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Post by Jeff Probst on Sept 17, 2020 18:21:50 GMT -5
FINAL TRIBAL COUNCIL Welcome to the Final Tribal Council. We'll bring in the Jury. Keith, Debb, Jeff, Tina, Elisabeth, Michael & Nick, voted out at the last Tribal Council. Alicia & Mitchell, you have gone as far as you can go in this game. The power now shifts over to the Jury. 7 people you had a hand in voting out, now hold your fate in their hands.Here's how it is going to work. The Jury members are going to have a chance to speak to you. They can make a statement, ask a question or do both. They are gathering information to help inform their decision as they vote for the Winner of Survivor The Australian Outback.Jurors: Post your statements and questions below. Over the next 24 hours, The Final 2 will answer them.You may ask them more than one question (Try to keep it to a limit of 3 TOTAL, not 3 each). You can also ask them specific questions that apply to them and not the other finalist. Make sure you specify who should answer which questions.You are NOT permitted to privately message the Final 2 in the Hangout. All correspondence will take place here.NOTE: There is no follow up questions. The Juror will ask their question or questions, the Final 2 will respond and that is it.Final 2: Please do separate posts every time you answer a Juror's question. Also please specify which Juror you are responding to. Once every Juror has posted a question and they have all been answered, you will get a chance to make one final statement. Jurors can submit your vote at any time. You are NOT permitted to change your vote once it has been cast so I recommend waiting until after the final statements have been posted.
You will send your vote in the forum messages under the title "Jury Vote"
Votes are due by 7:30PM tomorrow (Fri. Sept. 18th).
GOOD LUCK FINALISTS!
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Post by wiglesworth on Sept 18, 2020 16:23:12 GMT -5
Pick a number between 1 & 10.
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Post by Tina Wesson on Sept 18, 2020 16:31:01 GMT -5
Hey guys! Congrats on making it to the end!!!! Super excited and jealous!
Alicia- you are such a great gal, and so much fun to talk to! I have to ask though, why were you so hesitant to discuss strategy with me? I know it wasn’t just you; most of the Kucha members were obviously not keen. I’m just curious. Congrats 😘
Alicia - can you like tell me of a time where you initiated strategy with a member of Ogakor?
Mitchell - my number one since the first challenge! Congrats💕 I just want to know, when I got eliminated did you have any idea?
Again, congrats to you both!
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Post by Jeff Varner on Sept 18, 2020 16:45:29 GMT -5
Congrats To You Both!
LoL, I'm definitely a bit jealous, but you guys earned your spot, so kudos.
Alicia - You and I were close from day one, so I am happy to see a person that I was so closely working with make it to the end! What would you say is your biggest game move?
Mitchell - You were probably the person on Ogakor that I was closest to, so it's nice to see you overcome the odds and make it to the end! Do you think that you used strategy to make it to the end or was it alot of luck?
To Both: Name a thing that you most respect about the other.
Again congratulations to you both, and Good Luck!! 😊😊
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Post by Elisabeth Filarski on Sept 18, 2020 16:53:40 GMT -5
Congrats on making it to the finals! Both: list what you get on your burger and what you get on your pizza. This is important and by choosing the ingredients/toppings that I consider essential you will likely get my vote Mitchell: You were cursed with a very weak beginning team. If you had the chance to build your own Ogakor from the beginning, who would be on that team and why? Alicia: I feel like you were one of the only contestants that really enjoyed just chatting about life and hobbies even in the later rounds where the talks with others were usually just pure strategy. Assuming you spoke with others, what's one great and one negative quality about Mitchell as well as 2 other people in the Jury? Please exclude me and Nick in your choices. Good luck  |
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Post by Alicia Calaway on Sept 18, 2020 17:05:04 GMT -5
Tina
Hey girl! It was so nice getting to know you on a personal level. I'm sorry I never got to talk game with you. Going into the merge I had actually discussed with Kimmi that her and I should work with you and try and do an all girls thing but neither of us could figure an easy way to do so without looking like flippers. Obviously we all know that took a drastic turb at that first tribal council and everything got flipped upside down.
