Board Thread:Season 21 - Salvation/@comment-7785749-20141204064305/@comment-10697197-20141205033037

 Mitchell, now that I'm out of school, here are my answers to the questions xDDD

Initial Perception:

My initial perception was DEFINITELY the HOLY SHIT WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER NOW part of it, you’re the first friend I ever made here and you’ve been an ABSOLUTE blast to work with. I was concerned I wouldn’t have anyone to really hang with, and to be able to just relax and work with the TBD crew was just PERFECT ^_^ Because we had that bond previously, but the moment that TBD thing happened I was sure that this was someone I could, for now, trust.

Biggest Move:

Bar none, my biggest move in the game was creating the Corre and getting out of TJ’s web of allies. You and I found ourselves pretty quickly at the bottom of the tribe, because we’re threats AND TBD members. But I saw Jino, Steve, and Zane all come up to me due to my social game, saying sincerely, let me help you and save you from this. I decided that the game needed to be shaken up in my favor. I wasn’t going to rely on idols and challenge wins because I simply couldn’t at the time. So, I rallied the troops together despite some distrust between them, moved through my obstacles and made a move that would determine things all the way until the Final 4. To me, that’s the biggest move I’ve made, and one of the biggest moves in the game because its implications lasted were so long-lasting.

Two Greatest Strengths of mine:

My two greatest strengths are that I’m strong in challenges and that I feel I can be a bit disarming. Even when people don’t trust me necessarily, I’m not a threat to be removed until later on, ever later on. Oh George? He’s a threat and I don’t trust him, and I want him out at some point, but not now, not just yet. Let’s vote for Matthew, or Mikey, or Trace or Eden instead. Let’s let George get to the final 4 in a secure alliance, that’ll work out well.

Three Greatest Weaknesses of mine:

My 3 greatest weaknesses are: I can sometimes be too cautious, I’m terrible at non-flash games and I’m sometimes a bit of a worry wart.

Worry Wart: Inside, I was probably even more of a nervous wreck inside than even Perry was for most of the time, which caused me to feel rather paranoid of things I shouldn’t be worried about. I knew when I was in danger, and I didn’t make moves until I knew exactly what was going on there, but sometimes I felt like Don Quixote, fighting imaginary dragons in my mind.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Non-Flash Games: I got 2/30 on the flag challenge even when I tried my hardest, enough said :P

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Strategically Cautious: I often was too worried about whether my closest allies would accept a move or whether it would hurt my game. During the final 13 and 11, I was really worried that maybe Steve/Zane who I hadn’t talked to all that much (which sets me apart from few people, I might add) wouldn’t go through with the plan until we talked it out with Tyler. I need more assurance than most that one will go through with a plan, which causes me to underestimate how much I can do in the game, and take things tentatively.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Social Butterfly: This, imo, is both a strength and a weakness, more so a strength but the weakness needs to also be addressed. I feel I get along with a lot of different types of people, not through any effort on my part, just how it goes. But often times, I will like someone as a person but not really trust them all that much, and my heart will pull me towards them, which keeps them locked in but it also makes it more likely they’ll blame me personally for it. The thing is, your friends and your trusted allies can often be 2 different sets of people, that’s just how personal relationships intertwine with the game. To anyone who felt I betrayed them personally, I apologize, and I hope y’all know none of what I did was intended to hurt any of you, and often I just couldn’t bear to tell you what was going on because of what happened between us personally over the course of the game. And I’m sorry for those individuals, I hope we can fix things and move past this.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">You’re the only person voting for a winner. Out of everyone in the game, who wins?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Because only one’s performance in the game is a testament to how they did in this question, I have to say you. You made it to SO far despite being SO threatening, you won immunities when you had to and you made me keep you way longer than I should have. Although I already answered that question in favor of Perry, that was contingent on him getting to that point through his normal gameplay, and without that massive little asterisk, my vote goes to you, Mitchell, especially due to how well we connected on Day 1, how you were the first guy I met and felt I was friends with that I didn’t already know <3 and speaking of that, RESPOND TO MY HI MESSAGE I SENT A WHILE BACK PLZ ;-;

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">At what specific point do you think I lost this game?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think you lost it during the final 9, when you blindsided Tyler. Because although it was a BIG blindside and made a big impact on what happened, I think it isolated you from a lot of people that weren’t informed of what was going on. My philosophy is, whenever you make a move, you’ve GOT to make sure that you’re still in a good spot next week.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Based on what the other jurors have been saying, how accurately do you think you perceived your games and your chances at being the Sole Survivor?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think I perceived it pretty accurately, I am a social butterfly and I knew there were plots against me, but I also knew a lot of people were trying hard to keep me too. Tbh, I haven’t seen any real surprises at this jury, except I thought Steve would be up to more because idk why, to me it seemed like he’s up to a lot more than is actually going on there, he has that air about him. Now, how much my chances are at this, I’d have to say maybe 60-65%, I’m confident I can beat Steve but you never know with these things, especially since 4 jury members have yet to post their speeches :P

