Board Thread:Season 31 - Retribution/@comment-26864283-20160311005135

Hello both of you, I wanna just start out with saying not only congrats for getting here, but I’m so proud of both of you because I really like both of you and consider you both friends. But this vote isn’t about voting for your friends, its about voting for who I think played the best game. So tonight I’m gonna say what I thought about your games, the good and the bad, and this will be your chance to defend yourselves. I’m not bitter, neither of you had anything to do with me leaving so I have no reason to be, so what I’m gonna say is just my view from the jury. So Scott I’ll start with you, you clearly had a rough time in this game and I admire your perseverance through it. Not only that, but you flew so under the radar that your name almost NEVER came up as an intended target. As someone who in the beginning of this game really tried to play as under the radar as possible and failed, I understand how hard that could be. However, I’m not sure whether this under the radar gameplay was intentional or not, and that’s my biggest issue with you. There is a huge difference in keeping your game off the radar and making yourself look like someone whose vote would be easy to use, and actually being that and just getting dragged along and I’m not sure what your game was. I feel like there were soooo many instances where if you had just a bit of strategic risk and played, you could’ve shown you were a strong player and here to win, instead I feel like you always just did the blatantly easy move. Example would be the final 5 vote, Evan wins immunity and it seems like a sure fire thing to do to get rid of Grace, however (like myself) the rest of you were basically all horrific in challenges, so I don’t understand why you wouldn’t take a chance and use Grace to beat Evan in the next immunity when it should’ve been obvious that he was gonna win them. Even if she didn’t win it you could’ve just voted her off then, and showing the jury you at least wanted to pave a way for yourself to get to the end and were thinking ahead, not just the blatantly obvious easy move that was right in front of you, you would’ve had my vote 100% regardless who you were with, I really admire people who take risks in this game. Had you just given me SOMETHING to say ‘he really knew what he was doing and was an active part in the game’ I would probably be voting you because I like the idea of what your game was about but I’m just not sure I can, so prove me wrong and tell me if this is right or wrong and defend yourself, that’s my question to you. Now onto Evan, you know out of this game we’re really close and I consider you one of my good friends on here, but this is a game and I want to be fair to Scott so past relationships won’t be effecting my vote tonight (well at least OUR relationship won’t be a factor but I’ll get into that). Knowing you from past games, you usually play a ruthless strategic game, and completely ignore the social aspect of it. So I will applaud you on at least trying at some points to be more social and I can’t fault you for winning immunities or especially finding idols since they were extremely hard to find this season. But what I will shit on you is for some specific points, starting with YouTube. Now it’s no secret YouTube is close and it’s no ones fault for voting a bunch of us in and for us to work together, anyone who plays survivor goes with who they feel comfortable with, however I feel like pretty much every other youtuber at least branched out and formed relations with other people, and after speaking to the jury you seem to be the only one who didn’t. Your social game consisted of using the youtubers to form separate relations in the beginning and then having to break them, and I’m fairly certain had me and Bryce not rebelled, your ideal final 3 would be You Yannick and probably me. I don’t really like the fact for a portion of the game, friends were a big part of your survival but moving onto the other issue is your strategic game. You were probably the most stubborn person in this game to work with, I feel like everytime I had an idea I was either silenced, brushed off, or people got mad at me. The Will vote, the Austin vote, the initial merge vote where Yannick left, and the Danielle vote, all instances where I tried to voice my opinion and was shut down and you didn’t listen (although all of these weren’t totally you so don’t think I’m solely taking it out on you). Also your moves that you made I reaaaallllyyy feel like didn’t have a lot of long term thinking in them, why on earth would you make us tell people to vote you so you could WASTE an idol? There were literally a million different and better ways to make YouTube seem less close, voting Danielle was stupid but I can’t blame you again solely since Bryce mindfucked all of you to thinking she was some strategic mastermind, mistakenly voting Grace at the final 8, not keeping her final 5 when you would have 10000% gone home had you lost, and even Bryce’s vote, I honestly don’t believe Bryce would’ve stayed regardless if he was on vacation or not because I feel like once you have your mind set on something you refuse to change it even if it is the smarter thing to do. But aside from those things, I think you played a good game and it takes a lot of skill to get here when you’ve been a target since the merge, and I have a pretty good idea of your game so I have ONE question for you. During Generations and even your thoughts on Greece, you we’re pretty vocal about how both seasons players with a premade sucked and they didn’t deserve it, but now that your sitting here in their shoes, coming into the game with AT LEAST four people you knew very well, how can you justify saying you deserved it, when you did the same thing for half of the game? Thanks guys and good luck to you both!  