Which leads me to your second question. The first time I talked strategy with an Ogakor was for the second merge tribal council where Keith got voted out. i think we all knew Keith was going to be the target that round and Mitchell had approached me wanting to work together. I was of course leery of it because who wants to be the one person from Kucha that was going to flip and at the time I wasn't sure if I could trust him not to go back to the other Kucha members and tell them that I had wanted to jump ship. As the conversation progressed I told him a good way to prove loyalty and that he was being truthful was to put votes onto an original Kucha member, besides myself of course, even though he knew that we were all going to be voting for Keith. From there on I started developing a working relationship with Mitchell which lasted the rest of the game.
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Post by Nick Brown on Sept 18, 2020 17:18:03 GMT -5
Congrats y'all. I'm really happy that it is the two of you in the end. You both went on completely different journeys in this game and it was fun to be so close with you guys at the end.
I'm a player who respects gameplay, especially in a game like this where we never see face to face. My questions will follow accordingly.
Mitchell - Can you lay out your strategy for me as the merge progressed? Obviously you wanted to win when you could, and you definitely did, but I want to hear about intentional moves you made that would keep you safe in the event you didn't win immunity.
Alicia - My pal, I wish I was sitting there with you but I'm very happy for you. The jury knows that you and I (and jeff) were close but I want to give you the chance to explain your thought process so I have a similar question to Mitchell's: what was your strategy as the game progressed? I want to hear about some SOLO moves you made...how did you ensure that you would be safe over the other people you were working with?
Best of luck. You both deserve to be there.
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Post by Alicia Calaway on Sept 18, 2020 17:28:35 GMT -5
Jeff
Hey Jeff! I would say my biggest game move was initiating the Late Night Crew alliance. On the early days of Kucha, Kimmi was my number one ally [shocker I think a lot of us could say that.] But once she was voted out first at merge I was left floundering. I knew that I had a great relationship with both you and Nick from that first challenge on so I approached Nick and suggested the three of us work together and from there the Late Night Crew was born. From there we added Michael as a fourth and I had already established Mitchell as somebody I could work with. Once I had the protection of 5 people looking out for me, I was able to keep my head down and stay social with everybody while still flying under the radar so that I didn't come off as a threat.
For your second question, something I admire about Mitchell was his ability to overcome the disadvantage of being the only Ogakor in the final rounds. He was able to win immunity when he needed it the most and put himself into a good position with the remaining Kucha members that ended up paving his way to the final 2. |
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Post by Mitchell Olson on Sept 18, 2020 17:40:28 GMT -5
TINA
Mitchell - my number one since the first challenge! Congrats💕 I just want to know, when I got eliminated did you have any idea?
When you got eliminated I had not been given any reason to believe you were going home. With Elisabeth being distant that round and not contributing to the group chat as much as the round before I did run through the numbers in my head, so I was aware it was a possibility. That's when I went to you with the hypothetical that if Elisabeth were to flip that it would tie things up and you would most likely go home but I didn't think Elisabeth would make that move considering Nick and Alicia at least in my eyes were the biggest threats at that point of the game. I'll admit I had to weigh up whether it was in my best interest to try and approach Alicia and Nick about a different plan but getting so close to the end and having fought for the vote to be Nick and not Alicia (because of our working relationship) that I may have to take the hit in losing you and work on forming tighter bonds with Alicia and Nick moving forward. I spent a good amount of time before the vote was revealed talking to Nick about why I had to put my vote on him hoping that he was in fact the one going home, so he can back me up on that. And I told Keith I was aware that he was being voted out his round and I would have paid you the same respect.
