My crushers and crushette

[Rory Freeman]

Congratulations for you 3 for crushing me. You obviously played a great game and managed to crush me (via idol) and get yourselves here. Either way, I have important questions that will help me vote a winner, so you will either crush, or be crushed, the choice is entirely up to you and your answers.



Alexis

When we first chatted our friendship didn't start of well, we needed to work on TRUST and I did so because I believed RC was all for getting us to work together, in the end I'm glad I did and we had pleasant conversations later on especially after Jay and RC left.

Question for Alexis: Do you think we would have worked together had RC not told you too?

Jonas

I enjoyed our conversations post RC/Jay vote, we realized we needed each other. I think Matt's mistake was making an alliance with you and me and me and Alexis and if I hadn't told you about that, we wouldn't have got far in conversation. Talking to you and Alexis was pretty funny knowing you both wanted each other out but frustrating also wanting to have reasons to keep both of you, I liked you both so it was refreshing seeing you both work together at the last tribal council. Obviously things would've been different if matt didn't have that idol, but I had fun working with you nonetheless.

Question for Jonas: How do you believe is the best way to win a jury over?

Matt

Matt my buddy, we had many great conversations throughout the game. This, I realized was all gameplay as you managed to get to know everyone and clearly did it well. I started doubting you and Danni come merge but Jay felt he could trust you. I think everyone's said everything I wanted to say about you already, but your answer regarding who you were most loyal to seems like a load of crap. You were not equally loyal to Jay and Danni, you had many allies so I'd say on a scale of 1-10 you were at least a 1 in terms of loyalty, I'd say 0, but I'm just dividing your loyalties up by everyone. Also your opening statement didn't show much love to the jury about why you should win, it was more of an arrogant, "I beat you all suckas" type of statement that put me off entirely. You will need to work hard to get my vote, I've seen people play like you, but they've done much better job at winning the jury, sadly this isn't you.

Question for Matt: Just curious when did your motherboard actually die on you? Be truthful.

Questions for everybody

Question 1

On a scale of 1-10 how well do you think I portrayed this guy's personality and gameplay? Give me a good paragraph and read his confessionals to compare and contrast my gameplay to his. Give specific examples from his confessionals if you find any for bonus points.

Rory the Crusher

Question #2

I'd like you to rank the jury in terms of who you felt entertained you the most. 1 being most entertained 8 being least and why.

[RC]

You sucked. At least the Crusher won.

[Rory Freeman]

No one's asking u

[Alexis Jones]

Rory is my question supposed to be if RC told me not to? Or told me to? Since she did tell me to? I'm confused.

[Rory Freeman]

fixed

[Matt Elrod]

Matt my buddy, we had many great conversations throughout the game. This, I realized was all gameplay as you managed to get to know everyone and clearly did it well. I started doubting you and Danni come merge but Jay felt he could trust you. I think everyone's said everything I wanted to say about you already, but your answer regarding who you were most loyal to seems like a load of crap. You were not equally loyal to Jay and Danni, you had many allies so I'd say on a scale of 1-10 you were at least a 1 in terms of loyalty, I'd say 0, but I'm just dividing your loyalties up by everyone.

Your instinct was right about how you shouldn't fully trust me.

Let me see what you mean about the most loyal question. I felt like a lot of people were loyal to me, but I felt like Danni and Jay especially really had my back and contributed the most to helping me get where I did. I was initially more loyal to Jay, then started shifting my loyalty to Danni. Then I decided I wanted both of them out, and I went to each of them telling them we should go after the other. I didn't want them to expose me, and it was going to happen if they both stayed. I disregarded loyalty to other players in the way I played, so it was hard for me to even come up with a number. I picked 5 because it's in the middle and I felt like I was making moves in their favor at points and then against them at others if you look at each round and average them together. That's why I picked it. You could also say I was only loyal to myself and should give everyone a 0 or 1, too. I can see that interpretation.

Also your opening statement didn't show much love to the jury about why you should win, it was more of an arrogant, "I beat you all suckas" type of statement that put me off entirely. You will need to work hard to get my vote, I've seen people play like you, but they've done much better job at winning the jury, sadly this isn't you.