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">What were the three biggest moves made in this game? They can be strategic, social, or physical, as long as you feel that they had a significant impact in the game.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think Tyler’s move to get rid of Perry, and Trace’s “computer problems” to get Súlur to throw the challenge definitely was one of the biggest moves in the entire game, just completely blindsiding a REALLY powerful and threatening player in one foul swoop.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Name one finalist who you don't think should be at the Final Three, name two jurors who you don't think should be on the jury, name three people you think wasted their spot in <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Salvation <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">, and name four people that you don't think deserved to be cast in <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Salvation <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">1 finalist:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I don’t think Zane should be here because in the final 8, he told everyone that he shouldn’t be here because he just didn’t put enough effort in to be able to win, he admitted that himself and I definitely hold that into account.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">2 jurors:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Ted, not because I disrespect him but because I know how much of a crash or flourish player you can be sometimes. You’re either at the top of things or at the bottom from what I’ve observed. I never expected you to be on the jury, either pre-jury or FTC for you, no in-between because anyone who lets you get deep into the game and win tons of challenges has signed their death warrant.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Mikey, you really didn’t do much besides sit behind Trace’s coattails, the only reason you left is because Trace had immunity and I had TJ’s back 100%.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">3 wasted spots:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Nathan: He really didn't do much in the game besides shit-disturb, and then he targeted Steve for no reason instead of Mitchell's target in Perry. None of his moves really made any sense to me.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"> James: James, your composure issues during the first vote and cheating at the 1st challenge really kind of makes it so your spot in Salvation really should have gone to someone else, anyone else.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"> Brian: You were targeted specifically by the Old Schoolers in part because you weren't active socially with people in the game, so I think that your day wasn't spent well here.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;">4 people who shouldn't have been cast:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;">Ted: I definitely think you were always a bit out of place here because of how well you did in Poly, you were more fitted to like a HvV or AS2 or something like that, in a similar way that CK was sort of out of place in the original Revival. But OMFG If you & Adam came back together at Yin <3

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;">Ivan: You really weren't screwed in your season, flat-out.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;">James: Anyone with such issues keeping things together probably showed signs of that in their application at some point in there.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;">Szymon: We all know he cheated in the 2nd immunity challenge at PNG and that's why he left. You may be his friend, but that's true regardless.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Which contestant made the biggest improvement in their game, and which contestant took the largest step backwards?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think that would have to be Perry imo, because he 1. played a really good and strong game in Salvation, 2. Madagascar, he flipped on the fans and then got voted off next. Perry, this is the first time you firmly took control, the first time you made a swap, the first time you made the swap AND the first time you made the jury. I DEFINITELY think that sort of improvement deserves props.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Probably I think Ivan took the largest step back. He tried to be the ringleader of his little clique of Old Schoolers at Hekla, and then he just went out 24th, despite going deep into Korea at 7th place. He never wanted to be too quiet like he thinks he was in Korea, but him trying to get control and get me out lead him to face my wrath and my tireless efforts to chop the head off the snake despite how unlikely that was, and it MIRACULOUSLY worked, FAR better than anyone expected. But objectively, coming into the season before the tribes were formed, I expected him to go A LOT farther than he did. Damn shame for someone with such game knowledge as an Ozlet to fall flat like that.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Rate <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">my <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;"> physical, social, and strategic games, on a scale of 1-10.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I already did this in Tyler’s question, I guess I’ll do it again xDDD I’m raising the numbers a bit though since he made me go from 1 being 10th of the jury up, which I think criminally underestimates players, and I’ll elaborate on the social aspect too bc it was kind of short before. Anyways, let’s begin:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Mitchell:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Social: 9. I think that your personality is incredibly disarming in a lot of ways, you get people to think you’re doing a lot less than you are, basically. You can get people to sort of look over you for now and keep you until it’s too late, basically, and I think that’s a REALLY good thing to have on your side.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Strategic: 7. Although you made some questionable moves, like the 2 vote blindside of Tyler which kind of cause trust issues at least w/me, but all the moves served you some good strategically and you were always there at the table. Maybe a bit more caution would help, because a 2-vote blindside and all those immunity wins in a row made you both a force to be reckoned with and a threat too large to resist.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Physical: 10. You were always in the top tier for challenges, with scores I couldn’t dare to match for the tribal phase, and 3 immunity wins IN A ROW, if you got 2 more points in the f5 challenge then 4 in a row, maybe 5. Nothing more needs to be said here, because anyone who is immune straight for 4 eliminations in a row by individual immunity in some way (necklaces + that idol) gets my respect, at least as a physical player.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Who do you think, from <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Salvation <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">, should return for a third season?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think Tyler played a FANTASTIC game playing all angles and not getting caught until super late, one of the best social gamers I’ve ever seen. Perry controlled his alliance quite a bit and had a firm grip on many things here, and was a major character imo to go along with that, so I think he’s a GREAT casting decision and player. Imo you played the best game of the jurors we had here, you did a lot of major moves and you proved to all of us that you are a serious contender to win, and anyone who looks you over for even a SECOND is crazy. And I think I deserve to come back because of all that I’ve done to get to this point, I worked my tail off from Day 1 and was set to go from Day 2, I had to fight my ASS off to protect myself and my allies every day. I think that’s a good set of people for a 3rd season down the road.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Compare my own game, or myself as a player, to both a real-life and an ORG <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Survivor <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;"> player.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I’d have to say your game matches that of Gregg Carey from Palau. You knew who were your allies and who you could work with in the future, how to strategize around the competition and how to get people to think you’re not up to as much as you are. And at a certain point within the game, Gregg was controlling things to the hilt, it took Tom and his ties w/Caryn, Ian and Katie as well as Tom’s challenge performance to get rid of this MASSIVE threat to everyone, and I think that correlates to Zane, Jino and Steve respectively.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">What are your favorite songs at the moment?