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Post by Alicia Calaway on Sept 18, 2020 18:21:28 GMT -5
Elisabeth
Hey! Part of the reason I like talking about hobbies and the like is because in the end it helps to build a deeper trust with the people you're working with. And ya know so maybe somebody will tell me I don't need to go buy more yarn 😂
I won't lie, I'm a semi picky eater so my classic cheese and pepperoni pizza is my go to. But a local pizzeria here makes one that is a Buffalo wing chicken pizza with ranch dressing instead of sauce, cheese obviously, and Buffalo style chicken on it. It's soo good. For burgers, I'm not a huge burger fan [chicken nuggets ftw] but on the occasion I get a craving for a burger I prefer just cheese and pickles, preferably extra pickle because you can never have enough pickles.
As far as negatives go about Mitchell and the jurors I'll base that on game play because I'm not the type of person that's going to put somebody else down for the purpose of a game.
Something positive about Mitchell I already got into with Jeff's question, because his social game and his ability to win challenges when he needed to is incredibly admirable. But something I find positive on a more personal level is that he's open to discussion about things with an open mind. For example talking about people on Big Brother that we like or even dislike. Even if he doesn't see eye to eye on my opinion on a player he's still open minded about it.
For negatives, I would say was the vote at final 6 when Tina was voted out. Nick and I both knew that we were on the bottom with Jeff gone and Mitchell told me the vote was going to be for Nick. I wanted Mitchell to vote with myself and Nick to force a tie between you and Nick, and you would have been voted out because of the past votes rule but he wasn't willing to because he felt Nick was going to insist on him getting voted out the next round but that he would get me to the final 3 with himself and Tina. While I was honored he'd work with me until then being in the final 3 with two original Ogakors wasn't in my best interest game wise. When I told Nick that I didn't think I was going to be able to sway Mitchell he thought you might be our better bet to change the vote which is when we all voted to force the tie between Nick and Tina.
Something positive about Michael is that I admired him a lot when he justified his reasoning for choosing to play as who he did seeing as the real Michael Skupin is a real creep. To me this shows that he's willing to stick up for himself and not let people walk all over him. Which for the record it irked me that somebody would question who he chose to play as seeing as the real Skupin's true colors didn't come out until well after Survivor Australia aired. As far as a negative I wish Michael had been around more communication wise. I know a large component is his timezone but with hangouts we always got messages later when we checked back in.
Something positive about Keith is that he's a bookworm like myself. I loved the conversation at merge about the Hunger Games novel he was reading. As a fellow bookworm I love hearing about what genres and fandoms others are passionate about. For a negative I didn't particularly like how he told Debb that he thought somebody else did the puzzle for her for the first individual immunity challenge. I know he knew he was the target and was looking for any way possible to try and change the course of the game, but to me calling out somebodys integrity isn't the way to do it. Granted I heard about this comment secondhand so I apologize if it wasn't actually said. |
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Post by Mitchell Olson on Sept 18, 2020 18:21:40 GMT -5
JEFF
Mitchell - You were probably the person on Ogakor that I was closest to, so it's nice to see you overcome the odds and make it to the end! Do you think that you used strategy to make it to the end or was it alot of luck?
