Post by Zac on May 30, 2013 18:22:48 GMT -5
It's been a long journey and I am delighted to be sitting here in the final 3. It's hard to believe after all this time, that I'm still here. It's also rare that an alliance formed early in the game makes it this far intact, so I'm obviously very thankful for Mark and Thiago and anyone else who's helped along the way.
And I know what some of you may be thinking: What the heck did Zac even do to think he can win this game?
And I feel like I may have to do the most speaking of the three of us since I did so little of it during the game. So I apologize if this is a long read. lol
I will admit my social game needed some work, but even still, I knew everything that was going on, pretty well every round. Mark was originally going to be the vote at the Fans' very first Judgement. I talked to Dion as did he, to try to get the vote to Naomi. I went around and asked people why it was better to keep someone who participated in the challenge but screwed it up, over someone who missed the challenge when it required some of us to sit anyway. I'm not saying I was solely responsible for Mark being here, of course. lol But I helped. And this would have been a completely different game if he had left.
Speaking of that first challenge, I believe there were five of us who didn't compete...Mark, Knox, Julian, Bree and myself. I tried to make connections with those people by bonding over the fact that we didn't participate and could be targeted over someone who did. It was at this point that I became close to Mark and Knox. And we formed an alliance.
But the first 2 people I had spoken to coming into the game were Dion and Thiago. I recognized right away that they were going to be active and valuable members of Reliquum and that I should probably stick with them and that was my intention. I had good enough relationships with people that not many even considered Pilar's mission to get me voted out at our second Judgement. Dion was swayed by Pilar's claims that I was some evil mastermind, and I think that concerned the tribe that she could change her mind so easily, which ultimately led to her elimination.
Before that though, Reese was voted out for his part in the Pilar madness from the round prior. He told Pilar she was getting votes. People didn't trust him after that. I wanted him to stay, but I wasn't going to stick my neck out for him. As long as it wasn't me or the people I was closest with, anything was good.
The round Dion left, there was a plan to get rid of her, which I knew all about thanks to Mark and Thiago. They informed me of an "alliance" they had with Starr, Bree, and Julian which they never intended to stay true to, and a (different) boys alliance was born to eventually combat it, which consisted of me, Gabe, Mark and Thiago. Dion had to go to keep the harmony of the fake alliance, and I voted against Bree to create the illusion that I was kept in the dark with Knox, so that he wouldn't feel alone because we would need him. And my best intentions were to look out for Knox, so I had little problem doing it, especially when I had an army backing me up incase Bree was angry.
But Bree and I talked about me voting against her. I had to put on an act that I was sorry and that I had no idea that Dion was leaving, etc. But we were okay after that. And had our tribes continued from there, Julian, Bree and Starr were to be the next 3 to go.
Then came the sacrifice and the formation of three "new" tribes. Julian was the first to go from the all Reliquum tribe for being on the outside of the boys alliance. And then Gabe followed. Mark left that decision up to me. I felt badly for Gabe, but I wasn't going to turn on Knox. The ironic thing is that Gabe sent me a PM stating the "original 3 gotta stick together". Little did he know that we were thinking of different original 3's.
At the merge, my social game took a dip for sure. I still talked regularly with Mark, Knox and Thiago. And I had become closer to Starr and Bree as well. The plan was for the fans to stick together. The only favorite I really talked with was Ben. I figured if I had an in with at least one of them, that maybe I could be okay. Especially when there were bigger, more obvious threats than myself to be targeted. We all pretty much know the story from there.
I guess you could say that I was a silent partner in the Mark/Thiago/Zac alliance. And I think I needed to be, to throw people off. Truthfully I didn't have a lot of free time and was playing in another game at the same time as this one, but that helped to create the illusion that maybe I was on the outside of the fans tribe. I didn't intend to play such an UTR game, but that's just the way it worked out. I know I didn't speak enough with the faves but at the same time, only a few of them really made any effort to speak with me. Maybe because they thought I wouldn't be around long? I was all for the fans moving forward but I did talk with them when they wanted to. I didn't want to get emotionally involved, only to have to betray them later, which is maybe why I've made less enemies than the other two sitting here with me. It's not really an excuse, but it's the truth. I wasn't the best in challenges and I knew that, but I never really had to try that hard, because I always figured that I had enough people to keep me out of hot water and nobody really saw me as doing a whole lot, so I could be an easy boot down the road...One of the only times I didn't know what was going on in the game was when Starr was voted out, but I think that Mark and T were surprised by that one too. When Knox went home, I had an idea that it could happen, but didn't think that it would. We had planned to split the vote between Knox and Liam incase a sword was played, and I wasn't going to vote for Knox, even if he did end up leaving. Thiago may have told Mark first that he had picked an apple that had a sword in it but I did also know. And Mark told me about the second sword he ended up playing --- he even let me hold onto it during a Judgement for safe-keeping. I appreciated that Mark trusted me that much and I wanted to reaffirm my loyalty to him by giving it back afterwards. I was loyal to a few people along the way, but Mark and T ended up being my top allies. And that's why I never minded sitting here in the end against 2 players who will very likely whomp me.
