hi finalists! im really liking everything i'm seeing so far! eli, tommy, ryo, all of your speeches were super compelling and your answers have been fun to read! tbz, good luck with your shift and i can't wait to see what you have in store! i'll pop in now with a few questions (eli i know youre about to sleep so you can leave this for tomorrow dw)
eli and tommy, i pretty much have the same question for both of you. both of you seem to believe that you were in control of the other throughout the game. who controlled who, and why?
ryo, as you can see, you made an EXTREMELY controversial decision at a certain point in this game that just so happened to involve voting out a certain someone in a cruel, heartless, brutal, despicable manner! however, you've talked enough about that so far so i'm not gonna ask about that. instead, i'll ask you to rank every player who was remaining in the game at f10 based on your own personal perspective on who was the most likely to win if they reached the f4.
ALSO WAIT RYO ACTUALLY WHAT WAS THE POST YOU WERE GONNA SEND ME YOU NEVER SHOWED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
What controversial play at f8 sry I don’t remember that very well (jk)
Why am I asked the dirty laundry questions smh.
It’s very hard for me to compile a list because the final 10 were all great players and I know certain players were a few moves away from being massive FTC threats. (I’m going to assume this list is f10 right after the tribal)
Tbh you could blend this entire list together
1. Myself :Cate:, right after f10 I lost some of my control for a limited time, however prior to f10 I think I was playing the best game and I really do value the long period of absolute power I had. My visibility was constant throughout and I was another play away from getting control again at that point in the game.
2. Clouds, clouds and Eli were the two players where their names already made them ftc threats. Unlike Eli however, Clouds up to F10 was playing a very strong individual game, he directly or indirectly had a lot of idol bluffs, and skillfully came up with ways to avoid himself being the vote every time.
3. Tommy, Tommy is really big on himself this FTC. While I do think he has grossly exaggerated a lot of things and that he shouldn’t be discrediting myself or TBZ as much as he is, Tommy did play a superb game and while Eli isnt his “goat”, Tommy did play not only to take himself but also take Eli to the end and did so successfully.
4. Psy, Psy you don’t get nearly enough credit for the game that you played. You made the most out of the separatist swap without being in the core with me Brandon-Zoa-Torin, staying in majority and then also shifted into loyalist really well. Your plays were slick and seamless, you reminded me a lot of peak Dyo gameplay and not only were you the only person I took a shot at and missed, but had I not gone for you at F8 you would have made FTC and made a really good case for yourself that would’ve been hard for me to take anything away from.
5. Eli
Eli should be lower but at f10 and after I did see Eli as extremely threatening. His threat level was no joke and he was a great challenge threat as well; the main thing threatening about Eli though was how Tommy was protecting him and I do think that should take away from his FTC even though ofc he has played well and I really like the guy. Eli has a big name and people thought “oh no if Eli makes ftc he’ll get votes” and that became the truth even though not much was done other than that. 5th seems right
6. Torin
Torin is an amazing player, the reason he’s 6th is because up until f10 he was playing a very great UTR game, he already was building up a resume but most of his resume I feel was built up after f10, or at least all of Torin’s impressive achievements snowballed to make him the most threatening player left at f6. It’s hard for me to not have him higher though knowing how amazing of a game he played near the end.
7. Zach
Zach I feel got really unlucky as the game went on. Zoa going at f10 was both good and bad for Zach; I will say at f10 Zach was a few plays away from controlling the game and had things gone right for Zach afterwards (ex you[psy] not going at f8), Zach could have made an argument for him controlling the game. At f10 though Zach had a bumpy road up to that point.
8. TBZ
Tbz played an amazing game as well and he is a worthy winner/winner I would be very happy with. He is criminally low for me because at F10, tbz was a little lost, other players stated how much they distrusted TBZ and TBZ complained about how out of the loop he felt from everyone. TBZ always had me but his initiative after F10 and plays afterwards were where I think TBZ played a great game, at f10 TBZ was in a rough spot.
9. Totter
It’s easy to put 9th place in 9th place but Totter despite having a premerge that’s slept on and the foresight to constantly stay in majority is still here. Totter is really here because his flip didn’t work out and around f10 he found himself in the crossfire of a lot of people. I will say if totter made FTC it would mean totter went through an ABSOLUTE WAR and probably honestly could have been a deserving winner as well if he played his cards right. In order to gain that status though totter would likely have had to cut me, due to people such as Eli and Tommy seeing him as my “goat”. Getting rid of me in bigvivor is very difficult and I certainly didn’t want to boot totter so I hope him cutting me would have been equally hard for him . But yeah at f10 totter would have needed to play a very cutthroat and powerful game to earn winner status; which I do think was possible tbh if he had survived f9.
THE SECRET PSY JURY MANAGEMENT MESSAGE
I don’t think I sent anyone any jury management messages on their way out, I guess you could count me telling Brandon I’d miss him a lot in game but I always knew Brandon would only vote for me if he thought I deserved it. At F10 Psy I thought you were done because I thought Zoa could play an idol on the 5-5 revote, I didn’t expect to get your vote because I thought you were closer to everyone else sitting next to me so I felt comfortable sending you a message explaining why “I voted you out at f10”
it went like this,
“Hey Psy, I know this is jury management but I currently don’t expect your vote and feel that your game hasn’t been treated with as much respect as it should so I wanted to send this to you. I honestly do think you getting 10th is a robbery, at f11 Vooper(the kingpin at that point) pushed you and you still would have survived despite his influence on both sides of the game. You’re very likable and I knew you would be a social threat and deep merge threat. You’ve navigated through your alliances imo the most seamless in the game, and have somehow managed to control your overall perception and continue to play very slickly while the biggest players in the game (Vooper and clouds) were pushing you. and even though I didn’t want your name down I knew I had to while I still could. Above all else thank you for the starcoin friend I treasure it : )”
obviously that would have been silly to send you and very incriminating to me and my thoughts after you survived F10 , but that was the secret jury management question