Final Tribal Council

[Nate]

The three finalists walk into the tribal council area and set their torches at the back before sitting down by the fire.

We'll now bring in our jury...

The seven jurors walk into the tribal council area and sit down to the side.

Alex, PG, David S, Brittany, Kubson, David E. and Harmony voted out at the last tribal council.

Congratulations again to the three of you. You've lasted thirty-nine days and you've probably had a hand in the seven people sitting across from you being where they are. Though this game is about eliminating your competition, at the end of the day, the entire game's ending relies on those seven jurors. Tonight, the seven jurors will vote on who they think deserves to win the title of sole survivor the most and will cast their final vote for a winner. 

Before they vote, however, you'll have an opportunity to either give them the information they need to cast their vote, or to possibly change some minds. Each juror has prepared questions to ask the three of you, but before they get to what they have to say, each of you are allowed an opening statement.

You will have 24 hours to post your opening statement, otherwise, the jurors are allowed to continue and ask their questions regardless. 

robamber radfiddler Joe (hey)

digwoman PG DScott Brittany kubson epicurus harmonyking1185

[Joe (hey)]

what's up nerds

coming into this game, i had very high expectations for myself, and was ready to slay the masses

and then i got voted out second

obviously i was NOT going to have been a f*cking pre-merger twice in this game, like i love playing this game so much and i couldn't bear being basically the russell swan of ER

so what did i do? the sane thing of course! take an hour out of every day for like, 21 days posting *tends to fire* on a sh*tty thread in discount redemption island

and then i ended up back in the game

having come back into the game and having basically a non-existant chance of winning, i decided to play as aggressively and flashy as i could and just give 0 f*cks about anything in order to entertain myself, and make sure i made it to the end by making sure i was perceived as the biggest goat possible

i made myself (and sometimes other people made me) a pivotal vote in a sh*tload of situations and generally just leaked a ton of sh*t back and forth between sides pretty much just for fun and get in people's good graces

here's a list of key things i did
- leak sh*t to linus partially resulting in the alex voteoff
- f*ck dscott in the a** for basically no reason
- get really tight with linus and david e so that i always had a connection on both sides
- vote off britt
- vote off harm rather than forcing a firemaking chall

and here is a list of things I attempted to do but failed for one reason or another
- save PG and kubson both when PG was voted out (which is why there was the one random vote for harm that tribal)
- save david e by telling him exactly how the vote was gonna go final 6, suspecting he had an idol (but ofc he played it which im still annoyed about)

but yeah sorry for this huge wall of text

at the end of the day i slayed you nerds in the physical game and strategic game, and had a sh*tty social game for funnies

tl;dr: vote me because it would be hilarious if after all the sh*t i pulled and people i pissed off (*cough dscott *cough*) i somehow won

[robamber]

Coming into this game I had close to no expectations. My computer was laggy I knew i'd be away at times for over 24 hours. And the way I started this game thinking the game starts a day after it did I thought I was toast. But my tribe won the first challenge and it even turned out I wasn't the weak link due to having two inacts on our tribe. David S./Linus/Ty and myself worked together for the first part of this game and made an official alliance when we had to go to our first tribal (Which we didn't even vote in cause an inact quit)
Then things went sh*tty when there was a tribe swap and I ended up on a tribe with people I didn't know (Derek was there but like I said he was inact) So I had to make new connections I started connections with Alex, David E and Harm. But that didn't last long either as there was another swap and the only that stayed with me was Alex. So I sent new messages to Kubson, PG and Josh. We lost a challenge and Josh left. And I was the only one that didn't vote Josh so I knew I was in trouble. So I worked my a** off in the next challenge to make sure we didn't lose and despite only TWO people completing the challenge for my tribe we won.
Then came merge and the only people I didn't have a connection with was Brit after I messaged Joey. I tried getting PG out at the first vote as I saw him as a threat but idol fear gave him a second life but he didn't get lucky twice I managed to pull the vote at him and send him packing second. Then I set my targets on the one person I hadn't talked to, Brit. I tried hard to pull the votes and had them for a time but then suddenly I'm being told the vote is David S. I tried buddy but I couldn't get anyone to flip back. For the next 4 votes my target went home first Brit with the help of Harm and Joey. Then Kubson then David E them Harm. And through all of this do you know how many votes I had cast against me? ZERO. Despite the laggy computer and being away at times and all the swaps I managed to avoid any votes coming at me.
I tried not to lie to much but this is survivor and sometimes I had to.
Alex = I tried to save you dude but idol paranoia was to strong
PG = Yes I lied to you but I knew that I wasn't high on your totem poll and I saw you as threat
David S = I would have stuck with you till the end
Brittany = We never talked which is why you had to go
Kubson = You tried pitching the wrong guy to try and vote off
David E. = You pitch to stay was that I needed you to beat Harm. But then I'd be in the final with you which isn't a better place
Harmony = I hated having to vote you out but sitting next to you I'd have no chance.

