Board Thread:Season 51 - The Caribbean/@comment-30202274-20190225194223/@comment-30289320-20190227024750

Okay, I'm back to upset the jury with some criticism! Juror's Downfalls, let's go.

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LEX - - - Lex was just not very active, and when he was around, it was hard for a lot of people to socialize with him. I remember we were able to have alright chats once in a while, but with 10+ people all trying to do the socializing thing at merge, I think Lex was not able to keep up. Moreover, coming from the swap tribe I ended up telling a couple people that Lex would vote with us, but it was Yousef feeding him the names. Not sure how much of an effect this had, but I was very okay with Lex leaving and wanted to make sure the vote stuck to him. If Lex was more active and social, even that probably wouldn't have been a thing.

HUNTER - - - Hunter left because, generally, he was becoming too aggressive and it was sketching people out. I personally saw this myself when we were discussing auction items, when I told him that the hidden items weren't in the order shown on the Wikia, he seemed to get upset and left the convo. He also would also instigate voting chats in our alliance chat, and when I asked who he was thinking he'd backpedal hard and kind of refuse to say anything. When I finally heard he was the vote, I was not really surprised and was okay with that. Bradley and I spoke about it after and agreed on the red flags he was showing in our chats and to each of us. He went too hard too early.

BRADLEY - - - He came after me so he died. LOL, kidding. I made a lot of effort to reconnect with Ethan after he was left out of the vote, and discussed how I thought Bradley had leaked our alliance and that was probably why we specifically were being left out. Ethan was mad about that and did go after Bradley, and I was cool with this because I wasn't sure if I could trust Bradley anymore. Before and after the drama happened, he just seemed to have not had the social game with the right people in order to stick around. He really needed Natalia/Andrea/Yousef to be on his side. Such was his downfall.

NATALIA - - - This round was funny because I was literally writing confessionals on how I needed to flip on this group, but wasn't sure on how to do it without losing every one of their jury votes. Then Yousef comes to me with this thing about how Natalia had been tossing my name out to him because I'd be "easy" to vote out as the other side just tried. It was the perfect opportunity to muddy the lines a bit so of course I was down to vote Natalia here, but there was still the growing issue of idols. I did mention voting Elmo/Yousef to Natalia, but she flat out told me no. When I came up with a way to potentially burn Elmo's idol and still go for Natalia, my vote was locked. Natalia's downfall was being the first to turn on the group, but including the wrong people in that plan. Might have even been no right people that round.

ELMO - - - The round before this, Andrea/Yousef/Ethan/Myself all spoke in our new alliance on why Natalia, and we realized she was likely working with Elmo and trying to protect him. Andrea got mad because she thought she was closest with Elmo. I told them about how Natalia said no to voting Elmo, and his tone changed shortly after. Basically, we realized Elmo was connected with so many people and playing a great social game. Thus, when it was unlikely he had another idol he left. His downfall was people comparing notes on how close they were with Elmo, and burning that idol one round too early.

SU - - - Ethan was immune. Ethan was likely playing an idol on Andrea. Yousef was going to be playing an idol on himself. One more idol somewhere. That left myself, Su, Karsten, and out of the three of us he just seemed to have done the least toward getting himself to stay, and Karsten and myself were more likely to have the second idol that we actually didn't lol. His downfall was not doing enough to stay around over Karsten and I, or realizing too late that he was in a deep hole.

YOUSEF - - - I think Yousef's downfall was being too big of a target in a time where the only person who could have been voted out instead won immunity. It may have been a good idea to play an idol to keep Elmo but then his downfall would have been playing an idol on Elmo because of my Mask/Andrea vote plan, so. I think his downfall then is pretty much not saving Elmo without idols, but then it's getting complicated because he couldn't have known what I was doing.

KARSTEN - - - Karsten's downfall was not doing enough to make sure he would stay over me or Andrea if Ethan won the FIC. Not really his fault, but hindsight is 20/20. I guess you could also say losing the FIC, but it feels like a cop out to say someone's downfall was just not winning the final challenge - to me, downfalls are more about errors in planning & execution.

Thanks for the questions, Elmo! Tell Cucker "anything" for me. :)