Board Thread:Season 38 - The Ganges/@comment-30164581-20170207104858

Wow okay, I can't believe we're here. 39 days (even though it's actually been more). So much has happened, I can't believe it's finally the end.

Alrighty then it's not overly relevant to this but I'd just like to apologise for not being as active in this game as I would have liked to have been. I'm sorry for getting evacuated, and I don't want to make excuses but shit happens & unfortunately it wasn't always possible for me to put this game first. I'm sorry for that, and I'm especially sorry to everyone who could have sat at f4 and not voted for themselves but didn't get to. <3

Moving on to the actual jury speechy thing, which I'm going to try and keep as nice, sweet & fantastic short as possible (who am I kidding):

This f2 is kind of bittersweet. I spent the entire game with you guys, & I love you both. It was a lot of fun doing this and thanks to both of you for being there with me. <3

That being said, I have a lot of issues with the ways both of you played the game, and as a result I'm really damn confused about who to vote for. Hopefully you can help me out with your answers.

MIGUEL

Alright, first thing's first, that f4 self-vote. I wanted to vote for Rob. Was that a good move, gamewise? Likely not, which is why I was so conflicted. At first you insisted that we voted for Ryan, and then you were super vague about who you were voting for, which just added to the messiness of the whole thing.

Q1) What did you want at f4? Did you want a tie? Why would you tell Rob you wanted to vote for him, but not me? Explain this to me, please.

Now that's out of the way, I do respect most of your game. At first you were a huge dictator, sure, but I think it ended up working out for you. I'll never forget that time you called me at 4am for the very first challenge (you're damn lucky my phone was on mute), or when you asked me, an hour into the game on the first day, to make an alliance chat with 2 people I'd barely spoken to. It was good though, you co-ordinated that first challenge & you definitely made me try harder at all of the others with your constant asking how I was doing (one time I lied to you about my score to get you off my back and had to spend like 3 hours trying to get the score I said I did so I didn't look like a dick). I really do admire your dedication to this game.

Q2) Was the whole dictator thing on purpose, or did it just happen? Also, how do you do endurance challenges so well? Do you just not sleep?? Teach me, please?

Besides that, I think you played pretty damn well. You were always super nice & encouraging and I think the fact you managed to make it to f2 despite being labelled as a threat before the merge is pretty impressive. You played really well during merge, you being here is testament to that. This is probably gonna be a shitty question to try and answer but basically I need convincing here:

Q3) What did you do better than Rob? What did you do that he didn't?

R O B

I read all of your long ass speech, which was mildly pretentious and offered basically nothing I didn't know already. Ugh. There are a lot of things you did that I just can't respect, but at the same time I do admire the way you played. I am bitter that you're there and I'm not but that is exactly nobody's fault other than my own. I just don't know if I can vote for you (100% serious, this time).

Q1) Why did you have to lie so much? Why do you expect people to still want to vote for you after seeing all of the people you used & abused over the course of this game?

I'm very torn. On one hand I do admire the game you played & even as I was watching you play it I was impressed. On the other hand, it all seems a bit unnecessary. Unnecessary item plays (my big move making side was crushed that neither of your items made any difference and yes I'm aware that's a good thing for you okay but still), unnecessarily making yourself out to be a challenge threat, to an extent unnecessarily backstabbing people. A lot of the time I felt like our conversations were kinda fake & unnecessary too (potentially just me being a cynical bitch, but)

Q2) I guess you can defend yourself against being unnecessary if you want?

You've already said why you think your game was better than Miguel's, so I guess that's it, then. If there's anything else you want to say, go for it. Convince me. I want to vote for you, I really do, I just don't know if I can. I do think you had a lot of control throughout the game, I just don't know if that's enough.

Oh, and @ me being evacuated, I'd say you lucked out a whole lot more than Miguel did.

Yeah, I don't know. Please help, I don't think another self-vote is going to fly. 