Board Thread:Survivor 26: Chaos/@comment-31555005-20170821175114

Hi everyone! Welcome to my Rites of Passage! It's been quite a while since I've last done one of these, so I've kinda been looking forward to this as soon as I won the last immunity. Before I really start my trip down the memory lane with this, I'd just like to thank you guys for being a huge part of my experience in this game - even if I get voted out at this following tribal council, I'm still going to remember this season very clearly, thanks to the very fun cast this twist-filled adventure has had!



Stephen

Unfortunately, we never really exchanged more than a few messages. You were super busy on the very first day of the game and as such we never got the chance to talk with each other past a few opening pleasantries. You seem like you have a lot going on in your life, and good luck in any other ORGs you plan on taking part in!

Jacob

I really only remember you for your "joke" directed at Elias, where you pretended to talk in the main chat as if it were your confessional chat. That was super funny, but it rubbed people the wrong way, and it certainly got you no favours on Day 1. Everybody really wanted an easy vote and unluckily, that easy vote was you. As with Stephen, we never really talked much, but I hope you'll do better elsewhere!

Rafael

You're one person I DID talk with, but you had the bad luck of being the losing tribe (well, hard to call it a tribe if it's only two players) on the hardest possible day to lose a challenge. I remember pissing my pants (figuratively speaking) because Mikey and I were the last tribe to be safe - and that happened in a period where I was super busy with stuff I had going on, so I can safely say you and Whitney saved me. Other than that, it's cool to know that people know about Wikia ORGs on Discord!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Erin

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The only person who quit Chaos, you seemed like a fun but level-headed person to talk to. I was a bit sad you quit honestly - I know you got caught up in real-life issues and couldn't continue playing, but I was super busy at the time so I could relate to you in that we both had to juggle around real-life responsibilities with this game.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Matthias

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You were great! I felt the two of us genuinely clicked right away - I felt you were super easy to talk to, and we legit talked about a lot of stuff in the time when you were here. You're a really nice person and I hope we carry that month-old Snapchat streak for as much time as we possibly can! Game-wise, you played a big part in kickstarting the two-alliance dynamic which had great effect on the pre-merge by revealing the supposed eight-person challenge beast alliance to the main chat. One thing's for sure, you got the ball rolling!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Christina

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I didn't really talk to you until David recommended you as somebody to work with. You were nice to me, I thought you were a Survivor super-fan following the first time we talked and I saw potential in working with you. Unluckily for you, your alliance turned on you and you got voted out from the game - shortly after which you exposed them by screenshotting the chat's person list. You have no idea how much those screenshots influenced the game - it basically exposed the two sides and probably was the start to some of the insane drama this season had.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Whitney

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We barely ever talked to each other and it showed. You were the one person I was super wary of right at the start of the game because I never really knew what you were doing and because none of my allies never really knew what you were doing. I really don't know much about you except that you're really good at art-related challenge and that you nearly went out twice due to flash games. Other than that, your general comments on Facebook regarding the Wikia community and stuff are pretty funny!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Matt

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I really liked talking to you from the onset, and I think you're already aware of this but you dropped the ball big-time by overplaying and getting horribly close to both sides. This really put you out there in a negative spotlight to the point where most people in the game were more comfortable with you out of it than with you in it - and that's a damn shame, since you had really good social game (at least when talking to me). You played a super important part of the pre-merge game - had you returned at the Uhane, the merge would have been 100% shaken up big-time.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bradley

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">There's one specific word which pops up in my mind when I see your mangatar - "robbed". You legit went out due to a sole vote, and I've been on the short end of that before so I can relate to how sucky it is to have your life in the game taken out due to an immunity idol you could have done nothing about. You had a great shot at making the merge - something which I was hoping would happen since I felt I had a pretty good relationship with you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gabe

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The one and only! We didn't talk that much at the beginning of the game but that picked up as people kept going home and the more I got to know you, the more comfortable I felt around you. You were definitely a cool and funny guy, and as with Bradley, there's definitely bad luck coming into play with your vote out as you were forced to go to tribal with that swapped tribe for three votes in a row. If you were a little more fortunate with challenges, you could be the one writing these Rites of Passage instead of me!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mikey

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">My original tribe partner! We pulled out two super clutch wins on the starting two tribe challenges and honestly, you were a great tribemate to have! You're cool and I liked talking to you whenever I had the chance to - I definitely remember interesting discussions we had about travelling and you had the best profile photo ever! Game-wise, as with Bradley and Gabe you had really tough luck as you'd potentially be here in the last four had Elias not won the Hawaiian Stand-Off - the challenge win saved him but it also put you in a really tough spot to climb back out of.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nic

