Board Thread:Survivor: Chile (Season 7)/@comment-5001881-20150430024626

I’M BACK.



So hey guys, first off, as generic as this may sound, congratulations to both of you on being here - regardless of the outcome you both played good games and should be proud. Being the first juror fuckup I am, I’m very much unaware of a lot of what went down during the entire merge, so right now I won’t just be looking for answers to my questions but also at the other jurors’ speeches and the answers to them in hope that I won’t be an ignorant voter.

I’ll start with you Jace. Obviously I’ve played a larger portion of the game with you compared to Seth, and I genuinely did enjoy working with you for the time we did. It’s pretty clear that pre-swap you played a better game, seeing as how our #smashbros alliance just drilled through the minority while Seth was looking for any opportunity to escape his tribe. Then came the mutiny, and I was the one to take a swing at your biggest ally in the game. This was a move I thought would benefit me in keeping larger targets going into a split at the merge, but I also assumed you would have no choice but to fall back to me. Clearly, that went all to shit. I’m not mad that you voted me out, even though I was being legitimate that I wanted a final 3 with you and someone like Jessy. I took out your closest ally and you countered right back. I thought it was an emotionally charged decision at first and I was actually gonna call you out on it had you been booted soon after me, but you’re here anyways so I can’t be mad. During the time after my boot I do think that Heather and Tyler P dictated your game a lot – Heather voted out Jessy (voting against you in the process) and you needed Tyler P to have an idol and correctly play it on you to gain majority. And you know what? That’s fine because there’s no need to make yourself the clear power threat in the game as the endgame approached. You were able to let others establish themselves as the game’s power players, you let them in the drivers seat for a while, and then they were taken out and you had it so that you just needed to win a challenge or two at the end. Smart, but I do think that you may have needed Tyler P to bite the dust for you to have been able to win this game. Towards the end, you were able to clutch some challenges at the end but I do question you voting out Ali at the end, as I think the entire jury can agree would’ve LOCKED you the win. Either way, I think your game was good but not great, and in the end that’s okay because the ones that were playing better than you are sitting in some of the last few jury spots.

Seth, this is gonna be a lot shorter than what I have to say to Jace because, well, WE DIDN’T TALK IN THIS GAME. In fact, this was the entire context of our individual conversations -- “Hey” “Hey” “Just a heads up Pydo’s after you this vote but I got your back, we voted together last time and I really see no need to break that now” “yeah thanks for telling me this I surprisingly trust you” And that was it. Now I know in a situation where people don’t talk to each other during a game like this, people usually say it’s one person’s fault for the lack of communication, but I think we’re safe to say it’s both of our faults for not talking to each other more. However, I’m on the jury and you’re sitting here at the end needing votes to win so us not talking to each other now means a lot more to you seeing as how I have a vote. If it’s not worth your time to talk to me at all in the game, I have no clue how it’s worth my time to address you as I am now and even possibly casting a vote for you to win. You claim to have played a good social game and, hey, that could be true for the others, I don’t know, but on our one-on-one basis, I can’t agree with that. Strategically, your biggest move as you say was hiding behind Heather and saying you always knew you had to vote her out. That can be true, but letting a huge threat like Heather slip to the final FOUR makes it seem like your decision to vote her out was more like an “oh shit Jace won immunity yeah I should do this” impulse more than some calculated move you were plotting all along.

I know it looks like I’m leaning towards a direction, but I’d be a fool to lock my vote 100% in right now so I’m gonna throw out a couple of questions to ask you guys and see if it would change my mind. You can also respond to anything I said above in addressing both of you if you want to agree with something or tell me I’m wrong or whatever.

TO BOTH OF YOU: 1) What went down during my vote? Who was behind it, who just went along with it? Did any of you two have a larger part in it than the other? I think I’ve gotten enough information to know what happened but I want to hear it from you guys and see if you’re telling the truth or just giving me bullshit. 2) What aspects of the game were you better/worse in compared to your fellow finalist?

JACE: 1) Why vote Ali out? A lot of us here can agree when I say that you would’ve won pretty damn easily if you did vote Ali at the F3. 2) Had you and Tyler P gained numbers when, in actuality, he went home, were you going to take him to the end (and if so, why?)

SETH: 1) What were your best strategic moves aside from voting out Heather? Does that in itself even count as a ‘strategic move’ or was that just an obvious vote? 2) Had someone rarely talked to you on an individual basis for the entire game, would you even consider voting them if they ended up at final tribal? Anyways, thanks guys, good luck, and cheers to a great season and hopefully a great finale



-Evan (fuck you all for 8-2’ing me) 