Board Thread:Season 51 - The Caribbean/@comment-37911756-20190225200030

PSA: my vote is undecided right now and could go to ANY of the three of you depending on your ftc performances. Also wikia was giving me a lot of trouble with the numbering of my questions so I used ABC instead. Lol.

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Congrats to all three of you on making it to Final Tribal Council. You are all deserving in your own way. I designed my jury speech very individually, based on the order that you all posted your opening statements.

Andrea:

First of all, girl I love you and I’m happy for you on a personal level that you made it to FTC. You are a queen. However, on a game level, I’m going to be straight with you and it may sound a little harsh but it’s only because from my perspective you need to answer these hard questions to be able to convince the majority of jurors to vote for you to win. If I just gave you easy questions you might not have the same chance.

A- You said you fought “tooth and nail” to get to the end. Can you please explain this? From my perspective, you had a very easy ride. You were never a target, you always voted with a majority, you had an idol used on you, and yeah ngl some people did see you as riding Yousef’s coattails. Where in the course of the game did you have to fight tooth and nail?

B - You said you pioneered moves on all your own & drove them to victory, can you give the jury one example of a move that was strictly your own that you personally worked to convince people, including your closest allies, to go with?

C - At the beginning of your speech you said you kept Yousef as close as you could because you wanted him with you at the end. Then during the elmo paragraph, you said you got rid of Elmo because you “knew” both Yousef and Ethan would not make FTC and you wanted to give yourself a chance at FTC without Yousef. But then at the end again you said tried “so hard” to save Yousef because you wanted to be at the end with him. Can you please clear up what your intentions actually were with Yousef and back those intentions up with your actions? I don’t know about the jury, but I myself would have seen taking Yousef to the end a Woo and Tony level mistake.

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Ethan:

Love you bro, seriously. I’m one of the people at ponderosa who have felt the most of a genuine connection with you while in the game. However, same as with the other finalists, I’m going to keep it real with you chief. I need to ask you some tough questions.. but this could be the thing that changes some people’s minds or influences jurors including myself to vote for you. The jury is looking for you to have a specific candor in the way you answer our questions.

A - You said you were the reason Elmo flushed his idol. However, Yousef told me when he came to Ponderosa that Jake was the originator of the idea to get Elmo to think he was in trouble so that he would flush his idol. Elmo also said the person that actually made him play his idol that round was Yousef because he was acting sketchy 10 minutes before deadline. Therefore, Ethan, please explain further on this point.

B - In relation to my vote out, I am not bitter, I’m not upset, I’m not even mad at anyone about it. You are right that I was willing to get rid of you and same goes for Yousef. Unlike some people that were playing follow the leader, I came here to win not to just make it to the end. For me that means making big moves post-merge, aka, you, Hunter, Bradley, Yousef. I wanted all of you out at some point to give me a better chance of winning. So trust me there are no hard feelings Ethan with voting me out. I understand. However, my issue comes from the fact that during the couple minutes before the results were announced, I was having what I thought was an open and frank conversation with you where you told me you voted for me and I didn’t start yelling at you about it, all I really asked you for was the truth at that point. I asked you directly, is this Yousef’s fault and at first you said that Yousef said he wants to speak to me about it himself but that yes, and led me to believe that it was yousef who orchestrated my blindside. I was very clearly upset with Yousef and you let me think this was all his fault and that you were an innocent player in all of this who was just manipulated by Yousef’s lies and that’s why you “had” to vote for me. We both know this was not the case from what you just said in your speech and from what Yousef told me when he got to ponderosa. The ONLY thing I wanted before I left Ethan was the truth. Plain and simply put. Why did you rob me of the one favour I asked of you?

C - Some people see your immunity run as boring and as a negative to your gameplay because you perhaps wouldn’t have gotten to the end if you only had your social game to carry you. Other people see it as a testament to your passion and commitment to the game. It’s been brought up that you don’t work or go to school right now which would give you an advantage over other players who have had to overcome challenges based on being busy with one or both of those things. Is this true? If not, what is the case for you in terms of outside responsibilities? Also, from your perspective, how hard did you have to work to win these immunity challenges?

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Jake:

Your ROP kind of surprised me because I actually DID and do really like you and I think you have your moments of comedic genius. I only teased you a bit during the game because that’s my personality and I only did it because i thought we were both comfortable with each other enough for you to know I was joking. I really enjoyed talking with you (whenever we did actually communicate). I also give you a lot of credit personally for being a wildcard in the game and somehow coming out on top. You kept your cards close to your chest and nobody that I talked to had really any idea what you were thinking most of the time. Still you were able to get the information you needed to be on the right side of the vote every time without giving up information yourself. Here are some questions for you to answer. Please pop all the way offfffff. I want to see the perceived “wildcard” show us why he’s actually a Dark Horse 😈 by the end of ftc.

A- During the jury roundtable, it was brought up how you would leave people on read a lot and wouldn’t communicate with some people for days. I understand you deciding to put in the effort only with people you were working with but I think at some point you have to start thinking jury management and if you want votes at the end you need to build relationships with everyone. I’m your speech you mentioned you wanted to purposely downplay your social game but I don’t really buy this as a justifiable excuse. You could have made moves to make certain people not see you as a very social threat while STILL fostering close relationships.

B - In my opinion, you wasted your powers. You had two crazy powers that could have turned the game on its head if used properly and you decided to use them instead as a failsafe. You gotta do what’s right for you but I think you could have made some BIG moves with those advantages and if you had done that, I think you would have set yourself up to win undoubtedly at FTC. Please address this.

C - Your opening speech style was my personal favourite. I would like to hear more from you though about how you outwit and outplayed your opponents. 