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Kawazu Kawazu Kawazu Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro Guadalajara Guadalajara Guadalajara Ravioli Ravioli Give Me The Formuoli Kawazu Kawazu Kawazu Chiaotsu Chiaotsu Chiaotsu (R.I.P.) (R.I.P.) (R.I.P.) Kawazu Kawazu Kawazu Android Android Android (16) Android Android Android (18) What happens to 17? What happens to 17? What happens to 17? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Kawazu Kawazu Kawazu Faced Faced Faced He's A Professor Of Being A Dog He's A Professor Of Being A Dog He's A Professor Of Being A Dog ~~~~~~ Hello ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I should start with the piece of information that I'm sure Porunga has shared with you all by now: I am not new, and most of the things I said in this game about myself were lies. There's no sugarcoating it; this may make you feel as if nothing about me was genuine, but hopefully I can at least explain this decision to you. I joined this game because DeathNote said it was having trouble filling up, and I initially didn't want to play at all due to my general distaste with the way the meta has been lately. I was feeling like the same playstyles always go far, and the same types of people tend to work together, which isn't made much better by the newbie guide instructing everyone to try and be a carbon copy of the same person. Survivor is no fun when everyone is the same type of player, and games lately were starting to feel like Survivor: Battle of the Spencer Bledsoes. So if I was going to play in a game again, I had to be doing something to attempt to shake everything up while also making the game entertaining for the mods and spectators. At the end of the day, Survivor is meant to be FUN, this is a silly game for no prize played online where we fake shoot Makankosappo at each other. I was playing to win, but I sure as hell wasn't going to let this game be known as a boring one. At the start of the game, I started to craft a character for myself. The whole "pretending to be a newbie" shtick is pretty overdone in my opinion, and if I was going to go that route, I had to go all in like no one ever had before. So right from the start, I never replied to PMs, instead making a new PM chain every time I replied to someone. I accidentally posted my first confessional entry in the tribe forum. I periodically stopped what I was saying mid-sentence and asked weird questions. One time, I asked Hercule how he wanted to die out of nowhere, and after he replied, I sent him a long paragraph concerned about his mental state and explained how beautiful life is and that I loved and cared about his. I knew this could either go one of two ways: I'd put people off and get voted off early, or my incompetence would be endearing to people and they'd want to take me further. I wasn't in the best position on my initial tribe, but I was in a good enough position to survive the TCs I intended, and that's all I needed to do. After the Upon reaching the second swap, I felt decent about my position. I had a good relationship with Chia from the previous tribe, and I made a friendship with Zeno very early on. Right before swapping, Piccolo told me to befriend Buu, so I used that connection to immediately get closer to Buu, but Buu was someone I knew early on was someone I would be great friends with in real life regardless. He was a blast to talk to, but clearly someone I'd have no shot winning against. Once it came out that both Gregory and Hercule were saying things about me being difficult to talk to and awkward, I realized that would be a great aspect to play up when meeting new people. If no one thought I had any ties to my former tribemates, it would immediately make me a much more appealing ally (or sheep) to them, because they had no reason to worry about my conflicting allegiances. Buu even said something along the lines of "The fact that your old tribemates don't like you makes me want to work with you even more ". Then, Gregory and Hercule being voted out back-to-back opened up the possibility of eliminating my former tribe entirely from the game. At this point, the fact that some original tribes still had so many members remaining was beginning to make those players a target, and it was much more beneficial to try and separate myself entirely from any former connections to eliminate that possibility once and for all. In addition, I believed it would say a lot about my adaptability if I was able to reach the end after being the only Earth tribe member to reach the merge. At the fake merge moving into the Hell tribe, I started to become great friends with Android 18, but I was worried about how close he was with Buu after Buu mentioned multiple times during Ginyu Force that he thought I'd get along well with him. Regardless, I used the time on this tribe to build my relationships with Android 18, Chiaotsu, Goku Black, Zeno, and Dende. This was also the point where I decided to make a huge emotional breakdown post. Half of it was because it was hilarious comparing my emotions to a bottle of Dr. Wham, but also I needed to maintain my image of someone emotionally driven and easily manipulated. The only other point of note from this tribe is the sacrifice challenge. I had started to hear about certain people such as Future Trunks and Goku Black being huge threats due to the amount of VPL they'd saved up, and I felt as though giving up a lot for the challenge would help minimize my threat level down the line even after I started to make #BigMovez. Upon reaching the real merge, it became apparent to me that Buu and Piccolo were two of the people that held the most power in the game. Everyone I talked to always mentioned Buu and Piccolo as two people they felt the closest to, and those two were the main ones telling everyone I wasn't as awkward as Gregory and Hercule said. Even in every other PM Piccolo sent to me, he would say something along the lines of "I'm so glad you and Buu are getting along" or "you and Buu are both such sweethearts! " It wasn't exactly subtle to pick up on. I knew that because of this, if I made it deep