Board Thread:Survivor 29: Hallasan/@comment-26497890-20180109221027

Henlo my Yeetberries. You made it! Final 2! Cool! Congrats to Devon for being the coattail riding champion of 2k17, and congrats to Ally for finding a way to have half the merge be a pregame connection and STILL manage to play so horrendously socially that none of them want to give her a vote to win I guess. Stellar gameplay y’all.

 So, There’s gonna be a few parts to this speech. Firstly, I will take both of your opening speeches and break them down. I’ll then give some of my points, insights, praises, and some negativity cause believe it or not, I’m actually not bitter compared to about half the jury. (This hasn’t been and will not be a fun ftc for either of you).

 Ladies first, let’s break down Ally’s speech. Contrary to popular belief, I think your speech was better than Devons.

 Hello everyone!! First of all, I just want to say congratulations to Devon for getting to this point, and thank you to him, everyone else on the cast, and the amazing hosts for this super enjoyable season.



 First off, I’ll throw it out there now. Ass-kissery on most people on the jury isn’t gonna help. Personally I don’t care either way, if you wanna stroke my ego im not gonna stop you but it wont help nor harm your chances for me.

 I believe that I deserve to be the Sole Survivor of Hallasan because I played a very well rounded game; I strategically planned my path to the end in a way that would give me the best chance of winning,



 Correct reacc



<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I worked hard socially to keep up strong bonds with my allies,

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">and I was a top competition performer on my tribes pre-merge as well as won 2 immunities post-merge. I'm going to explain my thought process as the game went on, because this game was very extensive for me, as I attended nearly every tribal council and voted out everyone in the season other than 2 people. I apologize if my speech is lengthy because of this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Quick aside I do really respect this in your game. Even knowing a lot of people beforehand, its tough to attend and survive this many tribal councils in any season. Good job.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">After joining the game slightly late due to being a replacement, I immediately got to work on Jinan trying to form connections so I wouldn’t be left out because of it. I formed lasting bonds with several people on Jinan, including Blake, Devon, and Felipe. These starting bonds would prove to be incredibly valuable both post-mutiny and during the merge.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Wonsan -

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Swapping onto Wonsan, my original Jinan tribe had a 3-2 majority. However, Louise and I quickly developed a bond with Zach, and we formed an alliance called YEET, and as you all know, we became the last 3 standing on our tribe.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jake on Jinan chose me and Max to go to the lake with him that round, and I was lucky enough to receive the ability to mutiny. Max left the lake first, and then I used this opportunity to speak with Jake, align with him, and form an in-game bond with him, because that was likely the tribe I was going to be mutinying to should we lose immunity.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s not pretend that this wasn’t because of your pregame relationship with Jake. It was. Its been explained in Jake’s thread tho so I wont go into detail here.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Through talking to him, I learned that Devon was on the outs, which was upsetting to me because Devon was my closest ally on Jinan. We parted, and then my tribe, unfortunately, lost immunity again. I’m not actually 100% sure if I would have been at risk that round, but I chose to use my mutiny regardless. This was because of a couple reasons-- Zach and Louise were friends from prior to the game, and I didn’t feel like taking the risk; and I didn’t want to end up losing again on a tribe of 2 and have to go to firemaking myself. If I did that, I was also risking being dissolved and reshuffled onto Donnaeko, where I would be in a much worse position than I would be on Jinan. It just made sense for me to mutiny over to where I felt I could gain footing and secure my position.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">This was your peak for me in this game, Ally. You went into Wonsan with a tribal majority and easily could have killed Brons and then me, but you decided to stick with, in my opinion, the three best people on that tribe. You also did this without really needing pregame relationships, as I dont really count ours tbh, and you played your mutiny round perfectly. Your time on Wonsan is all positives for me. Unfortunately, thats about where the positives end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Jinan (Reprise) -

