Board Thread:Season 37 - Archetypes/@comment-24603302-20161211235421/@comment-27257276-20161213170945

 Thank you Chris for seeing the positives of my game because if I hadn’t made the moves I made I either wouldn’t be sitting here or I would be sitting here but in a similar position to Jared. I don't understand why people are knocking my game so hard when I literally was able to vote correctly for the person who went home at every single tribal but one, I was always able to wiggle my way into the majority regardless of my strategic mistakes.



 I see now that after these jury speeches that my game did have it’s flaws, I was way too impulsive, but I don’t really think these flaws are as game breaking as everyone is making them out to be. Jamie made just as bad strategic blunders as I did.



 So let me try and defend myself without rambling.

 Honestly it got to the point in the game where I was aligned with or loyal to almost everyone in the game. For example at the Final 10 I was aligned with to Sora, Emile, Ash, Hunter, Alexa, Jared, and in some sense Jamie. Everyone is acting like I only burned people that were loyal to me but the reality is that I was going to end up burning someone regardless because I was kind of working with almost everyone. I sense that the main moves people are questioning are voting Emile, Sora and Alexa and using my fast pass but I feel like I answered these in Claire and Ash’s speeches. If people still need more justification or clarification on these moves then let me know and I can write a massive wall of text detailing why. But in a very short summation these moves were made for these reasons.

Emile- He was being distant with me and I thought he was in tighter with Chris and Claire than he would ever be with me. I didn’t really have another vote option that round, I didn’t want Jared to go home because I saw myself being able to work with him in the future and trying to get Jamie out at this vote wasn’t able to happen so I settled on Emile. In hindsight I should have listened to Ash and went to Emile and asked if he would vote Jamie but to me that was very risky because it was literally 2 hours before the vote deadline and he could have already voted. If he had I felt like he would have panicked and told Chris about the Jamie plan and then the brainless goat alliance would have been exposed which I did not want happening.



 Sora- People weren’t talking game with me because they feared I would have just run back to Sora with the information, I was viewed as nothing more than his lackey and that needed to change. It’s not like it was a huge deal but he did tell people about my fast pass which was information I only trusted with him and Emile so I was thinking “well if he is telling people this information what other things could he be telling people that I am saying?” If I had not taken Sora out I would have continued to be viewed as his bitch and people still would have continued to not talk game to me. As well there was no way I could ever beat Sora in the end and maybe I did vote him out too early but he had SO much power and no one was doing anything about it, you can’t let someone like that get deep into the game. People may say that voting Sora out put me in the minority but it literally didn’t? I was going into the Final 8 with a SOLID four-person alliance and I was willing to go to rocks with them and I knew that someone like Claire or Jared could possibly have flipped to us if we threatened rocks. Jamie’s vote stealer ruined that plan and put me in the minority.



 Using my fast pass- I am shocked that this is something that is being used against me lol. I was never going to use this pass and was fully ready to go to rocks with the brainless goats if I needed to; I was extremely loyal to that alliance. But then I learned that Jamie had a vote stealer, and I knew she was going to come for me over the other three. With the vote stealer my alliance no longer had the majority, so why the hell would I have stayed and allowed myself to be voted out? Jamie confirms this in her speech that I was the target that vote. Had I not used the fast pass I would not be sitting here right now, it’s as simple as that.



 Alexa- She asked me why I voted her out in her speech so instead of answering it twice I will go into full detail about this when I answer her speech. But in short she was going to vote me out at F4, and she was a major threat to win the game if she made the FTC, she had a very compelling story so I didn’t think it made sense to allow her to make F4.



 Chris omg I came into this game with no pre conceived notions about you and I hoped you would do the same for me. I genuinely thought we could have worked together in this game and I believe my confessionals will prove that post game. I want you to know that I came into this game with the mindset that the past was the past but this all changed for me at the second swap. I met Sora and he told me that "Chris is gunning for you he thinks you're the biggest threat in the game, blah blah" After that I felt like I was kind of forced to factor in our old relationship because you were doing it. After learning this information there was no going back, I was always going to be weary of you in this game, I was pissed that you were going to hold a grudge against me from a side org we played in months ago. Whether you actually said this or not I don't know for sure, if you didn’t say this then Sora made an excellent move in pitting us against each other because this was why I was always weary of you and wanted you gone.

