Spencer: You were everything to me here and you know that. I feel like I got to see your game PRETTY well all the way through, I'm sure you had some side stuff going on but I feel like for the most part we always knew the important things each other were doing, and always had each other's backs. So my question is more about your opponents' games. You answered almost every jury question before the other two, after having seen some of their responses are there any points that were made you'd like to address/dispute/add?
Really I didn't like you. <3. Just kidding, you really were the rock this game. I honestly can say we will be friends after this all over and if I'm in LA we should meet up!
I think I've addressed most of James's points but I've not really had a chance to layout my perspective on some of things Julia has argued in this FTC. I'd have liked to do it sneakily by subtley putting it into my other questions but fuck it.
- The 2v2 insurance
Julia has claimed that voting with Kat, to create the 2v2 split, was an insurance policy. That just doesn't make sense to me. She knew we were voting for Kat, Kat knew we were voting for her, everyone knew we were voting for Kat. Had we wanted to backstab her it wouldn't have been hard to tell Kat to flip on her or at the very least tie the votes 2-2 because James and I were voting the same way. So if anything she exposed herself to a tie break challenge she would have lost. Julia is just as pathetic as I am in challenges and considering that James beat Kat she had no shot of beating James. How is exposing yourself to a tiebreaker you'd lose insurance? Julia had no sway over the f4 vote if myself and James had wanted her out she was gone. Had i lost immunity at least I'd have been going against her in the 2v2 and not James.
- Spencer is a Meatshield argument
So as FTC started been labeled as the 'Meatshield' of the other two FTC contestants. I don't really see how I could have been a meatshield for Julia considering we were on other sides of the alliances the entire merge up and when she had a shot at taking me out didn't at F6 & F5. Wasn't Dana infact my meatshield in that vote? (3 votes Dana 2 Votes Spencer)
How is it more impressive that someone survived behind a meatshield the entire game than the meatshield actually surviving the whole game? I was either consider a big threat in this game or I wasn't a meatshield. Either way, I think it's impressive that I've survived this long with a target on my back. The history of this game is being revised and muddled with so extra points can be argued.
Now I believe I was James's meatshield, whether or not he consciously chose to hide behind that or not is a different matter. If I was Julia's meatshield because I was someone she'd easily beat at the end and would simultaneously take the heat for her throughout the game. Why did she say in this very FTC that she would have voted me out at F4 if she had won immunity?
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| Had Spencer not won the Final immunity, that's who my vote would have been for. Tying the vote made the most sense to me because it was an insurance policy. |
It doesn't quite make sense. I know this was later amended to I don't mind 'who was voted out at the FTC' but generally the person with immunity votes out the person who is their perceived biggest threat to winning the game.
To concluded.
1) It's impressive that I have two people on separate alliances that consider me a meatshield
2) I survived as the Meatshield
3) IF, None of the above is true they have lied throughout this TC.
4) The bigger perceived threat in the Game, Dana, took my place at F5.
- Julia's epic social game.
I've said before perception is reality in this game and I do love that quote. I think it encapulates so much of the survivor game in just a few words. That said I'll always try and change it.
By a lot of people, Julia has been touted as social queen so she's obviously done something right. I never really considered that her strong aspect or obviously I wouldn't have voted Kat out so merrily. Yes, I was aware most people liked her but how can you play an incredibly strong social game as a FTC contestant (james to for that regard) and not talk to someone else in teh game until f7/8? She discarded Brad from the start of the game and outright disrespected him in his final question. She didn't talk to Gerv at all. She's trashed you a few times throughout the FTC because she didn't think she'll get her vote. Those are not aspects I would consider strong social play. Yes, she has built strong relationships with the people she was aligned with. People she thought were useful to her game and people she could get votes off at FTC. Other than that I really don't think she's made the effort that real social queens like Sandra made. I could well be accused of disregarding the strategetic element to the social game, but to myself, the most important part of the social game is investing your time to get to know the people you are playing with. Even if they can't offer you something in return. Furthermore, an epic social game isn't ghosting someone when you've decided to split from them. Or lying for no reason such as in the F5 and F4 votes. Own up to your shit even if it's hard. It personally annoyed me so much how she constantly talks about how myself and JFP betrayed her constantly whilst never admitting to the times she had lied. When I voted Eliza you voted JFP! Neither of us trusted each other, I never believed you were voting Sydney. Finally, she got 1/20 on the game designed to test your understanding of the players you have played with! That IS 5 times worse than a person who came in third in that challenge.
She's a witty and charismatic person, but there is definitely flaws her in her social game.
As far as me never changing my gameplay and 'LOVING THE SPOTLIGHT' i think I answer that in the second question.
Also, do you think winning Biggest Snake impacted your game? Do you feel like things changed either good or bad for you because of it, or was it pretty inconsequential in the long run? Do you truly believe you were a snake or did you just embrace it because others did?
It did impact my game. Majority rules came at a really bad time for me, I'd just been caught typing in the wrong chat and that exposed how I was exchanging information from
Sakai to Yourself. This was totally my mistake however I didn't have time to do any damage control before the challenge. I knew 100% knew I was going to be voted biggest snake as soon as I saw that question.
Being publically branded as a snake and most in control is never a good thing. It's probably one of the worst things that could happen to anyone in Survivor. It was ultimately bad for my game as it blew up my spot and I could no longer get to the end as in the style I'd wanted when i signed up for this game. So changed I it up.
Clearly people believed I was manipulative, shady and running the game. By embracing the title i hoped to lessen the target and make it more of a joke than something real. I hoped to make it something to make fun of* rather than making it a weapon to really use it against me. I mean how dangerous is a snake if it's in the open and you a can see it coming? I personally would be more worried about the snakes that are hidden and I hoped people would see it in teh same way . Had I tried to retreat and smooth it over with people would have viewed it as the same behaviour that had lead to me being voted a snake in the first place. I think it must have to some degree worked. As Sydney said in her Jury question, she didn't even view me as a snake and she was impressed people kept me in despite my reputation. I believe this was because my snakey reputation was no longer something that could be used to vote me off. This alongside my relationships saved me from being voted out.
I do believe I was a snake gameplay wise before the majority rules question in one sense. I was content lying, backstabbing and playing all the sides. On the other hand, I think has negative contentations beyond gameplay that don't apply to me. I think I was fairly nice this game, I respected people, I didn't lie when there was no need to (barr one time) and I was friendly with everyone.
If i was or wasn't a snake playing like one after MR playing like that wasn't much an option for me anymore. I made sure I was out there in the open and people saw me coming. I never had to stab any of closet allies in the back, I believed I'd win against James & Yourself, Jonny had already been voted out, Kat and Julia flipped over to our side and Dana knew I was voting her from the start of F5. I told Eliza i was voting for her and i did, I told Dana i was voting for her and I did and I told Kat i was voting for her and I did.
HOWEVER I quite like the Snake title so I'm not going to give it back even if I don't think it's truly accurate.
That concludes my final tribal council, I'll be around if i need to respond to anything else but other than that thanks for the checks and hearing me out!
*this is joke, laugh about. The phrasing used in my answer is potentially British slang if you didn't understand it
** This may have come across as tacky but I know the position I'm in and I do feel like going second in questions allows you to alter your responses accordingly. So I don't mind going all out.
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