Board Thread:Survivor: Sumbawa (Season 19)/@comment-28768770-20160901202835

First of all, congrats final 3. You’re there. There’s the end of the niceness in my speech. Granted, it won’t be as harsh as some of the other ones, but I digress. I’m also not going to make anything personal, because I don’t think the way someone behaves in a game reflects them as a person. Some of what I say may be a little sensitive after what all happened, but no personal attacks. I am, however, going to do something a little bit different.

Linus:

In this scenario a week ago, I’d have been voting for you 100%. Then I read the rites of passage. You toyed with me because you thought I didn’t trust you, when the reality is that you were one of the people I felt closest to in the anarchy phase. I don’t get it. I don’t think you deserve to win the game, yet you will anyway. I may not vote for you just for the fact that you played with my loyalty to you and I also don’t think you deserve to win this game unanimously. Which, given how this FTC has gone, if I vote for you, you probably would. So, because no one else will vote for Brian or Ty, which I don’t blame them because I don’t really want to either, I will, because at the end of the day, I would have voted for half the premergers over you, but you happened to make it to the end against the two most hated people in the game. Even though I’m not voting for you, you’ll still get your win, but it won’t be a very pretty one. The game you played would not be a winning game in any other season, but you got lucky that it’s not any other season. Congrats.



Ty:

At the beginning, we were actually kinda close. I started to distance myself from you when you lied to me about who had the anarchy hidden immunity idol. No, it was not hard to figure out that you were lying to me about it, considering Josephine was one of my closest allies. I had to distance myself from you to keep my own allies trust in me, but I helped you out enough to where if I needed to jump from a sinking ship at the merge, I’d still have a life vest. That being said, I never felt ill will toward you personally, but I cannot condone some of the things you’ve said/done to my allies. Kicking people while they’re down, ESPECIALLY when you need those people to turn around to vote for you to win, is poor gameplay. You played the best strategic game (possibly only because of items) of the three finalists because you had your minions running across the island for you, so that’s really all you have going for you. *skip to the end to continue**



Brian:

You’re game was… interesting to say the least. I wanted to work with you at the start, but I can’t help but notice you constantly betraying and apologizing to people (I’m not talking about personal attacks, but game moves). I personally don’t think that’s strong gameplay. Socially, you clearly didn’t play very well based on this FTC, and I’m not hating on you and I don’t have anything bad to say about you, but there’s a reason everyone else is. I wasn’t in the game long enough to witness it, and quite frankly, I wasn’t paying attention to a lot of the game from the jury, but something must have happened. Your game was severely lacking, but strictly strategically, you played well. *skip to the end to continue*

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<p class="MsoNormal">But unfortunately for you, at this point, nobody cares about that, and rightfully so. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs tells what is necessary to survive in life, but Andy’s hierarchy of needs tells what you need to win Survivor. The bottommost tier is a social game. It doesn’t have to be decent, it can even be piss-poor at the worst, but there has to be one. Two of you did not even have the most basic level needed to win Survivor, and therefore, your strategic games don’t matter because without a social game, nothing really matters. That’s why Linus is winning, even though I’m not voting for him. It’s not because he played a genius game, it’s because he’s the only one that had the most basic level of understanding what it takes to win. With that, I leave you with just a couple statements, and a couple questions that may or may not even determine the outcome of my vote, just some things I’m a little curious about.

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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have to apologize for how you played the game, most likely, you didn’t play a very good game.

<p class="MsoNormal">If you have to rely on winning challenges (premerge or merge), most likely, you didn’t play a very good game.

<p class="MsoNormal">If you have to rely on twists, most likely, you didn’t play a very good game.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Linus: Do you think Buru should have lost the challenge that was judged (with the flag, SOS, and torch), and if not, who should have?

<p class="MsoNormal">Ty: Convince me why you deserve my vote for second place when you relied on twists and idols to get you to the end.

<p class="MsoNormal">Brian: Convince me why you deserve my vote for second place when you relied on backstabbing everyone to get you to the end.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">On a side note, thanks to the hosts for putting on this game, and I do feel bad about some of the things that have been said from both sides. After all, we’re all people. <ac_metadata title="Andy&#039;s Jury Speech"> </ac_metadata>