Post by Monica Padilla on Dec 1, 2010 17:53:54 GMT -5
1: What was your biggest lie in the game and how did that help you get here?
The biggest lie would have to be when I gave Eliza the second Immunity necklace at the final ten. Jane and Jon both wanted me to give the necklace to someone on Neishi, but I knew that if I did that, I was setting us up for future failure. I told them that I could probably convince Eliza to help us in voting off Kansai, and the Immunity definitely helped to get her on our side. At the same time, I lied to Eliza and told her that I was giving her the Immunity to show her that my loyalty to her was legit. While giving her the necklace did in fact do everything I said it would do, got Eliza to vote with us and gave Neishi the advantage, my real reasoning was actually a lot more strategic. Eliza had proven that her loyalties had the strength of 1-ply toilet paper, and I figured that by stripping her of her vote at the next TC I could prevent her from flipping on us. (She tried anyway, but thanks to her no-vote, failed.)
So, I’d say that that helped get me to the end because it helped Neishi out at both the final ten and the final eight (when Christy left).
2: Compare each juror to a song from Itunes top 100 and explain why (with a youtube link)
I don't have iTunes, but I searched for a top 100 list and these were what came up, so hopefully they're all correct.
Jaime – “Just The Way You Are” by Bruno Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk) Jaime was an absolutely amazing player with a lot of talent and likeability. She kicked some serious ass, and I think she definitely could have won the game if she hadn’t gone when she did.
Amanda – “Firework” by Katy Perry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw) Amanda was definitely a firework in the game, she was a very vibrant and dynamic personality, and she definitely went out with a bang!
Christy – “Let It Be” by The Beatles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjUSGr4ydqo) Christy was an incredibly laid back player, who didn’t overdramatize things or take them too seriously, so she just let things be. Plus, she loves Christy, who’s a classic player, and the Beatles are a classic band, so I think this is a perfect fit for her.
Fairplay – “Bottoms Up” by Trey Songz [feat. Nicki Minaj] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekAXPCphKXQ) Fairplay gets this one for the jokes he would do about constantly being wasted at Tribal Council.
Marcus – “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE) If I was a teenager, Marcus would be my teenage dream. He’s definitely a mature and classy player, and an all-around good guy. I have mad respect for him.
Jane – “Hey Soul Sister” by Train. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpv8-5XWOI) Jane and I were definitely two peas in a pod for most of the game. She was definitely my soul sister throughout the premerge, and my biggest regret in this game has to be that I hurt someone that was that close to me.
Jane “Club Can’t Handle Me” by Flo Rida [feat. David Guetta] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM3r8xKfGE) Tyrone, you were the master of cool, and I think a lot of people didn’t get your style, so this club couldn’t handle your strategy.
3: Give a compliment to everyone on the jury.
Jaime – You’re a great conversationalist, and a hardcore competitor, but in a really nice way.
Amanda – You’ve got a lot of intensity, and you definitely know how this game is meant to be played.
Christy – You don’t take the game personally, you’re a great conversationalist, and you’re just an all-around cool person.
Fairplay – You have a great sense of humor, and I was consistently amazed how you never let things get to you.
Marcus – You’re an incredibly mature and classy person, you have great intensity but you don’t let it make you do stupid things.
Jane – You’re incredibly loyal, you have a great sense of humor and of honor, and you’re someone who talks things out instead of just being bitter and resentful about it, which is definitely a great quality.
Tyrone – You’re very laid back, but you’re not afraid to stand up and defend yourself, and you’re very sensible.
4: Now I'm feeling a bit down after being voted out, so cheer me up, tell me how I'm good, awesome, etc.
Tyrone, I didn’t really talk to you much, but I always got a sense from you that you were a really cool guy. You seem to be really laid back, but you obviously don’t take crap from anybody, and your rap definitely kicked the living crap out of mine. Like you said in your song, you are definitely are a winner, man.
5: What was your reason for voting me out? No BS answers please.