I hit all the parts of playing Survivor: Social = NO votes cast against me. Physical = I showed up to every challenge except the first and came close to a few and helped my tribe win a lot of them. Strategic = I didn't let others control my vote. I took out who I thought was best for my game going forward.

I'd really love your guys vote.

Bring on the questions!

[radfiddler]

What is good my dudes!

My strategy coming into this game was to try and align with a few people I thought I could beat at the end, as well as the people I know would paint a large target on their back. Enter Joey and DER and on the other end of things (David S, temporarily David E, and Harmony).

In order to successfully do this I actually came out pretty strong on my original tribe. I quickly became close with Ty and David both of which I knew had a good chance to be very strong players, and then I also got in close with Eaoltis (supposedly according to him I was the only one to even talk to him) and DER who I knew was going to be a nice and loyal guy to me, but seemed very introverted so he seemed like a perfect choice for who to take with me deep. I figured out the cryptogram for the idol clue within half an hour because cryptography rocks!! At this point the person I had talked to the most was Dscott, and I knew he was a smart enough guy to figure out the puzzle on his own, so as a show of goodwill to solidify my alliance with him and a final 2 was born. Now, I knew with how I was going to play after the swap that I would calm down in my aggressive play-style, and that David would probably start playing harder so if there were ever to be a blindside against us it would probably be him first which would give me time to scramble (This prophecy would obviously come true later in the game). At this point I had DER as my main goat and Eaol as a backup locked. I also was sure my shield Dscott was with me for the forseeable future and completely trustworthy for me, and if something failed with that I had my man Ty as a backup. Dscott and I shared idol guesses and he was able to find it before the swap hit!

I'd also like to quickly mention just so it's one hundred percent clear, my goal wasn't to blindside Ty and Dscott, it's that I knew other players not from Yaldad would try to make some moves, so I didn't really expect them to get to the end.

Well, as we all know the best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry, and Eaol quit the game, so I knew I would have to find someone else should to be another goat should a final 3 come, but I had some time for that because there was still 17 people left in the game. That's when the swap hit. I knew I would have to still go hard for the challenges so my tribe didn't see me as a liability and in the first few challenges I crushed it and was our put as the defender permanently since I was the fastest poster on our team for that "Attacks-Defends" challenge. Well, I'm glad I showed I could be useful in a tribe setting because Ty was blindsided that round.

With that we move on to my absolute favourite round of the entire game. So Dscott and I were outnumbered two to four, but like a gift from a god named Nate we got a challenge for individual immunity. I beastmoded the memory comp and not only won the immunity for my tribal, but also the power to pick which team to join on the next swap . I was immune, and Dscott had that fancy idol we had found to save himself, allowing me and my most trusted ally to both move onto the next swap and hopefully work our way into a better position on the new tribe. It was abundantly clear that Juderay was being a snake with us at the time, so we opted to vote him out and possibly work have a chance to work with the other swapped Quellon members if we absolutely had to.