with either of them, I would lose the game, as it could easily be spun as me being a sheep. So that's the point in the game where I decided I needed to start putting moves on my resume that couldn't be attributed to anyone else but me. Going into the merge, I continued my strategy of appearing emotional and upholding decent connections with everyone left. If I wanted to play all sides, for the time being I needed to give compelling reasons for every flip I made. Future Trunks brought up that he'd be willing to do whatever Piccolo and Buu wanted during the first Tribal Council we attended at merge. After that, he proposed an alliance between the four of us. Obviously if I rode this alliance out to the end I would have no shot at winning, so this is what motivated me to go to Zeno and Android 18 with my concerns that Piccolo and Buu were a couple that needed to be split up. Unfortunately, the numbers weren't there to save Chiaotsu in time, and I lost someone I valued greatly as an ally. But the groundwork had been laid for Piccolo to be seen as the huge threat to win the game that he was. No one ever expects power shifts at rounds with an even number of players, but in this game the VPL mechanic made it so what would be a tie in a normal game could control the vote here. I wanted to make a move against Piccolo at the final ten, but Dende's absence made it nearly impossible. Fortunately, he showed up at the start of Tribal Council, and even more fortunately, he had an idol! Since I had already expressed my fears of Piccolo in the long run, he quickly became the target of the idol play. But I still didn't have a lot of trust in Dende; it felt as if he was always short with me and didn't value me as an ally, either due to the fact that he viewed me as too incompetent to control, or that he was starting to see through my act. Dende also wasn't open about the fact that he had an idol, even though Zeno told me rather quickly; this gave me credible ammunition to use as reasoning for why I didn't trust him and wanted to vote him out the round immediately after. If my reasoning for flipping wasn't credible, no one would ever view me as someone whose decision-making could be predicted. During the round where Dende was eventually voted out, Zeno brought up to me that an alliance of myself/Zeno/Porunga/Android 18/Buu had been discussed. Obviously it was a bit concerning that I was the last to know about this group, and while I don't necessarily believe I was on the bottom of the group, there was no reason for me to remain in that position if I believed I could create better chances for myself elsewhere. Also around this time, a final three of myself/Buu/Android 18 was formed. Now, most players would see this as a great position to be in: there are nine players left, I was in a majority of five within that nine, and I had a majority of three within that five. Emotionally, that would have been the three I'd have liked to reach the end with. But what argument could I possibly make to win if I had ridden that three to the end? I'd have no doubt been labeled as a follower, with no moves to put under my name. I had to burn some of my social connections to reach the end as someone who played their own game, but even if I made some people mad, I got here fully through my own actions. With this thought process in mind, the final eight was the time I knew I had to take advantage of the VPL mechanic and make my big move. By the nature of the game I was playing, I never wanted to let a stable majority develop. Therefore, I went to YT, FT, and Goku Black with everything I knew and took out Buu. Young Trunks even told me multiple times afterward that it was the biggest blindside he'd ever seen and that I was solely responsible, and that's when I started to realize I might start to be perceived as a threat to win. However, at that point I was the person with the most connections to both sides, and my thought process was that after YT/FT/Goku knew that there was a 5-person majority they weren't a part of, they wouldn't be as quick to jump back to working with any of them for the time being. I continued to ride out that divide with the intent of keeping both sides fairly even, and this is also when I decided I wanted to go to the end with Goku Black. I thought it would be best to take someone who played a similar game to myself, floating under the radar, but I believed my stronger social connections that I formed throughout the game would put me over him in the end. In order to gain favor with the Android/Porunga/Zeno side of things again, I went along with voting out Future Trunks due to his extremely high VPL and charisma. Final six is where I lost track of what I wanted to do with my game. At this stage, I had a final three deal with both Android 18/Goku Black and with Zeno/Porunga, but I always had a suspicion that Android 18 could feel too betrayed by my voting out Buu that he would work with Zeno/Porunga over me. On the other hand, what I perceived to be Young Trunks' closest ally was just taken out of the game, and I saw him as being less likely to flip on myself and Goku Black. However, this was obviously a mistake. I underestimated how strong Young Trunks was as a player, and I believe now that Android 18 was more likely to be loyal in the long run. Android 18 was someone I viewed and still do view as a genuine friend I made in this game, and I should have listened to my gut and trusted him. However, the past is the past, and we all have to learn from our mistakes and adapt. At the final five, I started realizing the error in my ways of voting out Android 18. I saw Young Trunks as my biggest threat remaining, as he'd been playing the UTR game better than I had, and I needed to work with Zeno and Porunga again to take him out. This is the one point in the game where I believe I was outplayed, and my intended final two partner was voted out. Young Trunks had used a time capsule and found out I was apparently loved by the jury, but even knowing this, Porunga and Zeno decided to take out Goku Black instead due to his higher VPL. I was fortunate enough that I had decided to sacrifice