Board Thread:Survivor 29: Hallasan/@comment-24215409-20180110021944





Congratulations to both of you. Although I’m not surprised to see you both here, it’s still an extremely difficult task to make the final two so I commend you both. You both covered a lot of what I wanted to say in your opening statements and responses to other questions so I’m going to try to not be repetitive. My questions are kinda intertwined into my paragraphs for I’ll bold them for convenience.

My biggest issue in the game was how pre-game relationships were used. You both obviously didn’t choose to have people you knew in this game but you did make the decision to exploit those relationships and ignore the possibility of working with new people. So I’d like you both to outline to the best of your knowledge all of the pregame relationships in this season, not just your own, and how they influenced the outcome of this game and the way you played this season.

Ally it’s no secret to anyone in this game that we didn’t like each other. I am a firm believer that the strategic aspect of someone’s game is the most important and you definitely played a very strong strategic game. But in my opinion, the most strategic thing anyone can do is be social and form relationships in order to gain an advantage strategically and I believe that you completely failed at that part of the strategic game. In your opening statement you said “I worked hard socially to keep up strong bonds with my allies.” While I understand the importance of maintaining strong bonds with your allies, I think the most important social relationships are with the people you intend to vote off and put on the jury. By not maintaining bonds with players outside of your alliance, you sent people to the jury hurt but also disliking you and I think that is a huge fault in your game. I would like to give you the opportunity to prove me wrong by telling me some things you learnt about the jurors who you were not aligned with  and not just boring facts like I watch YouTube videos. And please don’t use the excuse that communication is a two way street because you’re the one asking for us to give you the win.

Despite your complete lack of regard to the social part of the game, I think you did a terrible job of setting yourself up for the end game. While Devon is also at fault here, the backlash mainly falls on you because I still think Devon would be here regardless. At final 7, you find out that Cammy is in possession of an idol meaning that neither myself or Zach have an idol and then Jake leaves with an idol in his pocket. The next round you kill the immunity challenge and I’m not immune and I have no idol making me an easy kill, I get that. What I don’t understand is why you went into the final 5 with the knowledge that Cammy had the idol and that she was close to Felipe. If Cammy and Felipe were smarter, they should have got Zach to vote Devon with them and then voted you out at final 4 in a 3-1 vote. Admittedly, you did luck out there but the fact that you were unable to set yourself up without putting yourself into a tie breaker seems pretty inexcusable considering the circumstances. You treated this game like chess but neglected to use all the pieces. Basically my question here is am I wrong? Was there really no other path to the end than to risk a tie breaker?

Devon, throughout the merge you were perceived as a goat by basically everyone. If you win this game, it is not a victory for you it’s a loss for Ally. I do admire the fact that it appears almost everyone wanted to take you to the end because you were a goat. Was that your strategy or did your strategy fail and you just ended up here accidentally as a goat? And if your strategy failed, what was it?

While I did enjoy getting to talk to you, I don’t by any means consider us to be close. Because you said in your response to Zach that we had a connection I’d like you to talk about things you know about me. If you’d like, I can provide you with a list of questions that I feel are fundamental to knowing me as a person and that most of the jury can easily answer, just tell me if that’ll make it easier.

The hardest thing for me to look past when casting my vote is what happened the day I left the game. Just so we’re clear I am not in any way bitter but I don’t respect the fact that you chose to ignore me. At least Ally had the decency to respond and lie about considering keeping me. I truly felt that during that round, you really had an opportunity to take your fate into your own hands by making something happen with Zach and I. You needed a move to call your own to gain respect from the jury but instead you ignored me. I still have not received a response and you read my message on December 23rd. I don’t like being ignored. Since you didn’t make a move there, are there any moves that you can claim were your idea? What is one move in this game that was your decision to make and why did it or did it not benefit your game?

I got sick last night and I’m honestly so tired and I had more to say but forgot lmao anyways the next few questions are for both of you but if you don’t have time to answer I won’t hold it against you at all cause I’m late on this speech oops <p style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;outline:none0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);">Thanks guys and best of luck to you both! <ac_metadata title="Sam&#039;s Jury Speech!"> </ac_metadata>
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