Congratulations on making it to Day 39.I know you’re going to want me to reveal the votes now, but we’re going to have to wait until we get back to the States.
Ok, everyone quiet! Let's get to the votes!
First, thank you to the cast and players of Survivor: Hallasan for making this a good season, and to the jury for making this decision.
Ally,Devon, one of you is about to be declared the 703 ORG Network’s 29th Sole Survivor. You want to see your name come up tonight. We have 7 jurors, you need 4 votes to win.
Now for the final time, I will reveal the votes.
First vote...
Ally
Devon. One vote Devon One Vote Ally
Ally. Two votes Ally.
Ally. Three votes Ally.
The winner of Survivor: Hallasan.....
ALLY!
Congratulations to Ally for winning Hallasan in a landslide 6-1 vote! I’d like to thank all the castaways for an intense season, my fellow co-hosts, as well as all the people who did work behind the scenes for this season (a much longer post. Make sure, if you’re not already, to pay attention to 703 Season 30, Survivor: Legends, already in progress its. Thank you guys, I’m your host Emma Lee singing off, until I see you next time.
Hey y’all. congrats on making it to the final 2, and thank you to the hosts for allowing me to play on this seasons.
I think you guys are aware now, that socially you guys didn’t really perform that well. I think that a lot of people are hurt by your sometimes cocky behaviour. I didn’t really get to witness a lot of it but I could tell that you two weren’t going to be genuine with me from the get go.
Devon, one of the first things you were telling me was “Oh I really want to work with you, my other tribe, I was never strategizing” which was one of the most pathetic attempts at making someone trust me I have EVER seen. The fact that you had attended 2-3 tribals with a unified vote clearly contradicted what you said and made me trust you even less. Not helping you now is you saying this:
“LOL well there’s 0 shot I write your name down, I have strong vibes from you, but I haven’t heard ANYTHING so far”
LMFAO WHAT?! That don’t make any type of sense at all. Who the hell says that to someone you’ve known for 1-2 days? I really don’t have time to pick everything that was wrong with your interactions with me but let’s be honest: They were fake, and the fact that in your speech you claimed to work your arse off socially and got to know everybody was a big ass lie because you don’t know me AT ALL.
Yes we can say that you didn’t have the time to get to know me but honestly, if you had just been honest with me, it would’ve given you a big edge over Ally, because she didn’t even talk to me for the 24 hours at tribal and barely before then.
As of right now, I’m undecided as to who I should vote for, so I’m going to ask you guys questions, and whoever answers the best and the most honestly will get my vote. J
Ally:
What is one reason that you *don’t* deserve to win, and why does Devon deserve to win over you?
Devon:
What is the one reason you deserve to win, and why doesn’t Ally deserve to win over you?
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
If you started out on a different starting tribe, do you think you would have played differently.
Henlo my Yeetberries. You made it! Final 2! Cool! Congrats to Devon for being the coattail riding champion of 2k17, and congrats to Ally for finding a way to have half the merge be a pregame connection and STILL manage to play so horrendously socially that none of them want to give her a vote to win I guess. Stellar gameplay y’all.
So, There’s gonna be a few parts to this speech. Firstly, I will take both of your opening speeches and break them down. I’ll then give some of my points, insights, praises, and some negativity cause believe it or not, I’m actually not bitter compared to about half the jury. (This hasn’t been and will not be a fun ftc for either of you).
Ladies first, let’s break down Ally’s speech. Contrary to popular belief, I think your speech was better than Devons.
Hello everyone!! First of all, I just want to say congratulations to Devon for getting to this point, and thank you to him, everyone else on the cast, and the amazing hosts for this super enjoyable season.
First off, I’ll throw it out there now. Ass-kissery on most people on the jury isn’t gonna help. Personally I don’t care either way, if you wanna stroke my ego im not gonna stop you but it wont help nor harm your chances for me.
I believe that I deserve to be the Sole Survivor of Hallasan because I played a very well rounded game; I strategically planned my path to the end in a way that would give me the best chance of winning,
Correct reacc
I worked hard socially to keep up strong bonds with my allies,
Haha reacc
and I was a top competition performer on my tribes pre-merge as well as won 2 immunities post-merge. I'm going to explain my thought process as the game went on, because this game was very extensive for me, as I attended nearly every tribal council and voted out everyone in the season other than 2 people. I apologize if my speech is lengthy because of this.
Quick aside I do really respect this in your game. Even knowing a lot of people beforehand, its tough to attend and survive this many tribal councils in any season. Good job.
- Jinan -
After joining the game slightly late due to being a replacement, I immediately got to work on Jinan trying to form connections so I wouldn’t be left out because of it. I formed lasting bonds with several people on Jinan, including Blake, Devon, and Felipe. These starting bonds would prove to be incredibly valuable both post-mutiny and during the merge.
- Wonsan -
Swapping onto Wonsan, my original Jinan tribe had a 3-2 majority. However, Louise and I quickly developed a bond with Zach, and we formed an alliance called YEET, and as you all know, we became the last 3 standing on our tribe.
YEET
Jake on Jinan chose me and Max to go to the lake with him that round, and I was lucky enough to receive the ability to mutiny. Max left the lake first, and then I used this opportunity to speak with Jake, align with him, and form an in-game bond with him, because that was likely the tribe I was going to be mutinying to should we lose immunity.
Let’s not pretend that this wasn’t because of your pregame relationship with Jake. It was. Its been explained in Jake’s thread tho so I wont go into detail here.
Through talking to him, I learned that Devon was on the outs, which was upsetting to me because Devon was my closest ally on Jinan. We parted, and then my tribe, unfortunately, lost immunity again. I’m not actually 100% sure if I would have been at risk that round, but I chose to use my mutiny regardless. This was because of a couple reasons-- Zach and Louise were friends from prior to the game, and I didn’t feel like taking the risk; and I didn’t want to end up losing again on a tribe of 2 and have to go to firemaking myself. If I did that, I was also risking being dissolved and reshuffled onto Donnaeko, where I would be in a much worse position than I would be on Jinan. It just made sense for me to mutiny over to where I felt I could gain footing and secure my position.
This was your peak for me in this game, Ally. You went into Wonsan with a tribal majority and easily could have killed Brons and then me, but you decided to stick with, in my opinion, the three best people on that tribe. You also did this without really needing pregame relationships, as I dont really count ours tbh, and you played your mutiny round perfectly. Your time on Wonsan is all positives for me. Unfortunately, thats about where the positives end.
- Jinan (Reprise) -
Once I mutinied over to Jinan, I started talking to everyone and getting information on the dynamics of the tribe. Everyone on the tribe was very open to talking to me, and I quickly managed to figured out who was close with who, who was likely the next target (it was indeed Devon), etc. My main task at hand was to save Devon. He was the person I was most loyal to on that tribe, and I wanted to make sure that he stayed in. Jake had been working really hard on getting Blake to distrust Devon, and was open to me about this, so I used that information to undo his progress and get Blake back on my side and working with Devon and I again, because those were the two people I trusted the most at that point and I was hoping to create a solid bond between the 3 of us. Through this, we formed an alliance called Ladies’ Night.
While the tribe swap was in progress, Jake and I had begun to discuss the idol, and he shared his list of locations to search with me immediately prior to finding the idol and telling me about it, further strengthening the bond that we had been developing since I mutinied.
Again, let’s not pretend this was from an in game relationship.
