Board Thread:Season 37 - Archetypes/@comment-27037064-20161213015324/@comment-27257276-20161214024925

Ok I think I got all your questions from the video let me know if I missed anything asap because the deadline is soon and I'm going out in an hour for a Christmas party. Also that video was creepy af with your silhouette and the red sky :/

Uh I actually can't give a solid answer on this because I don't remember for sure and it's WAY back in my convos with sora. But I feel like I'm 90% sure that he was the one who brought your name up first? So I agreed with him because I still would have preferred you to go home over Jared because I still had a dece relationship with Jared and was in a four way alliance with him. At the F10 neither of you or Jared were people I really was gunning for, more so your names were on the chopping block and that's how it ended up working out.

I'm glad you brought up Jamie's huge mistake at F4 in which she cut Claire over myself, this was a huge mistep on her part and I believe I had somewhat of an influence on this because since the F6 I was already starting to build claire up as some really big threat in the FTC which I don't think would be true, she played well but I don't know if people respected her game enough to vote her.

As well thank you for stating that you were distant from me because you thought I would just leak everything back to Sora because it proves my point that a lot of people were withholding game info from me because of my relationship to sora.

"I don't know why anyone would trust you after the Sora vote" well people did trust me after the Sora vote so is this not a testament to my ability to get people to trust me?

I did not intentionally put myself in the minority after the Sora vote. I had a solid 4 person alliance going into the final 8, we only became the minority because of Jamie's vote stealer. We even had a plan to counteract this which I mentioned in Alexa's speech and I forgot about this until today, but up until an hour or two before the Sora vote our alliance was under the impression that we could use my pass on someone from the other side against their will thus giving us 4-3 majority but it turns out we were not allowed to do this and had just spent the whole day strategizing about this for nothing. By this time WAY too much work had been put in on the Sora vote and there was no going back. Just because of circumstance I ended up in the minority.

About the F2 or F3 scenario, I believe that at the final 5 the days completely pointed to it being a final 3? As well on a 24 person season I kind of expected a final 3. I don't know why everyone seemed so adamant on it being a final two. They even said in the last immunity challenge that this was "the FINAL immunity challenge". The only time it was proven otherwise that it could be F2 was at the day 38 tribal post when the hosts used language that made it sound like it was going to be a final two. And not going to lie I completely panicked to Jared and Jamie when I saw this post about it possibly being a final 2 and I was planning on rioting if it were true.

With the information I was given about the days it really seemed like it was going to be final 3 so I had to plan my end game around it being a final 3. It would make no sense for me to plan my game around a final two when the days did not make it seem like it was going to be a final 2? Yes I will admit had it been a final 2 I would have been fucked unless I won immunity but the days never pointed to it being a final 2 so I chose the options that would better suit me in a F3 scenario. If it were a final two, Jared and I had a good relationship so maybe we could have turned on Jamie if him or I won immunity. He did tell me that he was down to cut her at some point whether that was true or not idk.

Analyze each players play style.

Charley: It's really hard to analyze her because I was hardly with her in this game but I would assume she plays a good lowkey social game and lays low until she needs to make a move??

Emile: Emile you were someone who wanted to showcase your loyalty so that people would trust you. You kept your paranoia to a minimum and because of that you showed people you were a great calming presence within an alliance. You played very logically and only made moves when you thought it would be fitting. Also your poker face is out of this world I couldn't read you for shit and I don't think anyone else could either.

Sora: Soras game seemed all about being the fulcrum controlling the flow of information among people. He was in tight with everyone and had complete control over the game. He worked social bonds and he cut anyone that would oppose him down the road. Very good at forming alliances and getting people to trust him.

Ash: Ash's game style can be best related to a cute little puppy dog that has a deadly bite. She tried to come off very kind and social but the moment she was given a reason to distrust you she snarled and revealed her deadly bite. What I'm trying to say is that her game style is about smiling and being nice but when threatened she will show her strategic chops and bite back taking out her enemies. She wasn't complacent with a position where she didn't have power.

Hunter: Hunters playstyle seemed all about coming off as this goofy little joker so that he could hide is smart strategic side, because of this no one would have seen him as a threat until it was too late. He seemed to want to show people that he was very loyal so that we would have no reason to ever distrust him.

Chris: Chris's game was all about building strong social bonds and alliances while using his strong perceptive skills to take out anyone who he thought would oppose him. He was a leader not a follower and was a triple threat; physical, strategic, and social and he used that to his advantage to steam roll anyone in his way.

Alexa: Alexa's game style was about causing paranoia and distrust among people (evident in the gif challenge) while she did this she would swoop down and use her strong social skills to build trust with people. The more paranoia the better for Alexa, she was good at getting people to trust her. She was not someone who would be complacent in a position where she had no real power.

Claire: Claire's game style was about playing the UTR non threat role, she was loyal to the people she was loyal to but she would always try and make those outside of her alliance feel like she could be worked with, always tried to play the middle man/double agent. She knew she wasn't great at challenges so she used her stronger social and strategic skills to position herself in a spot of safety.

To answer your multiple choice question I was pretty torn between Ningyo being revealed and Alexa sabotaging the Gif challenge but I'm probably going to choose

1. Alexa sabotaging the gif challenge

I chose this answer because it's honestly funny as fuck that she did that and shows how much of a snake Alexa could be in this game 😂, I believe this move also set the stage for a lot of what happened in the game as the Jamie and Ash rivalry was iconic and factored a lot into the dynamics of the game later on lmao.

Below is the drawing you requested. I chose to draw a stick of dynamite with an extremely long detonator string because I feel like it's the perfect representation of the season. The premerge was long and tedious full of boring 5-1 votes but it set up a ton of narrative for what would come at merge. Once we merged the spark hit the dynamite and things went OFF. That post merge was wild everyone was playing really well and really hard. I'm sorry if this might seem low effort but I was really busy today with real life errands and I didn't get to watch your speech until this afternoon because it was the second last one posted. I didn't realize how long answering your other questions would take and I have a Christmas party tonight so I can't sit at my desk and draw up a really nice funny drawing for you, hopefully this will do sorry :/