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Post by rhianna on Jan 31, 2014 19:58:15 GMT
Heys guys! Before I get started, I just want to send my sincerest congratulations to the three on you on making it to the final three. No matter what anyone says about you, you all deserve to be there and I'm happy for each and everyone of you.
Unlike a lot of the jurors, I haven't really had time to sit down and reflect on my time in the game, so I have no idea what direction this is going to go in. I had a statement typed out a few days ago but proboards hates me and deleted it.  A lot of the questions I had, have already been asked, but I haven't had time to skim the other threads and double check some of them, so I'll kind of just dive right in.
Anna, I'll start with you.
Of the final three, I know the least about you. After letting your opening statement marinate with me for a few days, I disagree with a lot of what you wrote. I do not think you were playing the game the whole way through as you claimed to be. I understand being busy, I was as well, but you would go 24+ hour periods without checking the board, and I really believe had you been playing the whole way through as you claimed, that wouldn't have happened. I was also not pleased with the way you acted the final two rounds. One of the things I want to see in a winner is a sense of humility, and you didn't exhibit this at all. You threw a fit instead of trying to work any kind of social angle with Nicki/Neil/I. Truth be told I always wanted to work with you but you seemed very close minded and set in your ways, so things never really came into fruition. Feel free to comment in any way you like. Here are your questions.
1. How many PMs did you receive/send throughout the game? I NEVER saw you on AIM, so I'm definitely under the impression you did a lot of playing through PM. Let's see how much communicating you did.
2. I commented in my statement for you, you seemed set in your ways. Please explain to me what your plans were the whole game. I want to know what your ideal F3 was. Had rocks flipped in your favor, would you have gone to the finals with Zac/Jeremy or did you have something else in mind?
3. Why did you feel the need to be somewhat snarky the final two rounds? Obviously you are capable in challenges. For the sake of Jury management, wouldn't it have been a lot smarter to be nice and humble as opposed to what came across to me as whiney and senseless?
4. Did you know any of these players outside of the game? The only reason I ask is because some of your relationships with other players struck me as odd, so I want to see if you had any out of the game connections.
5. You essentially needed to win the final two challenges to be here right now. While you did survive, I want you to tell me why I should vote for you when had there been no challenges, and it had just been straight votes, you would have been out.
In closing, I do want to say, that you seemed like a nice girl, I just never really got to see any sort of side to you, which is unfortunate but it can happen sometimes. Good luck sweetie! ☮
Neil,
When I typed this up a few days ago, I had no questions for you. I simply just wanted you to showcase the game you played in the best way you felt you could. After reflecting on it, I still want you to to, or if you felt you already have, link me to another Juror's thread, but I have a question for you.
1. Why Nicki over me at the F4? Truth be told, I wanted to vote with you. I already knew you were pretty much voting me out, and Nicki was a very loyal ally to me, so I'm glad I didn't have to cast a vote against her as is, but I felt for the sake of avoiding a tie-breaker, you were my best bet and you seemed pretty set on me. Can you elaborate on the move a little bit?
I absolutely adore you! NPH love forever. It was a pleasure getting to play with you and I can't wait to read all of your responses. I hope you're ~killin it~ ♥
Nicki,
Going into this, you pretty much had my vote, if nothing else because we were very close friends throughout much of the game, and I think when it pertained to me as a juror, you managed me very well, even if you didn't manage others well. However when I read you knew Angelina, Glori, Zac, etc. I cringed a little bit. I recognizied your screen name, and had never played with you before, but I didn't know you had so many past connections at the start. I know in some instances it's unavoidable but I don't know. I feel if it were me, I would have known better, and to some extent it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. You know I still love you boo boo, but I'm kind of sitting in limbo right now on how I feel about it. I do think you played a solid game of strategy, and a good social game as well, but you just have that hiccup, so my questions for you are:
1. Why should I disregard these relationships and give you my vote to win?
2. Were you planning on going to the end with Angelina? I know I never had any intention on going to the end with her, but you seemed more solid with her. Had you gone to the end with Angelina what would your plan have been for FTC? I know how bad you want this, and really in asking this I want to see to what extreme you were willing to go to accomplish being the winner.
