Method To This Madness

Everyone is craving the need for affection. Each tribe member is trying to find an alliance with each member, and make personal connections with other to keep themselves from being voted off the island.

Many members looking for an alliance are becoming over personal members and sharing facts about themselves to be saved. Josh seems to be an over personal member with Baylor.

During the challenges, I think each member takes part in the group maintenance roles. Each persons begins to encourage and release tension to the member who is competing for reward.

I think there’s a little communication apprehension when Hunapuh asks Jeff to trade their beans for flint because they lost their first piece and that may have came because who would want to admit they lost one of the most valuable items they have earned? During the immunity challenge when Kelly and Jacquelyn go against each other, each tribe begins to encourage the tribe members who are competing against one another during the sumo challenge. Each tribe shows a lot of encouragement toward their tribe members. Whenever each group begins to fail at the challenge, I think each group kind of experiences communication apprehension because they are obviously upset that they now have a disadvantage and have lost a chance at winning immunity, and it’s also kind of like what are you supposed to say to your tribe members when you start to lose?

Baylor uses an affection need with missy, during the immunity challenge when missy hits Baylor and splits her lip, Missy feels bad for her daughter Baylor which kind of gives Baylor the upper hand. When tribes want to plan things together, or in a way begin to use their alliances to help them vote a certain tribe member off, there is kind of a procedural technician, meaning that there is a certain member who takes charge and begins to make arrangements and kind of has the final say in what happens with their alliances.