Within The Chaos, There Was Strategy

**Within The Chaos, There Was Strategy** is the twelfth episode of MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom.

## Story

Chelsea plans to reach the end with Shaun and either Kelly or Xander. She thinks she isn't playing the right game to win, just like what Evan's farewell speech mentioned and hopes to get Jiv out ASAP. She totally smashed the challenge to which she halved the time of the 2nd place finisher and got her first individual win of the season! Her win ended Jiv's immunity-streak and opened up the door for the "jinx-jinx-jinx" alliance to finally be able to target him out of the game. As it was discussed, Jiv and Corn Corn were both names thrown around, with Xander wanting to split in fear of Jiv having an idol. After discussions, they suspected that Jiv threw the challenge to get in their heads and bluffed a non-existing idol. She pondered about giving her immunity to Shaun and was immediately refuted by him. She is willing to sacrifice her game for Shaun and absolutely views him her no.1 in the game for now.

Corn Corn is on the outs knowingly. His plan this time around is to hope that Jiv has the idol and the "jinx" votes Jiv. He would be voting for Xander, without knowing that Jiv voted him instead, with a hope that the "jinx" alliance split 2-2 which would send him home in a 3-2-1 split vote. He feels at risk and feels that he is potentially getting voted out, leaving some words for the specs to "always remember to stay corny".

Jiv lost the challenge unfortunately and is the primary target here to be voted out. As noted by the "jinx" alliance, he illusioned them to think that he possibly had an idol, to which Xander bit the bait and considered about splitting the votes 2-2 on Jiv and Corn Corn, to which he will then convince Corn Corn to vote Xander while he himself votes Corn Corn. However, as discussions happened, the "jinx" realised the possible scheme and stayed with voting Jiv, ending his run here in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Kelly had been a little busy due to work, but definitely had a major role in this vote. In the "jinx" alliance as discussed, different players had various options whether to "go for Jiv" or to "play safe and split". With the main intend to get rid of Jiv since he doesn't have an immunity, she pulled out a docs and recorded everyone's opinions and came to the conclusion that Jiv did not throw the challenge, he just isn't the best at this type of challenge, and that Jiv is potentially bluffing about an idol, to which both were accurate assumptions. In the end, she was able to convince the group to stay on track and they voted out Jiv here, ending his run.

Shaun laid out his plans to stick with the "jinx" group until Jiv is gone, and then proceed to target Kelly before FTC as he views her as an FTC threat. He wanted to vote Jiv out of the game, but Xander brought up a possible split vote due to paranoia of Jiv possibly having an idol, which in turn led him to be paranoid about Xander possibly wanting to "3-2-1" him instead. He wants to sit with Xander and Chelsea at the end. He felt that Jiv is playing mind games with Xander to which Xander is eating all that up. He correctly clocked Jiv's intentions and was still suspicious that Xander may flip. However, Kelly managed to convince Xander to vote together in the end, ending Jiv here.

Xander aims to play a game without making people mad, viewing Corn Corn and Chelsea as the best FTC option he has to win the game against but also noted that he doesn't think he has the heart to flip on his alliance. He was paranoid when the idea that "Jiv potentially has an idol" got into his head which he consulted the other members about a possible split-vote. This however made himself suspicious in the eye of Shaun. In the end, he was convinced by the group to vote Jiv as a whole, which turned out to be a successful one.