thebankston
Caleb
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Post by thebankston on Nov 16, 2015 21:14:02 GMT
(This one goes out to Host Sash.)
Okay, so congrats to both finalists! Making F2 isn't easy, even if you're a goat (Just ask Tyson), so kudos!
Rufus, I think you played a good game! It's always a pleasure to play with somone who knows the game well. As much as I like ya', though, it's my responsibility as a juror to critique a few things about your game, so I hope you understand and don't think I'm just being a cunt. First, I think you benefitted greatly from possessing a Tyler Perry idol. On the other hand, nobody ever made the obvious move of flushing that idol, which could have easily been done the round I went. I'm not sure how much of this to attribute to you, or to the foolishness of other players, but I'll assume the middle ground for now. Second, you ranked me below Aras, Jeremiah . . . and JOAQ?! I can't tell if that was in effort to butter them up to voting for you, or what. Given, I hid 80% of my game from practically everyone, including you, so I guess you ranking me low could make sense. In that case, though, Ami might have the slight leg up on you in realizing what a threat I could potentially be if I kept on getting my way. Don't get me wrong, though, I still think you played the best game this season, with Monica close behind. I'm just surprised you still haven't pieced my game together yet, cause you're a pretty sharp old fart.
Ami, your opening was a lot better than I expected! I really appreciated the humble approach you took. It may not win you any votes, but I can definitely respect that you'd own up to your game, even if it was pretty mediocre. I'm torn with you. On one hand, you did kind of see what a threat I was. On the other, you went after me a little too early, and a bit sloppily. Like I said of Jeremiah and Aras, not flushing out the mole idol during the golden opportunity to do so was pretty foolish, unless you'd always intended to go to the end, which is actually even more foolish. Still, I've got nothing against you, and obviously your decisions worked out in getting you to FTC . . . it's just a matter of whether or not you simply played for second place.
Also, just so you guys know that I'm not simply speaking in hindsight, my confessional from a couple hours prior to F7 results:
"The smart thing to do would be to flip on Rudy, make him burn his mole idol, and then maybe tie it between Ami and I. I'm still pretty sure the mole idol is expired, though, so Rudy would go home there. I'd stay, but my path to FTC would become way more challenging. On the other hand, maybe they've got three votes on me, two votes on Ami, and two on Monica. That move would be dumb as fuck, unless they knew Rudy's mole idol was expired, and that Monica would be burning her merge idol. Hmm."
So, yeah, now that I'm done coming off like an asshole, let's get to the fun part -- questions!
Rudy - If this was a F3, and it's you vs Monica, who wins, and why?
Rudy - Like me, you've rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in this game. How do you plan on winning these votes over? (Besides kissing ass)
Ami - Why did you want me out so bad, so early?
Ami - Why not try flushing Rudy's idol at F7? Did you just not think of it, or were you not in control?
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rudy
Rudy
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Post by rudy on Nov 16, 2015 22:03:35 GMT
Rufus, I think you played a good game! It's always a pleasure to play with somone who knows the game well. As much as I like ya', though, it's my responsibility as a juror to critique a few things about your game, so I hope you understand and don't think I'm just being a cunt. First, I think you benefitted greatly from possessing a Tyler Perry idol. On the other hand, nobody ever made the obvious move of flushing that idol, which could have easily been done the round I went. I'm not sure how much of this to attribute to you, or to the foolishness of other players, but I'll assume the middle ground for now. Second, you ranked me below Aras, Jeremiah . . . and JOAQ?! I can't tell if that was in effort to butter them up to voting for you, or what. Given, I hid 80% of my game from practically everyone, including you, so I guess you ranking me low could make sense. In that case, though, Ami might have the slight leg up on you in realizing what a threat I could potentially be if I kept on getting my way. Don't get me wrong, though, I still think you played the best game this season, with Monica close behind. I'm just surprised you still haven't pieced my game together yet, cause you're a pretty sharp old fart.You make a good point about the Tyler Perry Idol, now the thing about that shit... I earned it! I'd be curious to see Joaquin did to get his, but here's a few exerpts! First, I had to get the highest score on the Jigsaw puzzle out of everyone in the game ( and pretend I sucked at Jigsaws to not reveal that....*sigh* Your first task will be to create a message to your tribe in your tribe thread, about being cautious about people throwing the challenge. Then you must accuse someone of throwing the challenge to at least three people. You must provide screenshots of chats to prove you did this. You will be given your mole account access later tonight  Mole Task #2
Your task this week is to call out an alliance in the game on the mole account. You must then lose your part of the challenge to successfully complete your second task and receive the second clue. You can choose to do any of the three task for the challenge. Mole Task #4In this challenge you must not match any items intentionally. So if it's out in the open someone has an item, you can't ask for that item. If you do you will fail your task I failed this task..... Mole Task #5
Your task this week is to call out two people on your tribe for being in an alliance, after you do that you must bring it up to somebody and get their opinion on the realness of the message. You must not submit any tokens during the seeking portion as well.
