Board Thread:Survivor: Resurgence (Season 8)/@comment-5578020-20150519015202/@comment-24086799-20150519041558

3: Tell everyones in the juries weaknesses and the strong points.

Noah:

It’s hard to pick a weakness for Noah, since his fall was mostly a result of his tribe’s lack of numbers and an unlucky tribe swap. If anything, I suppose it would be his physical game, just because he didn’t manage to get the individual immunity necklace. It’s a bad excuse for a weakness, but then again, his elimination wasn’t really his fault.

For Noah’s strength, I would definitely choose his friendly and likeable nature. Had Noah not been screwed by a tribe swap, his good-natured personality and active social game would probably have gotten him to at least where Bryce ended up. He was definitely my least favorite vote to make pre-merge, which I think speaks to his social game.

Dan:

Since I’m not 100% sure why Dan got voted out, I can’t make an 100% assessment of why he left. My best guess would be that his social game was weak, since (at least on paper) it looked like the 3 Qin people (Dan, Bryce, and Max) were going to stick together. Presumably if Dan had been playing a strong social game, he wouldn’t have been turned on?

Dan’s strength was his under the radar gameplay and his control of his perception. Nobody really considered Dan a threat; he only got voted out because the Shang people would vote for anyone they could to stay, and apparently that was Dan. Had Dan made the merge, similar to Noah, he also would probably have done reasonably well. He had already started building some connections with me, which was smart, and he was in a good position for an original Qin member.

Max:

Max’s weakness was probably his ability to build trust. Had he been better at making connections, he would’ve had a better shot at convincing people he was their ally at the merge and flipping them.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Max’s strength was his ability to integrate into the Qin alliance (which from what I hear, he was not a part of originally). He far outlasted the other ‘Oustiders’ of the Qin majority because he blended in well with them.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gavin:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gavin’s weakness was his sloppy social game. He did not make enough effort to bond with the members of our alliance, and he made it pretty obvious to me that he didn’t intend on being loyal. Ultimately, this allowed me to convince other people that he needed to go.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gavin’s strength was his ‘usefulness’. Emma and I considered eliminating him a lot, and he was frequently the target of the minority, but because he consistently made an effort to be useful to the people in charge (particularly in debunking Counterstrike, and with the Eddie vote) he was kept in for much longer than originally intended.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bryce:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m going to start with Bryce’s strength because it explains his weakness. Bryce’s strength was being able to remain calm and bond with people, even if he wasn’t working with them. Bryce could easily have gone first thing after the merge (he hadn’t talked to me as much as Max), but because he was straightforward, reasonable, and calm, he stayed over Max. For that same reason, he stayed over Gavin. And I imagine that played into why his name was originally brought up but eventually thrown out at the Dan vote.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bryce’s weakness was not trying to make a move final 7-8. I’m not 100% sure who Bryce was trying to rely on to stay in, but it was unlikely they were going to keep him around as he was. Even if he couldn’t take me out, he could probably have gotten Emma and maybe Ian to make a move against one of my more loyal allies like Sean or Jordan.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Emma:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Emma’s weakness was also not acting soon enough. Emma was actually quite smart in that she figured out that if she actively plotted against me, chances were I would get rid of her (a la Max and Gavin). What Emma would’ve needed to do would be to work really hard to bond with people earlier, which would’ve allowed her to make a move against me when the opportunity arose.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Emma’s strength was definitely her under the radar game and her social prowess. She was immensely likeable, and was probably the best connected player after myself. She could easily have won a jury vote. And on top of that, she got very far relative to the other ‘big players’ of the season because she recognized that I would vote her out if she wavered in her loyalty. That’s a tremendous insight that got her far into the game. For that, I think she was probably the biggest challenger to the title.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Norbert:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Norbert’s weakness was his social game. After Sean won immunity, and we couldn’t vote him out, Sean wanted Norbert gone. I was in no position to make decisions, so I had to go with it. Had Norbert built stronger connections with people, he probably could’ve at least gotten more than 1 vote on me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Norbert’s strength was his under the radar social game. Had Sean not won that immunity, he had a really good chance of making final tribal council: I probably would’ve taken him. And yet, he went very unnoticed for most of the season.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sean:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sean’s weakness was just him trusting me. Sean played very honestly, which I can really respect, and after Emma, he probably was the most likely to win the jury vote. That made him a player I didn’t want to have to fight for final immunity, and a player I definitely didn’t want to fight for the title at the end. As a result, I decided not to take him to the end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sean’s strength was his honest and loyal-yet-intelligent social game. I love Sean. He wasn’t even in my original alliance of 6, and yet he outlasted 2 of them because I trusted him so much. His personality and gameplay made me want to keep him all the way to final 4 or 5, even though he was a threat to me. That allowed him to become one of my closest allies, and it served him very well.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jordan:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This one is weird. I voted Jordan out because I thought I had a better chance of beating Ian at final 2, so being a ‘better than Ian’ is not exactly a weakness... I suspect that Jordan could have easily won this season had he beaten me at final immunity and voted me out. So I guess my best answer for weakness would have to be his physical game? That’s all I got.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">His strength, like many people, was his loyalty, his friendly nature, and his predictability. That made me want to take him far, and his willingness to make moves with me got him farther than most. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">