At the vote before merge, Blake threw a vote on me because he didn’t want to vote his friend out. I forgave him, but this definitely had me starting to doubt him as an ally. I voiced these concerns to Devon, both so he would know that he was my #1 and so he would begin to think the same thoughts about Blake.
Yikes on your inability to see the motives of Blake. He’s not exactly an enigma.
- Merge -
As soon as the tribes merged, I approached Cammy and we began talking.
Hmmmmm I wonder WHY
I was worried about what had just happened with Blake, and wanted to make sure my options were as open as possible. My focus at this point was to keep strengthening the bonds I had created pre-merge with the Jinan boys as well as Zach,
When did you do this again? Musta sipped my mind through the entire merge you decided I wasn’t convenient enough to keep up regular communication, game or personal, until you needed me later on.
and focus on creating a new one with Cammy, as she had made it immediately clear to me that there was a fracture within the group of her/Sam/Dan.
Old one with Cammy*. The “fracture” was just people seeing Sam and Dan as too close. I was one of those people at the time. Let’s not pretend it was something bigger.
During the merge vote, Blake begun to sketch me out more than when he already had pre-merge, due to his blind trust in Daniel. It was at this point that I recognized that this wasn’t going to end up being good for my game, and started to worry about how I could manage it without hurting our growing friendship. Because of this, it wasn’t terribly upsetting for me when Blake chose to ask to be voted out the next round. Because of him quitting, I didn’t have to go back on my deals with him/worry about affecting the friendship I felt was developing between us, and I’m glad that it never got to that point for us.
Throughout all of this, I had been strengthening my bond with Jake, and at some point we decided to Skype call together. This Skype call is a significant reason why I chose to turn on him when I did. Whenever he talked game, it became jokes about cutting me, and at one point he messaged Zach saying that he wanted me out as a joke while on call with me, and it just got way too weird and sketchy. He had also gotten close to Sam, who I didn’t have a positive game relationship with and who I wanted out sooner rather than later. His relationship with Cammy was strained, and he decided he wanted her out that tribal because she knew about his idol. I agreed to go along with it, and then Cammy and I decided that this would be an appropriate time to blindside him instead. I approached Devon about a potential final 4 alliance of me/him/Cammy/Felipe, and he was down for it and got Felipe on board. With this, Lil Shits was formed, and we successfully blindsided Jake with his idol in his pocket. During the vote, Cammy also revealed to me that she had the Donnaeko idol, and she asked if she should be playing it because she knew she was getting votes. Ultimately, we both decided she didn’t need to idol herself, and our bond became much stronger due to that trust.
Everything about this paragraph just pisses me off to an extreme extent. That wasnt the reason, it was because Jake started to make bonds that wern’t pregame ones to exploit. Lil Shits was a circlejerk of people not willing to let the game affect their friendships, and it was two individuals I consider to be the worst players of the season gameplay wise following two people with good strategy, but no bearing on a social game. You know who you each are here.
After getting an idol clue from Cammy, I found the merge idol almost immediately, which I told Cammy about. At this point, we decided that it was time to vote out Sam, since she was no longer immune and we knew there was no risk that she had an idol. Sam did try to convince me otherwise because I was a large target once she was gone, and she made very good points, but ultimately I decided that Cammy was a big enough threat that I thought I could manage it with just her in. I also knew that Devon was loyal, so with my idol at 5 I was realistically in a pretty decent position even with Sam gone. My only concern at this point was when to get rid of Cammy; I knew that she couldn’t leave at 5 because she had her idol, and her making an immunity run was a real threat. At this point, I decided that the risk was worth it, and went along with the Sam vote.
Not telling Cammy to idol at 7 or 6 was just dumb on your end. If you were truly genuine about wanting to go to final 3 w Devon and I, you would have just got that thing out of the scenario here. It would have been an easy cover up and an even easier f5 tribal.
This was also the first real merge vote where I was genuine with Zach about where I was voting, because I wasn’t afraid of an idol anymore and was hoping to fix our connection.
“Strengthening my bond with Zach means not treating him like anything but a human chess piece until I needed him on my side to get past final 5!”
F5 was absolutely my weakest point in the game. My ideal f3 at this point was myself, Devon, and Zach, and we formed that alliance this round. However, Cammy won immunity due to her advantage and she planned to use her idol on Felipe, so I had to make the unfortunate choice to vote out Zach. This wasn’t something I wanted to do at all, but I knew that out of him and Devon, Devon was much more likely to vote with me the next round.
You need to defend the final 5 round more Ally. You and Devon benefited from the tribal, Cammy and Felipe didn’t. Yes, it could’ve been done better and yes, Felipe could have gone home had you played more ideally a few rounds ago, but given the cards dealt you and Devon did great. Own it, accept it, use it as a strength.
So essentially Ally, pregames aside, I think you did play about as well strategically as you could have. Theres no doubt about it, you ran the game. But social game is so important to uphold. Basically, you are Russell Hantz in Samoa right now. Undeniably the best player, but without any bit of social behind it, its hard to reward.
Now, Devon. Devon, Devon, Devon. I want to like you dude. I think out of game youre probably a great guy, but god its so hard to actually reward ANYTHING about you in this game. Lets break down your horrendous speech first.
First of all, congratulations to everyone on a very well-run season, as well as making it to the jury stage of the game. I found myself playing the HARDEST FOUGHT GAME this season, and it was all without the same experience that many others hold in the FB ORG community.
FB ORG expieriece means nothing. You come from Skype, right? Its not much different. Get over yourself there. Also impying anything about you having a hardest fought game when you have Ally, who went to almost every tribal, Sam, who HAD to win immunity every round to survive, me, who was never in control of my fate and had to rely on sheer instinct and social game to survive, Blake who had a mental breakdown over this ORG, its just an insult. What did you do again? Oh yeah. Did everything Ally told you to. Check the ego at the door.
After participating in Mauritius (3rd) and Deception Island (6th), I knew I needed more of a “killer instinct” in order to reach it to the end of this particular game.
Subtle high placement gloating is not subtle. Check the ego at the door.
The strategy was simple: Make social connections with anyone and everyone, and mold them into believing that I’m a gullible player who’s only looking to enjoy the experience at hand. While I enjoyed every moment, I knew what I was in the game to do, and it was to beat anyone in my game by using my social/strategic skills.
Your social skills consisted of never speaking game to anyone outside your circlejerk and never going beyond small talk with me. Not sure if everyone else has the same diema, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
From the start, I found myself in a comfortable position, containing VERY solid relationships with Felipe, Jose, Blake, and of course, Ally. Those same connections essentially catapulted me into jury stage of the game.
Pregame relationships reacc
In Ally’s shoes, I don’t personally believe she held similar connections with others before the merge stage, simply based on the fact that NO ONE I talked to brought her name up in a conversation to me about wanting to work with her (other names were included).
Oh boy
Within the jury stage, the eventual alliance of myself, Cam, Ally, and Felipe essentially came together because of MY connections…
False reacc
I was the one who packaged myself with Ally, I was the one who knew Felipe prior to the game (and had an initial target on my back because of it),
Wow it took this long to find something truthful.
and I was also the one who put themselves out there to connect with Cam, even though we weren’t on the same tribe before the merge.
I’m cackling how is anyone this blind in the final 2?
Simply based on my mutual connections, I was able to play behind the scenes and allow for Ally/Cam to place themselves as the shields, behind Felipe and I.
Allow Ally/Cam to make every decision for me and Felipe, thus becoming nothing but a number*.
