Board Thread:Season 8 - Korea/@comment-11497002-20131020082612/@comment-10125290-20131021030724

Benenen wrote: Aston is currently unable to access this site, so he messaged me his response and asked me to post it here. I've copied it without changes except to formatting. If he wants to post his response himself later, I'm happy to remove this post.

Aston's response:

"My last message to you before asking how's ponderosa was, so do we agree on voting Eddie, after that we never talked one on one. Sure we might of talked in the chat alliance we had on Silla but not in private, but that was a minor reason. Lets see, you helped Silla win almost every challenge, you had extremely good social skills, we talked and you seemed like a very nice guy, very intelligent as well, so in words legitimately saying why i voted you off, a threat to my game, I know for a fact you had a good chance of making it to the end, and if you did so, I feel you would of beat me doing so. Had I ever lost trust in you? No, but back then I thought I trusted other people more than you, I had a feeling you wouldn't of betrayed me, but would I take that risk of staying with you far enough for you to have made FTC, no, it was too much of a risky move.

Now lets see, the two people I would take to the end if I thought I would win against them would be Max and Eddie. First of all, Max was slightly inactive, and I feel I would've beaten him if I took him because of the jury statements and how our game play was, second of all, Eddie, I feel the reason I would beat Eddie because if that actually was the final 3, I never would of betrayed, and we would still be friends, and I feel if the jury saw the situation I think I would be seen much more of a strategist and would've received there votes.

Second point, is who I thought the final 3 was going to be, once final 6 final 3 chats were the things that were being said, I felt final 4 I needed the people I trusted most so we could vote off the other one, and at that time I saw my as Alejandro and Amir, but I eventually saw the true side of their alliance and instantly started to re think my plan of final 3, how ever, Alejandro had blind sided pretty much the whole jury so he was a free slot, and mate Aaron because his under the radar skill might not of gotten him many votes. So in reality, the ideal FTC with myself in it would be me, Eddie and Max."

This is my response to Aston:

This is a better explanation but I still feel we are at odds. Let me cut to the chase. Was there a 9-person alliance consisting of Hunter, Ivan, Jake, Cassels, Alejandro, Ryan, Amir, Aaron and yourself? If so, might that have something to do with my elimination? Because if this alliance existed, then that put you in a 7-3 majority at the merge, with me in a rather unfavourable position.

That's why I was annoyed by you brushing my elimination off as due to my alleged lack of communication. Because at the merge I reached out to Hunter, Ivan and Aaron: people I had never before spoken to. I was actively involved in our four-person alliance between Miggy, myself, you and Aaron (granted, you and Aaron didn’t count this as a genuine alliance). I communicated with people and I worked hard because I had to. I was up against 7 people who had been aligned since the beginning of the game. Meanwhile, you were safe in your majority alliance and you didn’t have to worry about a thing. So please don't act as if it’s my fault I wasn’t lucky enough to be chosen as a member of the fabled 9-person alliance. And please don't tell me I had a good chance of making it to the end. I never had a chance of making it to the end when I was the 'easy vote' for 7 people.

I wasn't looking for flattery. I really just wanted you to own your move because, hey, it worked for you. You made it to the end.

Ben, I see your point, but at the time Of writing this I believed I was telling the truth, and the fact that the alliance were the decision you went wasn't my choice. I'm not a bad liar, that doesn't make me look like a liar, because of all honesty, the alliance of 7 weren't much of an alliance. Alejandro and others were making deals with the 3 others so that they could blind side each and everyone of us. M,y vote was my vote, not my alliances vote.