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One thing I DON'T respect is how you didn't take a stand at key points in the game. I get why you did it -- you were trying to play the middle and keep everyone happy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look good when you refuse to take a stance and play the game. Also, self voting at this point isn't great, imo. I know you have your reasons, but still.

I know. The F7 round and the F5 round were awful for me. I made a fool out of myself by voting Jerri, and then I made a fool out of myself again when I self voted. I didn't take a stance at probably the most pivotal moments in the game. And I can shield myself a bit at F7 with a legit excuse, but at F5? Self voting? Fucking pathetic. I lost track of time and fucked up. I really did. People always say that they don't have any regrets from their game, but I regret those two rounds. I made an ass out of myself and the worst part is that I KNOW that I am better than that and that I could have done those rounds differently. Those two rounds were embarrassing om my part, to say the least. I just want to admit that.

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My question to you is - were you REALLY going to take me to F3? I was honestly skeptical the whole time, even though you seemed really serious about the deal.

I was being 100% serious. At F7, I took a scan around, and the only people I thought I could beat were you and Heather, and then I realized in the same instance that you were in a very similar boat as me. If that deal had worked out, I could sit up here much more upright than I am right now. I was ready to put the game into motion and throw some ninja stars at the remaining threats in the game. But that's just not how it worked out, as you know.

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1. Imagine this season was made into a DVD. Which 6 players are on the cover? Three of them are on the top, three of them are on the bottom.

Obviously, a lot depends on the editing of the show, but if I was forced to put six people on the cover from my perspective, Kim, Zmanda, and you would probably be on the top. Kim and Zmanda were HUGE powerhouses during the merge. You were always there, you always had options, and you played an insanely good social game, and I could very easily see you being one of the three right now and myself being on the jury had Jerri not gone super-rogue. On the bottom, I would probably but Jerri, Sierra, and Eric. All three of them were detrimental in many of the blindsides that occurred in the game, both pre and post merge. Sierra was the puppet master who was able to arrange the Mike blindside seemingly with ease and had a strong sense of manipulating people. Jerri dominated every tribal from F7-F4, and every challenge. Eric may have had some help from you in Yul's boot, but holy FUCK , that was so insane and cool. Reminded me quite a bit like the Tyson blindside in HvV. Plus I'm sure that he would get a shitton of airtime after some of the moves he made. Probably would be edited like Tony.

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2. Rank each juror. You can rank them on any criteria you want -- maybe their overall threat level, their importance to your game etc. Specify what your ranking system is, then just rank em!

I'll base my rankings on significance and impact on the overall season.

10.) Ronnie. You were in the game for a short amount of time, then you got booted, then you were in the game for another few rounds, and got booted again. I didn't know you pretty much at all this game and you spent the least amount of actual time in the game. Sorry bud :/

9.) Michelle. Although I freaking love ya to death and I thought we made a genuine connection, I didn't hear much about your game. Sure, I have a general grasp on what happened before you got swapped, but from my perspective, I didn't see much or hear much that happened when we were separated. Now, obviously I have to give you credit for the candy that led to a big blindside and there was bound to be a lot of maneuvering that I don't know about, but this is from my perspective of your impact on the game as a whole, not on myself.

8.) Shontayla. Unfortunately for these three that placed in last on my list, I don't know very much about their game, so I have to go off of what I concluded from other people's words and my own onservations. That being said, there is clearly a side of you that I did not see when I was playing the game. A side of you that thrived on chaos and drank the tears of all that opposed you. And that's why I have you here. I'll need to run back through confessionals and see if that actually matches up, but I'm pretty confident that it will.

7.) Heather- We were the goats, no matter how hard we tried to break that mold. You tried by blindsiding Mike and I tried by making alliances that fell through a round or two late in most cases. That Mike move was a big one that I didn't expect, and you pissed off probably everybody at one point or another, which definitely makes you a huge character, but compared to the rest of the jury? I gotta place you here.

