Board Thread:Survivor 20: Heroes Vs. Villains/@comment-25593884-20161024210340

Hey Jury!

I just want to start off by thanking the hosts for letting me have this chance to be in one of 703’s milestone seasons and am truly thankful for that <3 and also thanks to the hosts in general as well as the cast, this was such a great experience and I am so grateful to be apart of it :)

 

Pre-merge game:

When the game first started, I knew this was gonna be totally different from Visayas, like TOTALLY different. It was pretty much gonna be a whole different game and I knew I had to switch my gameplay up a lot if I was going to survive. My main goal at the beginning of the game was building as much social bonds as I can with everybody on my tribe, and I really felt like I did just that. I really tried to get to know everybody and be as genuine as possible with everybody because that’s just who I am. I didn’t talk non-stop in the tribe chat but I talked to everybody one-on-one and really got to know everybody so it can help me in the future. I never played in any other orgs with anybody on my tribe except for some people, so meeting and playing with icons was truly amazing and I was so excited! I eventually fell into an alliance that was formed by Bryce which consisted of Bryce, me, Emma, Szymon, Miguel, and Bas that was called the Gaero alliance which name was based off of a typo by Emma LMAO! This whole alliance was pretty much the beginning of my whole Pre-merge story so I’ll start from that. So the two people that I trusted the most in this game were Emma and Szymon. We just clicked and they knew each other for a long time and just by talking to them in PM’s I knew I really wanted to work with them. Us three began this trio alliance called the Holy Trinity alliance. This alliance was pretty much my favorite alliance I have ever been apart of in my ORG experience. Just the talks we had, the skype calls, and pretty much everything I just fucking enjoyed it and I really got to create very close friends cuz of it <3. Anyway, the Trace  vote! This vote was pretty easy considering we based it off of his inactivity within the tribe, and I’m just gonna say this, he wasn’t an inactive, but he just didn’t talk as much as the other tribemates which honestly sucks because of being busy that week and stuff. So the vote was pretty simple and it was the best decision for the alliance I was apart of to vote Trace so we can keep our alliance strong. The CJ vote   was just really fucked up. So Eva and Sarah weren’t apart of the Gaero alliance and Eva asked if I wanted to form an alliance with them including Emma and Szymon. I couldn’t say no to the offer cuz that would be just really stupid so I accepted and we were apart of the legendary Sweet Cockooie alliance! Yes, that’s the name and unfortunately it didn’t last for that long ;-; I was simply on two different alliances and I knew whichever side I was gonna align for in the future, I know I’m gonna piss the other alliance off which had me worried a lot. So CJ unfortunately was pretty much in the middle and was on the outs so we had to take him out cause we couldn’t afford having alliances to break and it just sucked that it had to go down that way. We went on this really awesome immunity streak for a bit which kept alliances strong and during that I just worked more on my social game and stuff until the whole cross-tribaling incident went down which evidently was the reason for the  Linh  boot. We had to vote her out even though she was in our alliance. It was the best decision though because voting her out was not gonna hinder my game and I think everyone else knew that about there’s as well. So after that was the double tribal which was the <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Eva and Alex <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> vote-offs. This one.. Just sucked honestly. This was when I realized my social game could come back and bite me in the ass and I could definitely lose a friend because of it. The whole cross-tribaling stuff got in everybody’s heads and it resulted in everybody accusing Eva of it and I had to go with the majority on this one because I believe it was the best choice for my game in the long run. My realization about Alex getting voted out as well was pretty shocking because it was for the same reason so those two tribal’s were just pretty insane ngl. Last but not least was <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sarah’s <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> vote-off and this was pretty much the calm before the storm, the preparation for what will be a crazy merge. It was a relatively simple vote-off and it was the best choice I believe. It was, again, very upsetting I really loved Sarah as well and I enjoyed our convos but she was the person on the outside of the alliance and it was probably the easiest vote for us.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Overall, I believe I played a very good UTR pre-merge game. I really felt like I maneuvered myself in a good position where I was never on anybody’s radar and I was apart of every alliance that was created on the heroes tribe. I managed to make strong social bonds with everybody and I believe that’s how I made it through the pre-merge portion of this game, by making sure I was in a good position at all costs by just talking to everybody and really trying to build as much social bonds as I could in this game.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Now onto the <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">merge <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">phase of this game <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m actually gonna separate this into categories for each round so I can tell you my thought process and how I played and what exactly was going on throughout this portion of the game!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 12 (Chris): <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The merge started at like 12:00 pm of all times so I had a tad bit to strategize whilst being tired af! At the beginning of the merge, Chris vocally spoke out on how he will be the next to go and that the Heroes were gonna target him. I haven’t even thought about who the next target will because the merge just started and we still had an immunity challenge coming up. The challenge was the Circle game I believe where NOBODY won LOL because I was gonna step off and let Emma win but I was like a minute late #flop so we went to tribal and pretty much everyone was willing to vote Chris off because of his dominance during the pre-merge portion of the game and in hindsight I think it was the best choice even though I was worried about an idol being played by Chris. So the heroes  and even some of the villains were down for taking Chris out.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 11 (Bas):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m gonna backtrack and talk about another alliance being formed pre-merge. Bas always seemed just very untrustworthy to our alliance so we formed another alliance called the Suicide Sqaud (original) which was pretty much the Gaero’s alliance without Bas. Even though we deemed Bas untrustworthy we still kept him as a number and we expected him to make a flip over to the villains side because it was still legit Heroes vs Villains at the time. Thomas was the original target but we thought that Bas would be more of a threat in the future and it was honestly the best decision for that round.

