Board Thread:Season 52 - Tasmania/@comment-31855306-20190416050728

Congrats to the three of you for making it this far but I won't lie, I'm left feeling a bit disatisfied. That's not to say you guys played bad games but I think your speeches suck first of all. None of you said anything that made me want to reconsider my vote in a good way. So let's hope you guys can prove why you deserve to win because honestly my vote is up in the air.

I'll start with you Ashlee. You started your jury speech with "Look I'm not here to suck up your asses or apologize for voting y'all, because quite frankly I've played a ruthless game and I don't regret that" but then the rest of the speech had none of that fire. To me, you played a reasonably solid game but it wasn't ruthless, you did what you had to do, it's not like you made people feel like your best friend and stabbed them in the back because ngl, your social game sucked. But that out of the way, I think you did well from a purely strategic standpoint but I don't see anything special in your game. Your game is a good stick to the basics of strategy, don't commit yourself but never make yourself the most threatening player and if your strategy was anything beyond that, well I wasn't able to get that out of your speech which didn't give me any insight that wasn't already obvious (outside of the Abi/Hayden alliance which was already discussed on jury). So while this game is solid, you benefited mostly from players being unwilling to make a big move to change what I thought to be a pretty expected sequence of events.

Now as to your actual thoughts, I found it very confusing. I couldn't tell what you really thought about people on a genuine level because ngl 1) you were inactive half the time 2) anything you said to me seemed fake and unecessary (well to the point that I find it hard to believe you thought telling me over and over the same thing that you were with me and you loved me would actually make me believe you bc it really doesn't). And this is a social game and that is the part I can't see in your game. My only question to you is to ask you how you felt about all the jury members genuinely. Don't hold back, and how you let that influence your decisions. Because to me I just find it hard to vote for a gamebot to win when I can't even tell how they really feel about anything.

Now onto you Benj, your speech was pretty horrendous imo. Maybe other people find it okay, but I didn't find a single bit of content in it that showed why you thought you were a deserving winner. What you did was get to the end of the game and your speech is directed at how you made the end of the game, not why you deserve to win over Ashlee and Hayden. Let's just go through your why you deserve to win speech.

"My game wasn’t perfect, I made mistakes, but that fact that I could recover from blindsides shows I was adaptable."

I don't find anything in your game that proves you were adaptable? How were you adaptable?

"My journey was ridden with many challenges, especially losing Seamus and Brian so early, but the way I recovered I believe shows I am a worthy winner, I fought every day to stay alive, and never gave up."

Again I'm not seeing it. Yes, you didn't give up. But nobody gave up? I dont think you recovered in any special way, you just won challenges, and went with the flow of the game. Nothing you did in my eyes shows an intent to winning over surviving.

"I was here to win from Day 1. I voted with people who had gone against me in the past/who I had gone against to make mutually beneficial moves."

Well yes, if you didn't, you'd have been dead. I had to work with Ashlee and I despised her. When you're short on options, you do what you gotta do.

"I was able to minimise my threat level compared to my allies and downplay my game until a point where I knew I could win every challenge left."

Again I come back to the point of survival over winning the game. You let Ashlee run the show basically.

So really that's all I really want to say, I don't have any questions for you. I just want you to prove why you deserve to win.

Now Hayden, well your speech was probably the worst of the bunch. I came into this FTC expecting not to vote you and for you to really have no shot at winning, and your speech has done nothing for me. First of all, reread your speech once you're done, might make it easier to read for the jurors if it makes sense. But I'm just going to go straight to your TLDR because it's laughable.

But I am going to provide a list of broad attributes of my game that I hope you guys consider when voting me.

"I went to all but two tribal councils when the other finalists only went to the merge ones."

Um? We booted off two inactive players, you were put on a tribe with a 4-1 majority, ain't that impressive.

"I found a hidden immunity idol!"

Cool you deserve to win because you're lucky. Also you didn't even use the idol correctly. It could be argued you deserve to win less because of this.

"I am a loyal bitch when it comes to this game, I will always have my ally's back no matter what."

You were loyal because as you said earlier in your speech, Abi was getting voted out before you, loyalty card ain't getting you anywhere with this one.

"Everybody wanted to work with me and needed my vote at one point in the game due to my approachable personality."

Everyone was approachable in this game, everyone wanted to work with you because you were the easiest player to beat at the end. And I mean not sure if it was just me but I definitely found you the least interesting person to talk to on a personal level but if other people had better social connections with you than other ppl, then that's fine.

"I didn't win any competitions but I used my strategic and social skills to make sure I was never the one in jeopardy."

Well... one way to put it.

The only question I want to ask is if you had to make a big move in the game, what would it have been. Because hint, you didn't make a single big move.

That is all, hopefully you guys can prove in the jury responses why you deserve to win and that my analysis is incorrect. 