6.) Yul. Had you made it farther into the game, you would probably be my number one. Definitely much higher. It seems like every round something was being stirred up by a move by you or by your paranoia. Successfully being convinced by Fabio that Julie was coming after you and that Jeremiah was on your side led to some of the biggest moments of the premerge, plus you stole my immunity from me and my ambassador privileges. Love you though <3

5.) Eric. Just like in Twisted, you were cutthroat, managed to avoid so many votes, and played a very key part in a few very crucial moves. From the very first tribal you were targeted, and for being able to survive for THAT long is impressive to say the least. You correctly used an idol, you played your fucking ass off constantly to make it one step further in the game, and even though you has some breathing room inbetween the second round and the second ambassadors twist, you were always a target otherwise, and being able to dodge so many bullets is Matrix style shit.

4.) Jeremiah. You were like a ninja waiting in the shadows. You watched, observed people, stayed out of the spotlight, and when someone walked close to you, BAAM!! they were dead before they even knew what hit them. And the funniest part was that every time, people would see it, you would flash your flashy smile, and it was like those gadgets from Men in Black. They forgot it ever happened and hardly any trust was lost. You were a key component in basically every single vote and, to my knowledge, whoever you voted for was sent packing.

3.) Sierra. You were able to trap everyone in your web so fucking easily. You would basically be the mastermind behind almost every vote. You were a HUGE strategic threat. The grip that you had on the game turned your knuckles white. I don't think anyone can deny how big of a social threat you were, as well as a pretty decent physical competitor. You had connections. You had power. And you had a way with words that could make anyone believe you.

2.) Zmanda. Whether it was you poking literally everyone's buttons, even at their most vunerable, to making two huge idol plays, to being politically incorrect from basically the very first round, you were always a character, always active, always changing things up, always moving chess pieces. You were by far one of the biggest players and biggest characters all wrapped up into one package. Truly like a Russell Hantz style character, only so much more self aware.

1.) Kim. No doubt the biggest social threat that I've ever seen. Like, JT levels of social game. You got me to fight teeth and bone for you in just a few rounds. I'm not sure how many connections you actually had, bur I really wouldn't be surprised if you had a personal connection with everyone at the merge. Coming back after being out of the game is not easy, and it automatically generates a target on your back. The way that you were able to subvert that target for the longest time and charm people with the genuine way you talked... it deserves a standing ovation. You were definitely a physical competitor, your feud with Jerri took up a good majority of the merge, and strategically, you may not have been the strongest in the game (you have fierce competition), but damn, after how long you survived with a target on your back is insane.

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3. Which person from the PREJURY do you think most deserved to make the F3?

Guilty pleasure, it would have been AMAZING to see Chef make the F3. I fucking LOVED him and thought his character was hilarious. Seeing him make it to the FTC would be an amazing ride, and a hilarious one.

But, serious answer, probably Kelly. She's a great player and always fought hard and never gave up, at least in Twisted, and I definitely got that impression from her this time around too. I don't know the exact circumstances of how she was voted out, but I was actually sad when I saw that she was. Plus I never really got a chance to work with her in Twisted, and I really, really wanted to. And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for the meddling ambassadors!

Jerri @ 25/8/2015 9:27

I've gotta say, you DID play a solid game. One thing I want to ask you specifically about is the round Kelly left. Are you saying with 100% honesty, that you or Kelly did NOT want to target ED? Because I have seen chat logs (from Sierra admittedly) where Kelly is asking Sierra to target ED and me. Did she fake those logs? I was honestly incredibly close to Sierra at that point of the game (maybe even her slave Wink ), and I know she was close with ED too. So I'm just skeptical in general that she wanted to put us up. Maybe Sierra can clarify on this? I am saying with 100% honesty that I DID NOT want to target ED. But I know Kelly and Shontayla DID want to target ED. So I was the one making a voracious effort to convince Kelly and Shontayla to STOP targeting ED because we NEEDED HIM...desperately. I don't believe Sierra doctored those logs. Don't mistake Kelly's motivations to be the same as mine, that was the mistake ED made, assuming since Kelly and Shontayla were against him that I was too. ED was 100% my closest ally at the time. I knew and reiterated to ED based on how the Black Jack round went down that Heather received cards from both Sierra and Michelle (Hence they were working together). ED spent a LONG time trying to get Sierra to give him her Ace for Blackjack, but Sierra refused and instead gave it to Heather (This was a red flag for ED and why he chose to believe me at first). Sierra was known to be close to them and she used the Veto to save Sierra. Truthfully, ED was in a tough spot because he was on the bottom of Sierra's alliance and the only people not in Sierra' group Kelly/Shontayla both wanted him gone, so I had a hell of a time convincing him to put Sierra and Michelle up. I can't say for sure who Sierra would have nominated had she won HoH