Yeah, I stressed being brilliant too much in my opening. I'm seeing that more now after Alexis, RC, and now you commented on it. I entered this tribal council really expecting to lose, and I guess I wanted to either 1) Stun everyone with this amazing opening that portrayed myself as the strategic mastermind of the game so that I could get all of your votes [Not saying that I lied, just the attitude I used and the emphasis I put on certain parts] or 2) Just try to prove to everyone that I was actually relevant in this game even if I lost by being like, "Whether I win or lose, this was my game, muahaha!" and vanish into the sunset. Now I realize how bad that sounds and how it hurt my chances even more.

Question for Matt: Just curious when did your motherboard actually die on you? Be truthful.

It was legit the night of the Lisa vote that my motherboard died. I did make the decision to vote for Lisa before my motherboard died. So when I said that voting for Lisa was an accident, it wasn't; I was lying. What I was honest about was that my backup computer sucked. I couldn't do the final 6 challenge because the first round was speed posting. I couldn't make vote parchments at Final 6 or Final 5. I was following the game on my phone when my main computer was dead, and I made sure to get the backup computer on AIM so I didn't miss anything once the challenge ended and we were at tribal council.

On a scale of 1-10 how well do you think I portrayed this guy's personality and gameplay? Give me a good paragraph and read his confessionals to compare and contrast my gameplay to his. Give specific examples from his confessionals if you find any for bonus points.

I never mentioned this to you or anyone else, but I knew from the start the person who you were trying to portray. I thought it was you at first, until we started talking. He wasn't playing as Rory in the game I know him from, but there was a 42-person game that occurred a year ago and we both it made into the final 6. We were close allies in there, and I played that game as a hero. Sadly he got booted at final 6 in a round where I played the idol we found together on myself - and I should have played the idol on him, but I didn't know who the opposition alliance was targeting and wanted to be safe. It was a slightly similar situation to how you left when I played the idol and it was only one round different.

I'll give you a 7 for portrayal. You had the visual resemblance like the eyepatch, you had the Crusher terminology, and you had the Crusher instincts and somewhat similar gameplay. I remember when you were in some of our early challenge chats and talking about how it was time to start crushing the opposition. Then we formed that Crushing Alliance with Jay. Your member title and signature looks like something the original would use. The main difference is that he's MORE over the top, especially in conversations, and he somehow is able to do that and still make it far in most of his games. I feel like you are a little more down-to-earth and easier to have a conversation with. We had conversations on computers and different physical aspects that I don't think I'd have with him. He would be telling some crazy story that I would just laugh and be shaking my head wondering if he's serious or not. And there'd be conversations where he was either drunk or high during critical challenges, and we'd be trying to coordinate and he'd be making a mess of the posts. You seemed a little less crazy, and your typing style was easier to follow. But I think both of you weren't content on just being followers and wanted to make moves that you had to. Your instinct about getting me out and then almost making that happen is something I could see him doing. Like his week fourteen post states, he was the Underdog and he was ready to kill dreams with a blindside and start crushing.

What I'm most curious is if you mirrored your confessionals to resemble his.

I'd like you to rank the jury in terms of who you felt entertained you the most. 1 being most entertained 8 being least and why.

1. Abi: I think every public board post that wasn't like a challenge strategy discussion, she made about her character or against RC. She even through some references in there during the more serious conversations.

2. Tijuana: I don't know if a lot of jurors got to see this, but in the rounds she was most talkative, she was crazy. There was this big fight between her and Brandon in her tribal council thread. When she spoke to you on AIM, she'd like send a bunch of messages in a row and they were all completely like you would expect of the Tijuana character.

3. Rory: You were another person trying to be a total character, and your Crusher references and personality style stood out.

4. Jay: Jay was very crazy sometimes. He had his moments where he'd go on the board and be all drunk and hilarious. Even when he wasn't drunk, he would post interesting messages in the old Menba SPAM thread and Youtube videos to keep us all entertained.

5. RC: RC was in-character mostly in response to Abi's posts. The Abi-RC rivalry kept us entertained. And I feel some RC vibes in the posts she's still making and the way she's approaching final tribal council.

