It's time to suck up to RC!

[RC]

Well, congratulations Final 3... for getting this far, but this isn't over yet. I give credit for you guys on getting here but now the first part is done, you still have to fight to win.


Alexis...

My girl. <3 We've had such a roller coaster together in this game and it'd only be better if I was sitting beside you, we've been through so much with each other and I know your game probably better then most of everyone here. You were very emotional, sensitive, kinda like me. There were moves you did that were very WTF moments, I thought. Although, I must critique your opening and say that, I thought it was pretty weak. I don't think you outline a lot of your gameplay because I know you can write that better; it felt like a 6th grader wrote that for you.
Anyways, I don't think you've given much credit as you should because you have such a good underdog story, you went through dealing with lot with your emotions, fought through tough decisions, you tried hard to be loyal, while making the right moves and not let anyone get hurt and in Survivor, loyalty is so low on the list. And I really do respect that.

Jonas...



Yes, I gave you credit for getting here however, I give major props to the idiots that brought you here. If I recall, I was the only one that saw you as a potential early threat and did not trust you and knew that you had to leave. Well lookie here, you're not the moron, everyone else is. So good job for whatever you did in getting them to believe you and bring you here. I also think you're not getting much credit either because I saw you as an UTR player who was pretty clever. From when we first spoke, I knew you were going to be a clever player and someone to look out for.
Your opening, I thought was sub par. It wasn't as weak as Alexis but I think you got most of your points in without sounding douche-baggy.


Matt...

I've heard enough. I've seen enough. I know enough.


I don't like you.

From what I see, I view your gameplay as really sloppy. You were a mix of Stephenie from Gautemala and Sash to me. Stephenie because, by FTC time (And just like Steph, I rooted for you a few times but then realized how a mess your game was and the constant loss of loyalty you have ), her game was just a mess and Sash well, you already know.
You seemed all over the place and made moves that were just so unnecessary. And your opening was so arrogant that turned me off.

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My questions...

1. Please list all of your allies in the game and how they did impact to getting where you are now.

2. What were/are your strengths and weaknesses? And explain them.

3. Find a music video that you think most relates to your gameplay and explain why you chose that. Does the song relate to your game, what about the music video?


Good luck guys!

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[RC]

Also to Matt:

RC leaving the next round was the simplest vote since she was recognized as a threat to both Danni and Jay, and I fully supported this because I hadn't met her.

That is not how you suck up to the jury when you may need their vote.

[Jay Byars]

That pink hurt my eyes you whore

[RC]

Good.

[Rory Freeman]

oh men

[Matt Elrod]

From what I see, I view your gameplay as really sloppy. You were a mix of Stephenie from Gautemala and Sash to me. Stephenie because, by FTC time (And just like Steph, I rooted for you a few times but then realized how a mess your game was and the constant loss of loyalty you have ), her game was just a mess and Sash well, you already know. You seemed all over the place and made moves that were just so unnecessary. And your opening was so arrogant that turned me off.

Hey, RC. Thank you for at least asking me a question and listening to what I have to say. I'm sorry you found the opening arrogant. I'll try to tone it down, and hopefully my remaining answers don't come off that way.

1. Please list all of your allies in the game and how they did impact you getting where you are now.

Malcolm: I talked to him the night before we had tribes in a really great introductory chat. Then he said who he was, and I realized we had played several games together. I thought this might be an opportunity for a potential ally later. But he got voted out before we had the chance to coordinate.

JT: This guy was intense and focused on competitions when he was around. Socially we spoke every day. Strategically he started emphasizing how much he liked Brandon and Lisa to me until we eventually formed an alliance. It didn't feel entirely real to me. So I think JT may have had my back on Menba for a little, but I didn't picture myself in his ultimate end game plans. We only had one vote together where we were on the same page and he helped me keep things calm when Abi, Ashley, and Brandon were targeting Danni.

Brandon: JT and Lisa, I believe, offered me an alliance of 4 with Brandon. I accepted, but I never really talked strategy with Brandon until he was scrambling following JT's boot. I think he was loyal to me. I don't know entirely because he was likely closer to Lisa and JT. But he would tell me where his head was related to where he was voting.