Just to clear up my part on this to, I did NOT want ED gone at all (i admittedly was nervous to 100% trust him and hand the card to him, plus our deal to give heather HOH had already been discussed). Kelly put his name out there and I nodded and agreed. In reality I wanted Shont/Jerri gone that round, most likely jerry since michelle and heather had connections to shont. Had I won the HOH They would have been my nominations. Kelly would have been replacement if I needed to. Heather wanted ED but for me personally it wouldn't have made sense, i would have tried to save him if she won the HOH. I believed i could talk heather out of putting him up at all it wouldn't have been good for her game either IMO.

Once he put me and michelle up i went into panic mode...

Also clearing this up since I have no idea where the rumor of me and sundra being close same from, the first convo sundra and i had was AFTER she won veto. During that convo I made deals and gave a ton of info to her to build trust, anything so she would use it and hopefully on me. I also spoke to dick and asked why? found out that someone{i knew it was jerri)told him i wanted him and jeremiah out. I explained what was actually said and showed him my chat with kelly. We continued to compare notes and all of the drama from that round started with kelly, he decided she needed to go.

He would NOT have been voted out that round if I had beat Shont for immunity. Jerri also got immunity from Ronnie, which meant we had to vote one of our own.

Me, Michelle, Heather, Dick, Jeremiah and now Sundra were all aligned. Im unsure of the timing on this but shont had fights with both michelle and heather so they went from aligned to enemies. Michelle and heather were set on keeping sundra since she showed loyalty by pulling one of us off the block and voting to keep the other. ED just put two of us up the pervious round, They didn't trust him fully. Jeremiah and I wanted to vote sundra out and keep ED but just couldn't rally enough support.

^ yeah, that too. You aren't necessarily right, Jerri, when you say ED was unceremoniously on the bottom and booted. Sierra and I tried to save him. The main reason ED left is because he just wasn't online that round, so he couldn't join us in the campaign to save him.

Jeremiah Wood @ 25/8/2015 14:32

^ yeah, that too. You aren't necessarily right, Jerri, when you say ED was unceremoniously on the bottom and booted. Sierra and I tried to save him. The main reason ED left is because he just wasn't online that round, so he couldn't join us in the campaign to save him.

That's the way it seemed from my point of view. I know he told me Sundra was a possible target and I think he voted her. It wouldn't make sense to me why Sierra would consider voting Sundra who saved her with veto over Dick who nominated her so I wrote Dick off as gone.

^ fair enough

Also, a new question for u all:

To counter Yul and ronnie's questions, describe a moment where you didn't have much of a reaction at all. Was it when someone you didn't know that well from the other tribe went home? Or maybe when someone who you didn't really care about won immunity? Say what it is and why it didn't make you feel too much. I want all of you to answer this btw.

Hey Jeremiah!

Believe me I didn't expect to be here either haha. I'm not sure if I told you the exact dynamics of my relationship with Jerri, but I was pretty sure I would be able to at least make it to F4 and outlast Zamanda, even after you got eliminated.

1. When you got eliminated it basically left me to just use logic to try making it to the end, with a combination of some emotional game play. For the entirety of your boot round I was making a big deal to Jerri, Heather, and Erik that I just didn't want to see Zamanda make it far into the game after all her attacks on me. I tried to play up the fact she was a negative personality and was putting a bit of a bad light on the season. Erik eventually said pretty straight up to me that he wants to see me last longer in the game than Zamanda because of that. He was pretty much alone in the game so I had tried my best to get as close to Erik as possible, someone who was never going to be a target but still could be a vote in my corner.

I also tried to solidify things with Jerri and Heather. Minus your boot Jerri had been very honest and open with me when she really didn't have any reason to, so I figured she had no reason to lie to me either and I trusted her enough to get me to at the least F4. I had tried to bring up the final juror thing and how ideally I wouldn't want to be in that position again. I felt like my relationship with Jerri had grown to the point where I should have been pretty safe, even after you got eliminated. It definately helped that there were a lot of threats left, and Heather had told me about the possibility of voting out Jerri, which I told Jerri later in order to solidify that Heather and Jerri would be against each other the next round at F4. Hell I didn't even get a vote in the F4 TC, which I was pretty happy with.

