Board Thread:Season 34: Romania/@comment-32335693-20180826005838

Hey everyone! Glad to see you again. I’m going to be brutally honest with you guys in this speech, but I won’t let it get personal. The general thought of this jury is that this is the worst Final 3 this season could have produced (I somewhat disagree but let’s not get into that). I think all 3 of you know I desperately wish to be in your spot right now (I literally pulled an all-nighter for the final immunity challenge and was crushed when I lost), so I hope you understand me wanting you guys to fight for my jury vote. I AM leaning towards one person right now and that should be clear in my speech, but if someone knocks their responses to my questions out of the park (or that person absolutely bombs my questions), then I’ll be willing to change my mind. So let’s get to it!

Ellie:

Ellie! Something that shocked me in this game was how much you trusted me and how much others told me when I came into Ponderosa that you trusted me. I felt like we almost never talked, and you could have been more active than I think you could have been. My biggest problem with your game, however, is that it never felt like you took any agency in your game. You didn’t actively seek anyone out for an alliance, and I believe I had to start every single conversation with you. You’re a very nice, kind person, and I did enjoy talking to you when we did talk! But I think that you didn’t really do much in terms of improving your position and didn’t do much to improve your standing with the jury. I also feel you kind of stumbled into FTC because nobody cared enough to take you out. I wish I had more to talk about for you, but I really didn’t see much of your game. And then in your speech, you do a lot of explaining what you did, but you never really explain WHY you deserve to win. You talk about your game but I don’t know WHY you deserve to win over the other 2. If I had to make a connection with an IRL Survivor player, I’d compare you to Christina Cha.

My first question for you specifically is, name two people whose connections you made with them kept you safe in this game, and how did you foster that connection to improve your position in the game?

My second question is, why do YOU deserve to win this game? You have a speech but it’s just full of information, it didn’t do much in terms of convincing me to vote for you.

Morgan:

Morgan. So, just from talking to you, you have a much higher opinion of your game than I had, or anyone else had. You said to me you think you might be the first winner who could win without answering any questions if you took me out at 4 when I approached you about a deal to let myself win immunity since I knew you were going to be on a cruise during this FTC. I felt like your only positive part of your game was that you were good at challenges, and winning them at the luckiest time when people were planning on blindsiding you when you had no idea. I remember you telling me during the Final 6 vote that you were shocked that Rob was planning on voting you out that vote if not for you winning immunity. In my opinion, that shows a real lack of game awareness. You also wanted the alliance that we created to stick together until Final 4 (You complained about Rob and Julia turning on each other in the alliance chat and wanted to vote Maya instead of going for Rob OR Julia), which had Julia and myself BOTH in it who wipe the floor with you in Final 3 if you do follow through with that. You were bad at getting people to trust you, I remember wanting to vote you out at Final 10 and post-swap after the Connor vote simply because you were so sketchy when trying to talk game with me. You need to be more forthcoming with information rather than just trying to pry it out of people without giving some in return. Now onto your speech. You seem to still not know that at Final 10, if you didn’t win immunity, you were very likely being targeted/blindsided by most of the game. Now whether we’ll know whether you play your idol that round or not is going to remain a mystery, but it also shows that you simply got lucky there. Then the alliance of 4 was an alliance of circumstance, and was going to happen regardless. And reading your speech, you took everything everyone said at face value all the time, and didn’t think about their intents. Final 6, you really don’t seem to know what was going on, I wasn’t being pitted against Julia, I pitted Julia and Rob against each other and told you Maya cause you were so goddamn stubborn that it had to be Maya or Ellie, and were pushing Maya, so me telling you I’d vote Maya was so you didn’t screw up my plan to 3-2-1, and putting myself into the swing vote position. Then the Final 5 vote, I made the decision that I needed to vote out Julia at the Final 6 vote, but the question was when. You didn’t really do anything to change my opinion on the vote, it was more me getting in my own head about not trusting Julia from the stuff Rob said to me in the previous vote. And at Final 4, you voted out the obvious winner threat. If I had to make a comparison to an IRL Survivor player for you, I’d compare you to Ozzy Lusth (Micronesia). And I don’t have a very high opinion of Ozzy so it’s not a compliment. I have 2 questions for you.

First, I’d like you to rank the people who you felt the closest with in-game. I’d like to know if you felt like anyone could trust you, or that you could trust anyone fully.

Second, how did you get a score of 227 in the Flight of the Season part of the Final Immunity Challenge? Doing some research through other ORGs shows the highest score that people who have 24 hours to do this challenge get is 150. I’d like to know how you got a score of 227 in just one hour. If you are 100% honest for this question my chances of voting you go up.

Maya

Maya! I really do appreciate you sticking with me until the Final 4, and I do understand why you cut me. I promise there are no hard feelings there. I have a few issues with your speech, however, and while I think you played better than the other two, you need to clarify some things for me. First of all, I approached you at the Final 10 about making a final 3 with me and Julia, and it just took us a few days to get that together and you confirmed to me that you wanted it. Second, I’m kind of confused as to your thought process about the Final 5 vote according to your speech. If I hadn’t told you that Julia was throwing your name out, it seems like you were content going to Final 3 with me and Julia, which really makes you look bad in the eyes of the jury, and unsure of what your perception in the eyes of the jury was. You also seem to have stumbled into this Final 3 where you seem to have a chance at winning due to my mistakes in the game. I do commend your flipping, maybe not at the time that was beneficial for you, but realizing you weren’t going to be in a good position to make the end with that group was a great read on your position in that alliance. You did piss off a LOT of people with flipping to me at Final 9, and while I appreciate it a ton, it might not gain you the most favor with this jury that isn’t myself and Julia. There’s also the elephant in the room for most of the people that it was hard to get a hold of you sometimes to talk to you. I personally had a great time talking to you but I know I was your closest ally so that might skew things in my favor. If I had to compare your game to an IRL survivor player, I’d compare you to Kass McQuillen (Cagayan), except I actually liked you. I have some questions for you.

If I didn’t try and convince you to vote out Julia at Final 5, would you have voted her out independent of me?

Did the other 2 convince you to turn on me at Final 4, or did you do it yourself?

I have a few questions for all 3 of you.

Rank all the jurors + the final 3 based on their gameplay. I want to see your game awareness.

Is this your ideal Final 3? Or is there another Final 3 you would have preferred to have (jurors only, not prejurors), and why?

What do you think each of the Final 3’s percentage chances of winning are? Your percentages must add up to 100 or you automatically lose my jury vote. I mean that. 