Abi: I felt like Abi fully trusted me because she'd show me conversations with other players to compare notes and mention how she was only showing me and Jay. She showed me her jungle clues, and I could count on her telling me her thoughts on different challenges and votes. It was one of my several relationships where someone was loyal to me and willing to help me, but I didn't do the same to her back.

Tijuana: Along with Tina, she was a number for the alliance with me and Danni on new Luoba. I tried helping her out early by letting Tina find the idol. But really, we didn't talk much or coordinate on votes. I think she was putting a lot of faith into that alliance with the four of us, but I wanted a different group at the end.

Jay: Along with Danni, Jay provided the biggest impact on my game. We clicked brilliantly during the first tribal challenge. Like he said, he told me so much stuff after that. I told him most of everything until I started putting more focus into my relationship with Danni. I believe Jay had my back and helped me determine where people were voting each vote so I could use this information to help myself. What he unfortunately didn't realize was that my loyalty to him wasn't as strong as he thought.

Lisa: We discovered we had this real life connection related to where we used to live. It helped us bond so much early. Back on original Menba we aligned early and agreed to watch each other's back. We helped each other keep track of what was going on the first Menba vote when it was between Ashley and Danni. Then we we merged she was a Menba number who you could count on to vote for with a PM, but I took advantage of this relationship and sadly betrayed her.

Danni: Danni helped me SO MUCH in this game. I felt like I helped her stay Menba's first tribal council because I fought for her to not be the target, and then she helped me by officially putting together an alliance with Tina and Tijuana. I felt like she was always open about votes and what she wanted to do, and she'd give me updates on her chats with different players. It helped me really understand what was going on in the game to help make moves. So she was great to me, and I wasn't the same thing back to her.

Rory: Rory came to me and Jay about an alliance back in the early rounds of Menba. We talked a little, and then the swap occurred. We briefly chatted during the swap and early merge, but I mainly let Danni and Jay talk to him and heard what he was doing through them. The vote Tijuana left, we both spoke more and I felt like connected to be on the same page. However the next two votes, we had different agendas, and he didn't trust me after I voted for Lisa. However we came together again for the Danni vote. Then he wanted to target me the next round, so I wanted to get him out in return.

Tina: I helped her find the idol, and then we worked together to form the majority alliance on new Luoba after the swap with Danni and Tijuana. We rarely voted together during the merge, but I warned her she should play the idol to send Jay home. She warned me I should play the idol to send Rory home. We were loosely aligned most of the game, but we had so many disagreements about votes and targets.

Alexis: We didn't talk a lot right after the merge. We'd have mostly short conversations and occasionally discuss votes. It was the vote Tijuana left that we really were open with each other the first time. Then we coordinated loosely on the Jay and Lisa votes. We really came together on the Danni vote when we compared notes which I used to emphasize why I really felt she could go. At final five, I avoided her because I wanted her to vote for me, but then we coordinated again loosely at final four with a simple "Let's vote Tina" PM we exchanged. I felt like she was my freshest new ally of the late merge, and I liked getting to know her.

Jonas: We got along well, but due to rumors spreading around that he was with Brandon, we didn't coordinate during the Brandon vote. We did come together at the merge, and I think every round he came to me honestly expressing his wishes and desires. He seemed fully loyal to this alliance, and I liked having him around each vote because he said things how they were and I didn't expect him to be scheming.

What were/are your strengths and weaknesses? And explain them.

My biggest strength is my ability to get along socially with people in a short time and use those relationships to make different moves. I think it's because I come off as really earnest and genuine when I talk to people. That combined with my character spreads good vibes. Unfortunately, that causes a weakness when it comes to jury perception because when people find out what I do, they're shocked and hurt. They usually don't see it coming based on the way I talked to them and portrayed myself. So the strength is I can make moves and get to the end, but the resulting weakness is that I suffer on the jury.