3. A lot of jurors have commented on your jury management. When you made comments that offended jurors (ex: Jeremy) was it impulsive or strategic? Explain.
I had more questions for you a few days ago, but I don't have any for now. It sucks we couldn't ~fly~ to the end together but we'll always be soul sisters for life. Ilu girlie! ♥ ♥ ♥
For all:
When I cast my vote tonight, I want to cast my vote for who I think would make the best winner of Survivor Cosmos. To me a quality winner has three glaring traits, humility, likeability, and self-awareness. A lot of these I attribute to social game. While I do believe strategy and competition wins hold some importance, to me Survivor is all about how social you are. You have to rely on other people, and put trust in them in a dog eat dog game. The best winners normally kept people from going against them through their strong social interactions, and along with that comes those three traits I listed above. This leads me to the questions.
1. Explain to me why you think you'd make the best winner between the three of you.
2. Explain to me why you think you are the most likeable player of the F3, and name two facts about each juror.
3. Say something nice about the F3 and everyone on the Jury.
4. Take each Juror and name what you think their ideal F3 would have been at the start of the merge. This is a test of your awareness and what kind of grasp you had on your opponents gameplay.
Alright you three, I think I'm done here! I apologize if I have any question repeats, in which case, you can just link me to another thread or copy and paste it. I haven't had time to read all the jury questions yet, only opening statements, but I should be able to hit it all this weekend. Having played a UTR game myself, I really can respect each and everyone of you for the game you played and you three should truly be proud to have have outlasted the rest of us. Good luck with my questions babes~ ☮ ☮ ☮ ☮ ☮
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Post by Neil Patrick Harris on Feb 1, 2014 1:13:14 GMT
Aw boooo. I love you too. Thank you for the kind words and the feeling is totally mutual.
In answer to your question, I have really answered it in every jurors thread, ha. I think everyone has wanted to me to legitimize my game and rightly so. If you want to read theirs, cool. If not I'll give you the shortie blunt version: Loyalty and Fun.
Your actual question...why you over Nicki. To be honest I loved both of you a lot. I figured because you brought Nicki to the table when you guys joined up with me that you guys were already tighter so there would probably be no budging you on a Nicki vote. The other big piece of this was I knew Anna was most likely to vote you as you were the biggest threat of all 3 of us. I messaged her to confirm that and I was right. I had to go with a scenario where I at least had a chance for a tie vote so that I could stay in the game. I mean in an ideal world, Anna would have lost the final challenge and that would have been it. I would have 100% honored our F3, even though it probably would have been like Colby taking Tina to the end. It wasn't personal, it was purely a game move that needed to happen or I would be 4th place and I really wanted a chance to answer all the jurors, if I could.
I hope that helps boo. Again, totally loved playing with you and can't wait to do it again.
BLUNTZ4LIFE.
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Post by Nicki Minaj on Feb 1, 2014 6:43:21 GMT
~*Nicki Minaj’s Response To Rihanna's Comments/Questions*~
Hey girl, Hey! =)
1. Why should I disregard these relationships and give you my vote to win?
The people I knew were Angelina who I was on a tribe with at the start and also the swapped tribe. We were playing this entire game together because we came from the same position and viewed that merge tribe in the same way. You were also bonded to us because of how we played the game, together this entire time. In addition I knew Glori, who I bonded with in our initial tribe but then we merged..and we all knew she got close to Colin on a swapped tribe and used her idol there. She came into the merge as a wildcard, as we all voted Colin out to try and get her back. We have a great friendship Glori and I. However, friendship wasn't what held us back at the merge...it was the gameplay and unknown that I felt she played on that swapped tribe. The only other person I knew from another game was Zac. Zac betrayed me in another game, and I knew to be wary of him. That didn't stop us from voting with him to take out Peter and Donald or trusting him when the Angelina vote happened.
I want you to disregard those 3 past relationships because they did not effect the overall outcome of this game, or the amount of social gameplay that we did to survive. They played no part in it at all.
2. Were you planning on going to the end with Angelina? I know I never had any intention on going to the end with her, but you seemed more solid with her. Had you gone to the end with Angelina what would your plan have been for FTC? I know how bad you want this, and really in asking this I want to see to what extreme you were willing to go to accomplish being the winner.
