Board Thread:Season 29 - Azerbaijan/@comment-4975295-20151130210756

Hi guys! Well this game was certainly a game all right. I hope you're both proud of yourselves because no matter what mistakes you made, you got here and no one can take that away from you. For my answers, please do not ramble on like your opening statements - short, concise answers would be very much appreciated.

For both of you - for every single vote off at the merge, how did voting out the person you voted for help advance your game? Would you say that the person who left that round left because of you or because of someone else? And finally, if you had to compare your gameplay to that of a real life survivor, who would you compare it to and why?

Ella, people are going to drag you pretty hard at this tribal. Some of it will be a little uncalled for, but know that you did hurt people and now is their chance to get a little payback. A lot of people share the same frustration - that when anyone had a genuine concern, question, or problem with you and they'd bring it up, you'd turn it around on them to make them feel bad. You would intentionally make people upset and then be mad that they were upset and that's not a cool thing to do. I didn't block you because I was mad you were voting for me, I blocked you because you kept trying to start fights and I'd rather avoid that drama. You had your Ella mindset and nothing anyone said could ever convince you that you were wrong. If you want to earn votes, I would highly suggest you get out of that headspace and own up to the type of game you played, recognize your flaws, and realize that you did hurt some people along the way to get to the end. Do not blame the jury for your mistakes - when 5 people have the same problem with you, you are the problem, not them. You definitely have your work cut out for you. To help you out, I'm going to give you a bit of a gimme question. Your Rites of Passage, while very detailed, left a lot to be desired. Normally people just write a nice short sentence or two about why they liked the people in question, and then move on. Rites of Passage shouldn't be a behind the scenes look at how you got to the end and it definitely shouldn't be a list of reasons as to why you're at the end and we aren't. Please redo your Rites of Passage without mentioning the game or why you had to vote someone off. Just say nice things about everyone! You can just do this for the jury (so including Hunter) because the pre-jury is kind of irrelevant. Good luck Ella!

Jared! I really hope we can be friends after the game is over (hopefully on Skype because let's face it, Facebook sucks). I don't really have any problems with your game at all - I think you played a good social game and your strategy clearly worked because it took you to the end. You kind of have this in the bag so for this FTC all you need to do is be honest with the jury and show why your game was cleaner and better executed than Ella's. You don't need to push her down (the jury will do that on their own), just elevate yourself above her. You can do this! Good luck Jared. 