I'm generally good in most types of challenges. I really enjoy them, especially speed ones. I don't do well in flash-games. I don't have the hand-eye coordination ability. The one Alexis won and I got last, I wasn't throwing. I was trying to rush and kept messing up.

I feel like conveying myself and my game is something I'm struggling to do a lot. It's a HUGE weakness. I'm so hit-and-miss with final tribal councils in games. Maybe it's the pressure of winning that's causing me to panic a little, but every time I see a new post, I'm like in constant attack mode because I feel the desire to prove myself. I think I should just take a deep breath and calm down before I post. It's hard because I feel really confident in my game and tried to emphasize that in my opening so I don't sell myself short, but it came off as too cocky. If I back down and start answering more low key, I feel like it'll be viewed as I'm looking for sympathy.

So I don't really know what angle to do this. On one level, I feel really sorry about all these blindsides to the people who put their faith into me. Reading these comments and seeing how people are hurt has been hard - I don't know if I've expressed that well. And then I'm also trying to explain that but also how I separated my relationships and didn't play the game personally when related to strategy. I'm just struggling to convey it all, but I'm trying as I watch any slim chance of winning fade away more with each post.

3. Find a music video that you think most relates to your gameplay and explain why you chose that. Does the song relate to your game, what about the music video?

This was tricky for me because I don't listen to a lot of music videos. So I was just looking around and found something that I really feel relates. The person singing the song has just been told the truth by someone, and as a result they're suffering. I'm the narrator of the song basically saying, "You shouldn't have told the truth. You should have lied," because it reflects my game. Most of the more honest and loyal players to me who did tell me the truth got hurt because I backstabbed them. Had they lied and not been unquestionably honest about what happened, it would have helped them.

In the video, I feel like the whole black and white atmosphere and environment represents me and my shady game with a lot of black figures walking around.

Depeche Mode - Policy Of Truth

[Alexis Jones]

Feb 22, 2013 20:45:26 GMT -5 RC said:

My questions...

1. Please list all of your allies in the game and how they did impact to getting where you are now.

2. What were/are your strengths and weaknesses? And explain them.

3. Find a music video that you think most relates to your gameplay and explain why you chose that. Does the song relate to your game, what about the music video?

#1)

Tina - Round 1, We had a really good chat and made a deal to work together. Although Round 2 I decided to go against her ally Charlie, Round 4 we worked together again against Malcolm, do to this, at merge we had no problems working together with Danni. Because we were a semi solid voting block several evictions took place: Abi, Jay, Lisa.

Malcolm - Ally for Round 1/2. Then, due to his disappearance, Round 4 I had to cut him. But working with him/tyson/RC set up some initial bonding with RC but also led to distrust between us that round.

Tyson - Ally for Round 1/2. Me voting out Malcolm severed the alliance. But he was still a good ally/good person.

JT - He really helped me get through the Tyson vote. I fully confided in him and I had awesome conversations with him. I was sad that he had to go but by voting him out I got to work with Jay/RC/Rory which definitely helped carry me through 1/2 of merge.

RC - A girl who has faced good times and bad times with me. We really had to come together before merge and I was ecstatic because I really did like her. She helped majorly with the Abi vote and for some reason Tina/Tijuana voted against her even tho RC totally saved Tijuana. She deserved to go farther but she helped set up the Rory connection and I knew that the two knew each other quite well and I saw myself liking them both.

Tijuana - She's and I were aligned to a lesser degree as Tina and myself. I only had PM contact with her except the first round. She seemed distant and I don't know what happened to our relationship. Ultimately she was a number for votes such as Abi.

Jay - The only time we voted together was the JT vote and Tijuana vote. I truly enjoyed him and his conversations, but something was off on our relationship at least on my side. I never felt truly aligned with him because I felt he was closer to a lot of other people which is why I voted Abi out. I didn't want Jay to have too many connections to others because then he could easily oust me. He told me how he was voting each round tho, even though we disagreed on the RC vote.