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Once I mutinied over to Jinan, I started talking to everyone and getting information on the dynamics of the tribe. Everyone on the tribe was very open to talking to me, and I quickly managed to figured out who was close with who, who was likely the next target (it was indeed Devon), etc. My main task at hand was to save Devon. He was the person I was most loyal to on that tribe, and I wanted to make sure that he stayed in. Jake had been working really hard on getting Blake to distrust Devon, and was open to me about this, so I used that information to undo his progress and get Blake back on my side and working with Devon and I again, because those were the two people I trusted the most at that point and I was hoping to create a solid bond between the 3 of us. Through this, we formed an alliance called Ladies’ Night.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">While the tribe swap was in progress, Jake and I had begun to discuss the idol, and he shared his list of locations to search with me immediately prior to finding the idol and telling me about it, further strengthening the bond that we had been developing since I mutinied.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Again, let’s not pretend this was from an in game relationship.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">At the vote before merge, Blake threw a vote on me because he didn’t want to vote his friend out. I forgave him, but this definitely had me starting to doubt him as an ally. I voiced these concerns to Devon, both so he would know that he was my #1 and so he would begin to think the same thoughts about Blake.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Yikes on your inability to see the motives of Blake. He’s not exactly an enigma.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hmmmmm I wonder WHY

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I was worried about what had just happened with Blake, and wanted to make sure my options were as open as possible. My focus at this point was to keep strengthening the bonds I had created pre-merge with the Jinan boys as well as Zach,

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">When did you do this again? Musta sipped my mind through the entire merge you decided I wasn’t convenient enough to keep up regular communication, game or personal, until you needed me later on.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">and focus on creating a new one with Cammy, as she had made it immediately clear to me that there was a fracture within the group of her/Sam/Dan.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Old one with Cammy*. The “fracture” was just people seeing Sam and Dan as too close. I was one of those people at the time. Let’s not pretend it was something bigger.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">During the merge vote, Blake begun to sketch me out more than when he already had pre-merge, due to his blind trust in Daniel. It was at this point that I recognized that this wasn’t going to end up being good for my game, and started to worry about how I could manage it without hurting our growing friendship. Because of this, it wasn’t terribly upsetting for me when Blake chose to ask to be voted out the next round. Because of him quitting, I didn’t have to go back on my deals with him/worry about affecting the friendship I felt was developing between us, and I’m glad that it never got to that point for us.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Throughout all of this, I had been strengthening my bond with Jake, and at some point we decided to Skype call together. This Skype call is a significant reason why I chose to turn on him when I did. Whenever he talked game, it became jokes about cutting me, and at one point he messaged Zach saying that he wanted me out as a joke while on call with me, and it just got way too weird and sketchy. He had also gotten close to Sam, who I didn’t have a positive game relationship with and who I wanted out sooner rather than later. His relationship with Cammy was strained, and he decided he wanted her out that tribal because she knew about his idol. I agreed to go along with it, and then Cammy and I decided that this would be an appropriate time to blindside him instead. I approached Devon about a potential final 4 alliance of me/him/Cammy/Felipe, and he was down for it and got Felipe on board. With this, Lil Shits was formed, and we successfully blindsided Jake with his idol in his pocket. During the vote, Cammy also revealed to me that she had the Donnaeko idol, and she asked if she should be playing it because she knew she was getting votes. Ultimately, we both decided she didn’t need to idol herself, and our bond became much stronger due to that trust.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Everything about this paragraph just pisses me off to an extreme extent. That wasnt the reason, it was because Jake started to make bonds that wern’t pregame ones to exploit. Lil Shits was a circlejerk of people not willing to let the game affect their friendships, and it was two individuals I consider to be the worst players of the season gameplay wise following two people with good strategy, but no bearing on a social game. You know who you each are here.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">After getting an idol clue from Cammy, I found the merge idol almost immediately, which I told Cammy about. At this point, we decided that it was time to vote out Sam, since she was no longer immune and we knew there was no risk that she had an idol. Sam did try to convince me otherwise because I was a large target once she was gone, and she made very good points, but ultimately I decided that Cammy was a big enough threat that I thought I could manage it with just her in. I also knew that Devon was loyal, so with my idol at 5 I was realistically in a pretty decent position even with Sam gone. My only concern at this point was when to get rid of Cammy; I knew that she couldn’t leave at 5 because she had her idol, and her making an immunity run was a real threat. At this point, I decided that the risk was worth it, and went along with the Sam vote.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Not telling Cammy to idol at 7 or 6 was just dumb on your end. If you were truly genuine about wanting to go to final 3 w Devon and I, you would have just got that thing out of the scenario here. It would have been an easy cover up and an even easier f5 tribal.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">This was also the first real merge vote where I was genuine with Zach about where I was voting, because I wasn’t afraid of an idol anymore and was hoping to fix our connection.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Strengthening my bond with Zach means not treating him like anything but a human chess piece until I needed him on my side to get past final 5!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">F5 was absolutely my weakest point in the game. My ideal f3 at this point was myself, Devon, and Zach, and we formed that alliance this round. However, Cammy won immunity due to her advantage and she planned to use her idol on Felipe, so I had to make the unfortunate choice to vote out Zach. This wasn’t something I wanted to do at all, but I knew that out of him and Devon, Devon was much more likely to vote with me the next round.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">You need to defend the final 5 round more Ally. You and Devon benefited from the tribal, Cammy and Felipe didn’t. Yes, it could’ve been done better and yes, Felipe could have gone home had you played more ideally a few rounds ago, but given the cards dealt you and Devon did great. Own it, accept it, use it as a strength.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">So essentially Ally, pregames aside, I think you did play about as well strategically as you could have. Theres no doubt about it, you ran the game. But social game is so important to uphold. Basically, you are Russell Hantz in Samoa right now. Undeniably the best player, but without any bit of social behind it, its hard to reward.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Now, Devon. Devon, Devon, Devon. I want to like you dude. I think out of game youre probably a great guy, but god its so hard to actually reward ANYTHING about you in this game. Lets break down your horrendous speech first.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">First of all, congratulations to everyone on a very well-run season, as well as making it to the jury stage of the game. I found myself playing the HARDEST FOUGHT GAME this season, and it was all without the same experience that many others hold in the FB ORG community.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">FB ORG expieriece means nothing. You come from Skype, right? Its not much different. Get over yourself there. Also impying anything about you having a hardest fought game when you have Ally, who went to almost every tribal, Sam, who HAD to win immunity every round to survive, me, who was never in control of my fate and had to rely on sheer instinct and social game to survive, Blake who had a mental breakdown over this ORG, its just an insult. What did you do again? Oh yeah. Did everything Ally told you to. Check the ego at the door.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">After participating in Mauritius (3rd) and Deception Island (6th), I knew I needed more of a “killer instinct” in order to reach it to the end of this particular game.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">The strategy was simple: Make social connections with anyone and everyone, and mold them into believing that I’m a gullible player who’s only looking to enjoy the experience at hand. While I enjoyed every moment, I knew what I was in the game to do, and it was to beat anyone in my game by using my social/strategic skills.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your social skills consisted of never speaking game to anyone outside your circlejerk and never going beyond small talk with me. Not sure if everyone else has the same diema, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">From the start, I found myself in a comfortable position, containing VERY solid relationships with Felipe, Jose, Blake, and of course, Ally. Those same connections essentially catapulted me into jury stage of the game.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">In Ally’s shoes, I don’t personally believe she held similar connections with others before the merge stage, simply based on the fact that NO ONE I talked to brought her name up in a conversation to me about wanting to work with her (other names were included).

