Board Thread:Survivor 40: Annihilation/@comment-25580549-20190801231919

Heyo buddy boys, first let’s start off with the good stuff. Congratulations on making final 2 - that’s a huge accomplishment in Survivor! In all seriousness though I’m sure it was a hard road and while you two may have had very different strategies in getting there, the point is, you made it. Now I’ll first address both of yall separately and then ask you my question.

Linus, I’ll start with you. My post vote out experience regarding you has been somewhat complicated actually. I came into the jury rooting for you fun fact (over Grace, even). However, that started to change as the jury started filling out. In fact you’re one of the few finalists whose game I actually liked less as I heard more about it. Do you remember the end of Final 8, Linus? You were in my PMs freaking out about getting votes and getting me to reassure you that you weren’t the one getting voted out (no doubt, trying to get enough info to play one of your idols). Now obviously given that I had no immunity necklace or idol - the most I could give you was the truth. And I spent the rest of the round reassuring you because you were my ally and my friend and I didn’t want you feeling panicked because I know that emotion and it’s straight up awful.

But let’s flash forward 2 days later. I come off my shift and I have to catch up on 6 hours of strategy in less than half an hour. So I find out I’m getting voted out from you right? But that’s all good - surely my close ally Linus will help me out here by playing his idol on me. Granted all my begging was for naught, you didn’t play it on me and I went home. Now that all stung (especially the bit where you said “I wish I could’ve been able to do more to help you”) but I kind of got it. You had, to my knowledge, only one idol, so surely you wanted to be conservative with it. Imagine my shock though when I learned that not only did you have the Moya idol but also the merge idol. And I’ll be honest with you, idc if it comes off self centred or unnecessarily bitter but that kinda grinds my gears knowing that you tossed me aside despite knowing that you had an extra layer of protection in your back pocket.

And that, I feel, has kinda been the general thing about your endgame huh? You take people who genuinely want to work with you and care about you both in a game sense and in a personal sense (Grace, Aro, Zach, myself) and when you no longer need them to further your game you just tossed them to the jury without a second thought. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think you ever meant it maliciously but this jury feels pretty burned Linus and you better do a good job owning up to it. I’m not in search of an apology, just an explanation.

Oh wait I have one more thing regarding my vote out. I know you knew the whole time my dude. What was the point in not just voting for me if you knew I was going? Why be wishy washy with me at the end when you knew shit was locked in and I couldn’t change anything? If that was your jury management @me well...I would’ve rather you just blindsided my ass.

Anyways onto you Robert. I’ll be honest I never got quite a good read on your game until Grace came into ponderosa. I thought you were a big threat early in the merge (peep my touchy subjects answer + me telling grace we should try to target you lol). But it seemed like you were fading a bit once I landed in jury. However, gaining the perspective I have now from grace entering the jury, I really have to hand it to you my dude. You managed to have a hand in the way every single tribal council played out postmerge and for you to do all that yet escape with 1 vote against you the entire fucking time - I’m impressed not gonna lie. There’s nothing really much to say, we had a few decent convos here and there - it never felt like you were ever leading me on and for that I appreciate you.

Now onto my question for both of yalls. So there are 9 jurors in front of you - I’d like you to compare each juror to a survivor player (literally it can be as obscure as you want) with a reason why. And for an additional challenge, if you were to win, which winner would you say you most closely resemble and why? Good luck with this jury guys, and can’t wait to see your answers.

Nathan, signing out! 