new friend Boo was safe, so I don't have too many complaints there. But with losing, that means we have to vote someone out of the game, and I have no safety or idol in my pocket. The thing about the idol is that I got in, found it, but it was already taken it. So it's lingering in our midst right now and quietly too.

The word I've received is that Terry should be the one to leave because his terrible performance in the competition. 70 posts? It's bad. Courtney has told me that she thinks Terry may have the idol so the votes would need to split just in case, and the name brought up to be a goat this week is Aras. So if Terry throws out the idol, his vote for whoever won't count and Aras would be the one to leave, or vice versa if in some twist of fate Aras really has it in his back pocket. Aras and Terry performed the worst in the challenge, so they're bottom of the food chain. Survival of the fittest. Those two didn't compete as well as they should have. Another reason it's believed Terry has it is because of his low post count. He could have spent his time finding the idol, cracking the forum, therefore had no time to pitch in and help us win. So we're splitting the vote tonight. Courtney is worried that Aras and Terry will vote for her, but I don't think that will happen. Terry has said to some people that he's voting Aras because he thinks that's how everyone is voting, so if he doesn't pay his idol if he even has it, he's gone.

Something unexpected just happened now too and Candice IMed me from the Heroes. She's Sydney from my season, and in our season she was my F2 and the girl I wanted to take to the end of the competition. But that wasn't the case when everyone including Yasmin who's on her tribe at the moment, blindesided us and sent her out of the game even though she was active and strong. And all of them wonder why they're alliance sucked and none of them made the F2? Let's be real about this, Erinn alone was a goat and didn't deserve her F3 spot anywho. Candice wants to work together when the time allows us too, and I said I was fine in making that happen. She's assured me she's okay on Heroes which is good because I actually had her pegged to go tonight since she didn't do the challenge but that was until Boo shared with me that Benry is supposedly the target and going home tonight over there. Alot is going on in this game, I just hope I stick around long enough for most of it. Long live Russell Hantz.

[Tom Westman]

Great confessional!!! Keep it up man!

[Tom Westman]

Russell likes to do confessionals

[Tom Westman]

More please!!!!!

[Russell Hantz]

Yeah... I owe a big essay worth of confessionals. I'll catch you up tonight.

[Tom Westman]

Awesome

[Tom Westman]

That was lies ^ After this round, I can guarentee there is no reason not to write one haha.

[Russell Hantz]

Writing one now lmao

[Russell Hantz]

First Tribal Council went according to plan. We all saw Terry take his torch and head off to Dead Man’s Island where he would then lose his battle there too. Terry was not a competitor or a good player. His time in this game was limited and I think most people including myself saw him not lasting long enough to even make an impression. You see... the thing about Terry is this. He’s so high on himself that I don’t think he even saw why he should have been voted out the round he was voted out. That’s what makes all of this more amusing then it should be… he was questioning everyone about his voting out and publicly got into an argument with Parvati over it only to have his ass handed to him and shut up. It puts a smile on my face to know that while I may have some good challenges along the way in this game seeing as most of these players are very competitive, you do have your handful of dumbasses who don’t really seem to know how to play the game and make the most hilarious, rookie mistakes.

Throughout the next few rounds I found myself low on the food chain. I was dead smack above one person the entire time and that was Aras. Aras was another Terry, he had no idea how to be social or how to play the game, so it made it easier for me to take it easy and know that if we lost it was Aras getting the snuff. The alliance of three on my tribe, Parvati, Sally, and Dreamz was more obvious than everything I have ever come into contact with. They would play it as, oh… I haven’t talked to so and so… but I’ll see what they say… when I knew damn well they talked and they knew what the hell was going on. But that was okay. I wasn’t in a position to snap back with sarcasm or be abrasive, so I layed back, let them come to me with plans and I would help them execute whatever they needed done. The next time we lost and were sent to Tribal, the Heroes’ idol was flushed so that meant that Neutrals and Villains still had to flush there’s. Someone on the tribe had the idol but it wasn’t me and It was rumored to be Aras or even Courtney.

I had known about the rumor of the idol from Boo who was still my strongest ally at this point, so when and if people came to me about the idol on my tribe, I would play dumb like I had no idea what was really going on… and it seemed to pay off. So I knew Aras could have had the idol, and when Dreamz came to me and told me to vote Courtney I knew right away that they were trying to split the vote. Voting Courtney wasn’t an issue for me, because it let me know at that point that if Aras or Courtney did have an idol, it would bite one of those two and not me, so I had no hesitations in just going with the plan that Dreamz presented me with. And what happened you ask? Courtney’s twig ass walked out of the game just as she was supposed to. Aras did have the idol and now It was gone, and with Aras still in the game and without any from of protection, that meant that I was going to stick around longer as a vote lackey for the Villain3 which was all good for me, because it just meant that I was able to play longer in the game.

[Russell Hantz]

At this time I believe we had an eChallenge, not the first one where Ashley won the grand prize, but another one where I was one second off from beating Parvati. It just goes to show that Parvati will always be one of my big competitions in this game…. she always seems to find a way to upstage me, if its by a second or even that stupid vote from Season 1. So while my truce with her is still there, she needs to have it in her mind that once it’s done, it’s done and I’m coming after her if I’m able. With that being said… we lost again. Villains were on a losing spree and that’s what continued to make this funny. I could had been voted out a lot earlier had there not been super dumbasses on my tribe that can’t even shut their mouth and play UTR, but instead had to feel self entitled. Aras apparently pissed off everyone on the tribe so his vote was set in stone and he was going home with a majority vote, atleast that was what I was told. When the votes were read, I had a vote cast for me and it was one of Dreamz’s somewhat clever drawings. I knew right there that had it tied I could have gone home in a possible revote, giving Parvati the chance to turn on the truce her and I had.

