| JerseyWins |
18-07-2017 06:57 AM |
Final plea
I'm putting this together late at night right before I go to sleep so excuse me if anything doesn't make too sense or seems to be skipping around or something like that. :joker:
I started this game thinking I wanted to play a game that gets me voted out early or gets me all the way to the end and I kinda made it to the end without a scratch tbh. Early on I aligned with a majority of the cast in some way... either I told the person let's have each others' backs or I got in some form of alliance or jury deal with people. People I worked with included: Morgan, Tregard, Jamie, SuperV, DTM, Jason, reece, Ross, Firewire (although with Firewire it was just linked through an alliance... when I found out early on through Morgan that he was throwing Jason under the bus and that he & Ross were working outside of our 6 person alliance, I decided to not work with Firewire at all and targeted him through others' HOH's). I even tried to make a bit of a deal with Hayden too when he entered the game but I didn't get too much of a response so I decided to not try with that as I had a lot of people I was working with anyway.
Anyway, that's almost the entire jury that I was working with in one way or another, again some more than others. People could have connected this and taken me out yet I was never nominated by an HOH until the final 4 so people always felt close enough to me to not even put me on the block. Honestly, the entire pre-jury went exactly the way I wanted to as it's filled with people I didn't speak to much or at all in the game. That's why I threw HOH's to people I trusted enough, like SuperV, to keep me safe and go after others that he'd tell me he's going after, because our targets matched and I didn't need to get the blood on my hands.
Another thing is, DTM didn't know about the connections I had with people. Like we did tell each other about allies and people we could talk to in order to help each other out and things like that. For example, he told me about an alliance with Jason & SuperV and relationships with others like Jamie while I told him about a jury deal I made with Morgan & Jamie (this was how we started seeing that Jamie was working multiple angles... I mentioned this but not Morgan & Tregard because I already knew Jamie was playing a lot of sides based on SuperV telling me he was close with him and also things Jason would say and what not... If things went wrong with the alliance of DTM/Jason/reece, I had planned to try to make it to the end with Morgan & Tregard instead but they eventually got nominated together so there went that opportunity as one had to go). Still, I never showed how close I actually was to people like SuperV, Morgan and I never mentioned Tregard at all thinking that a situation may arise later where I'd need to flip to Morgan & Tregard if I really needed to do that. I discussed a whole bunch of things with Morgan in particular. DTM would tell me or Morgan to make deals with each other but that wasn't needed because we already had trust with each other. I don't think Morgan actually ever made a deal with me like DTM suggested. But I would tell DTM what he wanted to hear to downplay how close me & Morgan were and I'd say things like "cool I haven't spoke with Morgan in a while but I feel good about that".. The only deal we actually made was Morgan's initial pre-game request to work together until jury which I said could be a lot longer past that because I don't know many people on here and don't know who to align with. But I was already actually aligned with some people which is probably the main reason I was never 100% with Morgan which was unfortunate since I really liked working with him too but you can't give your main loyalty to everyone in the game. I also knew about a lot of SuperV's HOH plans and who he was going to vote out each week sometimes before DTM would let me know (in times when it was important) because me & SuperV would discuss those things frequently but I tried to keep my relationship with SuperV as lowkey as I could too. I knew that DTM was closer to SuperV though based on things he'd say.
Which brings me to the F3 scenario... if SuperV won the final HOH I was going to make a big argument to SuperV to take me over DTM, explaining how DTM has told me about his relationship/alliance with him and include a plea about how much of a bigger threat DTM was in the game with his comp wins, etc. even though I was always involved with it as well. However, although I respect DTM's game I think he's made mistakes including with his HOH reigns. Nominating SuperV & reece was a mistake considering Ross was the one-nom HOH that week because we suddenly lost the numbers to keep Jason after he was Ross's obvious nomination. That HOH reign was a big blow to his game and he admits that himself and if I wasn't a loyal player at the end of the day, DTM would not be in the final 2 because of it. While we've took each others' points in discussions, I think that I've had most of the better instincts in the game based on what I've answered in my questions and I've made the decisions to help further my own game. I know plenty were his allies too but most of my closest allies are the ones who made it to the end including Ross who I wanted to go far (until I had to cut him for being a huge threat *cassandra.gif*) and was probably a bigger ally with me than he was with DTM. That's not me just following his advice. :joker:
In fact as it's been stated already... one of the few times I took DTM's advice was during that HOH reign. I was conflicted because of the situation and he told me to keep Jason thinking the vote would go 2-1 with Jason staying. Even though I felt like it wasn't going to and I told him that it wasn't going to work, I went for it anyway because I REALLY wanted to keep Jason in the game at that point. The thing is this didn't even need to be a dilemma with different nominations in the first place. :shrug: It backfired on both of us though so no I don't think DTM's advice got me to this point. :joker: I got myself here but let others do the dirty work a lot of the time so that I could keep coasting by. I let DTM and other comp beasts like SuperV win the HOH's (and secret HOH for DTM which he told me about as soon as he won and I told him to put up Jamie & then Marsh or Hayden which he followed). I felt confident they would take out the same targets I had and even got DTM to help me win an HOH in final 5 to get me into the final 4 while HE was potentially still in danger if the POV got in Morgan's hands. After Jason & reece previously went under his HOH, it was important that I won that next one. With my F5 HOH, I took out Ross, a major comp threat and winner threat and taking Ross out was something DTM couldn't do with multiple opportunities before that. In the end I won a good amount of the comps because that's when they matter the most and most were on my own but possibly the most important one at F5 was with the help of DTM - someone who I built enough trust with to win an HOH for me. Finally, I won the HOH that mattered the most, the F3 HOH, all on my own to control my own destiny into the final 2 and hopefully win this game.
Win or lose, I had a lot of fun playing this game and it's only my second game ever on this site. Dan took Memphis to the end and still won. I believe you can stay loyal to your #1 ally in the end and still be viewed more positively by your jury to win the game and I hope that's the case. Either way, great game to everyone and good luck to DTM! :D
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