Danni - Since the merge we voted every round together except the RC vote and Tijuana vote. She really helped solidify my place after RC left since I only had Danni and Rory that I could trust 100%. She ultimately took out numbers from Jay which I was fine with, and took out Jay. Then, Matt and I started to talk around Tijuana's boot and Danni had told us clearly separate things. So, she kind of made Matt and I meet and have something to talk about, which thus turned into trust. And ultimately led to her boot and Tina's boot.

Rory - Since JTs boot we spoke and worked together. After RC left, only Rory and I voted to keep her. So, I had 100% trust in him and created an alliance with him and Matt. I always knew he told me how he was voting and although I didn't agree with the Matt vote, I voted Matt because I knew that Rory was voting Matt and no one else was telling me anything different. After he left, I had to hope that Matt/Jonas were going to do what they said they were going to do because I didn't have anyone that I completely trusted.

Matt - Since the Tijuana vote we discussed every vote there after. And started to bond on what we thought of people and how we saw the game in our eyes. Ultimately, my relationship with Matt might have saved me from getting 4th place.

Jonas - Initially I had trusted him a lot since we did the exact same things in the Charlie/Malcolm boots. And he was a good person to bounce ideas off. But him voting Tijuana/Tina at merge really soured me because he said he really liked Tina and I didn't understand why he would just go against her. So, I wanted him gone all the way until F5 where I debated about writing his name down. Then, at F5, he told me we would get Tina out next and I had to rely on his word that that would happen if Tina lost immunity.


#2) My strengths - Endurance. I love endurance and I was lucky there was an endurance comp to start off the merge. The reason why I didn't do so well the second time was because a guy kept distracting me in real life and uh... I dropped my ball :/

Social - I kept up with almost everyone except Tijuana and Lisa because we just never really got to communicate. Although communication with Tina was limited, trust was still there and we didn't dodge the vote discussion until F5.

Sporcle - I do sporcle quizzes like every day so when that challenge popped up I knew I could do it!

emotions - is probably my biggest weakness. I tried to make strategic decisions and not let my emotions get the best of me and I thought I had mastered that since i still ended up voting for Malcolm, Tyson, JT, Jay, and Danni even though I wanted to continue to talk to them and be in the game with them, I knew it was best for my game to cut them out.

#3)



Me --> Greta (the singer)

Danni --> Green guy representing Money (Promising F2 with 1,000,000)

RC/Rory --> Red guy representing Love (I love RC/Rory inside and out)

Jay --> Yellow guy representing Fame (Promising me HIIs and tempting deals)

It would be perfect if the red guy came first, then the yellow guy, then the green guy.

Basically, I had three main people/groups that I wanted to trust. Each was coming after me wanting my love (my vote/allegiance) but I couldn't give it to all of them since none of those groups were working together. In the end, I ultimately decide to not choose any of them, although the red was out of my control which is why they are the red team.

The lyrics are conveying that I know siding with Jay and or Danni will be bad for me in the end since they played better games and I would be seen as a goat next to them.

[Jonas Otsuji]

Yes, I gave you credit for getting here however, I give major props to the idiots that brought you here. If I recall, I was the only one that saw you as a potential early threat and did not trust you and knew that you had to leave. Well lookie here, you're not the moron, everyone else is. So good job for whatever you did in getting them to believe you and bring you here. I also think you're not getting much credit either because I saw you as an UTR player who was pretty clever. From when we first spoke, I knew you were going to be a clever player and someone to look out for.
Your opening, I thought was sub par. It wasn't as weak as Alexis but I think you got most of your points in without sounding douche-baggy.

I wanted to clear up some things with you since we haven't really talked since the Malcolm vote. When I voted against him, I still had plans of us working together and it was just a vote against him for not showing up at the challenge at all. I understand you were prob upset at the time and I don't blame you and it was something that wasn't personal against you. I was planning to possibly work together at merge, I didn't target you the first round and instead wanted Tijuana to leave there. It wasn't until the next round when I predicted you would be coming after me that I decided you needed to go, I was talking to Danni at the same time you were and told her you'd likely be trying to target me and she confirmed it thus ending any chance we'd be working together moving forward.

