Day 1 thoughts:
Mohad's set a very low bar for what is "unreasonable" when describing Fred's early posts
Ocelot's interrogation seems too aggressive to be the Ocelot of previous editions. After an early flurry, Ocelot returns near the deadline with no analysis (unlike him for sure) and doesn't make a vote. Although he said he would be busy in general, today would be okay for him.
Nah, today should be alright is what I said, in general it's gonna be difficult though.
At the point Ocelot votes Zach, it's 3-3-3, so it's the first vote to reduce the 3-man battle, to a 2-man battle, and it's a very decisive one. He does not initially provide a reason for this vote; it is 9 minutes to deadline.
Zach set his sights on Fred early, and stuck with him til he was lynched. Zach doesn't address the accusations thrown at him, and appears to not know what's going on.
Kyle nicely checkmating Mohad on his reasoning for his Fred suspicion. Kyle shows concern for the lack of activity in the thread, activity not something a G would want, but could it be an act? Kyle jumps from the Fred camp to the Zach camp, when it's 3-2-2 and makes the battle solely, between Zach & Fred, removing X from the battle. It didn't seem to take much convincing to abandon his original argument.
way to ruin the 3-way tie, fred
becomes (X, Kyle, Alen, Mohad [& Klin, who made a very early vote for Fred, gave no reason, and disappeared for the day]) vs. (Fred, Voller
Tomice made a good point on his reason for voting Zach. Before his vote, it was Fred 2, Zach 1 (and a few others with one vote). At this point, his vote would be a significant one in the Zach & Fred battle, and was too bold a move for a G to usually make. Tomice suggesting he might want to take his vote off of Zach in place of Salvo, but not actually doing so.
Alen's attack on Fred is making it a clear battle between Fred and Zach, and a risk you would usually not one would take as C, so it seems something was at stake with the possibility of Zach being lynched. Alen also tries to provoke Fred. Alen then withdraws from the battle and votes for Salvo, with the Fred/Zach battle raging on. (Perhaps by creating a 3-way tie introducing Salvo now, he hopes to save Zach in a less direct way?) Alen was PMing me relentlessly, but I had no idea what was going on in the game at that point. It seemed like his interest in me possibly being the BG was intentionally fake, then he tried to cover that up with an equally pretend faked interest in whether I'm a G or not. He was purposefully saying shit that made no sense. So make of that what you will)
Salvo, while people are pointing fingers everywhere and beginning to form 2 camps (Zach & Alen/Mohad vs. Fred & Kyle/Tomice) is not taking part
Fred is right of accusing Alen off doing exactly what he did to cast suspicion on himself and get himself lynched in the last game.
X is also distanced from the battle and has his eye on Salvo. X suggested the 3-way tie before it started to take place, and in hindsight, it proved to be a useful event in making people pick certain sides quickly.*
Voller defends Fred and in the first to vote Zach, but doesn't appear for the rest of the day.
Fake Melo is the first cast his vote in the thread. The vote is for Zach, and Melo disappears til almost immediately (9 minutes) after the deadline is closed, despite posting all over the forum that day.
After this, it is revealed that an attempt was made to whack Alen, but he was saved by the BG, which means more than likely he isn't a G... but there is a small chance. he is.
So that's my day 1 analysis, and I will see how similar the voting patterns remained to this in the following days to decide how I will make my vote from hear on.
P.S. forgive the typos and rambling, or incomplete posts, if there any. Feeling the effects of having a few beers
* A democratic move that should be used on first days in future games
