- Quote :
- Final 2:
1) Why should I vote for you? emphasis on I
2) Why should I not vote for your opponent?
Thanks for the questions, Shao Kahn. I feel you should vote for me because of my dedication to the game and to the challenges. After the first merge vote, my tribe was quickly in the minority and I had to win challenges to stay around. Challenges then became my biggest strength and one of the big reasons I made it to the finals. I consistently worked hard in the challenges and hard a strong work ethic with the game. I would check the threads daily, put in time to post, work out voting, etc. When my tribe was losing numbers, I became the underdog and the lone person from my original tribe and overcame those odds against four from your tribe. I invested a lot of time into the game and with the challenges and I believe that warrants some attention and consideration of your vote.
You should not vote Cage for a couple reasons, one being that he didn't perform exceptionally well in the challenges. I'm not going to contest his great social game and alliances with you but one of the keys of survivor is to "outplay" your opponent and I outplayed him in the individual immunity challenges near the end. Another reason is he was able to rest easy on some of the later votes in the game. He was in the majority and just had to worry about who was going and making sure he was in the majority, which included being with you. In this way, he didn't really have to do any fight-or-flighting. At the end of the game, I had to fight challenge after challenge, knowing if I lost, I highly doubt I'd be answering final 2 questions. Cage had a different route to get to the finals consisting of being in the majority alliance, while I went the challenge-winning route. Those are key points and I hope you consider them.
- Quote :
- Rank the jurors on gameplay and trust. With reasons.
in terms of gameplay (best to worst)
Raiden: Raiden played an excellent game. He was always a threat to win challenges when he showed up and I couldn't risk him going any further because he was a challenge threat. He also talked with a lot of people and I'm sure he knew what was going on most of the time.
Jackson: I'd put Jax second. For me, he was striaght-shooting and loyal. When our tribe imploded, he played both sides and was relayhing info back to Kano and I. This shows his willingness to keep fighting and not lay down and die during the game.
Kano: Kano goes here because he was loyal. He didn't talk much but he didn't have to. People knew where he stood. He played an honest and respectable game and I don't think he deceived anyone that I know of
Cyber: Cyber goes here because he showed up on and off for challenges and he was very friendly/witty with his comments on the threads and bantering with Sheeva. He was personable but I feel like he didn't to talk more to move up higher.
Shao Kahn: Tbh you would go here on my list. I don't deny you were loyal with your group but I did not see on you online often and you didn't seem to socialize much from my perspective. if you had been more social, id' have put you up higher.
Sheeva: Shao and Sheeva were close and could have been switched. What sheeva lost in questionable gaming decisions, she gained in being straightforward. She had great rapport wihth me and I trusted her. She was very peter gibbons after the change and let her mind flow. I respect her a lot for that and with better game moves, she could have gone a lot further, even with her controversial tude
Nightwolf: Nightwolf goes here. It seems like a continual copout but I hadn't talked with nightwolf much (if at all) just one on one beffore merge and I know it's a two way road, but that made things difficult and I felt I didn't know him or connect with him and that hurt his gameplay.
relating to trust
Sheeva: This might be a surprising pick but up to when she got voted out, I trusted Sheeva. we had a great rapport and she spoke her mind honestly. she wasn't going to bullshit you and lie to your face, she called shit as it was. It showed she was trustworthy and wasn't here to dick around
Jax: Jackson goes here for the gameplay reasons too. even when we were down and out, he showed his trust with us to try and get info from the other tribe to use for our benefit. he showed me he was committed to the old tribe
Shao Kahn and Kano: I'm putting you two together. In my eyes, you played very simillar and loyal games. You were trustworthy to the people you knew and not to the others. You both remained quiet and passive during the game but it paid off because both of you made it far. You kept your words
nightwolf: Nightwolf goes here. Even though we've had our differences in the finals area, I now know he was trustworythy and commited to our old tribe. He wanted to go final 5 and was diehard on that. He's a solid guy
Cyber: I didn't talk with Cyber much in the game and there was vote about raiden one time. Besides that, he was loyal to his group and didn't change much. He held true
Raiden: I've got to put raiden here for one reason. it was the me/sheeva duel vote. I thought we were solid after I voted with him/Cagey for Nightwolf and then he wasn't able to shift the vote off of me and I went to the duel. that stuck with me and I wasn't able to think of him without those tinted lenses. I wanted to trust him but I always wondered if it was sincere or not because of that one incident. barring that, he'd be a lot hihger but that one moment with the vote cost him in this system with respect to me.
if you want me to elaborate anymore let me know. Thank you for the questions, Shao Kahn
Subject: Re: Final Tribal Council! 
Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:25 pm
you have both relied on some luck in making it to the final 2. Lets see you rely on one last piece...
