awesome thanks for not being bitter, and goddam..what a brutal question, but I'll give it a shot!
From Sekou/Natalie to Eliza - I want you to list every single person that was involved in each rounds Tribal Council. There, I want you to list every person's thinking process going into the vote... what they were thinking, what they ended up doing and what they eventually did.
Good luck bros.
I gotta be perfectly honest, I did not expect Natalie to go by any means. I thought it was going to be Wanda or JT. From what I heard "lies" were spread about her and there was a suspicion she had an alliance with Coach. I believe Kourtney was the origin of this and Kourtney was by all means the leader of the tribe. My suspicion is that Nesoi just decided to follow her lead, "as long as it ain't me" and simply went that direction.
Not much to say about Sekou, he was not active, it wasn't very complicated. People liked him including myself, and there was talk about John going in his place, and Judd had even wanted Misty to go first at one point, but I insisted against Bob and Judd that Sekou was too much of a liability to keep around, and we lost the "S" in the STD.
I feel bad for John, he had no idea, but it was kind of obvious. I had even suggested Misty here because I had formed an alliance with Judd and Misty was deadset against Judd for personal reasons, but shockingly Judd pushed for John to go first because John's timezone made it such that he could not make the live dodgeball challenge.
Kourtney really takes a lot of blame for the happenings on Nesoi. I don't know entirely what went down, but I see Nesoi as at the time being a more unified tribe than Gwadatoo or Desterados was, and everyone felt safe but someone had to go. Once again, I thought Wanda was going to go. Judging by the fact you decided to mutiny right after, I would venture a guess that there was an alliance between Wanda, Darrah Frosti and Kourtney and they chose JT.
Nesoi needed to win challenges, and Darrah's puzzle time was atrociously bad, so I think she just took the blame by circumstance. At this point I saw Frosti and Kourtney as an unbreakable pair and they made the decision here.
Obvious choice really. Word got out she wanted to mutiny to Desterados, She was against one of my main allies in Judd and I knew where you stood since you decided to join Gwadatoo, not Desterados, which at the time was the strongest tribe. It made perfect sense for you to vote anyone not you, since your puzzle times were not very good and you feared you would be blamed, and it made sense for everyone to keep Gwadatoo as a unified group.
Talgeni was sort of the GwadaThree of the game, and Phillip was like the second coming of Sekou. He needed to go if we were to have any chance at winning, unfortunately it didnt make a difference as we lost every challenge anyway.
Semhar did not vote Phillip and stayed against Kim, whereas Wanda and Kourtney being the Nesoi minority were very happy to have any other target
What a total mess. There was clearly idol paranoia with the split vote, and a bunch of trust issues. Judd was beginning to fade here and it was the first time for the Desterados of the tribe to ever have to vote. I know Coach was busy the whole day hatching a plan and they stayed unified and followed suit. I think Coach got into everyone's head that Frosti was extremely dangerous and could have had the idol and had to go. Bob and Judd were the 2 votes for Mike, they were deceived as a test for loyalty, which they kind of failed.
I can't say I know who voted Frosti and or voted Judd, but I know most people were on board with the plan to finish Frosti off in the revote.
It was a choice between Semhar and Kim and there were pros and cons to each. For a little bit, Kourtney was up for consideration, but in actuality the harder Coach tried to infiltrate our tribe to vote her, the more I wanted to keep her, because keeping the feud between them active was very good for my game. I found out from Kourtney that she liked Semhar and was not fond of Kim, and when I told you and Jay, this made us nervous because no one likes Kim and everyone felt she was dishonest and shady, but Semhar we had decided was just too big a threat with too many connections.
Wanda was basically the only person on the tribe who was Pro-Kim, so she was happy with this decision as well.
She had a million plans and seemed hell bent of going back with Desterados at the merge. Now by this point only Kourtney and Wanda remained from Nesoi, and Desterados had 6 members including Kim. It was too big a risk. The fact that very few trusted or liked made it all the easier.
She was the last Talgeni vote, it was between her or Kourtney. 2 Bald Guys and a Model if I remember correctly picked Wanda for the same reason we kept Kourtney the whole time, strategically we knew Kourtney was against Coach at the merger and not us and Wanda had been gone with her laptop dying as soon as the tribe formed, she was a wildcard and we didn't really know where she stood or what she was going to do.
OH DAMN...this was the one time I didn't really expect the results that happened. Kourtney is no fool, I know she had the know Jay, you I and possibly Judd/Bob were going to stick together. I was hoping the rivalry between her and Coach would keep her target off of us. I wanted to target Eliza because I had a relationship with Coach and Mary, and outside of Desterados, no one really talked to Eliza and she was an easy target. You and Jay agreed, and so I thought did Bob and Judd.
Coach and Mary were deceived into thinking Eliza, Mike and Bob would vote off Kelly, whom they suspected was secretly against them (which she was) so they voted Kelly.
Eliza and Mike, who I view at this point as floaters were more compelled by Kourtney's plan to blindside Judd. I think my relationship with Kourtney from Talgeni saved me here, because I heard my name was up for consideration. Kelly was tight with Kourtney and once Bob agreed, Judd's fate was sealed.
I suggested Coach Mary join us against Kourtney's supposed alliance that blindsided Judd, and they were happy to, because they had no chance of working with Kelly, Mike or Eliza anymore. Coach had an elaborate plan to make them think Kelly was the vote in case of an idol, which i knew she didn't have because I knew both Bob and Jay had it, but I played along. So did Bob who voted Kelly to throw away his vote so our 5 votes would be solid, and Mike/Eliza even flopped again against Kelly because they thought she would be the majority.
Kourtney and Kelly thought they had Gwadatoo members on board with her group to vote Mary, so they that's what they did.
omfg...what a mess. I know what Gwadatoo decided and why, we were all immune and could risk voting Mary even if she played an idol, and Mike was really to satisfy my desire to spare Eliza and Coach's decision to also spare Kelly.
Bob, Jay, Ace, Ted and Coach all voted Mike and Mary
Kelly got word from Bob Mary was the target, so she voted Mary with us and threw one to Eliza for 2nd vote.
Mike voted Jay and Ace, not really sure what is reasoning was on Jay, but Ace was because I made a deal with Eliza I would vote for Kelly and Ace if I got the chest and I would keep her safe, I kept the more important half of the deal.
Eliza I believe stuck with voting Kelly and Ace as per our agreement.
Mary voted Kelly and Eliza. I am not sure why she thought Eliza would be going, but I had told her Kelly was.
Coach urged us to vote for Eliza, fearing Ace would not vote for Bob after he gave Ace an idol the round prior. But Gwadatoo decided that Coach was more of a threat in the game and Eliza's back was against wall so she also voted with us. Kelly and Coach both voted for Eliza.
Jay had lost trust in you, and it was mutually benefically for Bob and I to go along and solidify a Final 3 of original Gwadatoo members right then and there. Jay had also stressed to me that he felt you would win easily on the jury. Kelly and Eliza also felt you were a threat and/or didn't like you, but really their votes weren't needed as it would have been 3-2-1 split at worst since you were voting Kelly.
Bob and Jay also both had a crush on Kelly which I think impacted this decision.
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I was honestly nervous these rounds, but Bob, Jay and I stayed loyal to each other. We had been through so much up to this point. I know Bob was probably going to be my biggest competition, and likewise I think Bob knew I was going to be his. But we had this planned since the Captain's Challenge and I think the whole idea of "All That remains, two black men, fighting for domination" was just too enticing to throw away.
Hope that answers your question ;D
awesome thanks for not being bitter, and goddam..what a brutal question, but I'll give it a shot!