At the next swap I immediately started pushing hard to try and get Harm and Brittany to like us, and Dscott began focusing the efforts on Epic so we could cut Christian should we go to tribal. Things were starting to look up again as not only did We successfully get rid of Christian, but I we found some solid allies for the merge, and with Harm being great in comps and a very smart player I thought I had found a replacement for my fallen comrade Ty. At the merge I agressively focus'd on bringing in Joey since he had already been voted out of the game once so I thought he could be someone I may be able to beat at the end. Now here is where I took a step back a bit though. Now that we were at the individual part of the game I knew for my meatshield strat to work I couldn't run around and show my hand too much, so I stepped back a bit and continue'd being a pretty social-able guy, but let Dscott take the role of the leader of my side of the alliance. The next few rounds obviously went smoothly for me as y'all know. Then at final 8 was when Epic and Harm made their move. And like clockwork, Dscott was blindsided instead of me so I knew taking the more chill, less target-able path had been at least a moderate success as I was safe and I had some time to try and shake things up. I had known just how loyal a guy Kubson was, so my thought was to try and do one of two things, convince Epic that Joey was a liability (I wanted to sit next to Joey at the end at this point because I knew he was hardly playing to win and just pissing people off for sh*ts and giggles), but I'd still rather him go than me obviously. Ooor, the second option which I felt was less likely at this point, convince Harmony that Epic was just the big threat in the group and because Britt and Kub were so loyal to him that he was just going to walk his way to a final 3. Harmony being a smart player did realize this was true, and knew he had to make a move so the jury would respect him at the end, so since Epic was immune we took out his close ally Brittany when I found out for sure Epic had no intentions of voting Joey out. This round is what I consider the rest of my game to have built up to. I had shown loyalty to my allies, built weeks of trust with Harm, and was able to show that although maybe I had done well in some challenges and did talk to most people a decent amount, Epic was still a much bigger threat than me and with that Harmony became the Dscott 2.0 to me, although I trusted Harm less than Dscott since he did betray his core alliance.

The next few rounds went simple enough with Harm crushing the challenges taking out the big threats, and he and I were able to flush Epics idol and get Kubson out. Because I knew Harm thought of him as a threat. Next round although ideally I would have cut Harm at 5 for being such a comp beeeast, he unsurprisingly won the comp and we took out David. I actually voted for Joey this round because I heard rumor that I may be blindsided, so in voting for Joey and having my man DER vote for David it guaranteed that even if Joey and Harm did try to make some wacky move against me, it would just tie the votes 2-2-1 and DER would vote for Joey on the revote, and if they were being honest with me then it would be a 3-2 vote with David going home anyways. Damage control is something I've always thought of as one of my specialties, so I told DER that the second Joey vote was because Nate gave him a self vote after Joey refused to give an answer for tribal council, and I told Joey this when he asked who the second vote against him was.

"I'm pretty sure it was harm, he thought you were more likely to beat David in the final immunity so he tried to get DER and I to vote you out too, but I thought my best odds were with him not winning that final challenge because he crushes everyone."

I don't know if Joey believed me or if he just happened to decide that him trying to actually win should just start at the final 4, but when Harm didn't win immunity he voted with me to cut the Joey amazing of the season and thats how we got here.

So even though I tried to play UTR for appearances, I hope this has given you some insight into how I was actually constantly adapting my strategy and was truly playing to win at every point in this game from beginning to end. Thank you all for reading this as I know it's been rather lengthy. I'm happy to have gotten the chance to play with you all and appreciate your consideration in voting for me.

[Joe (hey)]

i thought these were supposed to be opening statements not thesis papers wtf

[Nate]

Forgot to add the part about not going over a couple paragraphs lmaoz

Jurors, you now have the next 48ish hours to ask your questions, and then there will be an additional 24 hour period to vote after that. Votes for a winner will be due 8/17 at Noon at the latest.

[epicurus]

Congratulations to all three of you on making it this far. In the interest of being completely honest, I will say that I think I know who I'm voting for already, but I'm not locked in and can still be swayed by your answers. I've got different questions for each of you.



Joey - usually in a game of Survivor there is no coming back once you are voted out. You were the 2nd person voted out of this game, but you got back into the game and now you're sitting here at final tribal. Explain to us why you shouldn't be looked at negatively for having come back into the game from Inferno Island. Do you believe that makes you any less deserving than Der or Linus? Why or why not?

Also, which aspect of your game do you think was the strongest? Social, strategic, or challenge prowess?



Der - In my eyes and in the eyes of some of the other jurors, you were not a powerful player in this game. If you want my vote I'm going to need to know what moves you made in this game. What was the biggest move you made in this game and how did this move let you take control of the game?

Also, was flying under the radar part of your overall strategy in this game? If so, do you think it has helped you or hurt you?