In terms of competitions, I know from personal experience on what it’s like to be targeted solely based on “challenge skills”. I didn’t win any comps obviously, but the thing is, I never once felt as though I needed to!
Sounds like a goat to meeeeeeeee
I had two votes against me ALL GAME,
3*. I count the vote from production for cheating as a vote against you. Let’s not forget Devon sent a screenshot, something that made me super wary to ever trust him cause I didn’t want that to happen to my info. He played himself here.
and the one from Zach towards the end was based solely on him creating a meme with my parchment (legendary btw)!
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.
Sounds like Ally managing her goat but ok
In that particular situation, it was almost like a poker dealer stopping me before I played a hand, slipping me two aces, and then going about their business.
The game of Survivor isn’t about who wins competitions or finds one idol, it’s about who played the hardest, and somehow managed to get to end. I worked my ass off from day one. Every breathing moment of fresh time I received during the course of this game, I worked on getting to know everyone on the jury.
Yikes you aren’t very good at this are you? Everyone, and I mean everyone on the jury either doesnt know you or just hates you less than Ally.
Because of that time and effort, it gave me knowledge, which is SO MUCH more powerful than immunity, or an idol.
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. Never once did I need to go out and force people to tell me their strategy, because I always had someone ELSE telling me what you were most likely hiding (Ally wasn’t the only one in my PMs either).
Again, sounds like Ally managing her goat but okay
I’m coming off of my THIRD Facebook ORG game, and I’m already sitting in a F2. I’d hate to see my efforts go to waste.
Nobody cares how many of these you’ve played, it literally doesn’t matter. Check your ego at the door (3x)
In the bigger picture, please don’t cast your vote based on who’s casted for an immediate next season, who won comps, or even who came across an idol.
What is the point of this sentence? To get even a small amount of ammo against Ally? Yikes dude.
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?
I’m a broken record now but so are you but its just so fun to me when people don’t even realize how little they did and how little impact they had on ANYTHING .
Even if I could go back, I wouldn’t change a single thing about this game. I put myself in the best position heading into each round, and because of it, I believe I’m the sole survivor of Hallasan!
Whew Devon baby. That was fucking atrocious. There was one positive in there. Yikes my man. So this is the dilemma I am in. In all facets of the game, at least as of now, Ally has you beat. I mean, speaking of keeping connections and shit, what was the ;) alliance? Its not all on you, but if you wanted to be at least slightly believable that that chat meant anything, yknow, using those social bonds, at the very least you could USE it. I was the only one that ever spoke in there and nobody kept any convo going. Outside of game, you seem awesome honestly. Your music video was fun, you seem down to earth, etc. But you have a big perception issue with this game in particular. My vote as of now is up in the air but leaning towards Ally, but it’ll be decided on how the two of you do in my own and the others’ questionings. So, let me get a few questions out of the way.
ALLY:
First off, I forgot to mention it, but the main reason you get railed so much for pregames compared to Devon is cause I personally believe that Devon was just destined to be a goat regardless, whereas you exploited them entirely. So lets just go ahead and do a hypothetical.
You enter this game as an applicant and you know nobody pregame. How well do you actually think you do? I really just want to see an analysis of your gameplay, social connections, and how reliant on knowing people your game was.
I really want an explination as to how you handled people. You kept constant contact with people… but only if they were voting with you. Is this intentional, creating an Us v Them narrative? Unintentional? Both? Neither?
Whats the best Death Grips album? (my opinion is the only one that matters HECK OFF ANTHONY FANTANO)
DEVON:
Do you still genuinely think that your gameplay and bonds are the reason you are here? If so, I want some depth, show me how you still got here without just getting spoonfed info by Ally so she could keep you in your place in her plans.
What are my jobs, and what is my major in college? You seem to talk a lot about social bonds, here's a softball cause I know that I mentioned all of them a few times. Dont look back in our chats, Ill be able to tell if you did, and admit it if you dont know. Admittance will go a long way.
Favorite survivor season?
BOTH-A-YA’S
Cause im a P.O.S. juror and wanna have some FUN.
Take the jury and yourselves, and rank em’ based on 3 categories: Strategic, social, and overall. Do not pander, do not overplace yourself or underplace your fellow finalist. Use as much or as little detail as you want as thats not what im looking for, im just looking for two subjective lists.
Give each juror and yourselves a song that fits them, whether it is based on gameplay, on personality, out of game stuff, i dont care. Make it genuine, just yknow, dont overthink it. Will i be judging ur music taste like the pretentious hipster i am? Of COURSE. Will whether or not I actually like the music have a bearing on my decisions? HECC no. That’d be DUMB.
(I was gonna do a compare to a survivor Q but thatd be unfair to ally. Devon, dont do it please i wanna keep this mostly level).
Okay I think I hit most every point i needed to that wasnt already covered or wont be covered by someone else. Apologies for the long rambly nature of this post, I just wanna make sure I’m choosing the right person.
Congratulations to both you for making here, Jinan to Jinan. As you can see the jury is very jealous of your achievement and I don’t blame them, everyone has their own different opinion.
I am going to start with Mr Withers here…
Ever since we met, I saw you as a very likeable guy, I will say that out of everyone in this cast you were the one I spoke to the most and along the way we flirted in multiple occasions, I will say that you are in fact a very charming man. So my question to you is, how does that resonate for you in the bedroom? How do you take that to the next level as far as strategy in the game, how does that translate your layers of being charming man?
Now onto Ally,
I will begin by saying that you are a very strong, beautiful and independent woman, and you worked extremely hard to get what you wanted and I will admit that you played a stronger strategical game than the person you are sitting next to. HOWEVER, along the way you upsetted a lot of people, and made them feel a certain type of way towards you due to your controlling nature. If I had to name an example of it, it would be the time you lashed out at Cammy during final 4 because she didn’t vote me out like you wanted and lied to you about it. So when you don’t get your way do you always lash out at someone? Also, knowing how the jury feels about you, would you have done something different, or taken a different approach at the game?
i am very sick and do not have the energy to make a long speech so pls enjoy!
devon:
i had trouble understanding why you would’ve wanted to keep ally in when felipe or myself would’ve taken you to final 2, but now i see it was very, very smart. you’re doing AMAZING sweatie. word of advice-- cancel the “strong social game” stuff because no one on the jury really feels impacted by your social game. the rest of your speech was golden.
my question for you is: at a glance, it looks like you rode ally’s coattails to the end. what influence did you have over ally in your decisions, if you had any at all?
ally:
kind of disappointed you chose devon to lose against instead of me, but it is what it is. you came for me for my “bad jury management” when this jury despises you and it’s kind of amusing for me LMAO. your speech was bit more of a summary and devon’s came off very honest and the jury connected with his more. most of the jury views you as a gamebot and feels used by you and really have no connection to you as a person.
my question for you: you claim to have a strong social game, and a lot of people are concerned with your prior to game relationships with myself, jose, jake, zach, and most importantly, devon. it seems those 5 people are the people you had a “strong social game” with and it’s very suspicious considering those are the people you had relationships with previous to the game.
what made your social game strong with sam, dan, felipe, and blake if you had a social game with them at all?
