Board Thread:Season 38: Rhineland/@comment-38369021-20190323163019

HEELLOOO! Before i begin my speech, i want to apologize deeply in advance for grammatical mistakes this can/will contain because English is not either my first or second language and I thank you for understanding that. Always feel free to ask me if some paragraph is phrased in a weird or wrong way to understand.



First of all, I’d like to thank the hosting team for this amazing season. They all are amazing and they are doing a great job. I enjoyed playing this season so muuuch; @Bee, Queens Nicol and Nadine, Tyler and Kylou

Thank you to all the players too. Pre-merge boots, Jurors and finalists. Everyone brings something special to the season and it’s been a real pleasure to play with all of you with no exception.

Thanks to the specs, I bet you made the VL alive and I can’t wait to read all the things which have been told LMAOOO



I am here to explain why I DESERVE the title of sole survivor and I need your votes for that Jurors. Among the three finalists, I think that I am the one who deserve it the most because I am the one who really SURVIVED. I am THE ultimate UNDERDOG and outsider of the season who got targeted the most and received vote like every tribal before F5 and I managed well to be here right now, standing before all of you.

OUTWIT, OUTPLAY And OUTLAST: that is literally the summary of my journey: I fought the hardest, I provoked or took opportunity and I played hard to survive. All the blood in my hands testifies that I fought all along and I played to win. I was an active actor of the game all along, never been like a spectator in the cast waiting to goat or to sheep, I played to have a chance to win and to deserve that if I reach FTC one day. My social game combined with strategic game and my survival skills bring me here now and I’m gonna explain you in details my journey and my vision of the game



I started in the tribe of ruthless Conquistadores where I was in good position because I had a duo with Tobi and my relationship with Ashlee was great.

Then came the first swap, I mean my first Fuckswap, All my 3 original tribe mates got swapped together and I am the only one sent alone by random.org in a mixed tribe. I met Jasmine and Willow there. I managed to get 2 duos in Mosel who helped me to take control of the tribe and the votes after Matthew exit: a duo with Jasmine with whom I made a F2 deal and another duo with Willow which was very solid: same situation of swapfucked, same goal (surviving). I solidified my relationships with them by sharing idol guesses and that’s how I found the idol.

Second swap: Looord, swapfucked again! And guess what? With the almost entire AHR TRIBE: gg!Targeting Courtney-because she was a good social player, one of the 4 returnees players who are still all ingame and mostly she was one of the Ahr tribe-secured more safety for me and Chelsea and a bit of control of the tribe. We built a precarious majority who could secure us till the merge.





I can tell you guys, it’s hard to be in the minority but it’s not a fatality if you are willing to survive and do whatever you can to that. So the merge tribal signed my downfall in the game and from that, I was the easy vote and got one of the biggest target on my back. My name has always been thrown and I received lovely votes against me on F12, F10, F9, F8, F7 and F6. How did I survive?

§  SOCIALLY AND STRATEGICALLY CONNECTED TO ALMOST EVERYONE:

My priority in the game was to be able to connect with everyone: people on my side or not. Lines don’t matter for the social connection. I needed to show people that I was opened to them, that I was an opportunity to theirs games and that voting me out wasn’t the smart move for them. Social bonds are the key to get information.

·         My unexpected alliance with Tobi after the F12 : after I tried to idol him out, I knew he was the well-placed player who could really help me and he is the kind of player who is open-minded enough to accept an alliance with me again. I suggested him to work together again. I argue the unexpected side of the alliance, how that side can bring to his game and how I can get his back if someone in the majority was willing to target him and needed numbers! From that, I got Tobi’s support until I target him again on F7

·         My secret business with Anna : I asked Anna Jane her support and suggested her a deal on F10: as long as she doesn’t vote me out, her majority alliance will be united and she will be safe; because what makes a majority alliance strong and united? To have a common target, a common enemy. I was that common target. I explained her that it will be smarter to her to keep me in game the longest she can because if they focus on targeting me as easy vote, she will not be the target as the majority alliance’s biggest threat. She accepted that and got my back. We worked together too on F7 when I convinced her to vote TOBI out over me. The ties built between us 2 helped me to have an honest and respectful relationship with Anna despite we were on opposite sides. I appreciated her, she appreciated me and that’s a half of why she accepted to vote Tobi. Then, we worked together on F6. With the Idolgeddon in perspective, Anna was willing to vote Felix in a revote plan after their split-vote plan. I believed her but I found another plan to vote out Felix without the risky revote plan

·         My collaboration with Miles : Since F11, Miles was the one confirming to me every tribal if I was going home or not. He was the one telling me that I was safe or not. I presented myself to Miles as a way to flip on the majority alliance, as a card he would use to make big moves, as a desperate player who needed his help to advance (I really needed LOL), someone who has nowhere to go other than to him and that strategy payed off

·         Shari, my valuable ally : Playing both sides, Chari got much information from both sides and I managed to be related to her socially that she was sharing strategic info about majority alliance to me. She was reporting to me valuable information that gave me visibility on the way I needed to work out some people or avoid to talk flipping to others. She helped me to acknowledge some players’ profile too. ( SHARI U RE A QUEEN!)

