Board Thread:Season 46 - Kariba/@comment-32270029-20180413221340/@comment-33060993-20180414022406

Louiiiise! Thank you for your kind words friend. I hope I can snag some too because they look really cute on my contestant profile and all sdjhkfhjksf. I want to take a moment to address some of your concerns before getting to your question xoxo!!

You’re definitely right on the sentiment that we WORKED F11 as a trio. We were down 8-3 and turned it into 7-4. It was actually one of my favorite moments of the merge, solely because I feel like there was a lot of trust in that group. There were a few others things, but let’s focus on the TRUST. We could run ideas by each other or disagree without sabotage. Nonetheless - I drafted three speeches across time with what I wanted to say (one at F7, one at F4, and my final at F3) and really tried to take time to identify my own contributions within that core of the seven who voted Dan, as well as other contributions across the game.

Looking back again, you were definitely pushing for Dovile to play her idol and the stronger of the two voices, but I believe wholeheartedly that the final interaction - the one wherein she specifically asked what I thought - was the deciding one. I had been debating on whether to let her misplay it up until that point, and did have my own - but once I said play it, that’s when the queries stopped and she said “okay!”. I think had I decided differently and argued against it, she might have been able to survive way beyond F10 and while that could have been a route for our games, I felt strongly that I didn’t want to play a follower game and I saw myself following Dovile more than leading, or at least believed my strategic input would be unseen due to her own strategic tenacity.

Overall, you all aren’t fools and I don’t intend to treat you as such - I won’t make any claims that I don’t wholeheartedly believe are evidenced, even if that evidence might be intertwined with my own perceptions and intentions, which I often kept hidden! And if there's anything else that you, or any other juror, might think is a stretch from my speech, please lmk!! because almost everything in my speech is backed by interactions, conversations, and my own perceptions that I didn't want to go into because forcing y'all to read a novel is NOT CUTE, but I will go into because it'd be tragic if a lack of clarification cost me a jury vote!!

I think the most intriguing FTC from a game perspective would be Hals, Drew, and Dovile, just because they all had such interesting arcs within the season. Hals is a literal sweetheart who stood by her loyalties at the expense of control in this game and overcame a lot of adversity to tragically go in Final Four. Drew played literally everyone and if not for the idol exposé, he seriously could have had people fooled. And Dovile is a motherfucking icon whom I adore so much, and in her tragically short time here, she made such an impact. I just feel like their games were bold and contrast each other in a really interesting way. Each juror played very well and with distinct games, so it was hard to pick. Another interesting one could have been you, Dan, and Jack--just because you were all positive / heroic presences with very different relationship networks and approaches to the games and represent each of the three sides in the merge!!