OTHER QUESTIONS

1. As far as this is concerned, normally I would be chomping at the but for any type of art/photoshop project, ESPECIALLY in an FTC where I may he able to score some brownie points. Unfortunately I won't have access to a computer until late Sunday, so photoshop and basically any image use is almost out of the question (this is why u haven't been using fancy font or pictures in my answers btw. I've been alternating between using my iPad and my phone for writing these responses.

But back to your question. The cover usually consists of a couple finalists and a lot of power players/influential people in the season. Other than the winner being in the top center (except in PI) it doesn't LOOK like people are organized in any particular order. The 6 people on the cover would probably consist of Jerri and myself, because we are the main contenders in this FTC, and then Kim, Eric, Zamanda, and then PROBABLY Jeremiah (Sierra just missed the cut off for me). I decided all of these people due to their placements and overall impact on the game. Eric was a giant threat and target thoughout the entirety of the game, Kim has a great comeback story from Los Muertos where she ended up pretty powerful and in great socially with a lot of people, Zamanda is simply an iconic character for the series as a whole and brought out a lot of drama and still made good gameplay moves, and Jeremiah would probably be edited as the guy who just continues to flip on allies but somehow still gets his own way, making him a pretty big character. Jerri and I are of course PROBABLY going to be the winner and runner-up, which warrants the DVD placement, but we've also had our fair share of accomplishments such as being responsible for eliminating pretty much everyone on the jury (kinda an obvious accomplishment given this situation). 

2. I was half tempted to rank the jury based on like attractiveness of reps or something, but I was worried that it wouldn't be taken seriously and frankly I think I may need all the help I can get with answering these questions. 

But I'm going to do it anyway!!! (And then rankings based on like overall gameplay or something, idk)

(Also realizing not being able to use pictures for this kinda sucks given the subject matter)

1. Zamanda
2. Heather
3. Sierra
4. Kim
5. Michelle
6. Jeremiah
7. Shontayla
8. Yul
9. Eric
10. Ronnie

So yeah, guys are so low because I sorta have a gender bias when it comes to stuff like this and it's hard to compare. Trying to harness by shallow side and I mean look at some of these people, they're pretty hot lol. 

But on a more serious note, I think I may take your suggestion and rank everyone based on overall threat level or something.

10. Shontayla

This is #10/iderk where I can place you in this list. You seemed good in challenges and for the very little bit I was able to talk to you, you actually seemed like a pretty cool person, but I never really got to see much of your gameplay. I know you voted for me in your boot round even when the vote switched from me to Ronnie (which I assumed was due to some sort of communication error) and that is honestly the only thing I have strategy and voting wise to base this on. 

9. Ronnie

You are also pretty good in challenges and people very rarely dislike you. I just didn't see Ronnie as a major power player or anything and idt he stood out an absolute ton throughout the game, even after he came back from Los Muertos. Certainly was not bad socially but he didn't quite have the connections in order to make it too far.

8. Michelle

Very good in challenges and a very good social player. I know I enjoyed talking to you on OG Fuerza and I'm sure many others did (mostly because whenever someone was talking about alliance stuff you would always seem to come up). Definitely had the social connections to make it far into pre-merge but just ended up falling a little bit short as the merge phase was approaching. 

7. Heather

Now I DO actually know a bit about Heather's game and enough to talk about it I think lol. Of course she had her connections with lots of people and she made it very far into this game, but never did Heather really come up as much of a threat. Her name was really only brought up so much because she rubbed people the wrong way and just wasn't involved with some of the alliances. 

6. Yul

Low placement is pretty much the only reason why you are so low. You were a big name early on and you continued to be as the game went on. You always seemed to come up and you were always a dominant challenge performer. Eventually you were in charge of your own coalition, but it ended up that Jeremiah flipped on you and you ended up going. You WERE a big threat in the game, but just not for long enough to warrant a higher placing. 

5. Jeremiah

This ranking isn't totally based on overal gameplay, it's more supposed to be based on perceived threat level. Now game wise you were a giant threat, but somehow you were able to slip by for a pretty long time without having your name come up much. Even when it did you had a way to change that and send someone else home. 