I think that I can answer this question better in my personal question, so with all due respect I’ll do it there.
6: I want you to place each Juror into a "high school" clique and EXPLAIN why your choices.
Jaime – Popular. Jaime was obviously a really popular person in this game, and if this were high school, she’d definitely be one of the pretty girls who everyone likes.
Amanda – Athlete. I think Amanda would like the captain of the girls’ volleyball team: very strong and capable, but not ditzy like a cheerleader.
Christy – Offbeat. Christy would be like one of those girls you always see studying in the library, really awesome to know and talk to, without really associating herself with any particularly crazy group.
Fairplay – Prep/Jock. Fairplay would be like a greaser who slicks his hair back and talks a bunch of crap, but secretly gives all of his allowance to charity.
Marcus – Popular. Marcus has a great personality, and I think he’d definitely be the kind of guy all of the chicks would hang off of.
Jane – I really want to say “School Nurse.” Jane’s the kind of person you go to when you need to talk to someone who genuinely cares and won’t take you for granted. So if she wouldn’t be the nurse, she’d be like... Normal. Friend.
Tyrone – Athlete. I think you’d be like the track star, all fast and slick, and kick-ass, but not as widely recognized as the dudes on the basketball or football teams.
7: It's no secret I played this game UTR, really UTR. Do you think if I had been a bit less under the radar, would I have been voted out earlier in the game or would I have made the final 3. Clear cut response please, a few words is not acceptable.
To be honest, I think that you probably would have gone earlier if you hadn’t flown so low under the radar. I think a lot of people weren’t aware of how dangerous you truly were, I remember having hour-long conversations with people telling them that you were being sneaky and going to the other side, and nobody was willing to listen to me. You had just about everybody fooled, so I think that if you were more blatant, people would have clued in and realized how threatening you really were, and been more willing to vote you off.
8: Please explain to a certain juror why calling someone of color a terrorist is wrong and uncalled for in games and tell me what your view point on racist remarks such as those in ORG's (Since you will be witnessing these comments towards me in Ponderosa)
He’s right. I’m sorry. There really is not call for that kind of thing, since this is just a game, and calling someone a terrorist carries with it some pretty serious connotations, these days.
Monica:
Where you more then just a challenge whore in this game? Did you have any strategy or was it just win win and win some more challenges?
I was absolutely more than just a challenge whore in this game. I don’t know if the episode summaries I did for the F4 IC are still around, but if they are, I would suggest that you take a look at them. They detail a lot of the strategic moves that I made in the game. But on the off chance that they’re gone, I would say that my move at the final ten definitely changed the entire course of the game, and put me in a way better position. The conversation that Jane showed you that got you to vote Jaime off? That was a result of me working with Eliza. The fact that everybody was nervous about Fairplay having a HII premerge? I’m the one who told him how to fake it. But, while I had some very good moves, I also had some bad ones. I can admit that. There were times where I got played. Obviously the other two ladies had no interest in keeping their word to me, so I was apparently too loyal. My game wasn’t perfect.
But I never just sat around and assumed that I’d win Immunity, and I never just figured “Oh, I can’t be voted off, so I guess that means I don’t have to do any planning.” I still was mixing it up and making moves the whole time, and even if those moves didn’t always turn out to be amazingly brilliant, that doesn’t change the fact that I was still out there doing it. I did get voted “Most Strategic,” after all.
How do you think the game would have turned out had Jane not changed at the tie where me and her caused the three way tie.[/b]
The game probably would have wound up with you/Marcus/Eliza in the final four. I’d be gone, so that would probably give Eliza a few Immunities. You obviously wanted to flip at the merge, so my guess is that you would have helped the girls take out John, Brad, Fairplay, and Jane. Alexis’ plan all along was to flip at the final seven, so she and Eliza would pull in you and Marcus to take out Amanda, Christy, and Jaime. Then at the final four you probably would have Immunity, and either it would be a tie or Marcus would go.