When rumors and different things surfaced about me where I was completely hated, I had no choice besides to adapt more of an utr type of strategy. It was clear I wasn't going to be able to do anything else and be successful at it because there were already several people in charge and plenty of negative attention directed at me. The one round where I felt I needed to get through that was the most dangerous for me was that final 10 round, I had just won the immunity before and people could have seen me as a huge threat and it would have been the perfect time to have sent me out. When I got passed that round, I felt the game would open up a lot more which it did and I would have a decent shot and going far.


1. Please list all of your allies in the game and how they did impact to getting where you are now.

Tina - She was one of my very first allies in the game and we got along very well at the start. We worked on challenges together, talked about a lot of different things, and were fairly close. When we had the tribe swap we drifted apart some, we still talked but it was much less then before. When we merged, we hardly ever communicated, she was never on aim and I knew at the time she had different allies and people she had grown closer with. I didn't completely cut off things with her and would pm her every now and then to just keep up some communication. The alliance with her did impact my game in some ways where she didn't come after me until very late in the merge. We agreed on some votes, yours in particular and that helped me stay in obviously and at the time that helped a lot.

Alexis - She was another that I got along with at the start of the game. We talked quite a bit about different ideas and where it was smartest to vote at the time that way we were in a good position and the tribe remained strong as well. When we swapped we were on different tribes and that sort of ruined our connection in a way since new deals formed and when we merged different sides would be formed putting us on opposite ones. Then she voted me at the final 10 and tried to get me out a large portion of the merge. We did reconnect later in the last couple rounds of the game because it was essential we had to in order to survive. The alliance impacted my game in the sense that I needed her early in the game to stay safe on Luoba and then late in the game to not vote for me when she could have easily tied the vote with Tina and I would have done challenge tiebreaker. Not so much impact other times in the merge since we were working with different sides and people.

Malcolm - He was an ally for a few rounds early in the game, I liked him where we would talk a lot about different things in the game but the one downfall with him was inability to show for a challenge when we desperately needed him. When he didn't that meant he needed to go and I needed to cut off that alliance with him. The alliance with him didn't impact my game since it was so short, but in a way it did because when I voted him that obviously lost trust from you and Tyson.

Tyson - This was another short alliance that only lasted a few rounds. I had agreed to work with him since the Charlie vote off and didn't necessarily have any problems or issues with him. It just happened that I had to go against the alliance that was created between us to vote out Malcolm and since Malcolm and Tyson were so close, I knew that wouldn't go over very well after. When we swapped and he was voted out, then I wasn't going to have to deal with him anymore. The impact of the alliance wasn't much of anything besides where he may have spilled to people in the game not to trust me at the time.

RC - We had an alliance early in the game and I thought we really clicked well and got along. I always felt you were closer to both Malcolm and Tyson but that didn't really bother me at the time. I wanted to work together for a while, problem was when I had to go against Malcolm when he didn't show up for the challenge, from that point forward it was going to be hard for you to trust me any longer. Even knowing it wasn't something against you, I always felt you took that personally and would want to take a shot at me first chance we got. The impact of the alliance was good and bad, I did like working together where we got along well and communicated a lot. Bad in the sense that when I turned against Malcolm, that was essentially the end of it.

Tijuana - We didn't have much of an alliance and it was more of a voting block on Luoba at the time when we voted out Malcolm. Then when we swapped tribes and remained together, I decided to go against her when we lost a challenge since it appeared she wasn't around as much and did the weakest on the challenge. Then I kept going after her in the merge until she was finally voted out. She didn't ever write my name down and that had some impact where she didn't come after me at least.

Abi - We made an alliance to work together at the merge on the day she ended up being voted out. We hadn't really talked at all in the game, but I seen that our positions were widely similar where we were fairly low on the totem pole and working together made the most sense. I knew she was being targeted first at the merge and voted to try and keep her around, I wanted her on my side but it didn't work out. There was no impact really on this alliance since she didn't stay in but at least I tried.