Jeff, I think you and I both know that by the time we merged I was fresh out of luck lol. At that point of the game I was severely in the minority with 2 wonderful people however, and please don't take offence to this Keith and Tina, I did feel like I had to do a lot of people management when it came to my former tribe members. They were my best allies and my biggest shields. Tina had just come back from a girls night where everyone had been telling me she had disclosed a lot of what took place at Ogakor before the merge, innocently of course, there was no malicious intent. And Keith being the big character he is was a polarising force and that was definitely made clear when some of the information Tina had shared about a previous tribal council where Amber had referred to Keith as being a snake had made its way to Kucha. I had to do SO much damage control. Not only trying to get Kucha on side but within my own alliance because Tina and Keith were at odds. I spent hours talking to Keith helping him construct his message in response to Kimmi's post and making sure that it would appeal to a larger audience because I knew if he wrote what he wanted to that we wouldn't be getting anyones support that vote. And that's where a lot of my bonds began with people like Alicia, Debb and Elisabeth. Funnily enough I was having great conversations with Kimmi as well but it was clear everyone was having great conversations with Kimmi. When Debb was approached about voting for Kimmi she said she could try and get your vote (Jeff) but wasn't sure about Michael. So slowly I was getting information about the working dynamics on the Kucha tribe. After that vote I felt confident that I could get information from Alicia about where the votes were going, including her telling me early on that the vote was going on Keith, and Elisabeth and I started to make a stronger bond when she expressed to me that she would like to see you (Jeff) go home which gave me more reason to believe that you were involved with a core group. Which brings us to the challenge where Tina's move would determine who won the challenge. Not only was Tina someone who was loyal to me and would listen to my strategic input but Elisabeth had mentioned she wanted to target you AND I could give Alicia Immunity knowing that I could tell her I influenced Tina's decision and that I wanted to see her immune more than you (sorry Jeff). Obviously the round didn't go the way Elisabeth and I would have liked as I didn't approach Debb because I believed she was close to you, which still may be true, but with Elisabeth being quiet and Keith being hurt about it he turned the vote on Elisabeth and Debb seemed to be fine with that (still not 100% sure she actually voted with us) but Alicia and I had discussed me voting for a Kucha member to make it look like I didn't know where the vote was going even though I knew the vote was for Keith. Long story short I had my bases covered. I would be able to reconnect with Elisabeth on the next vote, I'd be able to go back to Alicia and tell her I was mad at Elisabeth, I looked like I took a massive hit losing Keith even though it was kind of a blessing in disguise (sorry Keith) and I had you (Jeff) and Nick coming to me the next round for a number. So at this point Elisabeth was probably my closest ally because she was the Kucha member who was willing to talk strategy. Going as far as to spend an hour or so figuring out where we would allocate our ropes in the next challenge assuming Tina would go along with the plan. At this point I actually trusted Elisabeth more than Alicia because I knew she was willing to make a move but Alicia was still so hesitant so we made sure to put enough votes on Debb with the 3 of us and see where Alicia's votes would go and if we could trust her. Sure enough Alicia put 5 ropes where she said she would and I could trust her that little bit more.
That's already a lot of information and I don't necessarily want to bombard you with information breaking each round down but know that I was playing this game strategically the whole time. Pre-merge and merge. Up to the point where it was me without my number 1 (Tina) and even though Elisabeth had been a close ally to me I knew that if I sided with her after I took a hit at her hands that I wouldn't have a leg to stand on at the end so I took her out knowing I had to take the rest of this game into my own hands, even though it screwed Michael in the process when he had been nothing but loyal. So I went and formed a 3 person alliance with Alicia and Nick to take the risk of at least getting to final 3 and trying my hand at expressing to them that their games are too similar and they needed to go with me if they didn't want to fight each other for votes and guarantee them from the jury (knowing that I still had a lot of game to share myself with the jury). But of course I was also betting on myself in challenge performances, where obviously luck has a place, but I stayed on going up against the biggest challenge threat that was Nick and I won. This all can sound crazy on paper but I took the risks that I needed to and without taking all of those risks I wouldn't be here right now.
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Post by Mitchell Olson on Sept 18, 2020 18:39:04 GMT -5
ELISABETH
Mitchell: You were cursed with a very weak beginning team. If you had the chance to build your own Ogakor from the beginning, who would be on that team and why?
This is gonna sound so cliche but I wouldn't change my original tribe. Losing all of those challenges allowed me to make tight bonds with Keith and Tina early on in the game. I would get told time and time again by Kucha members that because you guys were winning so much that there wasn't a lot of conversation going on about the game prior to the merge and that most of you started talking when the merge happened. Yes I was down on numbers but I was rich in experiences. I don't believe I would have been able to make the bonds I did with the Kucha members if I had made it to the merge with more people.
