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Post by Zeebz on Sept 12, 2014 16:26:35 GMT -5
Sean!!! <3 Thank you for the kind words. I actually felt the same way. I also didn't know if I could trust you in the game because I didn't know you. I knew Indulge though, so I trusted him, which meant I trusted you too. It was a good choice, because you were a vital factor in me making it so far and you're an awesome new friend. <3
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Post by surfy on Sept 12, 2014 16:53:53 GMT -5
I did win an idol: CONGRATULATIONS!!!You have discovered the Katy Perry Immunity Idol!!!!RULES1. You my play this idol one time only. 2. This idol may only be played during an Elimination Ceremony, after the votes have been cast, but before they are read. 3. You may use the idol to save yourself, or to save another of your choosing. 4. You may only quote this PM when playing the idol. You MUST quote the PM to play it. 5. Y ou may NOT quote this PM to other players except as described above, although you may inform them that you have an idol.
6. Your last opportunity to play this idol will be during the final five elimination ceremony (i.e. when five players are being cut to four). Anyways, Sean - You played a great social game, and you were also very mischievous! I applaud you; you deserve this! My question for you is what role did you play in my eviction? Indulge - You and I didn't talk at all... So I kind of forgot you were playing. Anyways, from what I know you lacked in both a social and competitive aspect, but you must have had a good strategy by latching onto Sean. My question for you is what big moves did you make in this game, if any? Josh - I tried to tell you, but of course my past came back to bite me in the ass. Anyways, you played a great social and competitive game, my question for you is who was the most valuable, and how did they help you reach this point?
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Post by josh on Sept 12, 2014 17:36:21 GMT -5
Thanks Zeebz! surfy, again, sorry about not trusting you. Even if I hadn't voted for you, you would have gotten out, unless you played your idol. But with your Big Brother history, and some weird things you said in PM, I just really doubted you. As for your question, it was probably Drag. He was my planned person to take to the finals, he did well in competitions, both tribal and individual (preventing who we wanted to be evicted from winning), and he helped me in alliances and getting people to vote our way. He definitely was a huge help to me. Cynthia was a big help as well, as were you. Sean kind of was too, but ultimately backstabbed us.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 12, 2014 21:20:25 GMT -5
Indulge - You and I didn't talk at all... So I kind of forgot you were playing. Anyways, from what I know you lacked in both a social and competitive aspect, but you must have had a good strategy by latching onto Sean. My question for you is what big moves did you make in this game, if any? I orchestrated the move to get Drag out after Cynthia by getting Lahey to vote with my alliance. And I also played a part in getting you out as well once I noticed josh had expressed that he distrusted you.
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Post by surfy on Sept 12, 2014 22:22:57 GMT -5
Alrighty, thanks a lot... :'(
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Post by Zeebz on Sept 12, 2014 22:24:36 GMT -5
I can attest that Indulge actually did a lot of strategizing. A lot of it never saw the light of day (due to external factors), but he was nevertheless very involved behind the scenes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 0:21:46 GMT -5
ok you guys did a pretty solid job of explaining how you played throughout the game so i only have one question and it is fairly simple, albeit wordy. Each of you are in the final three for very different reasons. - Indulge, you made it because you did most of your work behind the scenes, therefore avoiding seeming like a threat who needed to be voted out right away. The flaw in this is that all of your best play happened in private, and we didn't get to see much of you in the actual challenges, however that should not at all be construed as me taking away from what you did do, b/c you moved your alliance - and yourself - through the game very well (obviously, since you made the final three). - Sean, you made it by the most 'traditional' style of Survivor play, cunning and deception You were good at challenges, but your real strength was in convincing more than one alliance that you were trustworthy and using information from those alliances. You also successfully framed Surfboardt, and by the time josh figured out it was you who 'betrayed' us it was too late for him to get you out. The flaw here, obviously, is that you had to 'turn' on one group in order to make things work the way you wanted them to. - Josh, normally your style of play is the kind that hurts in this game, b/c Survivor doesn't lend itself well to people who don't change up their alliances at least a little bit. However, your loyalty turned out to be your biggest strength (while your alliance was around), and then being an exceptionally strong player when it mattered most (though you were solid overall, as you pointed out, you really went into overdrive once you realized you did not have other votes to back you up). The flaw here is that said loyalty did almost catch up on you b/c I do think you (well, all of us) got kind of lazy and relied on it too heavily to help us coast through to the next round. Given that, my question to each of you is the same - why should I believe YOUR strategy is the one I should vote for over the others as the best one for winning Survivor? This is a question about strategy, not about you as individuals.