Firstly this is going to be very difficult for the three of us. I’ve said some things about you in Ponderosa that aren’t very nice at all, but the thing is, it was because the two of you hurt me, very, very, badly. You made me hate this ORG with every bit of my being. You made me wish I’d never signed up. You made me wish I’d never played. I have never, ever, ever regretted any ORG in my entire career, but I absolutely regret doing this one. I regretted waking up because I knew I’d have to do something Hallasan related. I loathed every challenge. At the very end, I didn’t even want to talk to anyone left in the game because I was just done. This was one negative experience after the other and the two of you, either separately or combined, contributed to at least 90% of that negative experience. Do I hate you personally? No. But I am absolutely disgusted with the way you both played. I found you to be fake, hypocritical, rude and just doing things that were downright unnecessary. It’s a game, I understand. I know I was emotional and frustrating. I know you had to get to the end. Just let me explain myself, because I hate this feeling of anger I have towards both of you and I want it all to go away and the only way I can do that is get this all out. I’m on the verge of tears writing this because it hurts, and I haven’t even begun yet. I’m going to start by addressing some things in your speeches, then addressing the problems I had with you.Feel free to respond to anything I've gotten wrong in your reply. Although this will be long and you probably won’t like what you read, read to the bottom because that’s where your questions are. (I’ve put this in headings so you can skip to the relevant parts).
ALLY
Ally. First I want to address some things in your speech that I took issue with.
• “Blake threw a vote on me because he didn’t want to vote his friend out. I forgave him, but this definitely had me starting to doubt him as an ally.”
This just hurts. It shows me that you had no ability to see people as people and to you, everything had a strategic motive. Your reaction to this was completely unfair and, in my eyes, very hypocritical. I had told you that I was upset about voting Max. I knew Max was going, I knew he didn’t have the idol, and you specifically told me I could vote for someone else. I didn’t vote for Devon that night, because I knew he’d freak out. I didn’t vote for Jake or Felipe because I thought they’d be mad. I I voted for you, because we’re close, because I felt you would be the least likely to freak out, because you would understand. You “forgave” me? You acted like it was a personal insult, like how dare I vote for you. For you to throw that completely back in my face and doubt me as an ally, shows that we didn’t have that bond. We weren’t as close as you claimed, or I thought we were. The fact that I did that was a show of my unwavering TRUST in you. It was the ultimate display of me being on your side, because I had that much faith in our alliance and friendship that you would know me as a person, to know it was meaningless. To know you didn’t, and used it as the basis to cut me, is really hurtful.
• “During the merge vote, Blake begun to sketch me out more than when he already had pre-merge, due to his blind trust in Daniel. It was at this point that I recognized that this wasn’t going to end up being good for my game.”
That’s a complete lie right there. I knew you were running the tribe, because you were a dictator, because everything had to go your way at the time, but I was never going to turn against you, until your actions that round. The only damage ever done to our alliance was done by you. “blind faith” in Daniel was not blind at all. He was the most honest person there. Was I going to take Daniel to the end? Hell no. I wasn’t THAT dumb. Was I going to go far with Daniel? No. I knew he had bonds with Sam and potentially Zach. My loyalty was always to you, until your reaction to me casting a meaningless vote, couple with the fact you were downright rude to me in the first post-merge Tribal Council. Had I not quit, I would have turned that round. But why did I? Because you and Devon would have given me so much shit for it and I couldn’t deal with that negativity on top of everything else.
Now that I’m done, let me address my personal issues with you.
- FAKENESS- I felt, at times, you were fake, especially with how you reacted to me leaving the game. You were quick to say “I’m sorry this was such a negative experience for you”, which I believed at the time, but began to doubt once I’d heard that you’d talked about how annoying I was behind my back, and when I reflected on how rude you’d been during the last round. I feel like your message and parchment was just to win my Jury vote. Please correct me if this is wrong.
- RUDENESS- My biggest issue, by far, was with how rude you were. I found you, at times, to be a condescending dictator. Everything just had to go your way, all the time, and I felt like you gave the illusion that we had a say but we never did. When I fought to keep Max, it was so he could be a number for us. I understand you thought i'd be tighter to him than you, but you condescendingly told me I had “too much faith in a pre-game friendship”, even though right in front of us, Devon was using the same argument to keep Felipe. You ignored this it seemed. When I didn’t write Max’s name down, you said “We obviously made the right choice because you would never have written his name down post-merge either.” (A lie- I was aligned with you).
My biggest issue, though, was Daniel’s elimination. You insisted over and over again Daniel was voting for me, but Daniel was only voting for me because you fed him my name (and even if you didn’t, you were involved in it). You guilt-tripped me and made me feel even worse than I already did, by insisting that I was going to get idol’d out and it was my fault, because Daniel knew to idol himself. You knew Cammy had the idol and you just tried to make me feel shit. Then when Daniel did vote for me, you were just like “I told you so”. Not only had you lied to make me feel bad for the entire vote, but I felt it was completely unnecessary and downright rude. Those are my issues with you. I know that I was an emotional player and a pain to deal with at times, but I felt you crossed lines and you hurt me very deeply. Feel free to respond to any of this with corrections.
DEVON
Devon, I truly don’t think I’ve ever been as angry at anyone, not just in the ORG but my entire life, as I am at you as I type this. You are, without question, the fakest, most hypocritical and insensitive player I have ever played with. As a whole your speech was better but I’m going to ignore it because of the issues I have with you. I opened up to you about Mackie because I was scared, because you seemed exactly like him. You assured me you weren’t, but you were the spitting fucking image and it makes me sick. You told me about alliance chats, lied to me about Jake and Jose, and constantly reinforced that I was on the bottom, that you were the only reason I was sticking around, that you were saving me from votes. You were a hypocrite and a lair on multiple occasions, just like Mackie. That’s what Macie did and you tried doing it to me again. Had I turned on you in the round I left, as I was going to, you would have just bitched and moaned about how you were always loyal to me despite none of it being true. Let’s go through my issues with you:
- FAKENESS: Everything you said to me, you were saying to other people. You put yourself forward as this loyal ally, but you were constantly selling out other people. You told everyone that you were with them and wanted to work with them. You made me feel like we had a friendship, but you got closer and closer to Ally and you acted insulted that I voted for her, showing that you didn’t really know me at all. You acted like a sweetheart but you were playing the game harder than anyone. You said in your speech that we had a “VERY” solid relationship- a lie. I was suspicious of you from the get go, and had we gone to Tribal before Ally got to Jinan, I would have voted you out, because Jake was genuine with me, and even Jose was more real with me than you. The only reason I stuck with you was because of Ally, but then that faltered and there was absolutely nothing left keeping me with you. Zach, Sam and Jake were way more genuine to me than you ever were and had I stayed, I would have sided with them.
- BLATANT HYPOCRISY- This disgusted me more than I could ever put into words. What repulses me even more is that you not only were a hypocrite, you knew and laughed about it. Max’s boot, you told me that I was just trusting people based on a pre-game and I was being emotional; you did this all the while begging to keep Felipe, ignoring every logical point I brought up, because “I know Felipe from Mauritius, he’d tell me if he was going to”, yet when I used the exact same point for Max, you shut it down. Next, there was Daniel’s boot, where you insisted you were with me, but ran and told Ally, then were involved in feeding my name to the other side, once again telling me the exact same shit you’d told me about Max, that I was too trusting in a pre-game. All the while, you were certain Felipe would stay because… wait, let’s see, you were trusting a pre-game!!!!! You are a hypocrite, plain and simple.