This round was a little shaken… mainly due to the fact that my main ally Boo was in hot water. The vote on Neutrals was messy and it was said that it would be him Sandra Chase or Kelly leaving. While I think it would have been smarter to take Kelly out of the game, Boo insisted that he wanted to keep her in to please Parvati and to have her on his good side. I don’t understand why people want to “please” people. Players like Benry and Parvati are only big because people give them power, the power through rumor and gossip… they’re players like everyone else… it amuses me how some people kiss their ass and want to be their best friends. I’m playing with a bunch of bitches. Boo was trying to get the vote split but it all backfired on him and he was voted out of the game. With my main ally out and on DMI, I knew it was time for me to step it up and actually start playing the game or Id end up just like Boo, fighting on DMI to come back into this game and that was not a place I wanted to be. The bad thing about this, was that I needed a swap and I needed it bad… if we were to lose… the Villain3 would surely take me out and with ease, I knew of it.

Thus came a gift out of nowhere… a swap. The new tribes were chosen and I landed on a tribe with more people from the anti-Benry group and it put all of Benry’s allies… Chase, Amanda, and Sandra at a disadvantage. Everyone then expected me to align with Dreamz, Sally, and Ozzy but who really ever said that was going to happen. I had managed to weasel myself into a position where everyone relied on me and only me, even after not even competition in the challenge. I was a hot commodity… everyone wanted my vote. Benry’s side versus anti-Benry. But the thing about me in these games is that once you show me that you aren’t to be trusted then I’ll get you, and I’ll be the one to end it. With Dreamz’s vote two round before, he had been #1 on my radar since. Having the opportunity to give Benry and his friends some hope, I voted with them while lying to Dreamz, Sally, and Ozzy and helped boot Dreamz from the game and onto DMI where he then got beat out by Chase. It was a great personal move for me, because while I didn’t need to have to deal with him any longer, I knew what kind of player he was, and he was annoying from what I had seen in Capri. Siding with Chase, Amanda, and Sandra is not something I regret or will ever because I got my revenge on Dreamz.

[Russell Hantz]

Out of the new people on the tribe the most standout is Amanda. Amanda has taken it upon herself to overplay the role of Flirty Girl #1 in the cast and while it’s flattering with all the compliments she gives me… I know it’s complete and utter bullshit. “I bet you have nice eyes,” “So tell me more about you baby,” or “I would love to try your spaghetti!” It’s all a lot to handle but its good for me because she would then relay back to her co-conspirators Chase and Sandra and let them know she has me “wrapped around her finger” so they wouldn’t worry about me flipping back. Or so they thought. We ended up losing again which was fine, I’ve been on the losing tribe since the start of the game so I’m used to the routine. Chase had beat Dreamz so he was given a prize so I knew he was going to use it to ensure that either Sally or Ozzy left the game. But after talking to Amanda and Chase, they believed that Parv had given Sally an idol. Parv giving Sally an idol? Lolololol, these people don’t know Parv then because that girl would be selfish when it came to idols. Another rookie assumption made by these people. When I spoke to Sally, Sally told me that Chae was going tonight and that I just needed to vote Chase… so that’s when I knew that the rumor of Parvati handing something to Sally was true.

I know this game… I know it inside and out, and while people may underestimate that is fine. I have played UTR since the start and have managed to find myself slipping into the best positions, where everyone needs my vote to survive but no ones taken it upon themselves to just turn and vote against me. Its perfect…. Its brilliant, its just what I want. So while Amanda sucked my face off and thought she had my vote in her back pocket, I turned around and voted Chase. Chase played his prize which he was able to change someone’s vote. He changed Ozzy’s vote to Ozzy, but then Sally played the prize Parv gave to her, and she canceled Amanda’s vote for this round and next round. It came down to a tie between Chase and Ozzy and since Amanda’s vote was canceled for this round, it still meant she couldn’t vote so it was up to me, Sally, and Sandra to cast the revote. The plan worked better than we had thought…. Parv’s gift was a godsend, I was in control of my fate, and Benry’s supposed right hand man was going to make his exit from the game and to Dead Man’s Island. The best part of the evening was how shocked Amanda was when she came to me. Even though I couldn’t see her facial expression I knew she was probably wide eyed and open mouth, not her or Chase’s begging by calling me “highness” was going to get me to save him. Dreamz paid the price for underestimating me and now so did Chase… if anyone else wants to step up to the plate, then be my guest.

[Jaime Huffman]

"I would love to try your spaghetti"

Umm, dare I ask? lol

[Natalie White]

You're braver than I am Jaime. I wondered but wasn't going to ask. lol

[Russell Hantz]

Apr 8, 2011 14:07:21 GMT -5 Jaime Huffman said:

"I would love to try your spaghetti"

Umm, dare I ask? lol

Hahaha, we ended up discussing if we could cook meals, and I said I made a killer spaghetti and garlic bread and then she took that as her cue to flirt some more even after the discussion had ended 30 minutes prior... but not only that, but would attach cringeworthy love songs like Cascada - "Everytime We Touch" to them too.

[Jaime Huffman]

hahaha, thank god you didn't make sausage with your spaghetti