Now, you told me you felt threatened by me at final 4 and that's why you voted me out. Be honest with me and I mean it, otherwise you will lose my vote. Did Eliza tell you about the jury cheering me on or no? Did she say something to you to make you think I was a bigger jury threat then Alexis? If not, I want a damn well explanation as to why you thought I was a threat to win, minimum of 7-10 sentences at least if you choose to go that route.[/b]
Yes, she did say something.
But before you instantly decide not to vote for me because of that, let me say that that in no way influenced by decision.
First of all, I knew that Eliza got the information from Amanda, which I knew could easily mean that (a) Amanda wanted us to vote you off and was lying to us to get us to do it, or (b) Amanda was rooting for Alexis, and was trying to protect her. Amanda might have been telling the truth, I don’t know. I wasn't going to base an important strategic decision based on a juror who had very good reasons not to tell us the truth.
Here’s why you were a jury threat. I knew for a fact that you had a really close bond with Marcus, and that Jane had pretty openly stated that she was rooting for you. If Alexis had gone home, she would definitely not have voted for me. Fairplay was hardcore about getting the original Neishi to the end, so he probably would have been split between voting for you or for me, because neither of us was really loyal to the tribe, in the end.
That alone was two confirmed votes for you, and two more votes that you stood a great chance of winning, which meant that my odds of beating you and another juror were pretty cruddy.
Secondly, it’s no secret that I tried to get rid of you a few times after the merge. If you had made the finals, it would be incredibly easy for you to take that and be like, “Monica was trying to get rid of me, and never could,” which would have increased your likelihood of winning.
Thirdly, you were willing to work with Kansai at the merge, so I think that would have made you more sympathetic than me to Christy and Jaime. (Probably not Amanda, though
)
Fourthly, you were a UTR player, and if you got to the end you would have definitely earned a lot of people’s respect.
That’s why you were a bigger threat than Alexis. I think you would have made a much better case as to why people should vote for you, and I think you would have walked away with the win.
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Alright, I think that's everything. Let me know if you'd like any more clarification on anything!
The biggest lie would have to be when I gave Eliza the second Immunity necklace at the final ten. Jane and Jon both wanted me to give the necklace to someone on Neishi, but I knew that if I did that, I was setting us up for future failure. I told them that I could probably convince Eliza to help us in voting off Kansai, and the Immunity definitely helped to get her on our side. At the same time, I lied to Eliza and told her that I was giving her the Immunity to show her that my loyalty to her was legit. While giving her the necklace did in fact do everything I said it would do, got Eliza to vote with us and gave Neishi the advantage, my real reasoning was actually a lot more strategic. Eliza had proven that her loyalties had the strength of 1-ply toilet paper, and I figured that by stripping her of her vote at the next TC I could prevent her from flipping on us. (She tried anyway, but thanks to her no-vote, failed.)
So, I’d say that that helped get me to the end because it helped Neishi out at both the final ten and the final eight (when Christy left).
2: Compare each juror to a song from Itunes top 100 and explain why (with a youtube link)
I don't have iTunes, but I searched for a top 100 list and these were what came up, so hopefully they're all correct.
Jaime – “Just The Way You Are” by Bruno Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk) Jaime was an absolutely amazing player with a lot of talent and likeability. She kicked some serious ass, and I think she definitely could have won the game if she hadn’t gone when she did.
Amanda – “Firework” by Katy Perry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw) Amanda was definitely a firework in the game, she was a very vibrant and dynamic personality, and she definitely went out with a bang!
Christy – “Let It Be” by The Beatles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjUSGr4ydqo) Christy was an incredibly laid back player, who didn’t overdramatize things or take them too seriously, so she just let things be. Plus, she loves Christy, who’s a classic player, and the Beatles are a classic band, so I think this is a perfect fit for her.
Fairplay – “Bottoms Up” by Trey Songz [feat. Nicki Minaj] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekAXPCphKXQ) Fairplay gets this one for the jokes he would do about constantly being wasted at Tribal Council.
