Board Thread:Survivor 24: Caracol/@comment-27018217-20170529044952

Shaquilla: I never really got to meet you, no one really mentioned you to me. I don't know what that means but I'm always sad when I don't get to know someone in a game before they are voted out. Wish I got to talk to you girl

Cassie: Yeah it's the same for you. Your manga looks really sweet though! I don't know, it's just really hard to come up with things to say about people you've never met :(

Matt: Wow okay I was so nervous when I saw you in this game Matt. We had bad history from a previous game, and even though we've talked after all that, you were the only person in Caracol who I had played with. You had a sample of how I could be, even if it was so long ago and I had changed. I always worried about us ending up on the same tribe and then you'd be out for me. However, we didn't end up on the same tribe, you went home...and in a way I sort of felt sad. I kind of wanted to talk in a game with you again.

At the same time, I heard you and Roodman had problems, and since he and I were so close, it probably wouldn't have worked out between us. Just know that you may be a troll, or a rulebreaker (because I just heard about that ban), and really freaking honest to point where you maybe shouldn't be, but I'll never dislike or hate you. You are a pretty cool guy.

Marie: When you first got booted, I didn't really think much about it. We hadn't talked, I didn't know you, it was how it is. Then I saw that you were a big name in the main ORG, getting 2nd TWO TIMES!!! Also, you pulled a crazy move in Ressurection, only to be robbed. After seeing all of that, I'm extremely disappointed I never got to talk to you, and your 703 status does not reflect how well you play at all

Isabella: You were the first person in this game I had to vote out. It sucks, it's part of the game, but it never makes it any easier. You had a lot of energy, you seemed really into the game, but there were a couple things that threw me off about you. One was that we didn't talk as much as I did with the others: and two, I was worried about your connection to Forrest. With people already expressing interest in voting you, it was easy to make you the main target. Nothing against you personally, you are a really great girl, and I wish we had gotten to talk more, but you were the best case scenario for me

Dwayne: I've watched you play in Big Brother, you seemed like a real hoot. I was interested to see how the game would play out with you in it, and from what I heard you caused quite a bit of drama on Macal 3.0. Again, it's really hard to write stuff about someone who you've never talked to, but I do regret never being a tribe with you. You were someone who I really wanted to meet and I'm sad we didn't.

ALRIGHT NO MORE OF THOSE "I WISH I HAD MET YOU POSTS"! LET'S GET TO THE GOOD SHIT!

Kristen: Holy hell was my short time of meeting you crazy! I get to talk to you, you seem really sweet. Then suddenly Forrest says you told him that I was coming for him. Okay, really basic stuff, I talk to Roodman about it, he tells you...and you just go freaking nuts on Forrest! It was amazing! You really didn't care what so ever, and even struck out just to try and take him down! As much as breaking the rules is bad, I've never seen anyone so hard strong on getting someone out that they'd give their game for it. Of course, that blow up might have caused people to want to save Forrest, but it still was awesome! Kristen, you are a true character, and I wish we got to talk more. Also, one of the funniest moments of the season for me was when we had talked earlier, and then you forgot I was even playing. I should have been offended, but I just found it fucking hilarious!

Zach: Okay this is where this is gonna start getting hard. Zach, Day 1 I saw your enthusiasm to play. Someone who was new to Survivor, ready to see how far he could go, eager to get into the swing of things, I did take a liking to you immediately. As we ended up staying on the same tribe again and again, and as we got to talking more, I really did feel close to you. There was the problem that you didn't really seem to think sometimes before you told people stuff, but I never hated you personally for it. You were new to the game, you didn't know! I don't think it has anything to do with your age, I don't think anything you did had to do with your age! Truthfully Zach, I saw myself in you. I saw how I was like when I started ORGs almost a year ago: enthusiastic, ready to play, and not knowing fully what the right thing to do was. Seriously man, for your first Survivor game, getting first Juror is awesome! My first Survivor game I was second Juror, and there are many people who start off and go pre-merge multiple times.