4. Sierra

As I reiterate, not based on overal gameplay but on perceived threat level. From what I was able to tell Sierra was also able to slip through a lot of the game without her name coming up as much of a threat. I mean this is someone who won the series and made it to FTC to lose in a close vote in different seasons, yet somehow her name rarely came up. However when it did pretty much all bets were off and the blindside HAD to be perfect to avoid any suspicion that would result in Sierra somehow being able to save herself. 

3. Eric

Your name came up in round 1 and it didn't stop coming up until you got eliminated. Somehow EVERYONE saw you as a really big threat and you were definitely targeted because of it. You would be higher on this list had it not been for final placement (as would a few of these people). You were never a threat to ME, but for everyone else they definitely needed to try watching out for you. 

2. Kim

Voted out early on in the game just to come back in from Los Muertos, which already puts a target on your back. THEN you ended up being in good with a large amount of the people in the game. You had connections everywhere and in challenges you were still a beast, and because of that Jerri and Heather has tried to target you for almost the entirety of the merge. Again, you were never a threat to me personally, but game wise and for my own chance of winning you definitely were and it resulted in me voting you out.

1. Zamanda

Because of the public nature of Zamanda, she was always going to be at the top of this list. Everyone knew about her, maybe not because of a great game she was playing, but because it was Zamanda and she was always making noise and getting her way. Again, this is someone who made it to the FTC of one season of Epic and was a very active PW for another, so being able to hide with that at all is pretty impressive. I know I always had her name on my mind throughout the game, mostly because I thought we were on opposite sides. When that changed she was STILL a threat because almost everyone on the jury likes her and she is an FTC maestro, so she would make the ones who didn't vote for her anyway.

3. Without a doubt the first 2 people who come to mind are Julie and Fabio. While Julie and I are friends (or at least good aquaintances lol) I didn't have much of a chance to talk to her in this game because she was eliminated so soon. While she is a great player she just didn't get the chance to do much in this game before getting voted out because of Yul and Fabio.

Which is why I think I need to give the edge to Fabio on this one. The guy was well connected and well liked (from what I could tell). I tried making an alliance with him super early on that I 100% would have tried stating loyal to, I was excited about the prospect of working with him after we were pit against each other last season. Only reason Fabio was voted out really was because of an idol play, and it was apparently because it was believed he could have an idol (which he sorta did). Fabio Mike Eric and I made an alliance chat and ended up getting an idol that Mike held onto for pretty much the entirety of the game. On a personal level it'd be cool to see Fabio here because I do like the guy a lot, and game wise I definately feel like he would he the most deserving pre-juror, especially after getting out of that jam and somehow sending Julie home.

FINAL QUESTION

I didn't feel anything when Kelly was eliminated? Or when Morgan was? Or like half of the pre-merge boots lol. They were players in the game I had little to no interaction with and I don't think any of them being eliminated really warranted much of a response from me. 

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2. I was half tempted to rank the jury based on like attractiveness of reps or something, but I was worried that it wouldn't be taken seriously and frankly I think I may need all the help I can get with answering these questions. But I'm going to do it anyway!!! (And then rankings based on like overall gameplay or something, idk) (Also realizing not being able to use pictures for this kinda sucks given the subject matter) 1. Zamanda 2. Heather 3. Sierra 4. Kim 5. Michelle 6. Jeremiah 7. Shontayla 8. Yul 9. Eric 10. Ronnie

You just lost my vote for that :p

I know I'm hott <3

(amandak, During my boot round, I had voted for Ronnie, Jerri voted for you.)

Shontayla Law @ 26/8/2015 23:43

(amandak, During my boot round, I had voted for Ronnie, Jerri voted for you.)

Gotcha, sorry didn't realize (whoopsie)

Jeremiah Wood @ 26/8/2015 16:24

^ fair enough Also, a new question for u all: To counter Yul and ronnie's questions, describe a moment where you didn't have much of a reaction at all. Was it when someone you didn't know that well from the other tribe went home? Or maybe when someone who you didn't really care about won immunity? Say what it is and why it didn't make you feel too much. I want all of you to answer this btw.

When Morgan went home, but honestly did anyone give a fuck about that?