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Post by josh on Sept 13, 2014 0:28:54 GMT -5
As I said before, unlike real Survivor, we aren't together 24/7, which can make it quite difficult to talk with one another. I kept up a PM with Lahey throughout most of the game, talked with Indulge a little, and briefly with Nick as well. That delay of talking with other people definitely hindered my game in some aspects, which kinda sucks, but oh well. As for your question, being loyal often doesn't work out, but ethically it's the right thing to do. I didn't backstab anyone. I just stabbed people in the front. If you have 2 players who played equally in all aspects except 1 remained loyal to 1 alliance the entire game, and the other was in multiple alliances, thereby backstabbing at least 1 person, I think the person who remained loyal is a more worth winner, if only based on ethics. Therefore, the ethically correct decision is for you to vote for me.
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Post by Sean on Sept 13, 2014 0:51:29 GMT -5
I tried posting in here earlier, but Proboards sucks balls so it didn't work anyways I had a lot of tequila. And some vodka afterwartds which was a terrible idea, but holy tequila. Happy Birthday! Anyways, Sean - You played a great social game, and you were also very mischievous! I applaud you; you deserve this! My question for you is what role did you play in my eviction? I love you! You're too sweet! Thank you for the nice words, but I do have to say that I'm guilty. Guilty on two counts to be honest.... As I said I loved playing this gamer, but it was a lot of going back and forth on trying to figure out where players stood and everything. Anyways, I do want to confess that during the middle of the game you randomly got like two votes against you, and I was one of them. I don't know who the other was, but one of them was me. The one that said "Happy Birthday :(" or something douchey like that. I do apoologize for that, ubt after everything I think we voted for like 3 different people on their birthdays and that was kind of funny, in a not really funny but actually funny way. I really am sorry for that because at that time a lot of people seemed busy with the beginning of school, so things weren't working out and not a lot of talking was going on, so I voted for you pretty much only for the fact that everyone was saying that you shouldn't be trusted after your Pulse Big Brother stint. I don't know, it wasn't one of my well thought out plans during the game. Anyways, back to your question. Yes, I did vote for you the last time when you got kicked off of our imaginary internet island. Wouldn't it be adorable if we were all stuck on an island for real thoyough? I mean, no it wouldn't, but it kind of could have been. At the time things were working out to my favor and we already voted for Cynthia and Drag *(sorry again! :( ) and all I really wanted was to vote for Josh, but he kicked too much ass and won like 24 immunity idols or something like tyhat. Crazy, but awesome. So that time he already had immunity and Lahey seemed to possibly be on our side, so I ended up voting for you. It was rushed again too because I was at a concert, but it kind of happened. Lucked out that you didn't get to use the immunity idol though. Actually thinking back I feel like the past 5 tribal councils there was like 1 person who didn't vote. Was that just me? Anyways, nothing personal, obviously since I adore you, but it just ended up being that way by chance. Sorry! Hope that answers your question, love you long time. Too much red squiggles, but I care not at all. I should go to bed but I want to reply to cYNTHIA BECAUSE SHE's oops big letters.