On the other hand if I were able to look at it from a tribe standpoint where we would be more successful I definitely think that Nick being on my original tribe would have definitely helped in our challenge performance. As for general conversation whether it was real life or strategic I definitely had the best time doing that with you (Elisabeth), outside of Tina and Keith I didn't talk to anyone else as much as I talked to you. I didn't start talking at length with Alicia until f6 but if I could have the opportunity to talk to her like that from the beginning I definitely would have appreciated that as well. Why? A huge part of the game of Survivor is the social aspect. There were many people of few words in my original tribe and going into the merge with a larger more social group definitely would have helped.
For those I didn't mention please don't take offence I'm just not trying to be a suck up and be like "I love you all".
Both: list what you get on your burger and what you get on your pizza. This is important and by choosing the ingredients/toppings that I consider essential you will likely get my vote
Oooh what would I get on a burger if I could just choose 1 burger... Let's say the bun obviously, meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, if it's a greasy burger then ketchup and mustard, if it's not then... probably still ketchup and mayo lol. But I do love a chicken burger with BBQ sauce. Why is this question so hard? Also the bun must have sesame seeds for it to be top notch!
Pizza, you're probably gonna hate this. But I'm one of those people that like BBQ chicken pizza, I know. It's not for everyone but you gotta live your truth!
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Post by Alicia Calaway on Sept 18, 2020 19:24:06 GMT -5
NickNick, my dear friend♥. I so wish we could of been able to get to the final 2 like we had planned. Having you in this game and the ability to bounce ideas and plans off of you helped so much in this game. Especially in the later rounds when at one point we never thought we'd make it as far as we did. I feel like a lot of what I'm going to say in your answer is going to be me repeating myself and some things that I already mentioned but I'll go into a little bit more detail. So bear with me all, sorry if this gets a bit lengthy.
On Kucha, I made relationships with you, Jeff, and Kimmi with Kimmi being my original final two. At merge, when the game really started for most of us Kucha that obviously got flipped upside down when Kimmi self destructed. And at the time with her being my closest person in the game I started branching out even more socially. When we were all planning on switching the vote to her instead of Keith, I started messaging people individually to be sure that everybody was on board with changing the vote so that nobody would feel on the outs. At that point we were all planning on staying "Kucha Strong" so I knew that having one person on the outs was going to be detrimental to us moving forward. So in the end even though she didn't end up on jury, that was a huge move for me because she was one of the people I talked to daily on Kucha and who kept me up to date on some of what others were telling her.
From there I went and initiated the alliance between you, myself, and Jeff which we dubbed the Late Night Crew. After Kimmi, you two boys were the ones that I felt closest to in the game and I knew that I could trust you both in this game. Going into the individual immunity for the dots and boxes challenges I never in a million years felt that I would win it. After all was said and done and I found out that Elisabeth had told the Ogakor Three to give me the immunity win over Jeff I saw that as a red flag. I had already had some doubts about working with Elisabeth because she was one of the original Kucha's that I had talked game with the least at that point. But then when she was telling the others that she wanted Jeff to be a target for them was the point where I started paying more attention to how she was playing the game. Obviously that didn't sit well with me because we had our little alliance together and I didn't want to see us losing a number so quickly so I filed that information away and of course started point out all these red flags about the things I was learning so that you two would also be aware and that we could possibly get her out sooner rather than later. At that point I had a hunch that Elisabeth was going to try and flip to the remaining Ogakors after Keith was voted out just as I had been planning to do with Mitchell so when the topic came up as to who we should add as a fourth person from Kucha to help us have a majority of the remaining Kucha 6 I hinted at us adding Michael over Elisabeth because I didn't feel we could fully trust her in the end.
Now at this point I knew everybody was still very Kucha strong, and nobody wanted to be seen as the person that was going against that so I couldn't come right out and say that I didn't trust Elisabeth fully. So instead I would just plant the little seeds about things I'd heard or things she would tell me and keep my communications open still with everybody. All while this was happening I was talking to Mitchell and trying to gain his trust and keep him on my side. While I know that wouldn't fully happen until a few rounds later, I let him know that I would I tell him if his name ever came up between the original Kucha members and that if it did come up I would try and divert them to vote another Ogakor instead.