6. Danni: I don't know how much Danni was trying to be a personality, but her watching her gameplay was entertaining. Her story was interesting as she went from being low on the totem pole to building herself into a position of power. I can remember 1, maybe 2, posts where she posted these funny images and stories back on Luoba after the swap.

7. Lisa: I felt like she was nice and easy to talk, but I don't think it was her goal to be an entertaining character. I can't recall her making posts or trying to portray herself a certain way.

8. Tina: I don't think she was interested in entertainment. She was more focused on performing well in the challenges and then being loyal to her group or allies and trying to do the right things.

[Jonas Otsuji]

Question for Jonas: How do you believe is the best way to win a jury over?

There are several good ways to win over a jury in my opinion.

- Strong Arguments of why you played the game well and what makes you the most deserving out of the finalists. Explaining everything out in a way that the jury will see exactly what you did, since on some levels they may not know what you actually did.

- Not bsing since nobody likes suck ups especially when you're looking for votes to win. The jury would give you strikes against you for that.

- Being honest about everything even if there are some events and things that might not look good and you're not proud of. It's best to lay them out there and not try and hide anything.

- Not getting upset over anything. There might be some statements you don't like and agree with but it's best to be diplomatic about it and do it with explanations. Worst thing you could do is attack jurors and automatically lose their vote that way.

- Talking about your game and what you did and not rip apart the other finalists (unless there is a questions to do so). Spending time on what you did makes more sense explaining through then trying to pick their games apart.


Question 1
On a scale of 1-10 how well do you think I portrayed this guy's personality and gameplay? Give me a good paragraph and read his confessionals to compare and contrast my gameplay to his. Give specific examples from his confessionals if you find any for bonus points.
Rory the Crusher

I would say you portrayed it very well and I'd give you around 9.5 It appears you played one very strong game there where you were thinking very rationally what you needed to do, not only to get to the end but to win the game. Seems like you needed to get rid of the two big threats in the game in Danielle and Kim which you did. You had 2 idols as well which was quite impressive. You tried to work with people who were either low on the totem pole or were going to be targeted and sent to the jury. Quite a few similarities with this game with how you needed to try and get rid of the two biggest threats late in the game in Danni and Matt. One you were successful with and the other you would have if Matt didn't have an idol. You were willing to work with people who were low on the totem pole at the time like Me and Lisa, Alexis to some extent. You had the jury votes all lined up to win that game which is what you did, much like I believed would have been the case in this game if you were able to have stayed in and make it to the end.




Question #2
I'd like you to rank the jury in terms of who you felt entertained you the most. 1 being most entertained 8 being least and why.

1) Abi - I thought she was the most entertaining player in the game. She played up her character perfectly where it was exactly like Abi from the Philippines season, then throw in the fact that she had always had made comments directed to RC. It was very much like the confrontations between Abi and RC during the Philippines season which I enjoyed watching. There was also something coming in her board posts, you just never knew what exactly.

2) Jay - He was nearly first on my list because he did bring plenty of entertainment and great moments during the game as well. He always had something interesting to say and was one of the funnier players where you always could get a good laugh out of him. He had a few threads where he spammed them about things where you couldn't help but get a good kick out of them.

3) Rory - He brought the entertainment up to an extremely high level as well during the entire game. He always had entertaining things to talk about when we chatted and then he always had funny comments on the board as well. It was a great mix of entertainment value and game play value during the game where it wasn't always just about the game the whole entire time and I think we needed that a lot.

4) Tijuana - She provided plenty of entertaining moments, although for me they came more often in the pre merge. She got into it at tribal council a few times with people. There was an argument with Malcolm the time he was voted out, then with Brandon the time he ended up being voted out. She wasn't afraid to say anything on her mind and give her opinions, she was outspoken and didn't care what anyone else thought.

5) RC - I thought she was mildly entertaining during the whole entire game. She always made parchments that stuck out, mainly the one about me when she voted me which I got a good laugh at. Then after most the long endurance challenges she'd call people "No Lifers" which was another thing I always found funny and entertaining.