Linus - What was the most unexpected thing that happened during the game for you? How did you have to adapt to deal with it?

What was the biggest error you made in the game, if any? What would you do differently if you could go back and change it?

[digwoman]

Okay well as mayor of Ponderosa i have been away from the game the longest and since YOU THREE voted for me I really don't have a clear favorite to win. I have one question for Linus and DER, what was the biggest move you made in this game? I don't want a story just tell me the move and how you got it done. Linus, I don't really know you so this answer could really help, DER you were an awesome person to talk to and you betrayed me even when I thought we were allies so you're answer counts just as much.

Joey...
I dont have a question for you, I do however have something to say. I was the one behind your vote off. I got Christian and Juderay and Kubson to vote you off and the fact that you didn't know that just shows your intelligence in this game. You are a jacka** and you really don't deserve to sit there because you were voted off SECOND. You didn't even make a swap, but in the end that doesn't matter because you're in the finals and I'm here. So I'm talking to the jury and pleading that Joey should not get a vote this tribal council because it will be an insult to all of us who were in the game the entire time and lost to someone who couldn't even get past the second elimination. JOEY you don't deserve the million.

Linus DER congratulations and I wish you two the best. Great game everyone

[Joe (hey)]

hi alex

first of all it was blatantly obvious you were behind my voteoff considering how little i trusted you at the beginning (like you'll even read in my confessionals later how little i trusted you)

i held no animosity towards you comimg back in because it was a good move on your part at the time and i needed allies

secondly every single person that was voted off pre-merge, people voted them out knowing that there was a chance they could return to the game, whether they were voted out second or voted out right before the merge

i know this doesnt change your mind but i wanted to address being attacked when ive never done anything to you peace!

[Joe (hey)]

Joey - usually in a game of Survivor there is no coming back once you are voted out. You were the 2nd person voted out of this game, but you got back into the game and now you're sitting here at final tribal. Explain to us why you shouldn't be looked at negatively for having come back into the game from Inferno Island. Do you believe that makes you any less deserving than Der or Linus? Why or why not?

Also, which aspect of your game do you think was the strongest? Social, strategic, or challenge prowess?

hi baevid

it shouldn't be looked at negatively that i returned from inferno because as i said in my previous statement everyone that was voted out people voted out with the knowledge that they could return the game

as for whether or not that makes me less deserving, we're all deserving in our own rights, and we all played our own unique games and our own unique styles, it just comes down to which style the jury likes the best

im going to say challenge prowess was my strongest aspect just because social and strategic game kind of flow together and my social game was far from strong

[robamber]

David E: In my eyes and in the eyes of some of the other jurors, you were not a powerful player in this game. If you want my vote I'm going to need to know what moves you made in this game. What was the biggest move you made in this game and how did this move let you take control of the game?

Also, was flying under the radar part of your overall strategy in this game? If so, do you think it has helped you or hurt you?


My biggest move in this game was getting Brit out cause despite her not doing anything I knew I needed her out. I'm the one that started the ball rolling on her eviction. I started planting the seeds against her from the first swap cause I just did not like her even before we were on the same tribe. I look at that as a big move because it got out the one person I felt would never work with me. I kept people In the game that I thought I could and would consider working with later in the game.

As for the flying under the radar it was a little part of my strategy cause I knew that my computer was laggy and would slow me down at times. So I tried not to be to loud but still make connections with a lot of people and talk to them even if I wasn't necessarily going to work with them.

[robamber]

Alex: Okay well as mayor of Ponderosa i have been away from the game the longest and since YOU THREE voted for me I really don't have a clear favorite to win. I have one question for DER, what was the biggest move you made in this game? DER you were an awesome person to talk to and you betrayed me even when I thought we were allies so you're answer counts just as much.

First of Alex I did NOT vote for you. The vote was supposed to be PG. It was PG for a while then idol fear came into play and the vote was switched to you. I tried to get the votes back at PG. I voted for PG that vote.

On to your question, Like I answered to David getting Brit was my biggest move. I got it done by planting seeds against her early.

[kubson]

okay. Congratulation to you all. 