I would have went to the end with Angelina, 100%. I felt close to her, and I felt close to you in this game. I think in the finals I would have fought to win in this game as someone who was targeted early on in the merge. Why was I targeted before you or Angelina? Likely because Zac hated me from another game, but that could easily be just be thinking that (Shows his influence on other games more then my own). In addition from being targeted so early, Angelina made herself Target #1 out of us 3. That is dangerous to do. We all were active, and we all were taking part in the boots that we made to advance ourselves..but she was written as this "leader" and the one doing the majority of the talking. I couldn't talk to Zac without him thinking everything that came out of my mouth was likely bullshit. But Angelina could. I didn't mess with that, or try to do something that would have harmed us. I think that backseat role benefited me, and I could have used it to outlast Angelina in the FTC and get some votes to win.
3. A lot of jurors have commented on your jury management. When you made comments that offended jurors (ex: Jeremy) was it impulsive or strategic? Explain.
It was strategic and impulsive, and just pure fun. I mean we are playing characters, and I wasn't going to stop being that impulsive but smart character that I wanted to portray. We were so back and forth with them after Glori quit and Angelina was blindsided. I wanted to make sure they knew I was never going to work with them. Ever. Strategically, I wanted to go to the end with you and Neil. Jeremy/Zac/Anna to me were all scum at that point. My head was telling me to show that to everyone. The lines were drawn, and why hide it? I didn't mean anything personal, and I am sorry if they took it that way. I just think it was a heated moment, that we all wanted to go our way. The lines were drawn at that point, and things were set to go the way they were depending on who won challenges, and who drew rocks at final 6.
1. Explain to me why you think you'd make the best winner between the three of you.
I feel like Neil didn't do much throughout this game and was a complete inactive when we hit the merge. Nobody cared or knew where he stood in this game, and he wasn't relevant until Lea quit the game and his number started to become important again.
Anna betrayed her original alliance with us girls(Glori/Me/Angelina) stopped being contactable over Aim and just PM. I am not sure how she bonded so closely with the guys, if that was through PM or previous games. However, she set herself up with people she would never be able to beat in the end due to the way they were playing. Jeremy was the ultimate underdog after Peter/Donald were voted out and Zac was someone nobody wanted to see in the end. She had a huge uphill battle to win with them over the girls who she was suppose to be aligned with. I still do not understand the logic behind swapping to that minority group other then the fact that her and Jeremy had idols? Did they have any other numbers? It makes no logical sense on her part to go to the end with them, unless she felt she could beat them which I don't think she could at all.
I have played a strong social game throughout pre jury and jury. I stayed active, and dedicated to this game. I really enjoyed playing it and have confessionals written for every round of game play.
2. Explain to me why you think you are the most likeable player of the F3, and name two facts about each juror.
I think I am the most likable because of my character. Neil was inactive, and Anna...who the fuck is Anna?
Colin: He had the idol played on him, He loved Glori.
Peter: He was loyal to Jeremy, and he was loyal to Donald.
Donald: Loved Peter, and he loved Jeremy.
Lea: Was going to stay loyal to the girls, relied heavily on Angelina too
Glori: Real name is Zavi/Peter, and english is second language
Zac: Loves to lie(LOL), and loves to spam chat on AIM(gah you could talk for hours)
Jeremy: Had the idol, and never gave up even after lost Peter/Donald
Rihanna: Loves to smoke, and was playing somewhat UTR too
3. Say something nice about the F3 and everyone on the Jury.
I said a positive and negative for each jury member in this thread of Glori's:
epsurvivor.proboards.com/thread/295/big-glori
And about Neil and Anna;
Neil was playing an awesome UTR game where nobody wanted to really target him for the majority of the merge. He became a key comment of the final 6, where we needed him to tie it. And after Lea quit, we knew his vote was going to be something needed in the near future.
Anna chose to do what was her best move, in her head when she swapped sides. She played the idol at the perfect time with Jeremy to really shake the game up.