Marcus – “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE) If I was a teenager, Marcus would be my teenage dream. He’s definitely a mature and classy player, and an all-around good guy. I have mad respect for him.
Jane – “Hey Soul Sister” by Train. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpv8-5XWOI) Jane and I were definitely two peas in a pod for most of the game. She was definitely my soul sister throughout the premerge, and my biggest regret in this game has to be that I hurt someone that was that close to me.
Jane “Club Can’t Handle Me” by Flo Rida [feat. David Guetta] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM3r8xKfGE) Tyrone, you were the master of cool, and I think a lot of people didn’t get your style, so this club couldn’t handle your strategy.
3: Give a compliment to everyone on the jury.
Jaime – You’re a great conversationalist, and a hardcore competitor, but in a really nice way.
Amanda – You’ve got a lot of intensity, and you definitely know how this game is meant to be played.
Christy – You don’t take the game personally, you’re a great conversationalist, and you’re just an all-around cool person.
Fairplay – You have a great sense of humor, and I was consistently amazed how you never let things get to you.
Marcus – You’re an incredibly mature and classy person, you have great intensity but you don’t let it make you do stupid things.
Jane – You’re incredibly loyal, you have a great sense of humor and of honor, and you’re someone who talks things out instead of just being bitter and resentful about it, which is definitely a great quality.
Tyrone – You’re very laid back, but you’re not afraid to stand up and defend yourself, and you’re very sensible.
4: Now I'm feeling a bit down after being voted out, so cheer me up, tell me how I'm good, awesome, etc.
Tyrone, I didn’t really talk to you much, but I always got a sense from you that you were a really cool guy. You seem to be really laid back, but you obviously don’t take crap from anybody, and your rap definitely kicked the living crap out of mine. Like you said in your song, you are definitely are a winner, man.
5: What was your reason for voting me out? No BS answers please.
I think that I can answer this question better in my personal question, so with all due respect I’ll do it there.
6: I want you to place each Juror into a "high school" clique and EXPLAIN why your choices.
Jaime – Popular. Jaime was obviously a really popular person in this game, and if this were high school, she’d definitely be one of the pretty girls who everyone likes.
Amanda – Athlete. I think Amanda would like the captain of the girls’ volleyball team: very strong and capable, but not ditzy like a cheerleader.
Christy – Offbeat. Christy would be like one of those girls you always see studying in the library, really awesome to know and talk to, without really associating herself with any particularly crazy group.
Fairplay – Prep/Jock. Fairplay would be like a greaser who slicks his hair back and talks a bunch of crap, but secretly gives all of his allowance to charity.
Marcus – Popular. Marcus has a great personality, and I think he’d definitely be the kind of guy all of the chicks would hang off of.
Jane – I really want to say “School Nurse.” Jane’s the kind of person you go to when you need to talk to someone who genuinely cares and won’t take you for granted. So if she wouldn’t be the nurse, she’d be like... Normal. Friend.
Tyrone – Athlete. I think you’d be like the track star, all fast and slick, and kick-ass, but not as widely recognized as the dudes on the basketball or football teams.
7: It's no secret I played this game UTR, really UTR. Do you think if I had been a bit less under the radar, would I have been voted out earlier in the game or would I have made the final 3. Clear cut response please, a few words is not acceptable.
To be honest, I think that you probably would have gone earlier if you hadn’t flown so low under the radar. I think a lot of people weren’t aware of how dangerous you truly were, I remember having hour-long conversations with people telling them that you were being sneaky and going to the other side, and nobody was willing to listen to me. You had just about everybody fooled, so I think that if you were more blatant, people would have clued in and realized how threatening you really were, and been more willing to vote you off.
8: Please explain to a certain juror why calling someone of color a terrorist is wrong and uncalled for in games and tell me what your view point on racist remarks such as those in ORG's (Since you will be witnessing these comments towards me in Ponderosa)
He’s right. I’m sorry. There really is not call for that kind of thing, since this is just a game, and calling someone a terrorist carries with it some pretty serious connotations, these days.