Joey- How you tried to save me? Biiitch  Im dead. I can just hope me liking your sh*t got you hyped about me actually voting for you. Not in this life.  If I will cast my vote with 'hey/joeyretard' again it would be disgrace to me and whole human race. I voted your annoying a** once. So you got my vote already. See no point in writing it again. 

DERobot- so you want to tell me you getting no votes should bring your victory? How about not changing this trend and you wont get any votes even now? Hmm? And yeah. Your social game was so in point that I didnt even experienced it. Talking to you was like talking to robot. You forgot that Im on the Jury. Not even talking to someone wont bring you win. This goes to all of you.


Linus- I actually have a question to you, or maybe two. Who is der, who is joey and who are you? Like yall were so irrelevant. And I swear to god- if I will once again hear your 'I love everyone and want to bake a cake with smiles and rainbows' answer (like you did with saying words about eliminated players) to any of question Im about to vote one of these two morons. So you better nail my question.

Call me bitter, call me whatever. Yall have a equal chances for my vote. I hate you all the same So whoever nails my quiestion the best get my irrelevant vote since winner is already picked ooops. Deuces.

[radfiddler]

Okay well as mayor of Ponderosa i have been away from the game the longest and since YOU THREE voted for me I really don't have a clear favorite to win. I have one question for Linus and DER, what was the biggest move you made in this game? I don't want a story just tell me the move and how you got it done. Linus, I don't really know you so this answer could really help, DER you were an awesome person to talk to and you betrayed me even when I thought we were allies so you're answer counts just as much.

Hey Alex, nice to finally meet you . My biggest move in this game was definitely ensuring that Dscott would be targeted before me thus gaurenteeing me a chance to save myself after. Dscott and I had always worked in a way where one of us would focus on the social game with a few people and the other would focus on the other people. So when we decided who people each of us should focus on trying to pull in I always got him to be focused talking more with the big movers and shakers of the game, specifically Epicurus since he was going to be the one calling the shots until Harm or Brittany decided to flip things up. I also often would imply to PG that I had no problem working with him, but I had to be loyal to Dscott which painted even more of a target on Dscott whilst not villainizing myself since PG would think of me as a potential ally and Dscott as someone solely against him, that way if PG idol'd it would likely take out Dscott before me. I did other minor things to try and paint the Dscott picture even larger for when a move was inevitably made against us but those were two of the major ways I did it.
Thanks for the question!

[radfiddler]

David E: Linus - What was the most unexpected thing that happened during the game for you? How did you have to adapt to deal with it?

The most unexpected thing for me honestly was that someone with as little game savyness could possibly exist. At the final 8 tribal he freaking warned us that everyone else was targeting Dscott (Hence why we last minute changed to vote Britt that tribal). Like, why would you warn us we are getting votes but you want to make a move, and then still vote us, it just makes you sketchy for no freaking reason. I just couldn't believe he was playing just to f*ck others over and not to win. I adapted to this sporadic personality by often trying to play up how hectic certain moves would make the game since he was playing for the sh*ts and giggles rather than just trying to convince him it was a good move. for example, when Britt was voted off I told him how it would flip the game completely a round after the game was already flipped completely and how crazy that would be. After that round I then decided strategically to not give a sh*t about Joey as anything but a good goat, since Harm, DER and I had the numbers now anyways.

Have a good one Epic

[Joe (hey)]

Aug 14, 2016 20:03:51 GMT -5 radfiddler said:

 for example, when Britt was voted off I told him how it would flip the game completely a round after the game was already flipped completely and how crazy that would be. 

i think you seem to be forgetting that im able to post in this thread and call you out on complete bullsh*t

for the brit vote off literally all you said to me that day was "hey how are you voting" and i told you brit and to just trust me and the convo ended there

you literally had nothing to do with me voting out brit, harmony is the one that talked to me about it and got me on board with it, so don't sit here and take credit for something you didnt do when you're going to win regardless


and you also never played up to my lack of giving a sh*t like wtf is that all our convos consisted of you thanking me for saving your a**


receipts: [deleted]

[Nate]

Sorry, but I'm gonna say screenshots are a no no, mainly because I'd rather this not become a screenshot war.

[Donald]

"Receipts: deleted"
I f*cking hate nate lmaooo

[Joe (hey)]

wow ok grodner i see how it is

[Nate]

No but also kys everyone