Just so y'all know:
Rudy and Jaclyn, totally an alliance (Incriminated myself in the alliance, so people thought Tyson was the mole here-sorry dude!)  Mole Task Since you have found the idol you will be completing task for another power. Your task this week is to start drama among the tribe. You must get two people to fight in your tribe chats to win a power. Must be a public fight. Good luck But yea all that aside, having the Idol definitely gave me a tremendous advantage, and efforts were made to flush my idol, it probably would have been flushed if Monica did not self vote at the final 6. But I was still in a Swing vote position at the Final 5 anyway. As for the ranking, well ghost Caleb you did a great job hiding your game, and to your credit I said you were a big threat, but because so many people turned against you suddenly, that was a flaw maybe you could have prevented. I did not know you had plans to flush my idol at the Final 7! Kudos! Rudy - If this was a F3, and it's you vs Monica, who wins, and why?Monica wins. I think the only 2 votes I get are you and Tyson. Her jury management was superior, she has my ass kicked 100,000 times over in challenge performance and she also could argue some great strategic plays. I had to take her out to have a shot. Rudy - Like me, you've rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in this game. How do you plan on winning these votes over? (Besides kissing ass)Well kissing ass would be obvious, and I don't think they'd vote me for that. i'm hoping to win over anyone bitter towards me by pointing out my gameplay, and hoping they'll vote based off who played the better game, not who they like or don't like the least. Both - Why?I'm just gonna fill the "Why?" in with something, and since I expect someone will ask "why should you win over Ami", I'll go with "Why the Rudy shtick?" To which answer would be 2 reasons, My own pure amusement and a trivial attempt at making myself seem like I wasn't as serious a player as I actually was. As the game went on, my Rudy shtick broke down and the true gamer side of me ultimately came out, but early on the clown-like persona at least at a sub-conscious level I'm sure made some people think "this guy is a troll, he's no threat and he's funny, let's keep him around". And overall, that seemed to outnumber the opposite crowd of "OMG this rudy guy is so fucking annoying let's vote him off first!". Rudy is one of my absolute favorite characters and personalities on the show. Season 1 of Survivor to this very day still has some of the absolute best characters to ever be on the show, and I was endeared toward Rudy from very early on with his odd remarks and awkward alliance with Richard. He's one of the major reasons why I became a Survivor Junkie all these years and my playing him isn't meant as a mockery but rather pure love. I'll be truly sad when he passes and want the legend of Bosech to live on for as long as possible. |
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thebankston
Caleb
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Post by thebankston on Nov 16, 2015 22:13:23 GMT
Awesome answer, Rufus! Thanks! B)
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Ami
Ami
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Post by Ami on Nov 17, 2015 23:06:03 GMT
LOL I had almost all of my answers typed up at work earlier and then my boss walked in and in an effort to be STEALTHY i tried to minimize and accidentally closed it out so HERE WE ARE.
Ami - Why did you want me out so bad, so early?
Well, honestly, it didn't start out like that. I had just gotten back from my MIA rounds where Wigs and Ashley had been voted out, and I was a little perplexed as to what had actually gone down. From my perspective, and from what I had heard (which, honestly, could be skewed), I had heard that you had a hand in their eliminations. As I mentioned in my Opening Statement, I wanted to come into the merge and shake things up, but could never really find my footing to do so. So, instead, I started to take a more stealthy approach to mix things up down the road. I saw you as a huge threat to my game, and I didn't feel like I was a part of your inner circle of trust anymore after your swap to Hmong, so I wanted to start planting the seeds to take you out in a few rounds. However, as we all are well aware, this cast is fond of sharing, and word started spreading fast that I wanted you out. Rather than trying to lie and weasel my way out of it, I embraced it. I knew that if I made you my clear number one, people would know where my head was at, wouldn't see me as a threat to them, and would be aware that they could get me on board for a Caleb take down in the future. I think a lot of this game is adapting to things that are thrown your way, and I certainly wasn't prepared for it to become an "Ami wants Caleb out ASAP" ordeal, but that's what it became, and I had to adapt appropriately. I think it bought me a couple of rounds to find my footing again, honestly, as people were pretty aware of where my head was at in that I wanted you out, and I could catch up from my MIA rounds. So, I didn't originally set out on a witch hunt against you, but it turned into that quickly.
Ami - Why not try flushing Rudy's idol at F7? Did you just not think of it, or were you not in control?
Honestly, there are a couple of reasons that I didn't make an effort to flush Rudy's idol at F7.
1) At this point, it was more than clear that I was targeting you, and I wasn't fully able to trust Jeremiah and Aras at this point. Therefore, I didn't know where their votes would fall. If they voted with Monica and I, and we split votes, Tyson, you, and Rudy could have easily voted together against myself or my girl Monica and taken one of us out, so it wasn't a smart move to pursue Rudy's idol at that point.
2) I truly thought I would have had the opportunity to take Rudy out at F5 or F4, after his idol expired. At the time, I didn't really see Jeremiah or Aras as threats, and assumed it would be better if I went to Final 4 with them and Monica, and F5 would have been the perfect opportunity to take Rudy out. As the two rounds progressed, though, the jury threat that Aras and Jeremiah were growing to be proved to be more of a threat to my endgame than Rudy.
3) In all honesty, even if those circumstances mentioned above weren't in place, I don't know if I would have had numbers. I felt that I had isolated you from working with me at that point, and I always saw Tyson and Rudy as a pair, and I didn't truly know where Jeremiah and Aras stood, so I just didn't have the power to do so.
Both - Why?
I typed "Why?" into Google and the first thing that popped up was the "Why you always lyin'?" GIF so I'm going to tie that into my game because that sounds fun.
If someone asked me "why I was always lyin'?" in Rustic: Phuket, I would look at them with a puzzled look on my face, because I really don't feel as if I lied in this game, and I was intentional about that. There might have been a few moments (particularly with you, Caleb, trying to get the blame off of me for targeting you) where the truth was twisted a bit, but I never set out to lie in this game, and played a pretty honest game, which is something that I'm pretty proud of.
THANKS FOR THE QUESTIONS
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thebankston
Caleb
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Post by thebankston on Nov 17, 2015 23:31:10 GMT
Fantastic answer, thanks Ami!
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