Board Thread:Survivor: Visayas (Season 18)/@comment-13693174-20160802134928

Hi guys, congrats on making it to the final 2

First of all I'd like to ask you not to take my criticism personally. I like both of you as people but as a juror I need to criticize your game, so keep in mind everything I'm going to say is purely based on how I view your gameplay and nothing else. I hope you won't feel offended by this in any way because it's not my intention, this is simply how I believe a jury speech should be.

As you know, I don't think this was a bad season. It had some inactivity, it had its flaws, but for me it was fun and intense and I got to meet some cool people including you two. Unfortunately, this good season is going to have a rather underwhelming winner. It's the first time that I'm on the jury and don't feel like any of the finalists deserves to win. It probably has to do with the fact that it's a final 2, which I'm not a fan of, but it also has a lot to do with the flaws in your game(s). I can't even address your games separately because they were identical to the point I only bothered talking to one of you, knowing the other will do the same anyway.



Honestly, I feel robbed.

I want to credit you for voting me out, but that wasn't even your move. The people who voted me out ended up voting themselves out in the process, and they did that being fully aware of what would happen. I feel like the final 2 was handed to you on a silver plate without you having to break a sweat and that's what makes you undeserving of it. Both of you were unaware of the major power shifts during the merge, you owe your places in the final 2 to moves I made, and moves other people made, but more than anything you owe it to that random bitch who trashed my story just a bit more than she trashed Ayhan's. A story I worked about 12 hours on and got good feedbacks from professional writers about. (I'm still waiting for the rest of the judges and the breakdown of their scores to be revealed, by the way).

Both of your speeches reflect this as you're clearly not comfortable with your own games and aren't able to own up to them. I do appreciate your dignity not to take extra credit, though.



So after getting that off my chest, you outlasted me and I want to give you an equal chance to get my vote. Since I'm not particularly leaning towards either of you, for the first time my vote is up in the air and I'll give each of you a small challenge to prove how badly you want it. If one of you fails to complete his challenge, my vote will automatically go to the other person.



Ayhan – I guess you're going to use your immunity wins as an argument to vote for you, but my advice is that you avoid doing that. Other than the fact you had no real competition (or fair judging) for some of them, I think challenges aren't such a big deal in Survivor. They were in this season, because of the idol clues and final 2, but generally they're not. If anything, it's an argument against your game since you needed each and every one of those immunities to stay alive.

There is no doubt you've been a strong competitor. However, you were quite the typical straightforward one-dimensional strong competitor. For me, what made you stand out and the reason I enjoyed working with you was the fact we could talk about things other than the game. A strong social game is what I respect the most about a player and you could've had one.

If you want my vote, prove me that you're a human being and not a mangatar. Prove me that you have a personality and a face. I want you to record yourself in a video for 2-3 minutes and just talk about yourself. It doesn't have to be interesting, just let me and the rest of the jury know who you are as a person. That's the strongest argument you can make.



Luke – Your elimination in Revival was the first thing I ever saw in any ORG and I'm happy we got to play together. I like the fact you were using your real facebook for the game and honestly I couldn't care less about you abstaining from challenges. What bothers me is that you showed little to no interest in the game itself. You had no social game and that's the reason why you got the most votes this season and all the bad stuff in Touchy Subjects, if you wondered. I'm afraid that some if not all jurors won't care too much reading what you have to say in this tribal, because you didn't seem to care about them playing in this season.

If you want my vote, prove me that you care about this game. You can do it in any way you like, except commenting on this thread and trying to convince me with arguments about your gameplay, because that's not what I'm asking for. I'm sure you know that actions speak louder than words.

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