[Kate!]

Originally Posted by jackc1806

Reasons now?

Yep please.

[Donovan.]

Originally Posted by reece(:

Congratulations Donovan

[Benjamin]

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Donovan


You are the winner of Elimination 8! Thank you so much for playing, it has been absolutely fantastic to watch your game play out, it really has, I'm proud to have you as the winner of this game, I really am.


Lee, also a massive well done to you, I know you were pipped to the win (again) but a fantastic effort from you also, honestly, a great game as always.


To the rest of you, also a massive thank you, you have made this a truly amazing season for me to host, I had so much fun with you guys and I really hope you enjoyed it to. You have all brought so much to the game and made it stand out this year, so thank you for that.

Donovan, your award shall be with you shortly and I will post the reasons you won and the nominations table shortly.


Again, all of you, thank you for making this a great season.

[jackc1806]

Originally Posted by *Kate*

Yep please.

Hope Ben posts them

[Kate!]

Thanks Ben, what a fantastic game, you surpassed yourself

[jackc1806]

Originally Posted by Ben

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Donovan


You are the winner of Elimination 8! Thank you so much for playing, it has been absolutely fantastic to watch your game play out, it really has, I'm proud to have you as the winner of this game, I really am.


Lee, also a massive well done to you, I know you were pipped to the win (again) but a fantastic effort from you also, honestly, a great game as always.


To the rest of you, also a massive thank you, you have made this a truly amazing season for me to host, I had so much fun with you guys and I really hope you enjoyed it to. You have all brought so much to the game and made it stand out this year, so thank you for that.

Donovan, your award shall be with you shortly and I will post the reasons you won and the nominations table shortly.


Again, all of you, thank you for making this a great season.

Best host

[Donovan.]

Such an amazing game. Thanks again Ben

[GypsyGoth]

Congratz Don

Brilliantly run game Ben and well done Lee on 2nd

[jackc1806]

Aww, it's all over now

[Drew.]

well done and thanks for running it Ben.. really enjoyed it and there were a great selection of forum members playing

[Benji_]

Well done Ben you put a lot of time and effort into this game

[Jemal]

Thanks Ben

[Benji_]

Ben was a great host and I will definately be following the next series

[Lee.]

I'm here now.. Just caught up. Congratulations Donovan!! You played a great game

Ben, this has been a great game.. One if the best ive played. Thank you so much!

[Kate!]

Lee hope you've had a good night out. Well done on being a very worthy finalist.

[GypsyGoth]

I think having Ben dressed up as a bear in his avatar helped Don win.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

I am voting for Donovan to win. Both he and Lee have played great games, but I feel overall Donovan played it more low key and overall played smarter than Lee who I felt did some questionable things in terms of strategy.

Originally Posted by Jemal

Donovan.

Originally Posted by *Kate*

Ok thanks. Here's my reasons and vote.

I thought my choice for winner would be an easy decision, from the moment I was eliminated myself my support was firmly in place for one of the eventual finalists, I strongly anticipated them winning even at that relatively early stage. It was tougher than I thought to actually make that decision in the end given that both Donovan and Lee played an excellent game. Having read their answers to the jury questions and final statements, I feel one of them showed themselves to have played a marginally more strategic and insightful game however.

Lee was told I was targeting her, a good tactic by whoever fed her that information, but it set her on the wrong track as in fact I never once nominated her for the duration of my time in the game, and only voted against her once, when others indicated to me they were voting that way.

Donovan seemed to have his finger on the pulse consistently, and the trust of virtually every player in the game. He was my choice from early on, and jury questions reaffirmed that he is indeed my choice for winner.

I vote Donovan to win.

Originally Posted by Jake.

I vote for Donovan to win. I think he has played a terrific game from the off, and whilst Lee has also, he just edges it for me

Originally Posted by Zee

This has been an incredibly hard decision to make! I am voting for Donovan to win. Both Donovan and Lee played phenomenally well but I think Donovan just has the edge on Lee by a tiny little bit. Donovan has that killer instinct when it came to this game; getting a good balance of keeping a low profile but also winning HoH a couple of times and more crucially, winning POV a couple of times when he was up for elimination. He built strong alliances but wasn't afraid to turn on people and he did so at the right time. He fumbled it a little bit in the final 4; but in fairness, I think they all did - Donovan, Drew and Lee were scared to turn on each other because they knew that they had built up a strong team, so I think that was a weakness in their strategy; they really ought to have ousted one of the others in the final 5 and then tried to get rid of the other one in the final 3 - they made the mistake of thinking that we the jury would be basing it on popularity, which I would hope isn't the case, I'm basing this on game play. Ultimately I think they are both very worthy winners but Donovan just stands out as the slightly better player for me; he did it all!

Originally Posted by jackc1806

Hi Ben

What a game it has been! First of all, a big thank you to you for spending a lot of time organising the game and being a fantastic host. When I signed up I didn't imagine it would be as gripping and engaging as it was- like it was real series of a BB type show and that is a testament to the effort you put in. I was so grateful to get as far as I did and the remaining 2 players Lee and Donovan have both played a great game and they both deserve the win. It is a hard choice, Donovan and Lee both had great game plans and I took that into account- taking it personally is silly. Lee created a situation for herself where she sailed through and that is a massive credit to her, a tactical triumph so to speak. Lee won a lot of challenges earlier on but I felt she took her foot off the gas towards the end whilst Donovan carried on. I must commend the tremendous effort of Donovan, finding time to play despite the different time zones. The amount of effort he put in throughout the process was incredible and also he had a few tricks up his sleeve. So for me it is an incredibly hard choice and I hope this is posted in the thread as I would like them to know it was a 51/49 decision- it was that close.

After a lot of thought my winner is Donovan

However the voting goes good luck to both, whoever wins is worthy.

Originally Posted by Benji_

I vote Donovan for the winner as I think he played a brilliant game and I think it's fair to say that he has been on a journey through out the game more than Lee and I think he'd be very greatful and happy to win so my vote goes for Donovan as he plays the best game!

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[Jemal]

Short and Simple.
No long essay malarkey
But you guys put good effort in it, fair play.

[Benji_]

oh if i knew you were ment to write a whole para then I would of I just thought it was a quick sentence oh well

[Benji_]

Ahh what a great game shame to see it end x

[jackc1806]

Love you all

[Donovan.]

Those reasons were so fun to read, and Lee well done on getting so far

[Benjamin]

[Drew.]

if there's anything to take from the game from a personal level i ended it with the least amount of votes, no nominations and most amount of HoH's, pretty happy with that

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

if there's anything to take from the game from a personal level i ended it with the least amount of votes, no nominations and most amount of HoH's, pretty happy with that

You played a fantastic game also, I am honestly surprised that you lasted this long because of those things.