What did you think of you time in The Survivor Games: Luanda?
I had an absolute blast and I am sure you are well aware of that. I am so unbelievably proud to have done as well as I did and while I'm not happy that I got eliminated here I am glad that I was able to spend my last 24 hours basically trying to pull at the heartstrings to stay in this game. Quite obviously it didn't work but I'm sure I made everyone feel like crap when eliminating me lol, so I'll take the little victories.
Who among the remaining players do you think will win? Why?
Looking at this jury thread, I think there is a difference between who will win and who SHOULD win. I think whoever out of Chelsea and Varner makes it to the FTC (because I can't imagine seeing both of them there) is going to win due to how the people on this jury feel about Sierra and Joaquin. Joaquin being a total goat and Sierra for having burned and lied to people on the jury. I would never bring myself to vote Joaquin because unfortunately he just hasn't played a good game in the slightest, but if I had to choose between Chelsea and Varner I would probably vote Chelsea for being socially more in the loop and, even though i felt closer on a personal level to Varner, I think Chelsea was the best at getting closer to everyone else.
The thing is, I don't see much difference in the games Sierra and I played.
When I was constantly being told I was a threat for this past round, I kept trying to think of the answer to one simple question: Why am I a threat but not Sierra? We played a TON of this game together and I think almost every decision that we made was mutual. We had put ourselves in a spot where we could team up with the old-Penedo + Crystal group or stick with the outcasts at the merge. We chose the outcasts because it would #1. Give us a smaller solid alliance and #2. we happened to like them as a group better (no offense). After Ozzy got eliminated we knew it was time for Operation: Backtrack and try to get Tom and Chelsea to vote with us again. However, we never intended on straying away from the Wildcats alliance. I had set up one of my colorful spreadsheets with a bootlist after the Ozzy vote off. This list was imo the best way to make it to the end of the game. However there was a complication once we got to F6, but that will be dealt with later.
This is going to sound cocky but after we got back in the good graces of Chelsea and Tom, Sierra and I were in a lot of power for the rest of the merge. Obviously I didn't have enough, hence why I'm here. But I was reading through Ponderosa and while I am flattered and actually really happy a few of you viewed me as playing a good game, I don't see much of a difference between mine and Sierra's other than she made more social bonds I think. Steph, the bond you and her had was super real and you wouldn't believe how much she was going through after you got voted out. I was admittedly out of the loop for a lot of that round because of traveling but essentially the reason why you were voted out was because you asked Joaquin about voting for me. Because of this the trigger was pulled and you ended up going. Now I understand that it was one message, but Joaquin had previously mentioned to Sierra that you briefly considered getting rid of her on a number of occasions (at old-Barra, F7). Now I admit that it was probably more you feeling out how Joaquin felt than how the actually felt, but seeing these messages didn't exactly help the paranoia levels.
Tom, you were voted out at F7 because you got the people IN THE GAME mad at you as well as on the jury. Steph, Joaquin, and Sierra were going to vote for you regardless that round because of how they saw you for a lot of the game. I wasn't going to vote against them, and then you leave me with the message saying I have bad jury management.
Well if I had bad jury management I probably wouldn't have had a great shot at winning all this right?
Well obviously wrong because I got eliminated at F5, a spot where only final juror is worse. Also commonly known as a spot where the person who is the biggest threat to win the game sits on the jury. Getting rid of me was 100% a strategic decision and I can't be mad at anyone for it. I will forever love Sierra to death and voting for Joaquin really did kill me because of how we grew closer as friends. But I did it to try to stay in the game and win and that's what they did. Every decision made should be for yourself and for your own game.
There are very emotional gameplayers out there and that's excellent. Playing with your heart mixes up the game and brings it to a more human level. My favorite type of people in ORGs are those who can be socially excellent, get close to me on a personal level, and build a genuine connection. If they can do all of that, so what if they vote me off? Will I be hurt? YES. But I will 100% vote for someone because they made the best game move and would never expect anyone to throw their game away to me. Chelsea put it best tbh this last round. Her heart was telling her to vote Joaquin but her mind was telling her to vote for me. The mind wins out in these things and so be it.
Who among the remaining players for you want to win? Why?
If Sierra can't win after making the decision to get rid of me, I'll feel awful. I think I have elaborated we are very close and I think anyone who can get that close to someone in a game like this is a social star.
Is there anything you wish you could have done differently in the game?
Drop out of College! lol. Jk, but I was away on an orientation for the past few days during the Steph vote and the IC. If I was around I feel like I could have had the time to win that IC and be safe at the F5 and Varner would be here in my place.
But in all seriousness there are 2 main decisions I question. Voting Steph and Voting Tom.
I was basically obligated to vote Tom because I wasn't turning on my alliance and burning people who have never lied to me. Him getting the idol was scary and I knew that Joaquin and Steph would be in trouble if Tom stayed around and had an idol.
I wish I knew more about what was going on during the F6 vote. I SWEAR I was away during that time (no matter what mysterious facebook of mine you have Steph!
) so I didn't get all of the info. If we had voted out Varner here then, no offense Steph, but I think we could have voted you out here instead (if Chelsea had the idol/won the IC again) and I would still be in the game.
Crap! One more I almost forgot! Jamie, seeing you get eliminated was one of the worst pains I felt in an ORG ever. I desperately wished I had lied that round instead of told the truth about voting Chelsea so you could have stayed in the game and Shane would have been voted out. Then I feel like we could have dominated a lot of the merge and teamed up with Sierra, Ozzy, Steph, and Joaquin to crush the merge and take no prisoners.
Who do you think will be joining you next? Who do you want to join you next?
I pray to God it isn't Sierra but I think it will be Varner. Chelsea is smart and knows she can beat Sierra and Joaquin easier than Varner. He's gone if he doesn't win immunity imo.
Did you enjoy The Survivor Games: Luanda?I just wrote paragraphs to show how involved I've been in this game lol. Yes I enjoyed it and I'm excited for AS