It's been a while since I've had to face a jury, but I look forward to addressing your questions and comments, whether they're positive or negative. And thank you for reading!
And I know what some of you may be thinking: What the heck did Zac even do to think he can win this game?
And I feel like I may have to do the most speaking of the three of us since I did so little of it during the game. So I apologize if this is a long read. lolI will admit my social game needed some work, but even still, I knew everything that was going on, pretty well every round. Mark was originally going to be the vote at the Fans' very first Judgement. I talked to Dion as did he, to try to get the vote to Naomi. I went around and asked people why it was better to keep someone who participated in the challenge but screwed it up, over someone who missed the challenge when it required some of us to sit anyway.
I'm not saying I was solely responsible for Mark being here, of course. lol But I helped. And this would have been a completely different game if he had left.Speaking of that first challenge, I believe there were five of us who didn't compete...Mark, Knox, Julian, Bree and myself. I tried to make connections with those people by bonding over the fact that we didn't participate and could be targeted over someone who did. It was at this point that I became close to Mark and Knox. And we formed an alliance.
But the first 2 people I had spoken to coming into the game were Dion and Thiago. I recognized right away that they were going to be active and valuable members of Reliquum and that I should probably stick with them and that was my intention. I had good enough relationships with people that not many even considered Pilar's mission to get me voted out at our second Judgement. Dion was swayed by Pilar's claims that I was some evil mastermind, and I think that concerned the tribe that she could change her mind so easily, which ultimately led to her elimination.
Before that though, Reese was voted out for his part in the Pilar madness from the round prior. He told Pilar she was getting votes. People didn't trust him after that. I wanted him to stay, but I wasn't going to stick my neck out for him. As long as it wasn't me or the people I was closest with, anything was good.
The round Dion left, there was a plan to get rid of her, which I knew all about thanks to Mark and Thiago. They informed me of an "alliance" they had with Starr, Bree, and Julian which they never intended to stay true to, and a (different) boys alliance was born to eventually combat it, which consisted of me, Gabe, Mark and Thiago. Dion had to go to keep the harmony of the fake alliance, and I voted against Bree to create the illusion that I was kept in the dark with Knox, so that he wouldn't feel alone because we would need him. And my best intentions were to look out for Knox, so I had little problem doing it, especially when I had an army backing me up incase Bree was angry.
But Bree and I talked about me voting against her. I had to put on an act that I was sorry and that I had no idea that Dion was leaving, etc. But we were okay after that. And had our tribes continued from there, Julian, Bree and Starr were to be the next 3 to go.
Then came the sacrifice and the formation of three "new" tribes. Julian was the first to go from the all Reliquum tribe for being on the outside of the boys alliance. And then Gabe followed. Mark left that decision up to me. I felt badly for Gabe, but I wasn't going to turn on Knox. The ironic thing is that Gabe sent me a PM stating the "original 3 gotta stick together". Little did he know that we were thinking of different original 3's.
At the merge, my social game took a dip for sure. I still talked regularly with Mark, Knox and Thiago. And I had become closer to Starr and Bree as well. The plan was for the fans to stick together. The only favorite I really talked with was Ben. I figured if I had an in with at least one of them, that maybe I could be okay. Especially when there were bigger, more obvious threats than myself to be targeted. We all pretty much know the story from there.
I guess you could say that I was a silent partner in the Mark/Thiago/Zac alliance. And I think I needed to be, to throw people off. Truthfully I didn't have a lot of free time and was playing in another game at the same time as this one, but that helped to create the illusion that maybe I was on the outside of the fans tribe. I didn't intend to play such an UTR game, but that's just the way it worked out. I know I didn't speak enough with the faves but at the same time, only a few of them really made any effort to speak with me. Maybe because they thought I wouldn't be around long? I was all for the fans moving forward but I did talk with them when they wanted to. I didn't want to get emotionally involved, only to have to betray them later, which is maybe why I've made less enemies than the other two sitting here with me. It's not really an excuse, but it's the truth. I wasn't the best in challenges and I knew that, but I never really had to try that hard, because I always figured that I had enough people to keep me out of hot water and nobody really saw me as doing a whole lot, so I could be an easy boot down the road...One of the only times I didn't know what was going on in the game was when Starr was voted out, but I think that Mark and T were surprised by that one too. When Knox went home, I had an idea that it could happen, but didn't think that it would. We had planned to split the vote between Knox and Liam incase a sword was played, and I wasn't going to vote for Knox, even if he did end up leaving. Thiago may have told Mark first that he had picked an apple that had a sword in it but I did also know.
And Mark told me about the second sword he ended up playing --- he even let me hold onto it during a Judgement for safe-keeping. I appreciated that Mark trusted me that much and I wanted to reaffirm my loyalty to him by giving it back afterwards. I was loyal to a few people along the way, but Mark and T ended up being my top allies. And that's why I never minded sitting here in the end against 2 players who will very likely whomp me. It's been a while since I've had to face a jury, but I look forward to addressing your questions and comments, whether they're positive or negative. And thank you for reading!