Board Thread:703’s Showdown 1/@comment-31683906-20180728174522/@comment-30575847-20180728220422

Hi Sam! Thank you for your speech and questions, especially your little blurb about me! That’s exactly what I wanted to do in my speech, highlight everything the good and bad and show that despite my flaws they weren’t detrimental, and I managed to overcome them and some tough situations.

'''name some of yalls flaws in your games, and how you would go about changing that if you could '''

Well since I already covered voting minority 6 times in a row/wasted idol play, I guess I’ll talk about something else that was a flaw and sometimes hindered me. I was sometimes quite naïve and too trusting. In the last 10 minutes before the Maddie vote, you know exactly what happened, first telling me you were voting Matt, then finally admitting to voting Maddie, and then 3 minutes before said you changed to voting me. I was just so scared about not making the merge at that point that I just believed you and played the idol when I really shouldn’t have. Another example, final 10, Nicole said that Nathaniel was flipping to vote Rhys with us, so I had a quick check in with him before the deadline and he said yup everything is all good. But it wasn’t, and he didn’t vote with us. I should have done more campaigning and checking in just to be certain, but I was too trusting that he would stick with it. Final 9 when me and Nicole switched our votes from Toby to Brandon, it was very last minute and random, so we probably should have put more thought into that.

Changing it I would be weary of everyone and try to consider what their motives could be when they tell me something. I would be slightly more aggressive with campaigning instead of just trusting people to do things, because if I had maybe Nathaniel would have voted Rhys. However, I do think I already improved on this from past orgs like Carthage and Mo’orea, where I just trusted people and ended up leaving. I put my fate into my own hands especially at final 6/5 and made the moves I did based on trust so I actually do think that throughout the course of the merge I was able to improve on this flaw a bit.

explain why your opponent does and does not deserve to be sitting here beside you

Why Brandon does deserve to be here, he was in the loop of everything that was happening from the start of his game until F8, was a great rival to us throughout the late game once Toby left, fighting in immunities and managing to survive when all his allies left.

He does not deserve to be sitting here, because socially he left a bitter taste in a lot of people’s mouths went they left and didn’t have the best jury management. Justin, Nadine, Nathaniel, Matt... And its not just because he voted them, there are ways to vote people out and have them still respect you and your game, like I did when voting you Sam, and I think hopefully Toby also respects why I voted him since I was on the bottom and had to do everything I could to stay. Also, Brandon wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for me.

'''i dont wanna take full credit for "saving" you guys (brandon at f8, benj at f7) but i did play a huge part alongside matt. if i didnt vote with you guys and you ended up going home, how do you see this game having turned out?'''

I think at F6 the exact same split vote plan would have happened, just with Toby in my place, and this time the plan actually succeeds in a 2-2-2. So I think your decision to save me really was the best decision at the time, as you would have either got 6th or have to use your idol. I would say that you would use it and Matt would leave in the revote, leading to you being outnumbered at final 5. Then final 4, despite Toby and Brandon’s loyalty to each other, they would know each other is the biggest threat and it would be 2-2 with San Marcos vs Bora Bora. Whoever won I think would make final 2 with Rhys and then win the season, with Jenna getting 3rd due to Brandon being scared of Jenna’s FTC performance and Toby knowing Jenna wanted him out all game and wanting to have an all Bora Bora final 2. I may be wrong but yeah I think this scenario could have happened if I had got 7th.

excluding me, put yourselves on the jury and put 2 other jury members in the finalist spot, who would you put there and why

Nicole, I think she played a great game and was actually really involved with a lot of the strategy from our side of things. She was a true force to be reckoned with socially and in challenges too, and never gave up fighting despite her bad position. Matt, he came so close to making it here and only lost the tiebreaker by 2 questions. If he had made final 2 I think he would have a great chance at winning over me and you. If this was the final 2 it would be super hard for me personally to pick who to vote and would likely be a close battle!

do you think a jury can ever pick the wrong person to win?

Absolutely not. Everything that people say doesn’t make someone deserving, eg people voting with bitterness, only voting for their friends/allies not for strategy, voting against someone rather than for someone, are ALL valid reasons for voting, we all know that and its what determines why some people are voted off. For example, the Russell/Natalie situation, he should have accounted for all those points and got Natalie off sooner. If I somehow manage to win, I hope people don’t consider it the wrong decision just because I happen to have some friends/allies on the jury. The players in the game could have accounted for this and voted me off sooner but they didn’t, so I don’t think I should be faulted for it. Whoever wins of me or Brandon will be the right choice!

Good luck deciding!