Board Thread:Season 21 - Salvation/@comment-24040592-20141204062238/@comment-10697197-20141204173414

Per your request, Ted, here's Steve & Zane's jury speeches dissected ^_^ You don't want nice Bob, you've got mean Bob instead.

Steve:

"So setting yourself up as the leader early in the game just gets yourself half a dozen sniper rifles trained on you, ready to take you out."

Why include the word early? From what it seems, “early” contains the first 39 days. You didn’t save yourself for later, if anything’s there, you saved yourself for strategizing on like Day 50-60. Did you think we’re playing Big Brother?

"As the season progressed it became clearer and clearer to me that due to the style of which I played people didn’t think I knew as much about what was going on as it appeared."

Ya THINK?! People didn’t think you knew much not because of the way you made people think you were, but HOW YOU WERE. You were COMPLETELY out of the loop here throughout all of the strategic portions here, it was like a sicker and more pathetic version of Amazon’s chain rule, playing with you, Steve.

“But then the tribe dissolve happened and in the schoolyard pick I was the last person chosen and ended up on the New Súlur.”

Congrats on being the last picked, BOTH TIMES. Even ISAAC got picked before you to be on the tribe, congratulations at fading out of existence so much that no one even knows you’re there anymore.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“However Mitchell told me that Perry was trying to a form an alliance between him, Mitchell, Ted, Eden, Tyler, and George and that Perry had told to Nathan to vote me.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This is EXACTLY why your game sucks. You never had more than a single source of information if that, so a lot of what you were doing inside the game was COMPLETELY predicated on bullshit. Perry and the rest of us know damned well that alliance was fake.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Mikey and Trace that I would work with them to cause a tie at the next vote and risk going to rocks,”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Do you know how math works? Because that would be 4-3 regardless. You must be high on some other shit to believe any of that makes ANY sense U_U

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“It was during this moment that I realized how dangerous a player Mitchell really was and that there was no way I could sit next to him at the final tribal council and say I outplayed him.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Yet AGAIN, all the info you’re getting is complete bullshit, as you were out of the loop in basically EVERYTHING!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Not wanting to vote out George,”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Why the HELL not? It would have made perfect sense for you to vote me off while you still had a chance, take the alliance with Jino, Zane and Eden, they probably would have done things just as well. But NOO, you had to rat EVERYTHING out to me, yet again. You see, that’s the reason you survived here, not your intricate strategy which has 0 examples for *some odd reason.*

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I decided put my trust in Jino as I did the entire game and voted Zane like we had discussed.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Do you have a gut instinct? Because few times in this game did you take the information you had and actually made rational decisions with it >_>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Now with all of that out of the way, I think I should be the Sole Survivor because this game is about surviving and I think I did that to the best of my abilities. I was able to play this game without ever really making myself a target or having any enemies, by keeping my long-term goals to myself”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I still HUNGER to find where your long-term goals are, because your whole “strategy” was predicated on you not doing anything and just sort of floating around from majority to majority without strategic goals. We know you didn’t attain your goals, you know you didn’t attain them, so why lie to us?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I made some mistakes that could have possibly put me in a better spot but what is done is done.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Doesn’t take a genius to see that.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Zane:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I think my game speaks for itself.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Oh it does, I assure you. Your never-ending pattern of inactivity is obvious to everyone.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I would like to address two things that were major moments of adversity in this game for me: The first being the fact that I don't really know many of you outside this game.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">News flash! NEITHER Steve nor I knew all that many people going into this! But what you & Steve have done are you just stick to those VERY few people you know, while I am open to actually having that number of people I hold dear actually increase. *mind blown*

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“The second one being when I nearly quit at Final Eight.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">COMPLETELY Self created! And for reasons that should disqualify you from winning, as you even said yourself!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“it wasn't fair for me to <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">continue<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">But it’s fair for you to win the game after you’re SOO inactive and irrelevant to the season that you can’t continue.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I was able to rally the troops”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If rallying the troops means that you cave in to everything I said as far as keeping Jino and not Eden, and then betraying your closest ally for NO reason, then that’s not rallying the troops. That’s me rallying the troops and you trying to make it sound good on you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Vote for me, not because I was a huge challenge god, not because I was a master strategist who orchestrated every major blindside”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Neither of those things were present. Your social, strategic, AND physical games were ALL terrible, that’s why you’re in the final 3! What you’re essentially saying is, don’t vote for me because I played a good game like George did, vote for me because I had an emotional outbreak and quit and then came back. Redeeming yourself from the mistakes caused by...yourself. Thrilling.