- INSENSITIVITY- This is the worst thing about you and what I was touching on when I said you were rude. The first instance was after Daniel’s elimination. I felt like absolute shit. I was on the verge of crying and in you fucking slide to my messages saying “Hey, who was the smart guy who told you not to trust Daniel???” knowing FULL WELL that you had, or at least knew who had, fed my name to that group to vote, and making me feel even worse about myself. Did it not cross your mind that I had just been (what I believed at the time) lied to, completely betrayed, by my best friend? That everything I believed in had been a lie for so long? You showed a total disregard for me and it was very, very hurtful. The second instance, and the one that upsets me the most, is after touchy subjects. I had just been voted biggest goat, didn’t deserve to be there, and never wanted to speak to again after the game ended. Naturally, on top of everything else that had happened, this was really upsetting for me. I was about ready to pull the plug by that point and I spoke to you because I was sad- I even told you I was- and explained it was because of touchy subjects. What did you do? Laughed. You fucking laughed, Devon. I was in a terrible space and you made everything so much worse. How did it cross your mind that it was even remotely okay to laugh when someone tells you why they’re upset? If I had been upset because my cat had died, would you have laughed? If I had been upset because I applied for a job and didn’t get it, would you have laughed? I certainly hope not. So I don’t understand what the Hell possessed you to think it was okay to laugh at that.
That’s all the issues I have with you. Like Ally, please feel free to correct me in your response if I’ve got this wrong.
CONCLUSION/QUESTIONS
So yeah, that’s it, that’s how I feel. To be honest, my vote is completely open because I don’t particularly feel like voting for either of you at this point. You both know I’m an emotional player and person, so my desire to vote for you will be helped a lot by this question.
I’d like for you to admit to your flaws. Ally, admit that at times you were rude and did unnecessary things; Devon, admit that you were fake, hypocritical and insensitive. Alternatively, if I've gotten this COMPLETELY wrong, let me know, using solid evidence.
Then, I’d like the two of you to please offer me a genuine, sincere apology, because I have never been hurt like this in an ORG before and I feel the majority of it was caused by you. And finally, the most important thing of all:
If I reasonably suspect ANY of your response is fake or kiss-ass, or I am otherwise dissatisfied, you will lose my vote.
I know this will be difficult for you to read but I appreciate that you’ve read me getting my feelings out in the open and I want to reiterate that I don’t hate you personally, my issue is with the game you played. I would like to get to know you outside of the game. Thank you.
First of all, congratulations to everyone on a very well-run season, as well as making it to the jury stage of the game. I found myself playing the HARDEST FOUGHT GAME this season, and it was all without the same experience that many others hold in the FB ORG community.
After participating in Mauritius (3rd) and Deception Island (6th), I knew I needed more of a “killer instinct” in order to reach it to the end of this particular game.
The strategy was simple: Make social connections with anyone and everyone, and mold them into believing that I’m a gullible player who’s only looking to enjoy the experience at hand. While I enjoyed every moment, I knew what I was in the game to do, and it was to beat anyone in my game by using my social/strategic skills.
From the start, I found myself in a comfortable position, containing VERY solid relationships with Felipe, Jose, Blake, and of course, Ally. Those same connections essentially catapulted me into jury stage of the game.
In Ally’s shoes, I don’t personally believe she held similar connections with others before the merge stage, simply based on the fact that NO ONE I talked to brought her name up in a conversation to me about wanting to work with her (other names were included).
Within the jury stage, the eventual alliance of myself, Cam, Ally, and Felipe essentially
came together because of MY connections...I was the one who packaged myself with Ally, I was the one who knew Felipe prior to the game (and had an initial target on my back because of it), and I was also the one who put themselves out there to connect with Cam, even though we weren’t on the same tribe before the merge. Simply based on my mutual connections, I was able to play behind the scenes and allow for Ally/Cam to place themselves as the shields, behind Felipe and I.
In terms of competitions, I know from personal experience on what it’s like to be targeted solely based on “challenge skills”. I didn’t win any comps obviously, but the thing is, I never once felt as though I needed to! I had two votes against me ALL GAME, and the one from Zach towards the end was based solely on him creating a meme with my parchment (legendary btw)!
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.
In that particular situation, it was almost like a poker dealer stopping me before I played a hand, slipping me two aces, and then going about their business.
The game of Survivor isn’t about who wins competitions or finds one idol, it’s about who played the hardest, and somehow managed to get to end. I worked my ass off from day one. Every breathing moment of fresh time I received during the course of this game, I worked on getting to know everyone on the jury.
Because of that time and effort, it gave me knowledge, which is SO MUCH more powerful than immunity, or an idol.
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. Never once did I need to go out and force people to tell me their strategy, because I always had someone ELSE telling me what you were most likely hiding (Ally wasn’t the only one in my PMs either).
I’m coming off of my THIRD Facebook ORG game, and I’m already sitting in a F2. I’d hate to see my efforts go to waste.
In the bigger picture, please don’t cast your vote based on who’s casted for an immediate next season, who won comps, or even who came across an idol.
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?
Even if I could go back, I wouldn’t change a single thing about this game. I put myself in the best position heading into each round, and because of it, I believe I’m the sole survivor of Hallasan!
Hello everyone!! First of all, I just want to say congratulations to Devon for getting to this point, and thank you to him, everyone else on the cast, and the amazing hosts for this super enjoyable season.
I believe that I deserve to be the Sole Survivor of Hallasan because I played a very well rounded game; I strategically planned my path to the end in a way that would give me the best chance of winning, I worked hard socially to keep up strong bonds with my allies, and I was a top competition performer on my tribes pre-merge as well as won 2 immunities post-merge. I'm going to explain my thought process as the game went on, because this game was very extensive for me, as I attended nearly every tribal council and voted out everyone in the season other than 2 people. I apologize if my speech is lengthy because of this.
- Jinan -
After joining the game slightly late due to being a replacement, I immediately got to work on Jinan trying to form connections so I wouldn’t be left out because of it. I formed lasting bonds with several people on Jinan, including Blake, Devon, and Felipe. These starting bonds would prove to be incredibly valuable both post-mutiny and during the merge.
- Wonsan -
Swapping onto Wonsan, my original Jinan tribe had a 3-2 majority. However, Louise and I quickly developed a bond with Zach, and we formed an alliance called YEET, and as you all know, we became the last 3 standing on our tribe. Jake on Jinan chose me and Max to go to the lake with him that round, and I was lucky enough to receive the ability to mutiny. Max left the lake first, and then I used this opportunity to speak with Jake, align with him, and form an in-game bond with him, because that was likely the tribe I was going to be mutinying to should we lose immunity. Through talking to him, I learned that Devon was on the outs, which was upsetting to me because Devon was my closest ally on Jinan. We parted, and then my tribe, unfortunately, lost immunity again. I’m not actually 100% sure if I would have been at risk that round, but I chose to use my mutiny regardless. This was because of a couple reasons-- Zach and Louise were friends from prior to the game, and I didn’t feel like taking the risk; and I didn’t want to end up losing again on a tribe of 2 and have to go to firemaking myself. If I did that, I was also risking being dissolved and reshuffled onto Donnaeko, where I would be in a much worse position than I would be on Jinan. It just made sense for me to mutiny over to where I felt I could gain footing and secure my position.
- Jinan (Reprise) -
Once I mutinied over to Jinan, I started talking to everyone and getting information on the dynamics of the tribe. Everyone on the tribe was very open to talking to me, and I quickly managed to figured out who was close with who, who was likely the next target (it was indeed Devon), etc. My main task at hand was to save Devon. He was the person I was most loyal to on that tribe, and I wanted to make sure that he stayed in. Jake had been working really hard on getting Blake to distrust Devon, and was open to me about this, so I used that information to undo his progress and get Blake back on my side and working with Devon and I again, because those were the two people I trusted the most at that point and I was hoping to create a solid bond between the 3 of us. Through this, we formed an alliance called Ladies’ Night.