When you went, I was fucking shocked. I never, ever expect them to go for you that quickly. I should have been warned, because Thiru brought your name up to me, but I shot it down quick. To be honest Zach, yes I was mainly loyal to Roodman, and maybe even Anna more than you, but you kept making me want to talk to you. If you had survived the first tribal, if maybe Roodman had left that round, or if our plan had worked and Forrest left, you could have won me over. I have no clue what would have happened if you stayed! What I do know is that you left Caracol too damn soon. I'm sorry for the blindside man, and I was determined to not lose anyone else that was close to me after your blindside. As you can see by this Final 3, I succeeded. I just wish I could have done the same for you.

Thiru: Let me just start this off by saying that I really did have other people I was closer with in this game, but that doesn't mean I didn't feel a genuine connection with you. We got to talking on New Macal, you said I was the only one really talking with you and I wanted to keep it up. You didn't deserve to be isolated because you were on the other side of the world. You started calling me brother, and I felt guilty, because I felt like I was trying to use you more than be your brother. But you are a smart man. You got Zach, and had me basically begging you to help me. I needed to find a crack in the system of that voting block (and at the time I thought possible alliance). You seemed to be that person, and so I really did trust you. You can ask Anna and Roodman, I was vouching for you, telling them that you were honest with me. Judging by the votes, you weren't. You were playing me, and you were doing it pretty well. I was leaving myself open to be played with because I was vulnerable and you took advantage of that. That shows a smart player, and I guess the others saw that too, because you were blindsided the next vote. As much as it sucked, it was good for me, because it allowed me to push my way out of the bottom, get back into a good position and make my way to the Final 3. That being said Thiru, no matter what happened in this game, or how much we lied to each other and played each other, I did and still do consider you my brother.

Christine: Damn girl why couldn't it work out between us? We met on New Macal, and you were such a nice person! We chatted about the other people in the game, had a few plesent conversations, and you gave me the idea to go for Isabella. I followed through with that once Maya 3.0 lost the challenge. Then we met up again at merge, and it just felt different. We were seperated by the swap and I had a couple people telling me I couldn't trust you. I didn't want to believe them, but then Zach got voted out, and Forrest knew full well I was after him. You grew closer to him through the second swap, and I can't blame you for that. You two were outnumbered, of course you got closer! The fact that I didn't expect that just means I was naive, thinking you'd pick me over him for some reason. You kept promising to keep me on the plan, and then you'd lie again. That's why I made that parchment about not being an idiot. I was angry: people kept promising to fill me in on the plan and then would lie to my face, like they didn't think I would eventually start catching on to shit. That parchment was just a statement not to you, but to the others in the game. I'm sorry if that hurt, I'm sorry if you felt that was personal, it wasn't meant to be. I think a part of that was also anger from the fact that we had ended up on opposite sides of the game. We couldn't be allies, it wasn't going to work. You were with Forrest, Forrest was after me, I was after him, it's how it worked out. So yes, I helped set up your blindside because if I couldn't get Forrest, I had to get his closest ally, who was super strong in challenges and could have beasted her way to the end. Christine, you are an awesome person that I wanted to talk to more, that I wanted to work with, and I'm really sad about how we ended up. I hope there's no anger towards me from you, but if there is I understand why. It was never personal with me, but I think I got very close in making it so.

Lori: Girl, some people may have seen you as a goat, but if you are one, you are one of the best goats I've ever met. Okay, you didn't talk as much to people, yes you flipped quite a bit, but you flipped when it was to better yourself! You didn't want to be seen as Forrest and Christine's goat, so you flipped on them. In F6, I heard that you were nervous about Rood and I, and you had every right to be! You didn't want to be used, and after talking with Rood, you probably would have flipped to Luis' side if we kept you. For a goat, you are pretty freaking smart. And that says to me that you were not a goat! You could have had a pretty good case in the finale. Everyone at some point probably would have wanted to take you, because you put it in everyone heads that you could be beaten, but would that have been the truth for all of us? I don't fully think so. There were a couple people in that Final Six that you could have given a run for their money. To be honest, I wanted to keep during that revote, mainly because I saw Forrest as more threatening, so I was in your corner that round. How that would have played if you had stayed, I'm sure people had theories, but who really knows. Either way, you were a delight to meet Lori, and you earned your spot as the last Yasaw member standing

