Post by Mary Sartain on Sept 9, 2014 2:29:27 GMT -5
~ Mary's Opening ~
before anything else i just wanna say a really big thank you to john/jeff for putting all the work into hosting and running the game for us. that stuff takes a lot of work and i really appreciate it so thank you!
i also want to say a really big thank you to you guys! a game is only as good as the people who play it and you guys have made this game alot of fun to be in! it was really nice and meeting and talking to all of you. there were alot of really good players here and it was an honor to play alongside you all.
i dont wanna give you guys a big boring post about my game and every move i made in every round, because that's what the questions are about, but i do wanna talk about the round trish left cause me hayden and jt got called out as cowards for how we played and i wanna address that.
i did not vote for trish because i was afraid of her. like i said at final eight, i voted her because she did not talk to me much BUT there was also more than that. i knew for along time that hayden and jt were probly closer to each other than they were to me. i didn’t want to betray my alliance but i also did not want to be in a spot where they had power over me. i wanted to prepare myself incase they decided to come after me, so i always wanted to make sure i had people who would choose me over them if it came to that. trish picked hayden first in the pick and stuck me with inactive tbird so i was pretty sure at that point i couldnt rely on her later. by voting her out i got rid of a potential roadblock and by ditching a rheali i got more trust with na and austin to get myself in good with them. so i basically was trading one less helpful person for two helpful allies. i don’t think its cowardly to make that kind of a strategy move, i think it takes guts to be willing to step up and change the game like that, because if people guessed what i was doing i could have become a big target real quickly.
another thing i do wanna make very clear is that i did not lie to bubba about what happened the day of the trish vote. i knew i was someone that could get seen as a challenge threat, so i was not happy about how that round went down and based on the way hayden and jt were treating bubba i knew there was a good chance that it could happen to me too. bubba was originally suppose to be the fourth person in our alliance, I wanted him there cause I wanted to have a safeguard I trusted in incase the boys came after me. i also knew jt was getting close to na and austin and that could wind up pushing me out of both of those groups so i decided i would tell bubba what was going to happen and get him on my side. but then i had a work emergency i had to go take care of and i wasnt able to get access on my phone to alert bubba in time before results were posted. i tried to explain what happened but he said it sounded like a flimsy excuse and told me he would not trust me any more. that was a sad moment for me in the game because i liked bubba a lot and wanted to work with him but i couldn't get him to see what i was trying to say. it put me in a really awkward position because bubba was calling me a coward when in reality i had been trying to make a bold move and help both of us out and things just got screwed up by bad luck. and after that I didn’t really have a good choice but to take him out because he was publicly yelling at me and going after my alliance.
other than that i will leave it to the questions, but if i could summarize my game in a short thing i would say that it was about adapting and making the best of the situations i was in. coming into the game i wasnt sure how i would do. i worked hard in challenges from day one even though i knew there was a strong possibility it would get me targeted later. i did my best to talk to people and get to know them when i could and i also tried my best to play with honesty and tell the truth. that didn't always work out and sometimes i had to lie and make difficult decisions in the course of the game, but it was always plan b or plan c, never something i went out there intending to do. i might not have been totally loyal all the time but i did the best i could to keep my promises but also to make sure i would have options in case things didn’t work out the way i planned. i gave it my all in the challenges and won a few (plus i got the hidden immunity idol <3)
thanks again for a great experience guys and i can't wait to answer your questions!
love,
Mary