 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 10 (Thomas):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Alright, Thomas was the intended target at the beginning of that round. I really tried my best to talk to him more and knowing that we were on complete opposing sides, it was really hard to do that. But overall, I believe this vote was a relatively simple one because he was acting extremely shady during that round and his blow-ups in the chat caused him to be voted out that round.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 9 (Miguel):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This round was very crazy indeed. During the last round, I heard about Miguel telling info to Thomas and stuff about the vote last round who was supposed to be on the opposing side. This got me real worried because I felt that everything I said to him was getting leaked to other people and it really just made me lose trust in Miguel. Taking out Miguel that round was the best option and it made the place less shady because Miguel just had me worried throughout the entire merge.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 8 (Szymon):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gahhh, this vote was tough. It was probably tougher for me than it was for a lot of people. During merge I was so paranoid and so worried about being considered as a goat to Szymon because we were in a really tight alliance together with Emma. I actually had plans to take him out earlier but I really didn’t think it was gonna work and I didn’t think it would be the best idea. Hearing Thomas and Miguel’s final words before they left and how Szymon was pretty much the boss of the whole game so far made me really think if I even had a fucking chance to go to the end with him. Now when the round started, Szymon unfortunately deactivated his account, I really don’t know the reason why and I really felt that the stress in the game and that whole screenshot incident made him do that tbh. But I really don’t know because I was never able to talk to him after he deactivated his Facebook. I was so upset that I had to vote him out that round and I almost felt like voting for Sora but I really don’t think Szymon’s mind was in the game during this round and taking him out was the best option :(

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 7 (Alissa):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Whewww, this was probably the biggest blindside. So Bryce randomly made a chat with me and Emma which we were the last remaining heroes in the game. We were talking about who our target would be for the next tribal. I brought up Alissa because of her really good social game and she had a tight alliance with another powerful player which was Sora. Emma was planning to play her pearl on Alissa to add an extra vote but we trusted in Jennifer that she would vote Alissa especially since they were rivals in this game and such. This was a very risky vote but I believe it worked out fine in the end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 6 (Emma):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This round was WILD! Okay, so the immunity challenge results came out. Jennifer won immunity, and she played her Dreamcatcher on Bryce which was CRAZY AF! Sora also had the idol so the vote was between Me, Emma, and Eddie. Lemme remind you that we were planning to go to the final 3 together but soon quickly realized that it wasn’t going to happen lol. I really wanted to keep Emma in this game at all cost because she was pretty much my ride-or-die so we made a decision for her to play her pearl to add an extra vote on Eddie. Apparently, Sora had two damn idols in which he played one himself and played it on Eddie resulting in Emma’s vote-out. This was the only tribal where I didn’t vote the right person off and I’m so glad it was Emma of all people because me voting her would be just terrible and I never would think of voting her. It sucked, and I definitely felt like I was at the bottom like I felt like the entire game but it definitely didn’t make me give up.

 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 5 (Jennifer):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This round was fairly simple. If Jenn doesn’t win immunity, vote her out because she was such a challenge beast. I used strategy in that selfie and only got 9 points  just in case she won immunity, I really didn’t want to make myself look like a threat. So Sora won and I sided with the villains to take out Jenn that round.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final 4 (Eddie):

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This was the moment of truth for me and a moment to finally break the 4th place curse that I have in ORGs. I really worked my ass of in the final immunity challenge but unfortunately, that wasn’t enough as I realized I suck at flash games. I was very close with Eddie since the merge started because we both felt like we were on the bottom of the alliances that we were supposedly a part of so he quickly became my number 1 ally in this game after Emma left. During this tribal, I was really thinking if I should save Eddie and choose loyalty or keep Bryce because of strategy. It was tough but then Sora came up to me and said that Eddie wanted me out which really hurt. Bryce was down to take Eddie out as well and I believe that it was the best option because he seemed like such a FTC threat and would be very likable by the jury.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Conclusion:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">To end this off, I really do believe I deserve the title of Sole Survivor. I devoted everything to this game and I really hope what I said above proves that to all of you guys. I never even had the idea of giving up and I never said that I was gonna lose because I was legit determined to win at all cost. I also never won individual immunity and was able to survive every tribal council with <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">no votes <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> cast against me up until the final four where Eddie voted for me. Ths was such an emotionally stressful game that I played in but I never gave up and had a very strong Social, Strategic, and somewhat Physical game that I believe I was able to possess in this game. I would consider myself to be an underdog in this game because not even myself expected to make it to the end and by playing as hard as I possibly could and devoting all my time time to this, I managed to make it to end and I feel very happy that I was able to do just that.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Alright, so that’s it and good luck to the jury on making this decision. I’ll be willing to answer every question/statement that you have for me so I can help you guys on your decision. Love you all! <3 <ac_metadata title="Vote for Dusk!"> </ac_metadata>