Final Tribal Council

[clauderainsrm]

Let's welcome in the Jury... jenwithapen  bittyjane , megatronix , impoetry , n3m3sis43 ,
minikin25,wolfden , lawchicky819 , bsgsix , swirlsofpurple , eeyore_grrl , bleodswean , adoptedwriter , alycewilson murielle , and gunwithoutmusic - voted out at the last tribal council.

16 people that you had a hand in, directly or indirectly, voting out of this game. Their dreams of winning may have ended. But the power is now in their hands.

Here is how this is going to to work -

flipflop_diva and halfshellvenus  -You will both have the opportunity to make Opening Statements. You job is to convince these people WHY you should win.



Once BOTH of the finalists have made their opening statements, then the Jury will be able to ask their questions, as well as any follow ups they wish. This is in the modern, open-discussion model of tribal council, with the online twist. :)  They can ask anything they want. 


This will continue for a few days, or until the Jury is satisfied that they have enough information on which to base their decision.  At that point I will announce that it is time to vote. 







(Note- DW has been randomly hiding parts of the post - so if any of it vanishes, just keep going. You know if you are on the Jury or not. and if you are a finalist. I've tagged you. But DW has already erased a bunch of tags several times when I've tried to post this)               



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If the two of you would like to make a final statement to the Jury, before the vote begins now would be the time to do so.  This is your last opportunity to address the Jury. 

Comments

[flipflop_diva]

This is a surprisingly hard question!

I’m not really sure I would say I had any missteps game wise, although there were the more personal moments toward the end that I would probably do differently if I could. Namely telling gunwithoutmusic and telling you about my decisions before the votes happened. But I think in both cases, we are all good now and there aren’t any hard feelings (I hope!), so I’m very happy about that.

Otherwise, I think missteps are one of those things that I’ll find out once the votes are read. Then I’ll know if I should have done something else differently, although it depends how much people will be willing to share to know what those missteps are.

But for right now, every step I did take, in the end, got me here, which was the goal, so I can’t say they were wrong or they should have been done differently. I think that I played a good game — I tried hard to foster relationships and write strong entries and vote and play as fairly and honestly as I could in the situation we were in, and I always try to be a good person and a good competitor and a good friend, so I hope people saw all that.

Now, for missed opportunities, I think the one I’ve always sort of wondered about in the back of my mind is about our original Luzon tribe. Back when we were in tribes, I really, really did want to make an alliance with people from our tribe and go to the merge and then the end with them. I thought it would be great to form a group that stuck together and supported each other.

I even though about, once the merge was announced, making a post to our tribe and seeing what everyone thought about voting together from then on.

But then we ended up having the tie vote and everything sort of devolved into such a mess, and right after that, we reshuffled tribes and I was on a different one than the rest of you, and our tribe comm was deleted without a chance to really even say goodbye.

So with all that going on, plus just knowing that there were a lot of people on our tribe that were both very opposed to doing anything not out in the open and also just wanting to play an Idol game and not a Survivor game, I ended up not reaching out to anyone on Luzon. And then gunwithoutmusic messaged me, and I ended up talking to him and being in an alliance with him.

Obviously it worked out for me, but I do wonder what could have been if I had tried a little harder with our original tribe. I really loved everyone on there and wanted to work with them; it just felt like the odds were against us at the time, and I ended up going a different direction, but that whole thing is definitely one of my ‘could have beens’.