Lisa - We starting communicating at the merge and formed an alliance shorty after. I tried making some end of game plans with her where I thought she would be trustworthy and a really good allie moving forward with. The impact was, I felt this was a good alliance for me in the sense that I believed she was with me and wasn't going to write down my name anytime soon. Long as the other side would keep voting her, it did make it easier working with her since she would always be on the defensive to try and stay in and I would continue to back her proving my loyalty.

Jay - We aligned after the merge where we were clearly on the same side of things and had a lot of the same ideas and targets moving forward. I felt I could trust him where everything he was telling me was adding up and we could really rely on each other moving forward. I discussed working into the final 5 with Me, Him, Matt, Lisa, and I believe Rory. I wanted all of us getting far if we could and why I tried to solidify something solid together. The impact of this alliance was we were comfortable working together and we didn't question each other ever and that's always a positive to not be worried about one another.

Rory - We hardly ever talked early in the merge and started working together late in the merge. We both had tried to keep Lisa in the game at the final 7 and that ended up backfiring badly and we knew we needed to get on top of things the following round. We were very skeptical of Matt at the time with the excuses he gave for votes and thought he was playing everybody in the game including both of us. The impact was he wasn't against me at the time and was giving me the update of what he was saying the round he was avoiding me. We knew Matt had the idol possibly but we thought he might just be saying he did, we took a shot anyway and that just didn't work out and Rory was taken out.

Matt - We became allies where we would have discussions about things every single round in the game from votes to information that surfaced. I knew he was someone that had his head completely in the game where he was going to play the game hard and try and throw himself out there most the time. Being on his side made the most sense where he had the most flexibility and if he knew I was with him, he'd likely not target me. He had the idol and said he would have used it to help me out if I ever needed it which was another good reason to stick with him. The impact of this alliance was we worked together well when we trusted each other and didn't have any big issues besides a few votes where he voted off certain people that I rather he not of. But I knew long as I stayed calm, cool, and collected with him then it would be the best thing to do.

2. What were/are your strengths and weaknesses? And explain them.

My biggest strengths were for one my challenge ability. I helped my tribe in many of the challenges and did my best to contribute and pull my weight. I didn't do as well as I was hoping in the individual immunities, but I did win the first one and came in 2nd on a few others and remained competitive on most others. Another one of my strengths was the ability to work with different people at various times during the game. Things shifted a lot for me where I needed to become adaptable to different allies and alliances and I easily was able to fit in and work with almost anybody. My loyalty was another strength that people could count on with me. People knew they could trust me later and not have any issues with me stabbing them in the back. I gave my word on every vote and came through, I wasn't trying to be deceptive or manipulative since I was never in the position to do so and I didn't want to play that type of game.

There were a few weaknesses from my game. I wasn't able to communicate as well with people in the merge that I should have. I should have put maybe more effort into pming people or messaging them, I usually aren't that big of a pmer and I didn't see people on aim that often which is why I didn't. Still, I should have been more in tune to doing it. Another thing is I should have taken more charge during the game, I feel I may have passed up on some opportunities where I could have risen more. I was just never in that type of position where I felt I could due to people hating me and the rumor going on about me, yet I still could have tried something.


3. Find a music video that you think most relates to your
gameplay and explain why you chose that. Does the song relate to your game, what about the music video?



I went with this video mainly since I felt all game there were times when certain shots were taken at me, from having that fake rumor that surfaced to just people purely hating me for no real reason. It was really take your best shot at me and I will get right back up overcome whatever hole I was backed into. I took those shots directed at me the whole entire game and managed to overcome the obstacles that presented themselves. I had to adapt to new strategies, mainly an utr typs of strategy and change allies and alliances at times where it benefited me and would work in order to push myself forward.

[RC]

Good answers guys. good luck!

And Jonas, you're correct. After the Malcolm vote, I did not think I could trust you, during that round, I found you were very wishy washy; Alexis was relying everything you said to me. And therefore, that set the stone between us. However, it only patched things up for Alexis and I because we were on the same tribe and was forced to work together come the swap and if we wanted to crack into with some of the Menbas.