Board Thread:Season 27 - Alsace-Lorraine/@comment-26376587-20150726225807

Hello Final 3, congrats on making it here. You all did something notable enough to make it to the end, and while I don't agree with some of your methods, I will respect the decisions you made. Personally, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the progression of this season. It was rather boring and the votes up until the Jack vote were pretty...suckish. A lot of you were cool people, but your gameplay was awful. That said, I won't let the way the season progress take away from what you all have done. I'd like to do this by addressing you all separately.

Jesper - Jesper, the ass eater. You're a funny dude and I must say I think you were the superior player all season long. You had allies all over the board and knew when to cut down people. However, some of your moves still confuse me and your speech didn't do a good enough job addressing those points. The moves I'm talking about was the Gaston vote, my own vote, and the Simon vote. I really don't understand your intentions behind any of those votes (my own being the most because well I didn't really do anything to warrant being eliminated at that point). I would just like you to clarify what you were doing in the early merge phase. Personally, I don't hold anything against you, but your speech has holes in it that I just want clarity on, then we can proceed with more pressing matters. I don't know if you were expecting a roast or not, but I couldn't figure shit out from your jury speech because you gave me nothing to work with so please just give me the information I need to make this vote. Also, what's this talk of an Anti-American Alliance? That's not a good justification to vote people out.

Max - Max, I would like to say I trusted you the most out of everything and you gave me no reason to worry. You were the only one to warn me about my impending elimination (Jack tried to but the tribal was posted already) but to avoid being a target, you had to vote me. I've been in that situation before, so I know what it's like. I am not disappointed in you for that, don't worry. My issue with you is that there are inaccurate statements in your speech, and you need to clear up some holes. First off, you were definitely a floater in the grand scheme of things. You had alliances but they all got decimated, and any allies you had were crazily blasting each other. Why was I deemed a threat? Was it because of this Anti-American Alliance craze that was going around? Why did you not tell anyone about the idol, it could have definitely made the game a lot simpler? You did in fact get lucky as you said in your speech. After the whole Jack fiasco, you were bait for the longest time. At any point in the game from that moment on, if Jesper wanted you out, you were gone. You made finals purely based off your relationship with Jesper and nothing more. What else is there to your game that warrants a jury vote? I like you, I really do, but I am not sure I can respect the way you made it here to be completely honest. In my eyes, Jesper was the ring leader, you and Amber were his "cronies" and you guys did what he said for the better part of the merge. I want to know what makes you stand out from Jesper, then I can consider voting for you.

Navneet - Yeah, no. I totally understand that you had to work a lot and that kept you from participating a lot early on, but that doesn't excuse everything you did. I know post-merge, all you did was vote and you did not submit challenge scores for the longest time. There's a difference between throwing the competitions to make yourself not look like a threat and just not doing them at all. That annoys me to be completely honest. This line from your jury speech tells me all I need to know about your game: " For most of the post merge, I was under the protection of Jes." The stage of the game that mattered the most, you were PROTECTED. What moves did you make in the entirety of the game? The only reason you got votes is because the majority of us believed you were inactive and it was a waste to have you stay in longer. Just because you were relied upon as a vote doesn't make you this "hidden, subdued player." You were a vote, that's all you were in this game. Yeah, you avoided the target. You avoided the crossfire. By doing those things, you simply just avoided the jury votes. :) I would love to give you a chance in the jury voting, but you didn't give yourself a chance in the game to stand out as something beyond that guy who only votes and is being carried by the best game player in the season by far. I don't care if you were relied upon as a vote, Jesper could have definitely made the end without you. Hell, I would argue that Melca, someone who didn't stand out as you did, had a better chance with the jury. I could argue that if jury started at the beginning of merge, Mantis would get more votes than you. This is why I believe you played foe 3rd, and if your plan was to make FTC, you did your job and I congratulate you for that. Other than that, you got nothing to show for "competing" on this season. Good luck with the other jurors, you will not be receiving my vote.   