Board Thread:Survivor 29: Hallasan/@comment-5001881-20180109163104/@comment-31430415-20180109173616

Hi Cammy, thank you for your speech.

If the jury is that impressed/connected to Devon’s speech, I’ll urge them to notice specific parts of it that basically say he got all of his information from me. Here’s some examples:

“Every time I made a new connection with someone, it opened up a limitless amount of routes for me to potentially advance myself. When Ally told me about her idol, as well as the one Cam contained, I was literally handed all of the cards.”

“Cam has an idol? Felipe and Cam are a final two? I’m in danger of receiving votes? Sam is sending Cam paragraphs about wanting to stay? Those were all notes that ALLY messaged ME about.”

His argument is essentially this: “I held almost ALL the information in the game, and never found myself in the minority because of it. How can you fault me for playing as hard as I possibly could?”

But the reason he held all of that information is because I gave it to him. Even when he approached me at f5 saying that Felipe was targeting me, I already knew that because YOU told me. I was just as consistently aware as he was, but the difference was that I could be selective in what knowledge I gave him. When I mutinied over to Jinan, he was literally the next person that was going to be booted off of that tribe, and Blake even said that in his speech. He needed me to come over, get the knowledge that he was missing out on, and tell him that he was in danger. Even then, he denied it at first and tried to say that him and Blake were tighter than anyone else and that if anything it would’ve gone 2-2 if I wasn’t there. His game awareness came from me, and he shows that multiple times within the speech he wrote.

I had no relationship with Devon prior to the game. He wasn’t yet cast in EMBB (where I was hosting him--which I quit about a week ago), I wasn’t the one that interviewed him because when it came time to do cast interviews I asked not to be given his because I didn’t think it would be positive if I was interviewing someone that I was playing with. Another fun fact is that I had temporarily left the hosting team at the time the casting was finalized to deal with something personal and that’s when Devon was cast. I had no part in him even BEING cast. This was my ENTIRE INTERACTION with Devon prior to the season:

Devon: Hi Ally! Just applied for EMBB! If there's any other information from me that you require, please let me know!

You accepted Devon's request.



Ally:  <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">awesome! i'll let you know ^^

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">He never replied to that and we didn’t talk again until Hallasan started. That’s not a pregame relationship and that’s the only person that I will fight to say I did not know before the season.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">My social game was strong with people I didn’t know both premerge and during the merge. I went to almost every tribal premerge, so I needed to form connections with as many people as possible in order to survive. This meant that a lot of the people I had connections with ended up getting eliminated (such as Bronson, Miles, and Louise) because unlike Donnaeko and part of Jinan, I didn’t have an entire premerge to form relationships and then make it to merge intact.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">My social game with Dan wasn’t strong. I knew that I was likely voting Dan off during the merge round, and I didn’t want to create a bitter jury by messaging him, getting his hopes up, getting to know him, and then voting him out. Clearly my plan to try and avoid a bitter jury did not go well. All I learned in the time that we spoke was that his cousin had a baby recently, and he was going to visit.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">With Sam, I don’t know why but I felt like I struggled to connect with her. I did try to message her and she did try to message me but the conversation tended to die and sure, maybe I’m just bad socially, but it was something that I just couldn’t get to work, and I’m sorry if she feels hurt by that. Through messaging Sam, I learned that she loves Little Mix, she watches Jenna Marbles and when she’s really bored she watches family vloggers, she’s a very picky eater (and only eats a couple things), and that she’s similar to me in that she likes mild weather (Fall is her favorite season).

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Felipe and I weren’t super tight by any means, but I did feel as if we spoke frequently and it wasn’t all about game. I know that he’s a big fan of Big Brother and we share a lot of similar opinions about it, I know that he was on Mauritius and he was very underwhelmed with his experience on main ORG, I know that he’s a college student and he had finals during the season, and he hates cold weather (but enjoys snowball fights).

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">I considered Blake to be one of the closest people to me, but I absolutely hurt my relationship with him during the last pre-merge and merge vote. I did a lot of damage to our friendship socially at that point. However, I believe that I was good socially with him before that. I found Blake to be incredibly easy to talk to, moreso than almost anyone else on this season. I learned that Blake and I have similar HVHVH opinions (we were both team Devon and we both HATE BEN), I know that he has a lot of residual paranoia from past games (I won’t get into it here because it’s private and I respect Blake) that I felt I could relate to, he loves using emojis, he hates sushi and loves Indian food, and contrary to what he thinks, we did talk about Gilmore Girls before!! He hates late-series Luke and wishes April didn’t exist, and we both agree that Jess loves Rory the most.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">The reason that I had the best social games with people that I knew beforehand (with the exception of Devon and Blake) is because I’m shy and it takes me a while to get comfortable with people. And it was easier for me to get comfortable around people that I’d already interacted with. Maybe that means I’m a poor social player, but I did try to make connections with people that I didn’t know pregame, and I believe I succeeded in that.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you again for your speech, Cam. I hope you feel better.