4. Take each Juror and name what you think their ideal F3 would have been at the start of the merge. This is a test of your awareness and what kind of grasp you had on your opponents gameplay.
Rihanna: You/Me/Lea (Maybe Angelina, but I could see you wanting her as 4th)
Jeremy: Himself/Peter/Donald(Anna as a possible 4th)
Zac: Anna/Himself/Jeremy
Glori: Myself, her, and Colin
Angelina: Rihanna/Myself/Her
Lea: Herself/Angelina/Anna
Donald: Peter/Himself/Jeremy
Peter: Himself/Jeremy/Donald
Colin: Himself/Glori/Neil
<3 soul sisters for life!
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Post by Neil Patrick Harris on Feb 1, 2014 6:55:11 GMT
Oh shit forgot these! I think I'd make the best winner because I am adorable and fun - but f'realz, I think I played with integrity and totally understood my place in the game and how to use that to my advantage. I think my style, while not popular, still worked pretty effectively and even if I wasn't a challenge beast or was a wild card, I was still entertaining. And when I am touring the country giving my Survivor Cosmos winner speeches don't you want a handsome, funny, humble man representing this game? I think I probably made people laugh more than the other two jurors and that's likable and fun right. Nicki was amazing but she was pretty mean to a lot of the players and spouted off a lot. Anna was pretty quiet and not very present. I know plenty of people liked both these gals but I think overall I was just more friendly and approachable then them. The facts section is going to be weak sauce from me, because I kept from getting too personal so I wouldn't reveal my alias or start playing differently. But I'll give it a try. Colin: He was handsome and like pirates.  Peter: He was a newbie to games (or so he said) and clearly he's a Game of Thrones fan. Donald: We figured out we were losing whole AIM convos and he was annoyed by Zac. Lea: She seemed sweet and had to quit due to personal reasons. Angelina: Is an RA at Bloomburg University I think (in PA) and is terrible at geography. Glori: Is playing in States and told me she trusted me, Ri and Nicki the most. Zac: Is from Perth and he's newish to games. Jeremy: Um he's handsome and must have the same AIM problem as Donald, lol. Rihanna: Loves da chronic. And has prediction written/co-hosted several games I have been in. Anna: Really surprised everyone with her late run and proved to people that she is a legitimate force to be reckoned with. Nicki: Has a hilarious sense of humor and captured the character of Nicki MInaj flawlessly. Rihanna: Ditto on the character thing and one of the most genuine people I have played with in a long time. Jeremy: Is articulate and actually a pretty level headed guy - and a challenge beast. Zac: Has legitimate, unbridled excitement for the game that is infectious and cool to watch. Glori: Is a unique spirit, who put her heart into this and when her heart wasn't in it she gracefully stepped out. Angelina: Is someone I want to get to know even better outside of this game because she seems genuinely awesome. Lea: Respected the game enough to admit she needed to step away from it and was classy enough to return and participate. Donald: A genuinely smart and kind player with a great strategic sense. Peter: If he truly is a newbie he's one of the best I've seen, and if he's not he's still pretty damn good. Colin: Did I mention how handsome? Just so handsome. Well based on what I am hearing, everyone should have wanted me.  Colin: Peter, Donald Peter: Donald, Me Donald: Peter, Me Lea: Angelina, Anna Angelina: Lea, Anna Glori: Colin, Zac Zac: start of merge...hmmm...Glori and maybe me. Quickly changed. Jeremy: Peter, Donald Rihanna: Nicki, Angelina Sorry gurl. I must have smoked a blunt and done forgot this section! NOW I'm done. |
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Post by Neil Patrick Harris on Feb 1, 2014 6:59:14 GMT
I was not inactive. Good thing I said all these nice things about you and you are literally trashing me. Awesome.
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Post by Nicki Minaj on Feb 1, 2014 7:01:22 GMT
I was not inactive. Good thing I said all these nice things about you and you are literally trashing me. Awesome. |
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Post by Neil Patrick Harris on Feb 1, 2014 7:05:19 GMT
That's fair. Just sounded negative to say it that way. Good luck!
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A lot of the questions I had, have already been asked, but I haven't had time to skim the other threads and double check some of them, so I'll kind of just dive right in. 