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Post by Sean on Sept 13, 2014 1:01:20 GMT -5
ok you guys did a pretty solid job of explaining how you played throughout the game so i only have one question and it is fairly simple, albeit wordy. Each of you are in the final three for very different reasons. - Indulge, you made it because you did most of your work behind the scenes, therefore avoiding seeming like a threat who needed to be voted out right away. The flaw in this is that all of your best play happened in private, and we didn't get to see much of you in the actual challenges, however that should not at all be construed as me taking away from what you did do, b/c you moved your alliance - and yourself - through the game very well (obviously, since you made the final three). - Sean, you made it by the most 'traditional' style of Survivor play, cunning and deception You were good at challenges, but your real strength was in convincing more than one alliance that you were trustworthy and using information from those alliances. You also successfully framed Surfboardt, and by the time josh figured out it was you who 'betrayed' us it was too late for him to get you out. The flaw here, obviously, is that you had to 'turn' on one group in order to make things work the way you wanted them to. - Josh, normally your style of play is the kind that hurts in this game, b/c Survivor doesn't lend itself well to people who don't change up their alliances at least a little bit. However, your loyalty turned out to be your biggest strength (while your alliance was around), and then being an exceptionally strong player when it mattered most (though you were solid overall, as you pointed out, you really went into overdrive once you realized you did not have other votes to back you up). The flaw here is that said loyalty did almost catch up on you b/c I do think you (well, all of us) got kind of lazy and relied on it too heavily to help us coast through to the next round. Given that, my question to each of you is the same - why should I believe YOUR strategy is the one I should vote for over the others as the best one for winning Survivor? This is a question about strategy, not about you as individuals. Deception!! Reading your statement makes me sad because it seems like that is the way how I play all of these games on Pulse! Remember when I convinced Nightfire that we won that game of Mafia? Holy eff that was the funniest thing ever! LMFAO!!!! Omg I have a problem. Anyways, you are right. I lied to get myself to the top in a sense and it probavbly hurt me in a lot of aspects, but in another sense it did help me. I do think that my game style is one that is used quite a bit, as you said, the "traditional' way of Survivor. I tried my best to keep myself active, in games and PMs, but I didn't want to be so far in the spotlight (??? that's not the word I was looking for, but kind of how Josh was the leader of that group in a sense and I wanted to be useful, but not too useful). I don't know if any of this is coming out right, but I do think I played pretty well in some aspcets of the game and no matter how things turn out I'm proud of how I (and Indulge and Josh) played! Fun times!!! ^_^ I LOVE YOU! <4
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Post by Sean on Sept 13, 2014 1:02:37 GMT -5
As for your question, being loyal often doesn't work out, but ethically it's the right thing to do. I didn't backstab anyone. I just stabbed people in the front. If you have 2 players who played equally in all aspects except 1 remained loyal to 1 alliance the entire game, and the other was in multiple alliances, thereby backstabbing at least 1 person, I think the person who remained loyal is a more worth winner, if only based on ethics. Therefore, the ethically correct decision is for you to vote for me. Wait this is about me isn't it. RUDE! Truthful, but rude!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 13, 2014 3:17:43 GMT -5
Given that, my question to each of you is the same - why should I believe YOUR strategy is the one I should vote for over the others as the best one for winning Survivor? This is a question about strategy, not about you as individuals. Basically everything josh said about his game can apply to me too because I did no backstabbing. [2] So, yeah, there's that. The reason you should vote for me is that I was instrumental in breaking up your powerful alliance, which looked poised to defeat mine until we turned the tables on you guys. I know I wasn't all that visible in the game to people outside my alliance, but I definitely did a lot of strategizing and behind-the-scenes work that made me an unsuspecting target because it probably looked like I wasn't doing anything to the people not named Zebra and Sean, but in actuality I played a big role in taking out a lot of players in the last few weeks. ;)
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Post by K. on Sept 13, 2014 20:24:24 GMT -5
If nobody else has any comments/questions, I'm going to close the commenting period at 10PM tomorrow night. Votes will then be due by 10PM Monday night.
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on Sept 13, 2014 20:56:18 GMT -5
I have a few questions:
First of all, congrats on making the top three (while I got the coveted Cher Lloyd spot). All three of you had very distinct playing styles, but they all seemed to work.
Indulge: I considered you to be the dark horse of the competition. I rarely saw you in the main thread, though I had much contact with you in a special PM. You never really won a challenge either, and the one time you received immunity, it was through an auction, which was never an elimination challenge to begin with. However, you obviously performed better than Big Brother. Now that it comes to the final three, your challenge performance is significantly weaker than the other two. My question is: do you think becoming a nonfactor in challenges has helped you get as far as you did, and who else do you think contributed to you getting this far?