Forrest: Oh fuck where do I even begin with you and I Forrest?! Like my god we had one serious rivalry! I'm so relieved I can finally explain why it started, and believe me man, it was not JUST because you woke me up. That whole incident I didn't really think much of at first. Then Roodman comes me and says that you told him that I "freaked out on you". That's what threw me off. Forrest, if you felt like I freaked out on you, that was not the case from my point of view! I was just a bit annoyed, and I even apologized and said "Don't take anything I say to heart". After what Roodman described, I was turned off by you because I saw someone who was willing to manipulate stuff to make others look bad. I thought you and I were somewhat cool, and yet you so easily tried to mess with my image to Roodman. That's why I was first turned off by you. Then there was that whole thing where you told both Roodman and Zach that you found the idol place and thought I had it. The whole time we were on Cayo, I felt like you were out for me. You were suspicious of me, and that's what turned me off from you. I never felt like I could align with you, because I was afraid you could turn around and try to backstab me at any second. So that's how our game went on. Back and forth we'd try to manipulate each other, lie to each other, try to take the other person down. You got Zach, I got Christine. I beat you to an idol and you nearly got me to waste it. You weren't my biggest rival this season, but you were very close to being. Gamewise, you were a real pain in my side. Personally, I think you are a great game player. You've won the Main ORG, and I think if you made it to the end you could have won this one as well. Really, the Wake Up Incident was what first opened my eyes to how well you knew how to play, and I was against you because I feared you. I was afraid of how good you could and did play. During that first merge vote, I was telling people we needed to get you out because if we gave you a chance "he'll take it and charge his way to the end. If we don't take him out now, he's gonna go far". Well, I was right wasn't I?

Mad respect for you dude, and also, da fuck you mean you only voted for me Final 5 just because you wanted to vote for everyone on Cayo at least once?! Like come on man XD

Luis: Always a great thing to save the best for last. Luis, throughout a good chunk of this game I constantly believed that Forrest was my main rival. It wasn't until Final 6 that I realized how wrong I was. Forrest wasn't my biggest rival this season: you were. Right from the get go, at the merge, we had never met. We started talking and the first thought that goes through my head is "Okay I'll get to talk with him, maybe work with him on a couple votes, and then maybe vote him out". Truthfully at the time, I was interested in working with you, but only as a number. You pointed it out, we hadn't really connected yet. Then you went and proved me dead fucking wrong.

You helped blindside Zach, you tried to get me to waste my idol, and that's when I started to see how good of a player you were. The way you talked made even the simplest of things sound convincing. Why didn't I believe them? Because I was aware that you were trying to bullshit me. Once I saw that, everything you said I questioned. Your kindness I believe was completely genuine, but when we talked game, I think we both know there was SOOOOOO much bullshit being thrown out there. Yet for one vote we came together for a common goal: splitting up Christine and Forrest. For me, it was to break up a power duo and work to get my alliance into a stronger position. For you, I believe it was to break up a power duo and reel in someone when they were vulnerable. You basically betrayed everyone in this game, but if you made it to the end, I was sure you'd find a way to justify every single backstab and pull off a win.

So why were you my biggest rival this season? Well, when I look at both our games, I see a lot of similarities. Both nice, both using our social games to the best of our abilities, both finding solid alliances to work with us, both hated being lied to, both hated being left out of shit, both being people with self concious issues, both thinking carefully about every vote and doing what we believed would help advance our games, and most importantly, both of us were constantly nice and VERY FAKE to each other, and were always gunning for each other. After Zach's tribal, I wanted you GONE GONE GONE! I'm sure you felt the same for me, as I heard you tell multiple people I would win if I made it. Will I win if I make it? I have no clue, anything can happen now. Caracol has shown that.

I think you've noticed by this point that your section is a lot bigger than everyone else's. Why? Well, because I respect you so fucking much man. You were the biggest freaking pain in my side this entire game, because you are a really great game player! Even after all the bullshit, even after you went nuts on me after the split vote results, I still respect you. That's how awesome you are Luis. Do not let anyone in this god damn game or in the VL let you believe you played bad, because you played as hard as you fucking could, and you did awesome.

That's all from me guys! This season was great, many of you made me work real hard to get here, and personally, you all are awesome! Hopefully next time I talk to you it's at FTC as part of the finalists and not the jury. 