as much VPL as I could back during the pre-merge sacrifice challenge in fear of high VPL making people giant targets, and it worked out in my favor. From the final four on, I had to win the final two immunity challenges to reach the end, and I sure as hell wasn't going to go down without a fight. I spent 4 hours practicing anagram puzzles in order to best compete in the anagram challenge, and I spent over 10 hours in the final endurance challenge before messing up by posting on the 11-second mark. I was willing to go the full 24 hours if I hadn't have messed up, that's how determined I was to reach the end of this game and plead my case. I made one mistake in underestimating Young Trunks that caused me to need to win my way to the end, but in every other aspect of this game, I did exactly what I set out to do. I didn't need a partner to help me get to the end like Zeno did, I used every social connection I had to make sure I survived every single vote, and I did it all through my own volition. If you feel upset that I betrayed you this game, I apologize for any personal feelings I hurt along the way; however, this isn't RuPaul's Best Friend Race. There is only one winner here, and to anyone who feels betrayed, I beg of you to make a case for how I had any chance of winning a jury vote sitting next to you at the end. I had to flip this game on its head not only in order to gain control of as many situations as I could, but also to take control away from everyone else. I was never blindsided before final five, and I was the driving force of every power shift that happened. I tried to make this game as fun and unpredictable as possible for the mods and spectators, and I did everything I set out to do. For better or for worse, I shaped the course of this game more than anyone else did, and I believe that makes me the most fitting winner. #MakeSurvivorFunAgain Edited by Kawazu, Oct 26 2016, 01:25:51 PM.
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| Kawazu | Oct 26 2016, 10:38:15 AM Post #2 |
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| Kawazu | Oct 31 2016, 08:29:48 AM Post #3 |
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For my final plea, I'm not going to bore you and repeat myself with all the points I've already made. Judging from the jury questioning, you've all heard enough about each of our strategies, and I think anyone voting on gameplay knows whose game they see as more worthy of resulting in a win. I believe that everything I have done to get here has been calculated and intentional for the most part, while Zeno has gotten here more on the backs of others; there's nothing wrong with playing under the radar, but there's a different between controlling your fate from the shadows and giving control of your game to stronger players. You could say many things about me, but I was always the single person driving my survival each and every round. I do feel as though there are harsh feelings about my playing a character this game, and to be honest, I've rambled far too much about the meta. Nothing one person does will ever single-handedly change anything, and what I've done this game is nothing significant. I never meant to imply that people have been playing the game wrong, my whole point is that people should play however they want to and is the most enjoyable for them. If people want to play games they view as more entertaining to take part in, they can always do that, and people can always reward them if they see it fit to do so. But I don't feel that I should be punished for trying to play a character. Ever since the start of anonymous games, people are always trying different avenues to mix up their usually personality, such as typing quirks or MUNDO HUNGRY, and I don't believe it should have a positive or a negative impact on however you see me. I went through this game with the odds stacked against me. I was on a tribe that collapsed upon itself and I had to jump ship, and I was the only one of us to even make the merge. But I worked off of that adversity and made it into a strength for me, I worked off of all my weaknesses. Hell, I even had the jury trying to take me out at the final five through Young Trunks, and I fought through it. At the end of the day (trademark), this is just a game, and after this nothing that happened within the game will affect my feelings towards any of you outside of this. Cast your vote for who you feel comfortable knowing will be remembered as the winner of this game. If you want to vote for Zeno, by all means do, but please vote for him based on the fact that you feel he played more strongly or you have a deeper relationship with him. All I ask is for you to please not vote for him just because he isn't me. I may have played this game too aggressively for some of you, and I was far from perfect, but I played it with passion. I had a drive to succeed, and I wouldn't have come this far if I didn't want it with everything I had. It was a pleasure playing with all of you, and I hope you all continue being shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9E-QS6EI8 Edited by Kawazu, Oct 31 2016, 02:15:59 PM.
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". Then, Gregory and Hercule being voted out back-to-back opened up the possibility of eliminating my former tribe entirely from the game. At this point, the fact that some original tribes still had so many members remaining was beginning to make those players a target, and it was much more beneficial to try and separate myself entirely from any former connections to eliminate that possibility once and for all. In addition, I believed it would say a lot about my adaptability if I was able to reach the end after being the only Earth tribe member to reach the merge.
" It wasn't exactly subtle to pick up on. I knew that because of this, if I made it deep with either of them, I would lose the game, as it could easily be spun as me being a sheep. So that's the point in the game where I decided I needed to start putting moves on my resume that couldn't be attributed to anyone else but me.



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