Board Thread:Survivor 40: Annihilation/@comment-26137519-20190802170152

Hello you prostitution whores,

as my experience at merge was cut quite short I didn't get to experience much of y'alls games first hand but I definitely collected enough information from the jury and the few days we did play together to construct a speech. I'm sorry if I come off as a piece of shit, this is all purely about the game and it's events and it's not my intention to make you feel bad with any of my (negative) opinions.

Before I begin, I'd like to address that I literally just read all your speeches and answers right before writing this and even almost got into a tiny tiff with Zach cause I got so passionate about it that I almost started turning toxic (what's new).

Linus - I'm glad that you are aware we are playing similar games, we are both strong competitors, we don't toy with people's emotions, we have a "ride or die" until the end who we stay loyal to and we pretty much always look to put ourselves in the best position possible. Now, if you erase all these facts except for "strong competitor", you ACTUALLY see a display of your game this season in contrast to how I typically play. Not very similar after all.

I have a few things I would like to talk about:

1) Seeing a lot of people receiving messages like "I wish I could have done this for you" when you had the power to do just that. On my way out you said "I wish we could've talked more in this game" when on my end it was a piece of work to even get an in-depth conversation going without you eventually leaving me on read and at a certain point in time we didn't talk for a few days and it ended up being me who reached out, only for the conversation to die again. I get not being interested in playing the game with me but you can save statements like this as much as you could've saved them with several other people in the game.

2) The fact that you sort of played this game blinded by your immunity wins. Many of your moves later in the game were irrational and gave me the impression that you were entirely sold you were going to win out until the end so you convinced yourself that you were making a great move when without your immunity run it would've killed you. With the given final 4 combination you were going to be dead if you lost.

You decided to tag Grace along over Zach who was actually more loyal to you and was much less of a threat physically AND from a jury standpoint and the reason for that is that "he told you there was a plan to get Grace out that left you out". How does that even make sense? How does ZACH telling you this information make ZACH less trustworthy? He just gave you information and in turn you sealed his fate in 6th place rather than appreciating it and having an ally you can tag along until final 4 that ACTUALLY made perfect sense for your game.

You proceed by outright refusing to vote Grace at final 4 and threw your vote to send the person home that YOU WANTED TO TAKE TO THE END. If you were going to vote Grace out in 3rd place anyway: HOW DOES THAT FUCKING MAKE ANY SENSE? It would've made a whole lot more sense for you to take Grace to the end over Rob considering you had a very strong argument in single-handedly saving her from elimination FOUR times while she had to do it a prime amount of ZERO times. I may have been one of the biggest Grace supporters on the Jury but this is a strong argument that could've swayed me into not voting for her. The argument "loyalty" is only valid if you actually stick to it until the very end.

I want you to genuinely reflect on the game once more and whether you made the best decisions for your game while on your little immunity trip. Then, I would like to know if you AGREE or DISAGREE with the fact that you were NOT on your top strategic game due to being "untouchable" essentially.

3) Taking credit where it's not deserved.

Final 11 - Aromal was mostly responsible for my elimination and Zach started the "Blindside Vivor" train to start with, that was not you and an elaborate plan to take me out as a strong threat in your way.

Final 9 - The flip on Joan apparently happened due to Grace being raised awareness that he was throwing her under the bus, so she went "crazy" in a sense and led the charge to get him out. You also seemed to only play a minor role in that.

Final 5 - "Strong-armed a vote the way I wanted it to go with my other idol since it became impossible to vote Grace or I out, and if people tried anything else it would tie and then we would have the majority on the revote." - With an end result of 4-1 this is hard to believe and I'd like elaboration on that.

Given, I did see you (possibly unintentionally) backtrack in your answers to other people's speeches and giving credit to these people for the moves but that doesn't change the fact that you initially took credit.

Please explain why you think you were actually in charge of these votes and if it turns out you were not in charge of either, give me one vote at merge (outside Grace cause, lol) that you actually did have control over.

I find that my portion for you is particularly scummy if I have to say so myself, but you have a great chance at redeeming yourself here if you can own what's to own and clue me into things I am not aware of.

Rob -

My section for you is considerably shorter because there is a lot less to adress on my end, however, I have been in your corner for quite some time and my main argument has been "1 vote with 0 immunities is more impressive than 0 votes with 7 immunities". Mind you, this does not lock my vote FOR you or AGAINST Linus, it merely gives you a little bit of an edge.

I still would like you to explain yourself better, some jurors were particularly unimpressed by the fact that you lacked detail in your opening speech and didn't fully convince people why you were in charge. Grace has been a great advocate of presenting your game but it's not Grace's Final Tribal, it should be your responsibility to let us know what you are doing right.

I have seen a few things in your answers for the other speeches but I want you to elaborate on connections, strategic AND social decisions that contributed to you coasting to the end without getting votes despite your strategic prowess. You don't have to give me a whole rundown on your entire merge game, if you could list 2-3 (or more if you desire) key factors and decisions/moves you made to get you to this point, I will be satisfied.

LASTLY, I would just add a fun activity for both of you: Please provide me with a reaction picture OR gif that you would use to describe your game. The catch is: It should be one that you could see ME use as a reaction picture for another situation (and you've seen me post plenty reaction pics and GIFs, so there's no excuse).

Congratulations to both of you, this speech could win or lose you my vote, so give me all you got. 