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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 21, 2013 1:02:17 GMT -5
I can do Rite of Passage in the morning. Sorry it took so long.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 21, 2013 1:04:15 GMT -5
My karma continues to go lower. Final TC will be fun.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 21, 2013 1:45:46 GMT -5
Opening statement brainstorm.
1) By round 3, I had established myself strong socially and in the challenges. I was aligned with everyone in the tribe except Ashley. I had the idol. I helped Tina with information that led her to the idol. I believe Jay was the only person close to me, but I think I was still the best positioned Menba because I had the Lisa-Brandon-JT alliance that he didn't.
2) I turned Danni against Menba by telling her what happened the Ashley vote, which is what caused Menba to fracture and Brandon and JT to leave. I did this so she could help pick off some of my potential alliances and break down my web of alliances while I kept my hands more clean.
3) I could have gone to the end with Jay and his alliance. I could have gone to the end with Danni and her alliance. I was in solid with both. What I chose to do was put fate in MY hands and take both Danni and Jay out so I could go to the end with 1 player in each of these alliances who didn't even like each other and wanted themselves gone. I helped shape out my destiny, but I really held the power in my hands of how the direction of the game went. I kept flipping around too and no one even caught onto it for so long.
4) I had social connections with like everyone that I could flip around too and convince them to trust me - and I wasn't even caught and targeted until a round after the vote Lisa left. And even then, I had Tina warn me I was targeted. I had Alexis ready to vote Jonas if I didn't intentionally ignore her so she voted for me. I then acted suspicious to Jonas and gave Rory a bunch of stuff to turn him against me, but I could have countered that too without the idol. I had power.
I want to include a picture story too.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 21, 2013 13:43:18 GMT -5
Rite of Passage done. The reason why I informed Danni about everything, which generated the Menba split and Danni vs. Jay was also to help give me multiple options for how to progress to the end. I need to explain that.
I think if I do my opening with like images and use the avatar pictures to demonstrate alliances, that may work better?
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 21, 2013 18:18:07 GMT -5
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 22, 2013 0:28:51 GMT -5
I am so losing, but I'm answering these questions as best as I possibly can and just want to get them done. Regardless of what I say, I can tell some people are going to bitter and dislike the answers.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 22, 2013 2:33:35 GMT -5
I'd prefer if more people were like Danni and if they weren't voting for me, they'd just say it. Which is why I'm pushing the issue with Jay. I don't want to deal with his questions if he's not going to give me a chance, so I'm saying a bunch of stuff just waiting to see if he says, "I've heard enough, Matt."
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 22, 2013 14:56:56 GMT -5
Jay came in and smited me. My chances of winning are like less than 1%, and I'm not far from just being like, "I slayed you all. Regardless of who wins, this will be the season of Matt Elrod just like Samoa was Russell Hantz's season. It would have been nice to be the winner, but I was still the star."
It really is unbelievable how bitter these people are. It's fascinating to me, and that's why if I won, this would probably be my favorite win ever. I'm still playing the game and trying different approaches to get votes (appealing to Jay's hard-working attitude, etc) but nothing's clicked yet. But I'll keep trying!
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 22, 2013 15:18:03 GMT -5
The fun thing about making finals in games is that you can try different angles based on the games you played. I feel like I've been the hero the majority of times I've made finals, and I've made arguments and tried to take advantage of the people who are perceived like I am now. And now I'm doing the exact opposite.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 22, 2013 23:48:51 GMT -5
Doing a new approach, lol. Trying to gather sympathy and seem more human.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 23, 2013 1:12:08 GMT -5
We'll see how being more human works. I just gave Rory a nice story about knowing his idol, and I basically said I was sorry to both RC and Rory. My karma is still -32, and none of my posts have been disliked since.
Going to bed because I'm caught up on questions and homework for the moment, but I'm way behind on sleep.
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Post by Matt Elrod on Feb 24, 2013 0:11:23 GMT -5
I think questions are done, and this will probably be my last post. I still feel so happy with the game that I played. I've rarely if ever felt this kind of control and power in a game before, and I think with a lot of juries I've been with before, I would have won hands down even with my opening/final TC performance. I started off confident with my game, and then switched to the sympathy angle when that was failing, but I think both angles were lost causes from the start. I'm not great at final TCs, but it would've taken some kind of miracle to grab jury votes here anyway.
I feel like this jury is more similar to the show than to most other ORGs with everyone voting personally and emotionally over looking at things like big moves and best strategy. I should have considered that based on their personalities when backstabbing everyone, but honestly, I just love blindsiding people so much that I couldn't control myself. I had so much fun in this game, and now I'm finally ready for it to end and move on.
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