Josh: I saw you as a definitive front-runner, and I thought you, along with Drag, were the masterminds of your alliance against the Konichiwas. I rarely saw a weakness from you, and that really helped with you winning a bunch of challenges and also through a stellar social game (since I kept a steady PM with you, I would know). Tell me: did you think anything was holding you back at all during the season?
Sean: You've actually impressed me. In the beginning of jury, I deemed you as a middle-runner in the competition, but as the challenges rolled through, I changed my mind and labeled you as another front-runner. You won many of the earlier challenges, and you did keep a lot of secrets. I kinda got suspicious of that when 1) you didn't respond to my PM about Drag, and 2) the times when I thought you were going to vote for me. My question: has keeping a lot of secrets led you to think you were the major threat?
All: Out of all of the players, who did you think had the most and least potential of making it far coming into the game?
Wow, getting fourth must really mean massive shade to my game.
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Post by Sean on Sept 13, 2014 21:32:46 GMT -5
I have a few questions: Sean: You've actually impressed me. In the beginning of jury, I deemed you as a middle-runner in the competition, but as the challenges rolled through, I changed my mind and labeled you as another front-runner. You won many of the earlier challenges, and you did keep a lot of secrets. I kinda got suspicious of that when 1) you didn't respond to my PM about Drag, and 2) the times when I thought you were going to vote for me. My question: has keeping a lot of secrets led you to think you were the major threat?Great questions! First off, thank you for the nice words! I kind of felt the same about myself! Hahaha! I actually have a question for you before I go on rambling...what PM are you talking about? Throughout the game I only got 2 initially from you, while a couple others we were party of a group. The first one was asking if I voted for Zebra (no way José!) which I tried responding to, but you never replied. And the second one was after Surf was voted for and we all pretty much wanted Josh gone! Haha! I never received a PM from you about Drag. Anyways, to the question! I'm not sure if I was exactly the major threat, but by the middle of the game when I was watching sides and kind of just observing who was with who and what way the votes were leaning, I did think that I was a decent threat if things kept up with me. At the time I didn't think I was the big upsetting threat that could make it to the final three, but after Josh's team started to fall I did think it was possible! And here we are! Haha! I'm taking this question as at the start of the game ("coming into the game"), which is probably the obvious way people will read it, but it's me and I'm oblivious to life! Haha! Anyways, I'm glad the way the tribes got separated. I knew more people in Josh's Bitchfest tribe, so I thought that could help me, but also may hurt me, which is why at the beginning the two biggest threats to me were Josh and Cynthia. I believe almost everyone could have been a big threat and could have made it far, but the Konichiwa tribe sadly didn't stand a chance! Although my alliance always with Indulge (never would have changed!!! <3), I would have loved to interacted with more of the posters in the Konichiwa tribe, but thankfully I got to know Zebra! Of everyone voted off early (RIP Ry4n :'( ), I honestly didn't expect B4L to be voted off that early! I knew that B4L was probably a big threat in that tribe's eyes, but still took me for a shock! And obviously the answer to the second question is icant. Like seriously.... I understand why he made it so far in a sense but she still sucked. And since the tribe seemed to have the same feelings and wanted to take out their stronger players, but that that ended up hurting them, I think! ^_^
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Post by josh on Sept 14, 2014 1:15:19 GMT -5
Josh: I saw you as a definitive front-runner, and I thought you, along with Drag, were the masterminds of your alliance against the Konichiwas. I rarely saw a weakness from you, and that really helped with you winning a bunch of challenges and also through a stellar social game (since I kept a steady PM with you, I would know). Tell me: did you think anything was holding you back at all during the season?The biggest thing holding me back was the difficulty of trying to have conversations with different people, due to not everyone being online at the same time. This definitely hindered things towards the end, trying to figure out who was voting for who, and whatnot. All: Out of all of the players, who did you think had the most and least potential of making it far coming into the game? Most potential: well there were a few strong competition players from big brother (nick, devin, zebra, myself) who were good in that aspect, but we also could be seen as big targets because of that same reason and people being scared. I also thought Cynthia and Sean could do well, being very well liked. Least potential: again, the strong competitors because of being seen as threats. Then also icant, green baron, and yourself, because people obviously hated icant, and green baron and yourself tend not to be people's favorites as well (no offense). But then again people might keep you guys around (like with icant) because they could get strong people out and still have the annoying people as easy pickings later on. I think that's it. Wow, getting fourth must really mean massive shade to my game. ikr :'( i feel you from bb :'(
