Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-32203428-20171216145710

 Hello, finalists! Congratulations on making it to the end in such a chaotic season of Survivor. I apologize in advance as my speech will not be as detailed or as long as the others – I’ve been quite sick the past few days and never had much time to write my thoughts down.





However, I will commend the other jurors + yourselves for asking detailed questions, and giving quality responses back. Those have definitely helped solidify my opinions of each of you as a potential winner. With that being said, I would like to reflect on your intro speeches – it’s been a theme woven throughout these jury questions, but your introductory speeches all left something to be desired, to say the least.



Morgan, you put a ton of time into your speech. I respect that. However, as I was reading through it, you seemed to show a clear sign of self-awareness in your own game, especially earlier in the merge. With Zak’s vote, Joanna had always been aware that his sendoff was her idea, but in reality, it was a collective decision, one that I pushed for through persuading her, along with a few other people. In regard to the group of five that included us, Rhys, Nadine, and Joanna, you portrayed yourself as being the glue that held us together, and brought us all closer, but yet, you were the last one to be added to the group chat and Rhys initiated the plan. Certain comments you made throughout your speech felt greatly exaggerated, and I understand that this is your point of view, but a strong self-awareness is key in this game. Nonetheless, you did play a strong end game, but I think you started playing just a bit TOO late. Playing a UTR style game is fine, but it got to the point where most of the cast viewed you as a goat, and making a few moves at the end, especially when there are many options, doesn’t change a ton. Couple that with an extremely weak social game, and it becomes hard to vote for you.



Joanna, as I was reading your speech, one word kept being drilled into my head – arrogance. We are all aware of your “revenge plot” strategy, but do you actually think that is an effective way to play this game? Is that a winning strategy? If you firmly believe so, then kudos. However, I do not. Pandering to the viewing lounge by making a “promise” of who you want to get out seems more like a plea to win fan favorite than a concrete strategy of winning this game. You paired this with a UTR game, and that half did work well, I will give you props for that. Still, some of us, including myself, knew you were a threat in this game. You were playing each and every side like a fiddle, and somehow, some players did not want you gone, and I do respect that. After Zak and Willow were voted out you clearly took a backseat, which is fine. What rubbed me the wrong way though, is how you complained about liars in this game – everyone has lied to you, you wish you could “vote all of us out”, you do not trust or respect anyone, etc etc. I’m sorry, but EVERYONE lies at one point or another. You did it multiple times, and girl, you were pretty bad at it. People caught on quickly. That’s where the arrogance comes into play again – the more I sit on your game, the more I feel like you played one for the VL’s entertainment, rather than playing a solid winning game.



 Ryan, I’ll be blunt – your speech was extremely underwhelming. It told me nothing new, and it only reinforced what I already knew of you and your game. Whereas with someone like Morgan, who clearly poured their heart and soul into his speech, yours was just…a speech. It was nothing out of the ordinary. However, throughout the rest of these jury questions you have done a fine job of detailing your game more than the shallow outline of your introductory speech. I wish I had more to say, but as we’re both aware, our relationship in this game was extremely limited as we barely spoke throughout the merge. No one’s fault. My biggest qualm with your game, the one facet of your game that is making it hard for me to vote for you, is that I cannot find YOUR move – your game winning move. Every winner has one move that was theirs, that separated them from the bunch and put them on a path toward success.





 I have just one question for all three of you – which of the other finalists deserves to win more than you, and why? Saying “No one. I played the best game” does not count.





 Again, congratulations to each of you. May the best player win.

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