On my part I as well always felt you were being very fake with me, but obviously it’s kind of hard to tell if you are being fake when we are only speaking through a text box. But yeah if I recall we did have a few genuine social talks, at least on my end I was being genuine with you, but I do agree I felt like a lot of our game talks were just fluff. The comment "I just want to outlast Chris" was definitely made and I totally meant that. After learning that you were bringing in our past bad blood I was pretty peeved and all bets were off. You're a phenomenal strategic player Chris and outlasting you meant that I had outlasted a huge player and it felt good on the ego, nothing more than that. Even after all that I still tried to work with you in this game, an example of this was at the Sora vote, but I felt everything I told you went straight back to Jamie, and I later learned I was correct with this assumption.



 lol I know who brought this up, because she was the only person I voiced this opinion with, but it was Alexa and I find it weird that she would try and use this against me when she expressed the exact same opinion herself. From what you have said in your speech it was completely misinterpreted, either I worded it wrong to Alexa or she is misconstruing what I said. But when I did say that to her I did not mean it at all in the way you perceive it right now. Yes I did say something similar to that, but I don't recall ever saying that it was something you intentionally used as leverage to get further in the game? In my opinion it was something that unintentionally could have advanced you in the game.

The point I was trying to make to Alexa was that because of your anxiety you had been able to bond on an extremely deep level with both Claire and Ash. This was dangerous because tight bonds like that are hard to break. Secondly, I know you didn't use it to further yourself in the game but you did bring it up every so often and holy fuck it made me feel for you because anxiety is a legit condition and I didn't want this game to affect you like that in real life, I felt really bad. I have a few friends in real life that suffer from the same thing and it’s pretty serious. I can only assume you brought this up with other people as well and I can assume they probably felt the way I did as well, and if they did that was scary to me because what if it did begin to affect the game? I know you didn't use it intentionally but like I am not going to lie it had an affect on my perceptions because I felt really bad about possibly hurting you and causing an anxiety attack. I never said that this was something you were intentionally using to further yourself in this game though so that is a lie and I am sorry if you are hurt by what I said because it was literally never meant in that way and to be clear I NEVER used this as a reason to target you.

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Ben: The timezones really fucked you over and because of this you weren’t really able to talk with the rest of the tribe as much. I think we possibly could have worked well together otherwise you seemed really nice.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Mihai: Never met you but you won the game before so kudos to you

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Christine: You had a cool hippy style manga and your wiki bio seemed cool

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Brittany: I actually really wanted to meet you because I had only heard amazing things about your game and you as a player, as well you’re also Canadian so that’s cool

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Molly: I loved you, you were so fun and easy to talk to, we bonded over alcohol, which was lit, but sadly you were outside of the core alliance and there was no point in betraying people that early to save you

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Alietta: My fellow Svalbardian, still so sad you went premerge and we weren’t able to meet up and do some damage. From the sounds of it you were playing really aggressive like you did last time haha and I respect that about you, it may not always work out but it’s a fun and respectable way to play.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Emma: Emma was awesome and it’s so sad that the swap separated us, she was so fun and easy to talk to. We bonded over bobs burgers and many other things, I feel like you were robbed and I would have loved to have continued working with you had the swap not separated us

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Miguel: I actually really wanted to meet you because your lies in that one challenge made you sound super cool, I definitely could have seen us getting along really well.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Uli: I loved talking about science with you, and actually really wanted to work with you but you were kind of quiet with game talk and it made no sense for me to try and save you. Had circumstances been different I definitely could have seen us working well together.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Alex: I don’t know anything about you, but based off your lies in that one challenge I feel like you would have been semi annoying in the game

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Jessy: Another person I really wanted to meet, you are from Chicago and I have always wanted to go there so I definitely would have picked your brain about that.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Matt Berk: I fucking love you, we connected personally and got along great. You were way too paranoid though and kind of all over the place, was sad to see you go premerge and I could have seen us working together later in the game.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Ally: Ally you were amazing, we got along great and you were an amazing friend to have in the game. But you were a huge threat and I had to vote you because I didn’t want cracks in our alliance going into the merge.

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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Charley: You are great at blowing leaves. We bonded over Shakespeare, which was pretty fun I love that man. We were together in this game for a very short amount of time so it’s hard to really say much about you except that I hope you find those whocakes you so desire and that you overuse the XD emoticon which is frustrating lol. But you are a sweet girl and you survived a ton of premerge tribal’s so congrats!

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Emile: I really enjoyed working with you in the premerge phase; you are so blunt and not paranoid which I love but also hate because it made you extremely hard to read. I would have loved if we could have gotten on the same page at merge but you thought I would run back to Sora and I thought you would run back to Chris/Claire and it was kind of hard for us to overcome this. You are one of the closer friends I have in this cast, I loved talking gambling and anime with you!

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Sora: Sora where do I begin. You are literally the best friend I have ever met in this community that’s not even a question, I love you bro you’re a really cool guy and I really hope we can still be friends after this. I could write a novel about the things we bonded over, we are literally the same person it’s insane. Hopefully after this season we can get baked and have one of our fun lit conversations. I feel so awful for voting you out and I will never stop apologizing if I have hurt you personally but I hope you can see that it was what I thought was best for me in a game sense. You were a phenomenal player and you were running this game with an iron fist, had you not gone that vote I feel like you would have won this game.

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Ash: Ash aka Julia aka disabled friend, you are such a firecracker, you are such a feisty bitch and I mean this in the best way possible you reminded me a ton of Abi Maria in the game. You might have allowed emotions to interfere with your game too much, but you were a strong strategic player. I liked talking with you and it was fun to bond over drawing, hopefully after the season we can share more artwork or something.

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Hunter (The Koch): To be honest I really didn’t like you when I first met you, I was like who the fuck is this joker? And lowkey I never liked igor so when I found out you were him I thought you were going to be awful. BUT as time went on boy did you grow on me, you provided comic relief, you were fun to talk to and I consider you a good friend from this cast. I wish you had been online more so we could have had more strategic/personal talks. You are the most sopping wet ham I have ever met and if I do win this virtual million dollars I will buy you two hams for twenty dollars.

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm">Chris: I am sorry if you feel like I was being fake with you because when we did talk personally I was never being fake with you, our game talks on the other hand are different. After this is all done with, I am totally hitting you up to discuss hairspray because I am a closeted hairspray fan (I fucking hate musicals but holy fuck will I make an exception for hairspray). I really wish our past relationship hadn’t come into play this game but it is what it is and we are both guilty of it. I think we could have been an extremely dangerous duo if we both started out on the same tribe. You are an amazing player though omg, your perceptions are always right on the money I don’t know how you do it, and you play super aggressively which I really respect.

<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"> Alexa: You are the Cass to my Tim, I fucking loved our strategic partnership it was amazing. We might not have a ton in common personally such as Taylor Swift and Figgy lmao but our personalities still jived really well and the circumstances in the game really brought us close together! I think you played a really really great game and would have probably won the game had you made FTC, you were like the cockroach that just would not die. I hope that we can remain friends post game.

Claire: Haha Claire I had such a ride with you in this game, I shit talked you and your game so much to Alexa omg I really was not a fan of you (I never bashed you personally, only game wise). After Soras blindside I really wanted to work with you and thought we could have done great things together but you never really seemed to be on the same page as me and even lied to me quite a few times. I wish I had been able to trust you but I found it really hard to after the lies. You were super sneaky and played a great double agent UTR game always being the middle person. If you ever want to have a legit conversation post season hit me up and we can talk more about Britney Haynes.

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