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Within the jury stage, the eventual alliance of myself, Cam, Ally, and Felipe essentially came together because of MY connections…

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">False reacc

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I was the one who packaged myself with Ally, I was the one who knew Felipe prior to the game (and had an initial target on my back because of it),

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wow it took this long to find something truthful.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">and I was also the one who put themselves out there to connect with Cam, even though we weren’t on the same tribe before the merge.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m cackling how is anyone this blind in the final 2?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Simply based on my mutual connections, I was able to play behind the scenes and allow for Ally/Cam to place themselves as the shields, behind Felipe and I.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Allow Ally/Cam to make every decision for me and Felipe, thus becoming nothing but a number*.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">In terms of competitions, I know from personal experience on what it’s like to be targeted solely based on “challenge skills”. I didn’t win any comps obviously, but the thing is, I never once felt as though I needed to!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sounds like a goat to meeeeeeeee

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I had two votes against me ALL GAME,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">3*. I count the vote from production for cheating as a vote against you. Let’s not forget Devon sent a screenshot, something that made me super wary to ever trust him cause I didn’t want that to happen to my info. He played himself here.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">and the one from Zach towards the end was based solely on him creating a meme with my parchment (legendary btw)!

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Every time I made a new connection with someone, it opened up a limitless amount of routes for me to potentially advance myself. When Ally told me about her idol, as well as the one Cam contained, I was literally handed all of the cards.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sounds like Ally managing her goat but ok

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">In that particular situation, it was almost like a poker dealer stopping me before I played a hand, slipping me two aces, and then going about their business.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">The game of Survivor isn’t about who wins competitions or finds one idol, it’s about who played the hardest, and somehow managed to get to end. I worked my ass off from day one. Every breathing moment of fresh time I received during the course of this game, I worked on getting to know everyone on the jury.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Yikes you aren’t very good at this are you? Everyone, and I mean everyone on the jury either doesnt know you or just hates you less than Ally.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Because of that time and effort, it gave me knowledge, which is SO MUCH more powerful than immunity, or an idol.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cam has an idol? Felipe and Cam are a final two? I’m in danger of receiving votes? Sam is sending Cam paragraphs about wanting to stay?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Those were all notes that ALLY messaged ME about. Never once did I need to go out and force people to tell me their strategy, because I always had someone ELSE telling me what you were most likely hiding (Ally wasn’t the only one in my PMs either).

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Again, sounds like Ally managing her goat but okay

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m coming off of my THIRD Facebook ORG game, and I’m already sitting in a F2. I’d hate to see my efforts go to waste.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nobody cares how many of these you’ve played, it literally doesn’t matter. Check your ego at the door (3x)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">In the bigger picture, please don’t cast your vote based on who’s casted for an immediate next season, who won comps, or even who came across an idol.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">What is the point of this sentence? To get even a small amount of ammo against Ally? Yikes dude.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I held almost ALL the information in the game, and never found myself in the minority because of it. How can you fault me for playing as hard as I possibly could?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m a broken record now but so are you but its just so fun to me when people don’t even realize how little they did and how little impact they had on ANYTHING.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Even if I could go back, I wouldn’t change a single thing about this game. I put myself in the best position heading into each round, and because of it, I believe I’m the sole survivor of Hallasan!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Whew Devon baby. That was fucking atrocious. There was one positive in there. Yikes my man. So this is the dilemma I am in. In all facets of the game, at least as of now, Ally has you beat. I mean, speaking of keeping connections and shit, what was the ;) alliance? Its not all on you, but if you wanted to be at least slightly believable that that chat meant anything, yknow, using those social bonds, at the very least you could USE it. I was the only one that ever spoke in there and nobody kept any convo going. Outside of game, you seem awesome honestly. Your music video was fun, you seem down to earth, etc. But you have a big perception issue with this game in particular. My vote as of now is up in the air but leaning towards Ally, but it’ll be decided on how the two of you do in my own and the others’ questionings. So, let me get a few questions out of the way.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">ALLY:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">First off, I forgot to mention it, but the main reason you get railed so much for pregames compared to Devon is cause I personally believe that Devon was just destined to be a goat regardless, whereas you exploited them entirely. So lets just go ahead and do a hypothetical.
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">You enter this game as an applicant and you know nobody pregame. How well do you actually think you do? I really just want to see an analysis of your gameplay, social connections, and how reliant on knowing people your game was.
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">I really want an explination as to how you handled people. You kept constant contact with people… but only if they were voting with you. Is this intentional, creating an Us v Them narrative? Unintentional? Both? Neither?
 * 3) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Whats the best Death Grips album? (my opinion is the only one that matters HECK OFF ANTHONY FANTANO)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">DEVON: <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">BOTH-A-YA’S
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Do you still genuinely think that your gameplay and bonds are the reason you are here? If so, I want some depth, show me how you still got here without just getting spoonfed info by Ally so she could keep you in your place in her plans.
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">What are my jobs, and what is my major in college? You seem to talk a lot about social bonds, here's a softball cause I know that I mentioned all of them a few times. Dont look back in our chats, Ill be able to tell if you did, and admit it if you dont know. Admittance will go a long way.
 * 3) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Favorite survivor season?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cause im a P.O.S. juror and wanna have some FUN. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I was gonna do a compare to a survivor Q but thatd be unfair to ally. Devon, dont do it please i wanna keep this mostly level).
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Take the jury and yourselves, and rank em’ based on 3 categories: Strategic, social, and overall. Do not pander, do not overplace yourself or underplace your fellow finalist. Use as much or as little detail as you want as thats not what im looking for, im just looking for two subjective lists.
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Give each juror and yourselves a song that fits them, whether it is based on gameplay, on personality, out of game stuff, i dont care. Make it genuine, just yknow, dont overthink it. Will i be judging ur music taste like the pretentious hipster i am? Of COURSE. Will whether or not I actually like the music have a bearing on my decisions? HECC no. That’d be DUMB.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;">Okay I think I hit most every point i needed to that wasnt already covered or wont be covered by someone else. Apologies for the long rambly nature of this post, I just wanna make sure I’m choosing the right person. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <ac_metadata title="Zucc&#039;s Very T H I C C Jury Yeetch"> </ac_metadata>