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You had a super rocky time for the whole pre-merge. You found yourself on the bottom of the game and were quite a vocal opponent of the early "challenge beast" alliance - alongside Matt, you had a major target on your back for going against the "majority". I suppose that's only fair enough - it wasn't in your best interest to let it keep going. Matt overplaying got the target off you for the first time since the start of the game and that kept you safe until the merge, but an already-existing negative perception as well as your self vote pretty much caused your downfall. Personally, I think you were cool to talk to - I felt like we did get along while you were here and had the cards been dealt differently I could see us as having went far into this game together, despite things being a bit sour between us after your vote-out.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Eve

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It's really the first time I met somebody from Portugal in this community! That + the really good starting impression I had of you made me want to work with you right at the start of the game. Eventually though we kind of found ourselves on different "sides" of the pre-merge portion of the game, and once things between us started to patch up you had the misfortune of being eliminated at the hands of an idol play. You played a great game, you were cool to talk to and as such I hope we'll meet again in another ORG - one in which things would hopefully work out better between us.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wendy

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You played in my very first Survivor minigame (which I played before getting into ORGs) over a year ago - right from the beginning, you were somebody who I definitely wanted to approach. You're a genuinely nice person and you're incredibly social - I never really got bored when I had a conversation with you. That ties in to how good of a player you are, and I mean this when I say it. There have been a handful of players who did really well in this game but quite frankly, you topped my list. Without the unmerge I can safely say without any doubt in my mind that you would have made it farther ahead than 9th place. I know you weren't really sure of where I stood during this game and you reflected on that in your final words - but one thing's certain, I definitely had loads of fun playing this game with you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kyle

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kyle, you were another person which I felt I got along with right after the start of the game, and I was super glad when early on we got placed in the same three-person tribe together. You're a nice guy, you're super active in the community and I'm glad I was able to meet somebody I had previously heard of from friends (due to the whole BBUK series, I did hear about you prior to the start of the game). You're definitely a loyal player, and despite there being a bit of a wedge between us due to the whole two-alliance dynamic kind of separating the game, I definitely wanted to reconnect with you at the merge. As with Wendy, I do think that the unmerge played a super important part in your vote-out, and while a few players wanted you out big-time, you were taken away the chance of fighting for yourself in challenges - despite your conflicts with some of the people in the game, we could be talking about you having stayed alive past eighth place had that twist not occurred.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">David

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You're one of the people who I felt played an absolutely amazing game, from top to bottom. I think we started off really well - we talked a ton, daily, for like almost the entire last month. We were both in that starting alliance and you're somebody who I felt I really could trust going forward. We had an excellent relationship, at least from my end, but your position in the game grew to a point where your obvious prowess in challenges, your really good social game, as well as the fact that you had a very strong case to bring forth to the jury made you one of the people who needed to get voted out so that all of us could have a better shot at the win going forward. I greatly enjoyed meeting you, but ultimately, for myself to have a better shot at sitting in the final three you had to go.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Aras

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You were truly one of, if not the closest ally I had this game - we talked a whole bunch not only about votes and strategy, but also about each other as people and I'm glad I got to know you better throughout the 35 days we spent together in this game. You're a dope person, we're similar in many ways and I felt we naturally bonded as the game went on. You're one of the only three people I went on call with this game, but you're by far the person I talked the most with. You played super well, despite what people may or may not think - and I do think you'd be sitting at the end right now if it weren't for the message in a bottle announcing that there would be no immunity challenge at the final six. You played the middle, you did what you had to do, and you were only a few votes away from making it to the end with what I thought were great chances at grabbing the win (most certainly, if I was a juror and you were sitting at the end with anybody in that Final 6 you were getting my vote). Voting you out was a much harder thing for me to do than the David vote - I knew there were small chances of you betraying me, but still I didn't see myself as having a real shot if I stood with you at the end. At the end of the day, there was a noticeable chance that you could have won out through challenges and everybody left in the game, myself included, was worried that you'd make that scenario happen. I made a really really tough call - let's see it payed off.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Alex

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I've known you for a pretty long time now, yet this is the first ORG we played together and I'm glad we both made it this far into it. Your position in this game greatly reminded me of my own game in Idalia - despite being voted out pre-merge, you fought your way back into the game, you had people who liked you in the jury, and you were constantly in there with a shot at the win. Furthermore, you backed this up with a killer social - you definitely were one of my favourite people in this game to talk with. You're funny, you played damn well, and I definitely hope we'll see each other in another ORG soon.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'HelveticaNeue';color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And that wraps it up! I always get super emotional with these things so I'm really sorry about the long wall of text, I definitely had something to say about everybody. If you've made it this far down, thanks for having the patience to read through all of this and I'll hopefully see half of you at the upcoming final tribal council! <ac_metadata title="Luca&#039;s Rites of Passage"> </ac_metadata>