Going into the vote at final 8 I knew Elisabeth and Debb were going to be trying to get each other out because everybody thought Debb was the 4th vote for Elisabeth at the previous tribal. So I used this knowledge to point out to Mitchell that he and Tina should use this as a shield because the two girls were going to target each other. With Tina having won immunity she wasn't an option to vote for and I wasn't willing to vote for Mitchell because I felt he could be somebody I could work with as the game went on. That just left us with Elisabeth or Debb as the options for a vote since you, myself, Jeff and Mike were in an alliance. While I still didn't feel I could trust Elisabeth 100% I knew she was still on our side so Debb was the one that ended up getting voted out. But this was also the vote that Michael ended up self voting which led us to believe that later in the game we might be in trouble because if he wasn't able to be our fourth vote when we most needed it when we went to make a move we'd be sunk.
When we got to final 7 and we decided to vote out Michael, Mitchell had told me he was being forced to vote with Elisabeth. At the time I didn't really think much of it. I thought I had given him enough reason to trust me, but I hadn't been able to add him into our alliance with Jeff because I knew I was walking a fine line trying to keep him onside but also trying not to appear like I wasn't "Kucha strong." Elisabeth had told us she was going to also vote Mike, so I figured it was a done deal. When Jeff went home instead I was shocked and that was the last time I felt I could trust Elisabeth. She came to me telling me she felt pressured to vote Jeff, even though Jeff had been on her radar since the second individual immunity challenge. I knew blowing her off about it wasn't going to help me and I had to still pretend I was on her side. But at that point you and I knew we were in trouble.
At the final 6 challenge when neither of us were able to win the immunity I was sure one of us was going to get voted out. It was clear that we were two of the bigger threats in the game, although I had hoped that my fly under the radar strategy was working. Going into tribal council I knew it was our best chance for us to force a tie with somebody who had past votes because you and I didn't have any past votes. At this point, Mitchell had told me it was going to be you. He had mentioned that Elisabeth had originally mentioned me, but he swayed her to you instead which I feel shows that my relationship with Mitchell thus far had worked. Even though him and I didn't have a formal alliance, our relationship was enough that he didn't want to vote me out. I felt this was my prime opportunity to get Elisabeth out because she was such a huge threat to my game but Mitchell wouldn't budge from voting you. I briefly entertained the idea of voting with them and working with Mitchell and Tina to go to final 3, but I knew I would never have a chance to get to the finale that way which is when you went and convinced Elisabeth to vote with us to get rid of Tina.
Now that it was final 5, I knew you and Mitchell still felt some loyalty to Elisabeth even if it was just a small piece. When after the challenge she went to you and said that she wanted to vote out Mitchell, but told Mitchell that you trusted her now and that you should all vote for me I knew this was my chance that I need to take to get her out. Now I know it was a decision made by all of us, but I do feel that my comments here and there and my pointing out the things that she said to each of us that didn't add up helped in that decision. From there it was you, myself, and Mitchell to the end. I wholeheartedly wanted you or I to win that final three challenge and we could be sitting up here together. But when Mitchell won I truly hoped that my ongoing relationship with him since merge would help sway him in my favor to take me to the end with him.
I know none of these were 'specific' solo moves where something I did got somebody voted out that round. But I tried to play a much more subtle game. By playing a more subtle game I was able to create meaningful relationships so that until the final 5 vote I never received any votes against me and wasn't even seen as much of a threat. And by the time I was seen as a threat it was too late to get me out because of the relationships I'd made.
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Post by Mitchell Olson on Sept 18, 2020 19:38:07 GMT -5
NICK
Mitchell - Can you lay out your strategy for me as the merge progressed? Obviously you wanted to win when you could, and you definitely did, but I want to hear about intentional moves you made that would keep you safe in the event you didn't win immunity.