Monica:
Where you more then just a challenge whore in this game? Did you have any strategy or was it just win win and win some more challenges?
I was absolutely more than just a challenge whore in this game. I don’t know if the episode summaries I did for the F4 IC are still around, but if they are, I would suggest that you take a look at them. They detail a lot of the strategic moves that I made in the game. But on the off chance that they’re gone, I would say that my move at the final ten definitely changed the entire course of the game, and put me in a way better position. The conversation that Jane showed you that got you to vote Jaime off? That was a result of me working with Eliza. The fact that everybody was nervous about Fairplay having a HII premerge? I’m the one who told him how to fake it. But, while I had some very good moves, I also had some bad ones. I can admit that. There were times where I got played. Obviously the other two ladies had no interest in keeping their word to me, so I was apparently too loyal. My game wasn’t perfect.
But I never just sat around and assumed that I’d win Immunity, and I never just figured “Oh, I can’t be voted off, so I guess that means I don’t have to do any planning.” I still was mixing it up and making moves the whole time, and even if those moves didn’t always turn out to be amazingly brilliant, that doesn’t change the fact that I was still out there doing it. I did get voted “Most Strategic,” after all.
How do you think the game would have turned out had Jane not changed at the tie where me and her caused the three way tie.[/b]
The game probably would have wound up with you/Marcus/Eliza in the final four. I’d be gone, so that would probably give Eliza a few Immunities. You obviously wanted to flip at the merge, so my guess is that you would have helped the girls take out John, Brad, Fairplay, and Jane. Alexis’ plan all along was to flip at the final seven, so she and Eliza would pull in you and Marcus to take out Amanda, Christy, and Jaime. Then at the final four you probably would have Immunity, and either it would be a tie or Marcus would go.
Now, you told me you felt threatened by me at final 4 and that's why you voted me out. Be honest with me and I mean it, otherwise you will lose my vote. Did Eliza tell you about the jury cheering me on or no? Did she say something to you to make you think I was a bigger jury threat then Alexis? If not, I want a damn well explanation as to why you thought I was a threat to win, minimum of 7-10 sentences at least if you choose to go that route.[/b]
Yes, she did say something.
But before you instantly decide not to vote for me because of that, let me say that that in no way influenced by decision.
First of all, I knew that Eliza got the information from Amanda, which I knew could easily mean that (a) Amanda wanted us to vote you off and was lying to us to get us to do it, or (b) Amanda was rooting for Alexis, and was trying to protect her. Amanda might have been telling the truth, I don’t know. I wasn't going to base an important strategic decision based on a juror who had very good reasons not to tell us the truth.
Here’s why you were a jury threat. I knew for a fact that you had a really close bond with Marcus, and that Jane had pretty openly stated that she was rooting for you. If Alexis had gone home, she would definitely not have voted for me. Fairplay was hardcore about getting the original Neishi to the end, so he probably would have been split between voting for you or for me, because neither of us was really loyal to the tribe, in the end.
That alone was two confirmed votes for you, and two more votes that you stood a great chance of winning, which meant that my odds of beating you and another juror were pretty cruddy.
Secondly, it’s no secret that I tried to get rid of you a few times after the merge. If you had made the finals, it would be incredibly easy for you to take that and be like, “Monica was trying to get rid of me, and never could,” which would have increased your likelihood of winning.
Thirdly, you were willing to work with Kansai at the merge, so I think that would have made you more sympathetic than me to Christy and Jaime. (Probably not Amanda, though
) Fourthly, you were a UTR player, and if you got to the end you would have definitely earned a lot of people’s respect.
That’s why you were a bigger threat than Alexis. I think you would have made a much better case as to why people should vote for you, and I think you would have walked away with the win.
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Alright, I think that's everything. Let me know if you'd like any more clarification on anything!