While the tribe swap was in progress, Jake and I had begun to discuss the idol, and he shared his list of locations to search with me immediately prior to finding the idol and telling me about it, further strengthening the bond that we had been developing since I mutinied.
At the vote before merge, Blake threw a vote on me because he didn’t want to vote his friend out. I forgave him, but this definitely had me starting to doubt him as an ally. I voiced these concerns to Devon, both so he would know that he was my #1 and so he would begin to think the same thoughts about Blake.
- Merge -
As soon as the tribes merged, I approached Cammy and we began talking. I was worried about what had just happened with Blake, and wanted to make sure my options were as open as possible. My focus at this point was to keep strengthening the bonds I had created pre-merge with the Jinan boys as well as Zach, and focus on creating a new one with Cammy, as she had made it immediately clear to me that there was a fracture within the group of her/Sam/Dan.
During the merge vote, Blake begun to sketch me out more than when he already had pre-merge, due to his blind trust in Daniel. It was at this point that I recognized that this wasn’t going to end up being good for my game, and started to worry about how I could manage it without hurting our growing friendship. Because of this, it wasn’t terribly upsetting for me when Blake chose to ask to be voted out the next round. Because of him quitting, I didn’t have to go back on my deals with him/worry about affecting the friendship I felt was developing between us, and I’m glad that it never got to that point for us.
Throughout all of this, I had been strengthening my bond with Jake, and at some point we decided to Skype call together. This Skype call is a significant reason why I chose to turn on him when I did. Whenever he talked game, it became jokes about cutting me, and at one point he messaged Zach saying that he wanted me out as a joke while on call with me, and it just got way too weird and sketchy. He had also gotten close to Sam, who I didn’t have a positive game relationship with and who I wanted out sooner rather than later. His relationship with Cammy was strained, and he decided he wanted her out that tribal because she knew about his idol. I agreed to go along with it, and then Cammy and I decided that this would be an appropriate time to blindside him instead. I approached Devon about a potential final 4 alliance of me/him/Cammy/Felipe, and he was down for it and got Felipe on board. With this, Lil Shits was formed, and we successfully blindsided Jake with his idol in his pocket. During the vote, Cammy also revealed to me that she had the Donnaeko idol, and she asked if she should be playing it because she knew she was getting votes. Ultimately, we both decided she didn’t need to idol herself, and our bond became much stronger due to that trust.
After getting an idol clue from Cammy, I found the merge idol almost immediately, which I told Cammy about. At this point, we decided that it was time to vote out Sam, since she was no longer immune and we knew there was no risk that she had an idol. Sam did try to convince me otherwise because I was a large target once she was gone, and she made very good points, but ultimately I decided that Cammy was a big enough threat that I thought I could manage it with just her in. I also knew that Devon was loyal, so with my idol at 5 I was realistically in a pretty decent position even with Sam gone. My only concern at this point was when to get rid of Cammy; I knew that she couldn’t leave at 5 because she had her idol, and her making an immunity run was a real threat. At this point, I decided that the risk was worth it, and went along with the Sam vote. This was also the first real merge vote where I was genuine with Zach about where I was voting, because I wasn’t afraid of an idol anymore and was hoping to fix our connection.
F5 was absolutely my weakest point in the game. My ideal f3 at this point was myself, Devon, and Zach, and we formed that alliance this round. However, Cammy won immunity due to her advantage and she planned to use her idol on Felipe, so I had to make the unfortunate choice to vote out Zach. This wasn’t something I wanted to do at all, but I knew that out of him and Devon, Devon was much more likely to vote with me the next round.
Final 4 onwards were very straightforward; Cammy remained my greatest competition, and when she turned on me at final 4, I was lucky enough that my strong bond with Devon came through and he put it to firemaking for me against Felipe. After that, it was about winning final immunity, which I succeeded in.
- Conclusion -
I believe that I deserve to win because I was constantly planning ahead and readjusting to forge my own path through the game that would get me where I needed to be--here. Because I attended almost every tribal council, I was playing the game hard and constantly from the very beginning. I had people who were loyal to me when I needed it the most, I was aware of where all the idols in the game were before they were played so they couldn’t throw too bad of a wrench in my game, and I won two critical immunities. My weakest point was absolutely at final 5, but I recovered easily and I was able to make it to this point despite that.
I believe that I played the best game, and I hope that I’m able to show that to you guys. I’m looking forward to hearing your speeches and answering your questions.
Ally & Devon, welcome to your final tribal council!
Now bringing in the members of our jury: Daniel, Blake, Jake, Sam, Zach, Felipe & Cammy, voted out at the last tribal council.
Ally and Devon, congratulations on making it to Day 39 of this game, but this is as far as you can go in this game. Tonight, the power shifts to the seven members of the jury, who hold your fate in their hands. They will get to decide which of the two of you is more deserving of the title of Sole Survivor.
Here’s how it’s going to work: The two of you will have 24 hours to make an opening statement to plead your case on why you deserve the title of Sole Survivor. After that, the jury will have 48 hours to make their speeches and/or questions, as well as for the two finalists to respond to their questions. After that, the jury will have 48 additional hours to cast their vote for the title of Sole Survivor – meaning that jury votes will be due by January 11, at 12 AM Eastern Standard Time.
When you have made your decision, we ask that you write your vote down on the parchment below for the player you want to be the winner of Survivor: Hallasan. Please remember that all votes are final.
13th person voted out of Survivor: Hallasan and the 7th & final member of our jury......
Cammy.
Cammy. That’s one vote, and tonight, that’s enough. You need to bring me your torch.
Cammy, the tribe has spoken. It’s time for you to go.
Ally & Devon, you've made final tribal council! But tomorrow night, the power shifts to the jury and they will make the decision on who wins and who loses. Congratulations on making the FTC, head on back to camp. Goodnight!
Daniel,Blake, Jake , Sam , Zach and Felipe voted out at the last tribal council.
Welcome back to tribal council! Tonight things will work a little differently. Cammy, you can only vote for Devon and Devon, you can only vote for Cammy. Your votes will cancel each other out and the only person who will be casting a vote tonight is Ally. Before you vote Ally, I have some questions.
Cammy and Devon : Why should Ally take one of you over the other to the end?
Ally : How hard is this decision?
Ally, we ask you to write your vote down on the parchment below and submit it to your personal thread by 3:00 PM EDT, Jan 8th.
A winner has been determined, as such we will now end the challenge!
The player with the most points and the winner of the Final Immunity Challenge is….
Ally!
Congratulations, Ally, you will be pleading your case at the Final Tribal Council.
Cammy, Devon one of you will be sitting next to Ally and receive the opportunity to plead your case at Final Tribal Council. The other will be the seventh and final member of our jury. You’ll have the opportunity to try to sway Ally into voting in your favour.
For the final time, individual immunity is up for grabs. The winner of this challenge will have a guaranteed spot at the Final Tribal Council, determine the 14th person voted out of Hallasan, and also select which of the other two players to face off against in the Final Tribal Council.
Now on to the challenge!
Today you will be playing...
The Hallasan Trials!
In this 703 Survivor classic, you will be completing different challenges in the hope to ultimately score the most points out of everyone. To score points, you must do well in each challenge. For each leg of this challenge, 1st place gets 3 points, 2nd place gets 1 point and last gets you nothing.