·         Mixed cooperation with Felix : when I don’t get someone very close to me in the social aspect, I always manage to let the person know that there's still a safe environment to talk strategically with me. It was hard to Felix to rely on me since Chelsea told him I distrusted him but we managed to maintain a “safe strategical connection” between us and that’s why Felix always knew I was one of his option

·         People in my alliance : My main alliance at merge was the trio with Willow and Jasmine and I thank them for their loyalties to me. Our alliance was originally based on deep social bonds tied on Mosel. Jasmine was loyal til the end and gave me all she knew before leaving. Willow always followed me in every vote and has always been on my side. She was my ears and my eyes, thank you! I wish Chelsea  stayed longer because even if she was a big threat, she was also a good ally and things would be so different omg

§  CHAOS AND RISK WERE MY WEAPONS

Being in the minority didn’t give me large options to move so my main strategy was about spilling Chaos and taking risk all along the game. People in majority wanted to move to get a safer spot, I moved to survive

Ø  Thomas’s blindside: Anabel and Tobi orchestrated it and we participated. Why Thomas? I think I got a part of the reason. When I came to tobi after merge tribal, I told him that someone in the majority alliance was targeting him because he was a physical threat. I let Tobi to think it was Thomas. I threw another name too to create suspicions. So if it was the reason of the move, so it worked; if not, let me know

Ø  Anabel’s downfall: I am so sorry for you girl, honestly! But revealing who orchestrated Thomas’ s blindside was a move i made to avoid that you, guys, just want to use us as numbers for thomas’ vote then stick back with majority to decimate us again as easy as it can be! I needed to create a big crack on the majority alliance and was hoping that you will stick with us for another round or a couple of rounds. I kneww that Annajane wasn’t the kind of player forgiving the kind of move you did but I didn’t expect you to flip on us as quickly but its okay, it’s understandable. At the end, tobi flipped on us too ( smart move) and it gave me a valuable case when I campaigned against him as a powerful flip flopper the next rounds

Ø  Campaigning every round against someone and begging another one in the majority to flip was my daily routine, my risky routine. I took risk by exposing the rifts forming in the majority alliance or throwing name to create them. You can blame me to play too chaotic or messy i will understand that but when we are in the bottom, we don’t play for safety, we play for survival

All of that brings me to the power in F6. It took a long but me and Willow finally succeeded.



My vision of the game determined the way I played it

Ø  A game of perception: I needed to be underestimated and to well manage my threat-level to make it to the end. After I misplayed the Idol, I attributed myself the dead-man walking statut to like self-destruct my credibility, presenting me as a desperate player needing help to decrease my threat-level. Since my threat-level was decreasing, it was more propitious to people to work with me and for me to shift target to another player. In F10, that threat-level was so high that I used my target statut to work with Anna.

Ø  A game of opportunity: I’ve never close the door to any of you and I worked people out to have options. I was open to every opportunity that came to me. I let other players know that! I was playing to advance in the game and I was willing to do whatever it takes for that! When opportunity didn’t come to me, I provoked it. I approached almost every single of you to talk strategy, to ask you what you wanted to do! I WAS SUPER ACTIVE! I consider that even if you didn’t vote with me or lied to me, I just didn’t have the time to waste to be upset to you. I was never mad to someone about lies and votes because being mad is a way to cut opportunity coming to me and it was a luxury I couldn’t afford.I talked a lot to people to know what they have in minds and I’m not sure all the finalists did that too

Ø  A “me” game based on “we” game: Social game took a big part on my journey. Like even if I knew about Willow’s idol, I’ve never based my survival to that and I kept trying to maintain great social bonds with people. From my point of view, people were the one who could keep me in game; Idol is a too precarious way to survive. Idol makes someone powerful but not invincible. From that, I worked my social game a lot.

I figure out I’ve probably hurt some people’s feelings with my game so I want to apologize here because it wasn’t personal! I played and made move I thought the best for my game and it wasn’t against you personnaly or to screw you! I address that to all the people I voted out! I love all of you without exception



I made this long speech to prove you that you won’t regret to give me your vote as the winner! '''My game was not perfect, i was a challenge-flop but I played, I played hard. I was super active and gave all I had to this game. I am not a goat''', I think to deserve to be here! I can be a good winner for our season since I think I played the best game of us 3 finalists; my game was good, self-aware and smart! I gave the better version of myself to all of you and to this game, I tried to be as sociable as possible even if I struggled with English language and I respected all of you, Y’ALL HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE PLAYER I BECAME so DEAR JURORS vote for me! :D

@To those who want to vote for me: THANK YOU <3 I hope this speech confirmed you are about to make the right choice and feel free to ask if you have question

@To those who are willing to vote someone else: Please, reconsider your decision, take a look on my speech and feel free to ask if question because I need your vote! Maybe your vote will make me win or make me lose! Please, consider the gameplay because I know every single of you played to win and would have like to have a jury voting to recognize the best gameplay of 3 finalists if you were a finalist



Thanks TO ALL OF YOU <3  