Board Thread:Season 47 - Heroes vs. Villains II/@comment-5357455-20180613003741

Maya, Nick, and Sora- Congratulations on reaching the final 3! You all should be proud of how you played this game. First and foremost, I would not like to turn to just you three, but Declan, Audrey, and Lexi too. When I was blindsided on Day 33, I was hurt by some of you and I was angered with most of you. I think you all know that the night I was voted out, I was in the city and had a few adult beverages. That does not justify nor correct some of the harsh words I said in my final words. Some of those comments I made were inappropriate and disgraceful. That was a poor reflection of my character because I tried to oversell the role of a villain, but I did cross the line of respect to my fellow competitors and who I am as a person. I truly do apologize for those unnecessarily rude departing comments.

'''Maya, Nick, and Sora. '''One of your roles as a finalist was to put members on the jury that would respect the game that you played and would want to crown you Soul Survivor at the end of this season. It was your job to have a wholesome understanding of your competitors to know how you think they would vote and if you think your way of playing would earn yourself that vote. For me, I vote on three equal criteria-''' Story, Strategy, and Social. '''

 Story-  Our season of Survivor is the 47th Chapter of the ORG series, and we are all characters in that plot. When reflecting upon the season, I want to know what role each of you played and how you helped advance this storyline. 

 Strategy- As we all know, I was a very aggressive player, but that does not mean every person is. It got me voted out, so it probably was not the best strategy. For me, I want to know what role you played in the tribal councils, especially those at the merge. Did you create the plans or did you let the plans come to you?

 Social- This part I respect heavily, since I am probably one of the worst social players. I want to know how your personal relationships helped you advance through this game. Since this is also my jury speech, I am going to ask about your relationships with me individually. This will not be a determining factor, but I want the winner of this season to be someone who represents all 24 of us the best way possible.

I will now address each of you individually about what parts of your game that I have unanswered questions about.

Sora

Story- As we all know, one of the main story lines this season was the “premade.” I was grouped in with this as well as you, Nick, Evan, Ally, and Claire. At first, I was very shocked to be placed in this group since I had never spoken to Evan or Claire outside of this game. I had only had connections to you, Ally, and Nick. It has recently dawned on me that the link that brought most of this together was actually you. You seemed to me the only one who had connections with each and every person in the “premade.” As the game progressed, this became more of an alliance where we worked together on votes and eliminated our competitors together. I understand that you made new alliances throughout the game, so what I am wondering is if you purposefully got this group together to seem like an alliance while you went out and made your own deals to ensure your personal safety? If not, what allegiance (if any) did you have to this group?

Strategy- In your speech you said that you were the one calling the shots and making the big moves. I want you to go through every person on this jury and tell us what role you played in getting them out. I want to hear how these were your moves and show us how you executed them and benefited from them. From my perspective, some of these moves were carried out by others and you were just informed. Prove me wrong.

Social- One component to your game that we are all aware of is that you purposefully voted wrong on multiple occasions. With this, you pretended to be out of the loop of some votes. So the first part is why do you think this was an integral part to your game to pretend to be out of the loop? This brings me to my second point. The night I was voted out, I was on call with you for a while before the results came out. I was freaking out because I was nervous that everyone had flipped on us. You knew all along that I was going to be sent to the jury that night, yet you sat with me on the phone and let me break down. I was completely paranoid while on the LIRR, screaming about an online game next to 40 other Long Islanders, yet you sat on the other side whispering sweet nothings. Why was that necessary? If your answer is so I would not ask you to use the idol, then my follow up to that would be, why not own up to the fact that you were a part of the plan to get me out?

Maya

Story- I think that you played a great underdog role this season Maya. When going through the final 3 competitors, I related your game much to Sandra from Pearl Islands There were always “bigger fish” to fry in the game than you, and you were willing to vote someone as long as it was not you. You were rarely a target, up until the final 5, which is very impressive. My question to you, is at the end of the day- are you a hero or villain and why?

Strategy- I know you were previously asked this, but I am not sold on your answer to Roisin. That seemed to me, a move where you were reactionary. I want to hear one thing that you directly had your hand in and how you orchestrated it.

Social- One of the regrets I have this game is not telling you I voted Alexandra out at final 8 because I do believe that lost trust between. At the time, I did not know who had the idol between you, Declan, Alexandra, or Nick- so statistically speaking there was a 75% chance that you, Dec, or Ali had it. (Well that’s why math sucks cause the odds were wrong). So I do apologize for not telling you. You were very well positioned in a way that people gravitated towards you since you were a pleasure to talk to. If someone wanted to pull off a big move, people knew that could rely on you, which is a desirable quality. My question is not about our relationship, but the one you had with Nick. On Maui, he voted out David instead of you to avoid the tie that might have sent you home. Do you think this is more accredited to your social skills or Nick’s strategic skills and why?

Nick

Story- Congratulations on being the last original villain standing. In your speech you said that you wanted to come out here and play like a villains, the top villain. You tried to do this in ways by blindsiding allies, but that was the only villainous aspect I saw in your game. At final 9, during Touchy Subjects, your fellow competitors did not view you as a villain. To me, you became a hero in this game. You avenged those you were close to and created strong loyal ties to few. When in arguments with other competitors, you only were a part of them to clear your name. At the end of the day, I do not believe you are a villain. So in the season of Heroes vs. Villains, I want you to explain why you are a hero.

Strategy- I could give a whole long-winded speech about how I believe your biggest downfall in this game was your failure to eliminate Sora, and thus fail at your goal of removing the “pregame.” For this section, I want you to explain how every vote from the merge on was your decision and yours alone, not Sora’s.

Social- I want to preface this by saying we will still be friends outside of this game because our friendship is much more valuable than an online game. That is something I needed to remind myself constantly, but I want to remind you of this too. The night I was voted out, you knew the location of both the hidden immunity idols, you had the merge one and Sora had the Kanaloa one. With both you and Sora knowing I was going home, there was no way I would have had an idol played on me. Without Sora, there were still 4/7 votes sending me home. My question to you is why blindside me? As a friend, I thought it was a completely unnecessary and poorly managed because if you had been upfront with me, yes I would have scrambled, but I would have been more content with leaving. I had so many unanswered questions about your betrayal and I still do not fully understand what happened. So I just want you to go though the thought process of eliminating me in such an abrupt manner.

'''In closing, thank you hosts for casting me this season, I have had an absolute blast. I know I am not the most prevalent player in the community, but thank you for having faith in me! To my fellow competitors, it has been an honor and privilege to get to know you all inside this game and I look forward to continuing our relationships outside. Good luck to the final 3 and I look forward to your responses since my vote is 100% up in the air. '''  