6) Danni - She was fairly entertaining and had her moments during the game. I thought she was a lot more entertaining after she was voted out with things she posted at the next couple tcs then her final tribal council statement. I think during the game she just was more focused with strategy and other things involved with the game.

7) Lisa - I never found her to be high on entertainment, she was instead one of the nicer people to talk with where I enjoyed our conversations and talking about a little of everything. I don't think she was ever looking to be someone out there that wanted the attention and instead wanted to be a little more low key.

8) Tina - I didn't feel the entertainment value much coming from her during the game, but that doesn't take away other things she did during the game. I believe she was more driven to play the game in terms of challenges where she won quite a few and then sticking to her alliances and deals she had made to get further. Entertainment likely wasn't the top priority for her.

[Alexis Jones]

Feb 22, 2013 21:45:22 GMT -5 Rory Freeman said:

Question for Alexis: Do you think we would have worked together had RC not told you too?

Question 1

On a scale of 1-10 how well do you think I portrayed this guy's personality and gameplay? Give me a good paragraph and read his confessionals to compare and contrast my gameplay to his. Give specific examples from his confessionals if you find any for bonus points.

Question #2

I'd like you to rank the jury in terms of who you felt entertained you the most. 1 being most entertained 8 being least and why.

1) I do ultimately think we would have worked together, RC was just a catalyst. I had spoken to you to see if there was any way you'd vote out RC at the JT vote, but you confided in me that you wanted to see JT leave. I still would have talked to you but I think it may have been a couple rounds before I opened up to what I felt about Jay because if I didn't know you were close to RC, I'd assume you were close to Jay. After testing the waters, I'd see that as not the case and we'd probably still work together.

2) You gave me reading homework -.-

Anyways, I'd say you played him fairly well. He seemed to use more CAPS LOCK and ?! !! ?? in places then you did. Also, he seemed to have cursed way more than you and use funny confessional titles. I think in the spirit you captured him well but you lacked the overall finesse and finer points to fully capture his character. Also, I saw more AYE's in his confessional. I've never seen you write an AYE. You've posted YAW YAW YAW ... NAW? But he seemed to write AYE AYE AYE YAW YAW YAW. Also, where is your hook? Ultimately, I give you a 7.

3) Entertainment Stock

1 - Jay. I had the most out of game conversations with him and who couldn't talk about pokémon/superheroes?

2 - Rory - You and I just seemed to connect on a personal level and you're posts throughout the board were entertaining

3 - RC - After that weird awkward middle round we could talk about anything and maintain trust. That usually involved plans on getting out people Jay was close to. But we talked about several other things as well.

4 - Danni - When not scheming together, we talked about model games and traded photos to critique. It was nice seeing Danni not in game mode and I think I valued those times the most.

5 - Tina - Although our relationship severely diminished after no contact through AIM I still enjoyed our conversations from earlier and liked hearing what her thoughts were.

6 - Tijuana - Our first chat was really fun for me. She was so in character and she made me laugh. Also, she's British, and I think British people are just funnier in general.

7 - Abi - we only had one conversation but we shared musical tastes. She also had quite the time with RC on the board. I found them humorous, just never really got to meet Abi.

8 - Lisa - we had shared one or two conversations but Lisa was just simply nice. We mainly talked about the vote and didn't get to exchange personal information. Also, after the JT vote, I saw her closer to Jay and didn't think she'd reach out to me.

[Rory Freeman]

Thanks all for the replies

Alexis, I was suppose to get my hook at F5, but someone named Carlos failed to edit that in

He was suppose to give me patch if I made merge, and the hook at f5! he gave me the patch at final 5 but no hook.

[Rory Freeman]

Also, Jonas, I wasn't him I was portraying him lol

[Jay Byars]

well in fairness to him, we don't see your arms so we can't see your hook

[Rory Freeman]

Feb 23, 2013 16:31:00 GMT -5 Jay Byars said:

well in fairness to him, we don't see your arms so we can't see your hook

I told him to put it randomly somewhere

[RC]

You can't put a hook randomly anywhere.

[Carlos Bernard]

I put the hook up his ass.

[Jay Byars]

That explains the lack of incest