Post by Shane Powers on Sept 20, 2010 21:16:33 GMT -5
Hey everyone, first off I just want to say great game to everyone on the jury and everyone else who played. I had alot of fun playing with all of you and you all played a wonderful game. I know that some of you may be upset with the way I played or angry at me for something I did to you, but I hope you can all see past that when I explain why.
When the game first started, the tribes were divided by gender. I was not a very huge fan of this because I usually like a variety of men and women on the tribes to see what I can work with best. So, as soon as the tribes were announced, I immediately started talking with Parvati and Ashley. My original plan was to have a secret F2 alliance with Parvati. I also had an original alliance in the very beginning with myself, Erik, Rupert & Jud. We knew we had the numbers on Toro and I felt pretty good about myself. I had those three guys on Toro & I had Ashley and Parvati on Uvero. After that, we were asked to rank the remaining players on our tribes in order of importance and right away I knew a tribe switch was coming. When the results came in, I was voted number 1 by my tribe and I had mixed feelings about it. I was happy that my tribe felt I was important, but also worried because I knew it would put a huge target on my back when we did switch tribes.
After the tribe switch, the girls and guys on Uvero were even. Myself, Rupert & Erik all knew that it would be tough to get one of the girls to flip, but we made pitches to both Kelly & Parvati hoping one of them would vote Corinne with us. It turned out that they decided to stick together and Rupert went home due to past votes. At this point, we had the same amount of people as Toro did and during the next challenge, we knew that Corinne, Parvati & Kelly were trying to lose so that we would go to tribal and they would just vote myself or Erik off, giving the girls the numbers at the merge. Erik and I reached out to Jud, Ethan & Alex and told them what the girls were trying to do and they helped us out and stopped posting during the challenge. It turns out that we won the challenge because of that and they voted Jenn off that round. This was when I knew that Parvati was no longer with me and I gave my full loyalty to Ashley.
Ashley and I tried to keep a low profile coming into the merge. At first, Kelly & Parv both quit. That meant that myself, Erik, Alex, Jud, Ethan & Ashley were the only ones left. Erik had not been online in several days and I did not really want to vote him out, but I had no choice because I could not strategize with him because he had not been online. So, I voted Erik out and made a F4 commitment to Jud of myself, him, Alex and Ethan. Jud told me that him and Alex were very close, and that scared me alot because I knew that in a F3 situation, Alex would have voted me out for Jud, and I am not sure how Jud would have voted. So at this point, they wanted Ashley gone and I told them I would vote with them when I was really getting Ethan and Ashley to vote out Alex so we can separate them, and then just vote out Jud in the next tribal.
I had such a huge target on my back the entire game, yet I was the only one all game to never recieve a vote at tribal.
Sorry this is so long, I just want everyone to understand why I did the things that I did.
When the game first started, the tribes were divided by gender. I was not a very huge fan of this because I usually like a variety of men and women on the tribes to see what I can work with best. So, as soon as the tribes were announced, I immediately started talking with Parvati and Ashley. My original plan was to have a secret F2 alliance with Parvati. I also had an original alliance in the very beginning with myself, Erik, Rupert & Jud. We knew we had the numbers on Toro and I felt pretty good about myself. I had those three guys on Toro & I had Ashley and Parvati on Uvero. After that, we were asked to rank the remaining players on our tribes in order of importance and right away I knew a tribe switch was coming. When the results came in, I was voted number 1 by my tribe and I had mixed feelings about it. I was happy that my tribe felt I was important, but also worried because I knew it would put a huge target on my back when we did switch tribes.
After the tribe switch, the girls and guys on Uvero were even. Myself, Rupert & Erik all knew that it would be tough to get one of the girls to flip, but we made pitches to both Kelly & Parvati hoping one of them would vote Corinne with us. It turned out that they decided to stick together and Rupert went home due to past votes. At this point, we had the same amount of people as Toro did and during the next challenge, we knew that Corinne, Parvati & Kelly were trying to lose so that we would go to tribal and they would just vote myself or Erik off, giving the girls the numbers at the merge. Erik and I reached out to Jud, Ethan & Alex and told them what the girls were trying to do and they helped us out and stopped posting during the challenge. It turns out that we won the challenge because of that and they voted Jenn off that round. This was when I knew that Parvati was no longer with me and I gave my full loyalty to Ashley.
Ashley and I tried to keep a low profile coming into the merge. At first, Kelly & Parv both quit. That meant that myself, Erik, Alex, Jud, Ethan & Ashley were the only ones left. Erik had not been online in several days and I did not really want to vote him out, but I had no choice because I could not strategize with him because he had not been online. So, I voted Erik out and made a F4 commitment to Jud of myself, him, Alex and Ethan. Jud told me that him and Alex were very close, and that scared me alot because I knew that in a F3 situation, Alex would have voted me out for Jud, and I am not sure how Jud would have voted. So at this point, they wanted Ashley gone and I told them I would vote with them when I was really getting Ethan and Ashley to vote out Alex so we can separate them, and then just vote out Jud in the next tribal.
I had such a huge target on my back the entire game, yet I was the only one all game to never recieve a vote at tribal.
Sorry this is so long, I just want everyone to understand why I did the things that I did.