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 14, 2014 13:16:41 GMT -5
Indulge: I considered you to be the dark horse of the competition. I rarely saw you in the main thread, though I had much contact with you in a special PM. You never really won a challenge either, and the one time you received immunity, it was through an auction, which was never an elimination challenge to begin with. However, you obviously performed better than Big Brother. Now that it comes to the final three, your challenge performance is significantly weaker than the other two. My question is: do you think becoming a nonfactor in challenges has helped you get as far as you did, and who else do you think contributed to you getting this far?All: Out of all of the players, who did you think had the most and least potential of making it far coming into the game? I guess so, because no one ever targeted me since there were always bigger threats to get out, but I think I made it far in the game because of my alliance with Zebra and Sean, so I'd say the two of them contributed a lot to me getting this far. You also helped me a lot, Lahey, because having you on our side gave us the numbers to flip the power in the game in our alliance's favor. I think the most potential were josh, Drag, Cynthia, and Zebra, because three of them were all big players in Big Brother who made it pretty far, and then Cynthia showed right away that she'd be a big contender as well. Least potential would be icant and Baron because no one likes to put up with their antics.
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Post by josh on Sept 15, 2014 9:28:47 GMT -5
K. How many jury members are there? And what are you doing about icant's boardicide? You never answered me.
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Post by Zeebz on Sept 15, 2014 10:54:58 GMT -5
K. How many jury members are there? And what are you doing about icant's boardicide? You never answered me. I think I can answer the first one. It's everyone eliminated from Icant on. That was: Icant, Devin, Nick, Cynthia, Drag, Surf, myself, and Lahey, so eight.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 11:50:52 GMT -5
icant is still able to post in the jury room and will post his vote there.
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Post by josh on Sept 15, 2014 12:08:07 GMT -5
K. How many jury members are there? And what are you doing about icant's boardicide? You never answered me. I think I can answer the first one. It's everyone eliminated from Icant on. That was: Icant, Devin, Nick, Cynthia, Drag, Surf, myself, and Lahey, so eight. I knew it started from icant, but I couldn't remember exactly who was evicted after him lol. Thanks though! icant is still able to post in the jury room and will post his vote there. Oh yeah, I feel like someone posted that before. Thanks!
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on Sept 15, 2014 12:17:15 GMT -5
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Post by K. on Sept 15, 2014 12:20:15 GMT -5
I'm extending the vote deadline a little bit. Jury members, your votes are due by noon tomorrow. Please PM me your votes rather than posting them in the quicktopic (but I will count the votes of those of you who have done that already). The ban on all other players posting here in this thread also ends at noon tomorrow. Finale will be later tomorrow night. Thanks everyone! Good luck to the finalists!!! br] @gagalicious @jf816 DevinHefty Hannanick64Fancy Zeebz Sean Lahey's Lucky Star@drag27 surfy@antigonerising Green Baronjosh.indulgecountry
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Post by josh on Sept 15, 2014 12:22:26 GMT -5
tomorrow night? i have an exam 8 wednesday morning. :(
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on Sept 15, 2014 12:22:35 GMT -5
Let's all talk about my placement:
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Post by josh on Sept 15, 2014 13:40:57 GMT -5
remember to vote for josh! ;)
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Post by popstop on Sept 16, 2014 11:42:39 GMT -5
I think I can post in here now! It's past noon Eastern! Just want to say congrats to the three of you all. This was really fun to watch.
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Post by josh on Sept 16, 2014 12:04:04 GMT -5
You aren't a player so you were never banned, I don't think.
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Post by popstop on Sept 16, 2014 13:21:19 GMT -5
Oh, I've been quiet for nothing. >:(
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Post by josh on Sept 16, 2014 13:23:31 GMT -5
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