First is Hands On A Hard Idol!
In classic tradition, your final immunity challenge is all about willpower: who wants to win the most in an old-school Survivor battle of endurance. When you are ready to start the challenge, you will message your hosting thread with the phrase “I am now holding on to the immunity idol.” exactly as it was written within those quotations. After that, you must post, once per hour, exactly on the hour, the exact phrase “I am still holding on to the immunity idol.” For example, if you start holding on to the idol at 4:02, you must post again at 5:02, 6:02, etc. up until you either fail to correctly post or we have a winner. The player who posts the most correctly formatted and spelled messages will win this challenge; as such, this challenge will run until we have a victor. One mistake and you are out of the game.
The hosting team reserves the right to change the intervals for the challenge, but you will be told of this in advance should we opt to do so.
Second is a flash game called Bubble Shooter! Your goal is to match up the bubbles and get the highest score you can! A screenshot of your final score will be due in your host threads.
And finally, you will playing the Spelling Challenge!
For this challenge, you will all be given the same combination of letters from the English alphabet, from which you must construct as many English words that are three or more letters long!
Your letters are H-A-L-L-A-S-A-N (you have THREE "A"s & TWO "L"s to work with!)
Three-letter words are worth 2 points, Four letter words are worth 3 points, and so on. The words may not contain repeating letters within the word, unless it is the letters "a or l," which you may have up to two of per word.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask the hosts! You will have 48 hours total to complete the 3 parts of this challenge, making your deadline midnight EST, October 7th. Good luck!
Hannah- Queen of the first boot! I wasn’t around for this tribal council, but hopefully you get the shot to come back in the future ❤
Juliet- I had heard about Juliet (in a positive way) before the game started, and she was someone I was somewhat looking forward to working with. I’m sorry you got the boot girl ?
Bronson- Wasn’t around to see this tribal occur, but I wish you the best of luck in your org future! Nice magna ?
Miles- I lovedddddd Miles as a person, and sorta wish he made it further! Super sweet guy, but a shame he had an early exit
Louise- Sorry this happened Louise ? She was a competitor at heart, and probably would have been a force at the merge stage of the game
Jose- I LOVE JOSE ? Shame he had to be voted out, but it’s solely part of the game. This is my second time encountering him in a game, and he’s impressed the hell out of me on both occasions
Max- Max is actually someone I was looking forward to seeing at the merge, but it’s sad to stand by and see him go beforehand ? I want him to get his second shot at the game, he deserves redemption!
Dan- Absolute social butterfly from what I’ve heard from others, so I’m shocked that he didn’t make it further into the game! I definitely predict for Dan to have a bright ORG future
Blake- Don’t make me tear up! I love Blake, and voting him out was so difficult...He volunteered entirely, and although he put me on edge with paranoia at times, he is someone I consider a friend ?
Jake- Jake & I didn’t quite communicate from the start, but he was a GREAT player...super strategic, laid low, talked to others, had an idol, and was considered a clear front runner for the W...Hilarious man to encounter, so it was sad to see him cut loose in a blindside
Sam- RIP to the challenge beast! Aside from dominating almost every comp from day 1, Sam was absolutely great to connect with, and if I was a viewer, I would have bet on her to win it all! I almost found myself persuaded by her so many times, so props to Sam on playing such a scrappy game
Zach- Loved Zach to death, although we didn’t talk as much as I hoped towards the stretch! He found himself within the crosshairs, but he fought with every breath he could, so I respect the hell out of that! Hopefully I see Zach down the road in another game, because I’d love to work with him
Felipe- This one sucks....I was viewed as a “duo” with Felipe, even though we never mutually agreed on going to the end together in serious fashion (we hinted at it, but that’s it)...the divide was Cam/Felipe vs Ally/myself, and I gave the respect to Ally to fight in a firemaking comp. I love Felipe with every ounce of my fiber, so this was absolutely the toughest move I’ve ever had to make in my short career on FB ORGs....sorry ?
Juliet: you were a funny gal. i enjoyed your presence and you were very entertaining.
Bronson: you left so soon ?! i appreciated our conversations, you were very kind. wish you stayed longer
Miles: never met you
Louise: never met you
Jose: never met you
Max: oh, max. you are sweet. i wish we could’ve talked more about things that weren’t pertaining to school, or things of that nature. you’re a good kid and i think you were loyal to our lil alliance. hope all is well and good luck in future games and you become a successful baker.
Dan: you are one of the most unique people i think i’ve met through fb/wiki so far. you are so straight forward, you will literally not beat around the bush, you dive RIGHT in, and i appreciate that because, to not put it shortly, i kind of avoid things and i like people that challenge me to not be in my shell. from my perspective, i think we might have opposite personalities, and maybe that caused some turmoil between us in the game. i was intimidated by your personality and your closeness with sam, and reflecting, that is something i should’ve addressed with either of you before shutting down and being threatened. i don’t know if things would’ve been different between us if we didn’t spend like, 20 days of the game together, maybe some time apart would’ve been good, but things didn’t turn out that way. i don’t know if i was the best ally or pal to you, but i want you to know that i appreciate the way you are. your frankness, truthfulness, and your passion. thank you for bringing flavor to the game-- it needed you.
Blake: my first impression of you was from the lake and i had no idea what to expect. i didn’t know how someone in that situation would react, and, your reaction was… amazing. i was screaming. and i told you this, but omg it was the funniest thing to me. you were SO upset. you absolutely hated being there… and i thought it was incredible. we didn’t have much time together, and i’m sorry that this game was not enjoyable for you, and i want you to know that your presence was enjoyable for me and i hope i somehow made the game a bit better for you, even if it was just a sliver. you are a very raw person and sort of like dan, you are blatantly honest, and i think it’s a very admirable quality to have. i don’t know if my presence was even memorable for you, but you definitely contributed to my experience in a great way. thank you for being you, and i hope other games are better for you, because you deserve to enjoy them.
Jake: i wasn’t sure what to expect when playing a game with you, and i know we did not have the best experience together, and i kind of just want to...ignore that part of my rites of passage and hopefully we can address it at a later time because i think we both are feeling a lot of things and have a lot to say. when things were well between us, i really enjoyed you as an ally. you were really helpful and you allowed me to vent to you and i genuinely appreciated that. i think we are similar in some ways and vastly different in others. in the ways we are similar, it was really nice to have someone in the game that i felt understood where i was coming from. it almost felt like you were my… survivor therapist i guess as weird as that sounds? you are a really great listener and it’s a quality i appreciate, because it’s really hard for me to just kind of vent about things. thank you for being there to listen to me, and put up with my busyness and occasion flakiness. you were very patient with me, even in times i don’t know if i necessarily deserved it.
Sam: i think you were the first person i talked to this game. you made a lasting impression from the get go. i remember being absolutely terrified and so nervous and you made things ok. we were on a tribe with younger people, and i was like omg… i am not going to be able to relate with anyone on this tribe, and then i met you and i was so relieved. talking to you was very natural and it made me so nervous. i was like, is she manipulating me?? is this her social game?? does she REALLY like me because i want to be her friend ?!? and i think those thoughts made me overthink things and maybe not treat you the way you deserved. i enjoyed being around you, and when we were able to skype call, i loved talking to you. you are so funny, and blunt, and i just appreciate the way you hold yourself. you just hold yourself very confidently and it’s something i admire and i hope to play the same way in the future. i’m glad i spent so many days on a tribe with you. i think i learned a lot from you, and i hope to carry that on into future ORGS i may play in. i’m not sure what your opinion of me is, and it may not be a good one, but i think you are one of the best people i’ve ever played a game with. thank you for putting up with me, and you definitely deserved better than me this game.
