Post by Phillip Sheppard on Sept 10, 2011 17:12:06 GMT -5
Ohhhh you guys, this was a difficult decision because you all provided good answers to your questions. Like I said there aren't any useless finalists this time like there are often in the real show. Don't be discouraged if you don't get mine because I've had a history of voting for the player that ultimately doesn't win. Many jurors vote only for personal reasons or based on how a question that is irrelevant to the game is answered rather than the game that was played, so the other 2 of you have a chance!
Jimmy you are sneaky son of a bitch. The question I asked you about your game being similar to Julie was actually important because although you may not think so, it was very similar. You manipulated and lied like her, but you were more obvious about it and people were more on to you than Julie. You would have had a more straight forward and more respectable game had you gone with me, but Julie is your friend and straightforward is boring to you. You were on the edge of elimination many times for your choice to side with her, Julie was never even close.
Matty you are providing very good and detailed responses to your questions. You aren't a brainless immunity whore that floated to the finals. Regardless of what you say however, your DELIBERATE decisions to not make alliances, waste reward items, and vote against the majority are not brilliant gameplay moves. You did take the target off your back for some reasons ( having too many alliances, being a threat etc) but ended up getting the target back on your back anyway, really from the Final 6 onward for not having strong relationships with the people in power and for being an immunity threat, so the under the radar part of your strategy only really helped you make the merge. You were not under the radar at the merge at all.
I don't think your "unique" strategic decisions benefitted you much at all, and you needed to win Immunity to make the end of the game, whereas Julie and Jimmy did not ( Though Jimmy could have been eliminated in the tie vote, just as Joel or Jenna coulda switched to vote you off). You were never control of the vote, you were for a brief period of time in the Final 5, then Julie took it away from you by convincing Jenna to vote Joel and keep Jimmy.But against that Jumping Jolly JungleBerry Jam alliance( I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF ;D ), winning immunity is probably the only thing you could have done to make it here, and against the odds you did pull that off.
Its also worth noting it easy to be honest when your immune, after all by telling someone how your actually voting there is no way of it falling back on you if you're immune
Julie, its hard to find a flaw in how you played the game. You controlled a lot of the kidnapping and votes pre-merge on both tribes and formed strong bonds with many people in the game, myself included, setting yourself up for a very strong post merge game. You manipulated like Jimmy did, but did it much better and weren't caught until after it was F3 and too late. You were the center of the alliance, the JungleBerry in the Jam, you had Jenna and Jimmy completely under your Jedi mind powers, and Jimmy had Joel under his. Sarah made one last attempt to try and break it up and like me was destroyed for her efforts. By Final 7 you were unstoppable, and NaOnka went. You lucked out not losing in the purple rock the next round when the alliance broke off. Despite the power actually shifting putting Joel and Matty for the first time in control of the game, you destroyed it but exercising Jedi mind powers again on Jenna, taking all the power away from Joel and Matty and securing your Final 3 spot. Even had Jimmy left in the Final 5 ( just another one of the many times he could have left and was saved BY YOU) You may have still made it to the Final 3 because I think Jenna would have voted Joel over you in the Final 4, giving you a tiebreaker and you would have defeated Joel in that easily, he didnt even want to make the finals.
Jimmy you are sneaky son of a bitch. The question I asked you about your game being similar to Julie was actually important because although you may not think so, it was very similar. You manipulated and lied like her, but you were more obvious about it and people were more on to you than Julie. You would have had a more straight forward and more respectable game had you gone with me, but Julie is your friend and straightforward is boring to you. You were on the edge of elimination many times for your choice to side with her, Julie was never even close.
Matty you are providing very good and detailed responses to your questions. You aren't a brainless immunity whore that floated to the finals. Regardless of what you say however, your DELIBERATE decisions to not make alliances, waste reward items, and vote against the majority are not brilliant gameplay moves. You did take the target off your back for some reasons ( having too many alliances, being a threat etc) but ended up getting the target back on your back anyway, really from the Final 6 onward for not having strong relationships with the people in power and for being an immunity threat, so the under the radar part of your strategy only really helped you make the merge. You were not under the radar at the merge at all.
I don't think your "unique" strategic decisions benefitted you much at all, and you needed to win Immunity to make the end of the game, whereas Julie and Jimmy did not ( Though Jimmy could have been eliminated in the tie vote, just as Joel or Jenna coulda switched to vote you off). You were never control of the vote, you were for a brief period of time in the Final 5, then Julie took it away from you by convincing Jenna to vote Joel and keep Jimmy.But against that Jumping Jolly JungleBerry Jam alliance( I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF ;D ), winning immunity is probably the only thing you could have done to make it here, and against the odds you did pull that off.
Its also worth noting it easy to be honest when your immune, after all by telling someone how your actually voting there is no way of it falling back on you if you're immune
Julie, its hard to find a flaw in how you played the game. You controlled a lot of the kidnapping and votes pre-merge on both tribes and formed strong bonds with many people in the game, myself included, setting yourself up for a very strong post merge game. You manipulated like Jimmy did, but did it much better and weren't caught until after it was F3 and too late. You were the center of the alliance, the JungleBerry in the Jam, you had Jenna and Jimmy completely under your Jedi mind powers, and Jimmy had Joel under his. Sarah made one last attempt to try and break it up and like me was destroyed for her efforts. By Final 7 you were unstoppable, and NaOnka went. You lucked out not losing in the purple rock the next round when the alliance broke off. Despite the power actually shifting putting Joel and Matty for the first time in control of the game, you destroyed it but exercising Jedi mind powers again on Jenna, taking all the power away from Joel and Matty and securing your Final 3 spot. Even had Jimmy left in the Final 5 ( just another one of the many times he could have left and was saved BY YOU) You may have still made it to the Final 3 because I think Jenna would have voted Joel over you in the Final 4, giving you a tiebreaker and you would have defeated Joel in that easily, he didnt even want to make the finals.
