[Standard]Survivor: TRTWIUAA {Final Tribal Council}

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I think everyone in this game has some sort of experience playing ORGs / online games / or literally anything strategy online.

FWIW, I'm a newbie to both the community and have never played an ORG ever. The closest I've ever gotten to this sort of game was IRL playing Mafia once and Secret Hitler a couple times. I'm a big Survivor fan though, I don't know if that disqualifies me from being a newbie.

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it’s of the best big brother contestant of all time, jen johnson

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Bronte

Oh right, I forgot about that, I think she made some weirdly nasty comments about James Huling

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Hey guys, I'm really proud of all three of you. You all did terrific jobs and I loved getting to know you all throughout the course of this game. I'm traveling for work currently so I don't have a lot to contribute at the moment but hopefully will have more to say tomorrow night.

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I did think of a question:

Bella, in the final 4 vote, was Zoraster on the table for you as an option to vote out? If not, was it more because of the f2 deal with him or more because you stood a better chance against him than against DV? Was Scoots ever an option?

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Scoots, when you described your strategy as “as long as it ain’t me” are you intentionally invoking Sandra there? If so I feel like you’ve drastically misunderstood her game in both PI and HvV.

Also you say you had a straight shot to the final 3 from final ten but I don’t see how that’s any less true of Zoraster if we accept that it’s true for you.

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Scoots, when you described your strategy as “as long as it ain’t me” are you intentionally invoking Sandra there? If so I feel like you’ve drastically misunderstood her game in both PI and HvV.

Also you say you had a straight shot to the final 3 from final ten but I don’t see how that’s any less true of Zoraster if we accept that it’s true for you.

Hahahah, I mean yeah I love her, of course I understand that her game was not that catchphrase. I'm not saying I'm the next Sandra, even though we look alike. I am saying that, literally, "anyone but me" fits my merge game perfectly. Anyone could have gone at any point and I still would have been set up well moving forward.

To answer your second question, maybe I should have said "nothing but straight shots". I constantly worked people to want me on their side so that, no matter what direction the game went, I was going with it. If it's true that Zor was in the same situation as me, then he

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overplayed. If he really had the multitude of avenues open to him to get to the end that I had, to paraphrase DK's question above, why do all this? Why would he go to the trouble of all this extra if he already had it locked up? He created so many needless risks for himself if that's true.
Either he hadn't set up unlimited straight shots to the end when I had, or he did and his play style was foolhardy.

So the takeaway I have from your posts is that your strategy was to guarantee a spot at the end, regardless of who you’re sitting next to, regardless of whether guaranteeing that hurts your chances of winning a jury vote, would you say that’s accurate? I’m hoping you’ll disagree but it seems difficult to reach any other conclusion.

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DONT READ MY VOTE I NEED TK SEND AN EXPLANATION WHY

Yeah wtf this is unexpected

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het wtf is that explanation did i teach u NOTHING

Ugh I’m such a disappointment

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5. The twist where Bro went home (i.e. both tribes vote out someone and the person with the quickest time isn't booted) isn't one I love, and I'm not sure it was used

purposefully

. It wasn't horrible, and I understand that it was another way to make everyone care about a challenge pre-merge, but it did mean you kind of wanted to take the easiest route possible. It incentivizes eliminating bad challenge players over any other strategic decision, even though we ended up going after Bro during his vacation. I don't really see that as a positive, but if it was the intent I guess that's okay. It just seemed like a twist where the mods maybe said "hey that sounds cool" without actually thinking about what effect they wanted to create.

I mean the fact that those of us on the opposing tribe did the opposite indicates that it wasn't as simple as you describe here, right? I actually thought that twist was kind of interesting.