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]

Funny enough, for as huge of a Survivor fan as I am, I didn't actually come into this game with a great overarching plan. Most of it was that, although I know Survivor super well, I wasn't really sure how this game in particular was going to work or how it was going to work with the people who were playing, so I kind of wanted to get a feel for that before forming any plan in particular.

But that said, I did have some ideas.
- I wanted to be the best possible tribe member I could be to Luzon and help out as much as possible, so hopefully people would want me to stay.
- I wanted to write the best entries I could possibly write and make sure to do high quality work every week.
- I wanted to be super excellent with my social game, which to me meant making sure I take the time to read and comment to everyone's entries and also making sure I participate in whatever posts Gary puts up.
- And I wanted to be open and adaptable to whatever came up and hopefully be able to use that to figure out a more solid plan in order to make it further.

I did think, before we started, that I would be okay with more deceptive forms of play if it came to that, since I always have thought that when it comes to Survivor, everything is fair. But I quickly realized that I didn't actually want to play that way and, for as much as I've joked in the past that I would stab someone in the back without hesitation for a million dollars, I did not actually want to stab anyone in the back at all, and especially not for an online writing competition. The fantasy ruthless Survivor player I had in my head of myself really is a fantasy player, and I'm actually pretty sure that I probably couldn't stab anyone in the back for a million dollars on real Survivor either. That's just not who I am, and that was quickly evident to me right away. Which is a good thing and I'm happy to know that about myself :)

So once I realized that, I also knew that I wanted to form relationships with people and be loyal to them and also just be as honest and open as I could within the constraints of the game. Meaning I tried very hard to never straight out lie to anyone, in comments or in private, though I did leave out info here and there and was purposely vague on other things. But that is more along the lines of what you said in another comment where it's more about not showing your hand. It wouldn't really have been a smart move to show up to Tribal Council and be like 'Here is my alliance! We're voting you out, [insert name here]!'

Overall, though, all those things above became the foundation of my strategy, and I think that having those things in place did help. I feel like I was a good resource for Luzon, and hopefully they all thought so, but it did work to not get me voted out right away. And I hope that by writing my best every week that it had a huge part in my making it so far — I did pretty well in the polls normally and I even won individual immunity twice. And when people were mostly voting on low votes or bad weeks, I don't think I was in danger that way ever.

The social game part ended up being my most favorite thing about this game. I loved Tribal Councils and interacting with everyone and just chatting and getting to know people, and I hope that people got a good sense of who I was in return. And my relationships I built made all the difference in the world because having other people to work with just changed the game completely for me.

And finally, being adaptable and open to change also served me well because it was the reason I was open to working with gunwithoutmusic when he contacted me and it was honestly the way he and I navigated so many of the votes. We would look at the comments in Tribal and other posts and try to read between the lines and get a feel for where people were going and then vote that way. And a lot of times, we had plans and then would scrap those plans a day later because of new information or whatnot and we'd come up with new plans. And especially the week that bsgsix got sick and we lost her, that was a huge jolt to our plans, but staying adaptable and willing to find a new plan meant we were able to get a solid alliance with halfshellvenus. And then the three of us did the same sort of thing the rest of the game.

So in the end, I think having a looser strategy instead of a super detailed one helped me out a lot. I fine-tuned things I would do and not do as we went along, and I learned a lot about myself along the way, so overall, it was definitely successful.