Zach: i found it troubling actually talking to you about the game because i just liked talking to you. you have such a great personality. you are like… omg this sounds so f*cking lame but like you’re just really easy to talk to. it seems like you had a lot going on outside of the game but still managed to have a presence and be there. you are absolutely hilarious. i think once talking to you, even for a short amount of time, people connect to you. i appreciate when we did talk about the game, you really listened and digested what i said and gave me honest answers or feedback. i knew when i was talking to you it wasn’t bullsh*t. you deserved better this game. i think the way things played out, you played really, really well. you adapted to the changes of the game. due to the circumstances, i built stronger connections with others, but if things were different, i hoped we could’ve been closer. you’re a really good guy, and i hope you know you deserve as much happiness as you bring to others. yeet yeet
Felipe: i don’t really know when we connected, but whenever it happened, it created a lasting relationship. i think it was when we both received the 3 idol clues. i was so unsure of you, and if you’d spill the beans and tell people and it’d become a thing. i honestly didn’t know what to expect. after that, we were able to have honest conversations and i never felt like you were lying or putting up a front. we slowly built trust and you were the most solid person for me this game. you are sososo funny. i didn’t see that side of you in our personal conversations, i think i saw a more serious side, but in the tribe chat you were a crack up. i truly wanted to go to the end with you. thank you for being a great ally, and pal, and i’m glad i got the opportunity to play this game alongside you.
Hannah: Queen of not messaging anyone, queen of voting me. I felt bad voting you out because I’d been keeping up with BB5 and you seemed super chill and funny, but I’d bonded with everyone on the tribe except you, so it was just a logical step for me. I hope you do more ORGs!!
Juliet: We never met, but your manga is super cute!
Bronson: This vote out sucked!! I legitimately didn’t intend on voting you out when we talked about it and agreed on Miles. That wasn’t a lie at all, and when I spoke with Louise about the vote and we decided it was in our best interest to vote you out, I felt really shit because I felt like I’d given you false hope for no reason. You were super funny to talk to and I hope everything is going well for you!
Miles: You are such a sweet person, and I genuinely liked you a lot during our time in the game together. You were a little messy during the round that you left, but we all get messy sometimes, so I hope you weren’t too upset about leaving when you did. You’re a smart kid, and I’m glad I got to meet you. You were kind even when we blindsided you, and that takes a lot of integrity. I hope you’re doing well!
Louise: Queeeennn!!! The YEET trio was honestly robbed of making merge together. It sucks that we couldn’t just pull out that immunity win, and I’m sorry that I mutinied and left you on your own. It scared me that you and Zach were friends pregame and I didn’t wanna fucks w/ that, nor did I want to have to go to tribal again with only 2 people and do firemaking myself. You are truly an awesome player that had an unfortunately early exit.
Jose: King of messy gameplay who didn’t even have messy gameplay this time. I’m sorry that I backstabbed you so hard. I know you’re probs salty at me, but I promise there was a reason for doing what I did. You’re an awesome person and I’m glad we’re friends. You’ve come a long ways in ORGs and I hope you continue playing them! I’m sorry we’re cursed to never properly work together.
Max: Max, from our short time together you seemed like a super sweet individual. You’ve been in the community for a long time, and you made clear how passionate you are about ORGs to me in our limited conversation. I hope you didn’t take this loss too hard-- you were swapfucked in every sense, and I’m sorry that happened to you. Good luck in future ORGs!!
Dan: We never really talked, but I heard a lot about how you “just wanted to make legends” “wanted to make BIG MOVES” and whether it was true or not, it definitely made me wary of speaking to you/working with you. You did seem super kind during the only conversation we had, and I hope your cousin’s baby is doing well.
Blake: Blakeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad we formed the connection that we did during the premerge. You absolutely drove me insane sometimes because of how quick you were to trust people, but I enjoyed working with you regardless, and I felt we had a lot in common as individuals. I’m happy we reconnected so easily when I mutinied, and I’m sorry that this game ended up being a negative for you. You are a kind, caring individual that looks for the best in people always, and that’s not necessarily a good Survivor trait, but it’s a beautiful personality trait that you should be happy to have. <3
Jake: This one is hard because I don’t fully know what to say about you. Coming into the season I was somewhat dreading playing with you because of the negative history we had, but I’m glad that it didn’t affect our relationship within the game. You’re a strong player-- you’re very strategically sound, and when it comes to competitions you’re a beast. I’m glad I don’t have the same dislike for you that I once held, and I think we have a lot to talk about after the season. I’m not sure what’s going on with VerumbORG because there haven’t been updates, but good luck regardless!!
Sam: Queen of helping me pick my lunches. Regardless of the negative moments we had during the game, you are absolutely someone that I respect as a competitor. You proved to be a physical beast, as well as a hell of a social player when you nearly convinced me to change my plans the round you left. I’m sorry that we didn’t meet until merge and that our games weren’t going in similar directions!
Zucc: King! I’m sorry for lying to you for the majority of the merge. You were super close to Sam and I didn’t want to risk certain things getting back to her (like the Jake vote), and it wasn’t meant to reflect how much I valued you as an ally, because if it was up to me you would be here right now. And I’m sorry that I couldn’t make that happen. You’re a super fun and absolutely fucking hilarious person, and I hope we talk after the season bc you have wildt good music taste. Also, I’m currently on the finale episode of Cook Islands, and Jonathan reminds me of you, so I can see why you like him so much.
Felipe: You're a really chill person, and I'm glad I got the opportunity to know you and to play with you. You’re super nice, and you were always a pleasant person to have in the tribe chat. I’m sorry you had to be the first Lil Shit to die. I’m glad we got to work together, and you put up a good fight in firemaking. You’re cool despite your bad opinions on The Challenge (Jemmye.. ugh)
Congratulations to the Final Three! You have done what thirteen of your fellow castaways failed to accomplish. Today you will honour their memory in a ritual known as the Rites of Passage.
You will go down the path and collect the torches of the eliminated players, and pause to reflect on that person and how they impacted your journey. Once you have collected the final torch, you will set all of them ablaze before heading off to your final challenge.
Your final challenge will begin once all players have made their Rites of Passage, or after 24 hours have passed, whichever comes first.
Hannah
Juliet
Bronson
Miles
Louise
Jose
Max
Dan
Blake
Jake
Sam
Zach
Felipe
Ally, Cammy, and Devon: You may reply to this thread, or create your own. If you create your own, entitle it "(your name)'s Rites of Passage". You have 24 hours to post, making the deadline 10 AM EST, January 4th. Please notify your confessional chat once you have posted. Once all players have posted, you will begin your final challenge.
Twelth person voted out of Survivor: Hallasan and the sixth member of our jury......
No one! (yet)
Here's what's gonna happen, we will now go to a fire making challenge, in where Ally and Felipe will be competing against each other to earn their spot in the final 3. You all will be playing Endless Lake, this is a game that is in messenger and you all will play it in your personal threads, once you stop playing it will send a score to your chat, that does not count as your final submission though. To tell us you want to submit a score just message after it gives the message with your score saying that is the score you'd like to submit. (If i made that too complicated just ask me and I'll show you what I mean in your threads lmao)
Your scores are due by 11:55 PM on January 2nd !!!
(Edited by Broyate)
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