I spoke about a lot of this in my response to Jeff and for everyones's sake I won't repeat myself but would love for you to check that out for info on the start of the merge. But I'll pick up from where I left off, but I'll back track for a second.
When Keith was voted out was when you and I first started to communicate properly. You flat out asked me who voted with us and I told you Debb because I wanted to earn your trust. This could have been considered shady because I was essentially throwing Debb under the bus but a lot of what went down that vote didn't go through me. I found a conversation where Keith had told a group of people to vote for Elisabeth and Debb said she already voted. No way to fix this, whether it was true or not. In my mind if we had of just put out another name Jeff or even you (nick) we could have possibly pulled Elisabeth back in and would be in the majority. But I missed the 20min window where that conversation took place. So I had to do some damage control again. I was down a number and Tina and I were still on the outs so my best way to play this was to throw the attention on someone else. Debb, because she said she would vote with us and Jeff, because he had incentive. This also caused the rift between Jeff and Elisabeth to grow. At this point I'd cottoned on to the idea that you, Alicia and Jeff were closer because Debb had agreed to the plan alone.
Alicia had mentioned for a couple rounds that she wanted me to work with her and a group of people and would never give me names and you and Jeff hadn't been speaking to me as much just yet so I needed to build a trust with you guys, but I started with you. So you had told me the round before that you wanted to work with Tina and myself moving forward but when it came to the ropes challenge and I went to you for help you kinda blew me off, in the nicest way possible, but I knew I had to keep up appearances with you without getting too caught up on it. Even if I did bluntly tell you that this game was designed to work together to take people out even though you insisted that it would play out randomly and we would have no control. In saying that I did speak up a lot, including in tribal council questions to call out the larger group not being able to work together forever so I'd like that to be taken into consideration lol. Anyway the challenge played out and Tina won Immunity which was incredible BUT I was still at risk. So this was when the information about Debb that was going around was incredibly helpful for me. If she wasn't seen as someone who could cause more trouble down the line then I would have been the obvious target and going home that round. This was also what I consider to be the round that yourself, Jeff and Alicia tested me to see if I would work with you guys in hopes that I could be a part of your group. So I didn't necessarily feel vulnerable because I knew I was going to be valuable to you guys after this vote but I also knew that you could be feeding me a bunch of BS. Because really it was Alicia that was reassuring me that I was ok with this group of people that shall not be named and you and Jeff had rejected the notion to work with me in the challenge with the ropes. So I knew this would be the turning point where you guys started to trust me but I was still very cautious.
So Debb leaves and it's smooth sailing for you guys. This was the first vote where the 3 of you ever came to me telling me where your votes would be going together. But I had already made a strong bond with Elisabeth over the past few rounds and she was my closest strategic ally, knowing that she had jumped ship from you guys I figured she would take more of the heat than I would on any future votes and that's exactly what happened. Elisabeth came to me saying she and Michael wanted to vote out Jeff, perfect. As much as I liked Jeff he was the person I had spoken to the least about game on your side and Michael was valuable and at this point loyal to what he said he would do even if he had thrown ogakor members names out in the past. And Tina can support me when I saw that I spoke to her for a few rounds up to this point asking how we could get Michael and Jeff to work with us, obviously Jeff was with you guys at this point but when Elisabeth mentioned Michael I knew we had him. And if we didn't have him you guys were already so cautious of Elisabeth that I felt like you would make a move on her before you would make a move on me. Which sure would only get me one round further but in a game like this one round could be the answer to getting to the end.