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I love how you said “at the moment” because it changes quite a lot xDDD I’d have to say For The Longest Time by Billy Joel, You’re My Best Friend by Queen, If I Fell by the Beatles, and She’s Leaving Home by The Beatles. I pretty much listen to those and only a few others by those 3 artists xDDD I have some others but I usually just listen to them like a billion times in a row and get sick of them XD Self control, y u leave me ;-;

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">What was your defining moment in the game? You can take "defining moment" to mean whatever you want to.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think after writing this answer, this also fits the question:

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.5;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">How can you say that you're proud of the game that you played?

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I think my defining moment was Hekla’s tribal council. When I started out this game, I found myself in probably one of the weakest tribes I’ve ever seen, and I’d already been told by basically everyone on the tribe that I’m going next, and I was PISSED. This is exactly the reason we all came here, to get away from situations like that, where you just get completely screwed over by something that wasn’t even your fault. For a few minutes, I was like, I guess I’ll see you fuckers in Revival 3. But no. Not for a fucking second. I’m going to devote basically EVERY WAKING MOMENT to Liam when he’s online, for hours and hours on end every night, because he likes that kind of interaction. I’m going to earn his trust like it’s nobody’s business and tear up this damned Old School Alliance. I’ve been completely screwed over by the tribe formation and there is ZERO chance I’ll survive, but I don’t care. I’m going to put my blood, sweat and tears into EVERY aspect of this game, I don’t care how pointless or how far against the odds I have to fight. This is how I reached my Salvation, I got to a situation EXACTLY like when I got screwed over in PNG and I prevailed this time. And for every moment after, from Days 4-39, I was grateful for this opportunity, and continued to put my blood, sweat and tears into this game, and fight the odds to get to where I’m standing. If you’re on my side and you want me to stay, then I’ll be grateful and I’ll help you, if not, then I guess that’s just how it goes. Now that is how I can be proud of the game I played, I put in EVERYTHING I had and pulled out all the stops, protected my allies & thwarted the plans to get rid of me, plain and simple. I didn’t just float around like Steve & Zane, the whole I’m going to sit back and not do anything for the next week or 2 weeks, 1. Couldn’t have worked for me because I was targeted quite a few times in the beginning and at the end because I didn’t always have Súlur’s protection, 2. I think it would have been a waste of this amazing opportunity we’ve all been given. We’ve all been given a second or third chance, we owe it to the hosts and to ourselves to give it our damned all, not just sit back and accept what others want to hand out to you. If I did that, I’d be in 24th/25, waiting for Revival 3 to come pick me up *hopefully*. So Mitchell, that is why I am proud of the game I played. I understood that this is a magnificent gift that will probably never come again, so I have to try my damndest to get to this point, see what are the right moves for me, and take them. I can’t just sit back and watch football instead, I have all my life for that. We all came here to show the game what it’s made of, to say you can’t just screw us over by a stupid twist. We will come back with a force of willpower behind us, and beat the odds to reach our Salvation. Back to you, Jeff.