reality blurred + Joe Dowdle: “I wouldn’t want to do this thing if I had to abide by my ethics because it wouldn’t be fun”
February 5th, 2009 | by cwalton |
Joe Dowdle during the first episode of SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS- THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS
Joe’s “persuade and evade” strategy is the most interesting and different strategy anyone told me about, although I can’t quite decide if it’s either smart or ridiculous. “My catch phrase has been flying under the radar in kind of the easy-going, kind of fun-loving guy until I can get to a certain part of the game and then start making moves. I thought I would do what’s called persuade and evade, you know, try to get a lot of invitations out there and see who comes, as opposed to trying to trying to focus on one or two people to make an alliance with. Does that make sense? And evade premature alliances. I want to make sure the people I’m aligned with are going to be around.”
It makes sense and it doesn’t; he seems like he plans to align with everyone while not aligning with anyone, and the strategy sounds kind of like keeping one’s options open. The type of people Joe sees himself aligning with are “not too strong; I think that puts you in a focus position. But I think somebody maybe like myself, who has the same type of mentality of, they’re a strong player but they’re also going to be smart about it. If I can catch on to two or three people in the very beginning to get that firm foundation and then add however many else as you go along.”
While Joe didn’t cite anyone specifically, he summed up his competition like this: “I think about half the field is below average competition for me, and about half the field is right on the average, maybe right above average.” He said that his biggest competition comes from a “couple of the fellas in there, probably three guys” who are “physical, athletic-looking dudes.”
Read the entire article at:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_tocantins/2009_Feb_03_joe_dowdle
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