So Jeff goes home and you and Alicia are now worried about Elisabeth because she has officially turned on Kucha, great. But I did find myself in a tough spot this round because I needed Nick to go as the biggest challenge threat to our alliance of 4. But Elisabeth was so adamant that she wanted Alicia gone and not Nick, BUT I also had Tina telling me "Nick will work with us". Why do we need Nick to work with us, we have a solid 4. So this round was super sketchy, my trust with Michael got super strong and my hesitation with Elisabeth and Tina began. So after winning Immunity I was like 1, thank god, but also 2, if Michael or Elisabeth flip the only person they can take out is Tina, or if just one flips they could take out each other. At this point flipping would mean I couldn't trust them moving forward anyway and working with you (Nick) and Alicia wasn't an option if I was bringing numbers with me. The simple fact that you would take that other person to final 3 over me. So I had to hope that all 3 of them would stick to their word or I was jumping ship. Only 2 voted with me.
So now I lost my number 1, who had already made me nervous in how much she wanted to save Nick, but I also lost my closest ally in the form of Elisabeth. And though Michael was loyal him not being around enough to strategise definitely hurt. So I cashed in all my chips and jumped over to the other side. I knew Elisabeth had been on the right side of the vote every vote and that she was a huge player in the game, and I used this to my advantage to target her. After the challenge Nick won I approached Elisabeth and she came to me straight away saying she wanted to take out Alicia. At this point you (nick) and Alicia and I had already made our 3 person chat and when I dropped that info Alicia simply said "I think we should vote her out". Now some would say I would have had a better time competing against Elisabeth and Michael at the end but I knew that going up against Elisabeth was like the worst case scenario after she made the move to take out my closest ally, and Michael wasn't active enough for me to feel like we could convince Alicia or Nick to vote against each other and when it came to the final 4 challenge I even asked him if he thought he could beat you (nick) in a challenge and he said he didn't think so. At that point it made no sense to take the risk of forcing a tie and having you win and you and Alicia have even less reason to want to hear me out about taking me to the end.
So honestly my game involved a lot of sacrifice. I had to sacrifice close allies, I had to sacrifice trust for a chance of getting further. I never wanted to do it at the expense of another person but in the game only 1 person can win. As far as whether you and Alicia would have taken me to the end I can't sit here and say confidently that you would or wouldn't but I definitely made sure to pitch my case to Alicia and wait for you to pitch your case to me because I didn't want you guys going to each other and saying "did Mitchell just message you too?". I knew I had to play my hand so delicately all the way up until the end and thankfully I was able to win some challenges when I needed them but for someone who lost every challenge but one pre merge (though the challenge that my tribe won I didn't even compete in lol) I think proving myself at the end of this game is the cherry on the cake for what was my strategic game up until this point. I only ever received 1 vote in this game which was at the second tribal council (honestly I still don't know why lol) but to make it to the very end from being on the bottom whether I win or lose I'm so proud of my efforts to get this far and can hold my head up knowing that I can look you all in the eyes and say good game!
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Post by Alicia Calaway on Sept 18, 2020 20:59:58 GMT -5
Final Statement
Hey all! I've answered everybody's questions that have come in so far, and I'll answer anybody else's that come in as well. I feel as if I've summarized my game well so far with my answers to the questions and I'd rather not bore you all with repeating myself. I did play an under the radar game, and tried to be friends with everybody at the merge so that I wouldn't come off as a threat. All while doing this I was trying to set myself apart from others by taking note of everything people said to me and using that to my advantage when the time came. One thing I wanted to clarify was the reason why I wanted Mitchell to put votes onto a Kucha member at the Keith vote. I mean, that probably comes off as obvious. Of course the Ogakor three were going to put votes on a Kucha, not like they were going to vote out one of their own. But I had told Mitchell there was no saving Keith, I didn't want him and Tina to vote with the majority so that a Kucha would get a few past votes on them so that that could be used later in the event of a tie since none of us any past votes at that point. This strategy on my part was what helped me to be able to try and get Elisabeth out at final 6. While that wasn't what ended up happening, that was what I used as my way to try and get her out at that point.
I also just want to say thank you to Matt for hosting this game. I had such a blast playing with everybody & I'm looking forward to getting to know everybody outside of the game! |
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