Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-26852922-20170908183002/@comment-1775521-20170908194721

Good morrow to you Madame Taco Bell! I was shook at you saying that you almost didn't make a video, thanks for deciding to make one for me haha. I wanted to thank you for being so kind in your speech. I appreciate that you are glad I am here and see me as one of the biggest players this season! You are one of my favorite people in this cast as well, I really enjoyed talking with you. Also omg... You thought me calling you Taco Bell still was cute, BUT YOU THINK OF ME WHENEVER YOU GET KFC??? My heart..... I'm slain by this and the Colonel Sanders pic.

1. I think the main thing that I did better than Jake was play a more social game and showed compassion and kindness throughout. I honestly do not believe that there was a time at all in this season where I was downright mean to someone, and that includes after being betrayed or seeing my allies get voted out. I had an ability to sit there and patiently listen to people talk about things going on in their life, and tried to relate and help them decide how to go about things that weren't even happening in this game or didn't have any direct relation to me. I honestly wanted to be seen as someone that people could come to with issues they were having if they ever needed a place to vent or talk. Aside from that, I think that my physical game is significantly better than Jake because I consistently did well premerge, won the most challenges post merge this season and tying the ORG record, and only lost the final immunity after a tie breaker because, knowing Clifford was going to be voted out regardless, Jake and I agreed to submit our scores after only playing one full game of geoguessr. I think that though my strategic gameplay might not have been as solid as Jake's that I did still show good strategic thought and gameplay instead of stumbling around like a chicken with my head cut off waiting for an outer force to tell me what to do. I tried my best to take the game into my own hands when I was able to.

Winning this game would mean so much to me. I have been fighting tooth and nail just to prove to myself that I can do this. This is the 6th ORG I have played across the span of almost 3 years in this community, and I still have yet to win. I planned from the beginning to have this season be my final season ever (literally my Last Stand), and going out on a high note would just make all the time spent not only on this season, but on ORGs in general, feel worth it to me. I've literally gotten to the point of talking about this season with my grandparents and filling them in on everything that goes on LMFAO, I think I'm a little obsessed. Though I personally believe that I have consistently shown strong gameplay this season, the only way to really prove that this is the case is with a win. Regardless, I would still feel proud of how I played. This season showed me that even though I am an awkward as hell homebody in real life, that I have the potential to make friends, and make strong bonds with people that I never expected to. The confidence I have in myself from this season hopefully will transcend into the real world and will allow me to branch out in college and actually start making some new friends.

2. If I could choose anyone to come to the final two with me, I would have chosen Maya. Her and I were like this *crosses fingers* literally since like day 3 of this game in like IRL time. Her and I talked for two months straight as friends and close, close allies. Her and I promised each other final 2 in this game, and later a final 3 with Julia, and once Julia was taken out I was trying my best to keep Maya in this game with me. The way I play this game is that I find someone very early on that I completely swear my allegiance to, and I never plan to break that. In this game, that was Maya and I wanted to stay true to her. The final 5 vote was crushing as it ruined our dream of getting to the end together as the tribe that entered the merge with 3 people.

3. When this cast was released, I was most excited to play with Yannick, and there wasn't really anyone that I explicitly did NOT want to play with as I had no prior bad blood with anyone on this cast, but Nathan was scary to me on a game level.

Yannick: I knew that Yannick was a great guy that I would get along with so well in this game. I was in a skype chat with him like over a year ago, and once I got a new computer and didn't bother re-downloading skype, we stopped communicating. I was so happy to be able to rekindle our friendship and catch up after not speaking for so long. I was nervous when he wasn't on my tribe because I knew that if he was, I could have easily initiated an alliance with him right off the bat that would have kept us both safe. Luckily, we were able to get together after the first swap and work together closely.

Nathan: After seeing how well he just did in 703 Resurrection, I was terrified of Nathan, ESPECIALLY AFTER SEEING HE WAS ON MY TRIBE. I thought for sure Nathan would latch himself into a social web where literally no one would want to see him leave this game. I really did enjoy talking to him, and think he is an amazing guy, but that is exactly why I was afraid to play with him.

4. BLOW YOUR MIND *MWAH* It is funny because like a friend of mine sent me one of her songs (I believe New Rules) and I was like ummm okay, not really feeling it. Then when you were like "YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO BLOW YOUR MIND IT'S LEGENDARY" .... Girl my wig evaporated upon exposure to that B O P. I'm definitely a Dua Lipa stan now, KNOW THAT LMFAO. Also, me when Dua Lipa was a host on this season? Tea only. Proof that I actually added it to my spotify after you showed me it LMFAO: