Board Thread:Season 31 - Retribution/@comment-26864283-20160311005135/@comment-24277959-20160311011930

HEY NICK,

To answer your question I don't think I've EVER SAID any of the greece/gens 'premades' sucked, not once, in fact I respect a majority if not all of the people in them from a gameplay standpoint and I liked their winners. If you can find any receipts of me saying so that'd be great, bc I really don't know where that's coming from. IN FACT, if I'm correct, as we were talking about the season, if one of us were to win, we'd use THEM as an example and point that out so if anyone tried to shit on us, we say HEY, we're not the only ones, and that we should've been stopped while we can.

At the end of the day did I have 4 people I knew well coming into this season..? Without a doubt, but we're not the only ones. There's been people in this season that have played plenty of orgs with one another too, whether it be on here in the fb org community or tumblr. WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES. And the fact of the matter is one of us literally voted 3 of yall out in ~almost~ 3 consecutive rounds straight once F13 hit. So I didn't have this illusion of a luxury for the unmerge, absolutely not. I took my game into my own hands and wanted to run away with it by my own merit, so if I had to go for broke and win out until the end, I'm gonna do it, and I hope that can be respected.

And I know you can counter that back and still say "yall had us for the premerge", well yeah, but I'm about 99% sure I could've survived by my own on the premerge since like I said, it was a long drawn out massacre for anyone that put your name down on Day 1. The premerge portion of the game was mostly pretty straightforward.

Also while I know my social game isn't my strong suit I can't fully agree with saying that I only used you guys for social connections and tried to hide behind it all game long. I'd like to believe I've formed individual relationships with people like Jordan, Michelle, and Lucas, and that I've talked to and had attempted to work with just about every juror from a game standpoint with the exception of Danielle. Yes, some of my plans fizzled out, but everyone here knows the most effective strategists are sitting on the jury and that the one I'm sitting next to, at least I don't think, was able to make or attempt as many moves that I did.

NOW IN REGARDS TO THE STUBBORNNESS, I honestly had no idea I came off as such but if you can I'd like to ask what were the specifics of me being so in the voteouts you listed. You said the Will vote? Was that because you wanted me to give you my individual immunity? I COULDN'T. You mentioned the Austin vote, Nick, I went to bat for you that vote, called you the second I found out you were a target, and was part of the reason Kaeden threw off his vote to give us the numbers. And for the Danielle vote I was just trying to take a backseat  (thanks to my immunity) after my F13 plan blew up, I thought more of the tension was between you and Bryce that vote?

One more thing, I'm just gonna defend some of the moves I made.

- Was I a bit selfish in wanting to have this flashy idol play on myself at the round of 13? Yes, but the reason I wanted to do so was to mask all of our covers to propel our games moving forward, but I was fully willing to go a different course and I don't remember anyone trying to change the plan. And I don't think it's "wasting" an idol if I had the clue for the merged idol at the time, and if I had the propensity to find idols like I did. Not trying to sound arrogant, I just want to state the facts here saying that I did find 3 idols in this game.

- I don't think voting off Danielle was anything horrible from a strategic standpoint because she was someone I knew would probably be after me, I think if anything it weakened Grace's game (who we couldn't get at the time bc of her closeness with Ethan), and no other target at the time seemed anymore productive for my game.

- Okay yeah I voted out of the loop F8, but if there's one thing I pride myself it's in improvisation and I used that round to even the playing field at 3-3 on both sides, and it gave me leeway to vote out Bryce sooner.

- I don't think me voting out Grace at F5 is a bad move either seeing how I'm here at the end and that the move took out my biggest physical competition. If I got put on the final two jury spots we could all laugh at me for an eternity, but I made it here so I think the move was a gamble that pulled off.

So that's just to explain myself, lemme know if you have any more questions and it was great playing with you Nick[=