Board Thread:Season 55 - Nakuru/@comment-37911756-20191025154641

First and foremost, a shoutout to the lovely hosting team who worked so hard and put everything they had into this season for months in advance. I'm eternally grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to come back to main. You guys are all truly incredible and Nakuru is my favorite season that I've played. Mainly because I was able to show myself that I'm not just a social player and that I'm not just a prey either. This hosting team and Nakuru will always hold a special place in my heart ❤️. Thank you.

Now onto my speech:

So, I'm pretty sure I told both of you this but I am retiring from ORGs after this season, it was a decision I had already made before the season, but based on this, I want to go out choosing a winner based on a different reason than I usually do. Normally I vote strictly objectively (oftentimes not for someone I particularly love) based on gameplay and who was the overall best player out of the options. However this season I don't want to do this. For once I want to vote for the person that I WANT to win the season, and if that also happens to be the best player at FTC then that's a bonus but not the main driving force. And if I'm quite honest, I think voting this way is the most organic to the real show because in real survivor you think about giving someone a real million dollars and you actually consider the qualities that each person has. But more than that, at it's core, survivor is a social game, and making sure you built a deep connection with me as a juror is your responsibility so I feel I'm more than entitled to vote who I want. Anyway, I mention this because it will be important to the questions I ask you and it should be important to you for how you will answer those questions.

Nicole:

Hi queen, congrats on getting here. I give you a lot of credit for somehow convincing these men to not take you and your idol out for many rounds even though there were people that were definitely pushing for it, myself included. So amazing job there.

your questions:

One will be a personal question because as I mentioned, I'm voting for who I *want* to vote for. The other is game because who I want to vote for is also someone who's deserving of it.

1. My main critique of your game is the lack of finesse. At many many many points in the game, from my personal experience, you were being called out for being fake, transparent, lying, being messy, having your hands in every cookie jar, etc. I gave you credit already for getting to the end anyway and managing to find bigger targets at every round that would keep you safe. But again for me, like the fact that you were caught doing all this mess every round just makes me feel like your game lacked finesse. Some people did the same but they were actually sneaky about it, for example Evan. Like when we merged and you reunited with me Trent Cali and Jino and like we all already knew who you were working with, but you still tried interrogating us with a million questions about like tribe dynamics and also who liked who and who was upset with who under the guise that you wanted to "revive our ccbd chat" but like it .. was so obvious that you were just fishing for information to leak back to Will and Nora so idk what to tell you lol. You tried to play both sides but from MY perspective I don't think you ever did because as far as I know, nobody in that ccbd alliance actually bought it. Which goes back to not having that finesse. Same with you pretending a lot in rounds that you didn't know what was going on but like again from what ik, nobody bought that anyway so I don't see what was the point really. But I will say from other people's experiences your game had finesse and their opinions will be different as such, but this is my speech and it's about my experience and my perspective and that's how I saw it. So my question is, in which points in the game did you show finesse in your game? Where you really fooled some people or pulled the wool over someone's eyes? What are a few examples.

2. We started off this game really well, I was so excited to see you in the tribe and after talking I was really looking forward to working together in the game from beginning to end! I enjoyed talking to you so much & I thought we were going to make an iconic duo in the game. And then we swapped & I was still thinking ok np, we'll just reunite when we do and go back to slaying the game together. And then Trent told me that Chris told him & others on New Torrobo that you thought Cali Trent and I were a snake, that we were running the game, etc, but the part that bothered me specifically is that you said we were "unwelcoming" and "excluding others". If you wanted to use the strategy of exploiting the target that was already on my back by making up stories to turn predators against me before I even got to meet them, that's fair, I can see that as game, you would be distancing yourself from prey tribe to get the predator people to want to work with you more if you seemed like a lone soldier even though you weren't. So, cool. Fine. But when you say words like unwelcoming and excluding others, that implies something about my character and that's where I'll cut you off real quick. Anybody who knows me, knows I have never been excluding of others, or been unwelcoming. I always meet everyone with the same opportunity and same kindness. So it pissed me off a LOT that you would say things implying something negative about my character while I'm not there to defend myself because I was on a different tribe. In your RoP you mentioned you never "talked shit" about me but within the game, I heard it from Trent, Nora, and Chris, and later on in ponderosa (where people have no reason to lie) I asked about it agan at multiple points, and Nora and Chris have both retained their statements. So my question for you is can you just own up to whatever it is you said, if you still want to stick by the story that you didn't say anything that's okay too, it's possible we are all wrong, so I'm giving you the opportunity to hear you out. Basically this personal hitch is the main reason I have a hard time wanting to vote for you to win.

Evan:

I'll start off by saying your ROP was my favourite but that's probably because out of everyone in the final 3, I had the deepest bond with you. It was really nice to remember our good times. Even though you used and abused me this game, I could never have anything but love for you and I hope the friendship we made was as real for you as it was for me. This is not, however, to say that I don't have many many things that annoyed me and pissed me off about you and your game. But you're right I did get my revenge when homie Kawhi schooled your team on Tuesday :p (high key missed talking to you about basketball, LBJ and AD still an iconic duo)

Okay now onto your questions:

Both are very PERSONAL questions. I know your game, I've even vouched for your game at points. That's not what I need answers about. So my questions are personal to you and me specifically because of our bond in the game & I want answers that reflect the same.

1. When you voted Cali out you said, "I'm casting this vote to fulfill a promise that I made". Obviously you were talking about Nicole here. So here's what this specific line did to me as a juror. Everyone knows your game has not been heroic, you've manipulated, you've lied, you've used people, you have promised people the world, made multiple finals deals, and tbh that doesn't affect my vote bc I think survivor is a game and you're supposed to play the fuck out of it. Here's what my problem is though. When you said you voted Cali out of obligation to a promise you made to Nicole, to me and to every other juror you made promises to, it was a SLAP IN THE FACE. If you had betrayed and played everybody the same then it's like okay cool whatever it's a game, but when you do that to everyone and then to one person you're like nope I actually meant the promise I made to you in comparison to everyone else, it just really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Seems pretty disrespectful actually because it's no longer you making moves without emotion, and somehow becomes more personal. So more of a personal choice to break promises to other people. I'd like you to address this, lmk why you chose to say it this way on that parchment, and also tell me why I personally should want to vote for you when it seems the only person you stayed true to was someone else?

2. Why did you choose Chris over me?

-Do not bring up pregame relationships.

Questions for both Nicole and Evan:

1. Rate each juror as a Heroe or Villain and give an explanation as to why

2. Share a meme that describes/reminds you of each member of the juror, then one for yourself, and another for the other finalist. This can be based on personality, gameplay this season, or both.

Cheers and good luck 💕 