Well, you can just tell them how it all went down, Hud.

[Rob Hawkins]

~ Rob Hawkins, Cloverfield.

Well, it's been a long and interesting adventure. Congratulations on making it to the end, well done. So, let me first say that I was pretty clueless throughout the game and have no clue what y'all did so I'm going to ask a lot of questions. Not to make it painful, but just to get an idea of who deserves my vote the most.

Lydia
Well, hi. Thanks for blindsiding me I guess. There is really no need to apologize, I like a good blindside and I really had no clue that I was going so I thought that was pretty cool. While I was pretty upset that you ignored my pm, amongst other things, I can see that it was game so good job. Your opening statement was pretty weak IMO though and you type like extremely long sentences that are hard to read. It's like you constantly feel like you have to place a "but" or "and" or whatever to make your words sound not-too-condescending. Also, it lacked information about your game because I really don't know what you did since my poor social game caused me to be out of the loop of things a lot. So here are my questions, please be to the point, honest, and don't butter me up.
- Who were you aligned with throughout the game?
- Did you try to get Medusa/Sweeney/Tate/whoever to vote me out? What reasons did you use, and were some of them made up?
- What would you say are your three key moves that put you in a better position throughout the game?
- Since you say you played a strong social game, please tell me 3 non-game-related things you learned about each juror in this game... (Honestly I feel like there really was no personal connection between the two of us whereas Claire initiated more personal conversations whenever we were both on, even when I was hard to talk to/barely on.)

Claire
Hi Claire! Well, I'm basically really curious about your game because I don't know a whole lot about it.  You constantly initiated conversations which I appreciate, but it was a little tough to talk game since I never really knew what you were up to XD So yeah I'm just gonna ask you a couple of questions, please be completely honest.
- Who were you aligned with throughout the game? What's your relationship with Lily?
- Suppose you would have had a vote in the tribal council where I left. Would you have voted me or Glen? Why?
- Do you feel you made any key moves? Like did you initiate the vote against someone or form an alliance yourself?
- Since you say you knew everything that was going on in the game, please tell me all the alliances and suballiances and tight relationships that you know of. I don't care about a lot of the pre-jurors but if you know some relationships they had you can mention them.

Well, that's all I have. Best of luck girls, I'm looking forward to see what you did during the game cuz like I said I'm pretty clueless XD

Rob

[Lydia Martin]

Lydia
Well, hi. Thanks for blindsiding me I guess. There is really no need to apologize, I like a good blindside and I really had no clue that I was going so I thought that was pretty cool. While I was pretty upset that you ignored my pm, amongst other things, I can see that it was game so good job. Your opening statement was pretty weak IMO though and you type like extremely long sentences that are hard to read. It's like you constantly feel like you have to place a "but" or "and" or whatever to make your words sound not-too-condescending. Also, it lacked information about your game because I really don't know what you did since my poor social game caused me to be out of the loop of things a lot. So here are my questions, please be to the point, honest, and don't butter me up.



- Who were you aligned with throughout the game?

I was basically aligned with everyone in Wrath I'd say, it was just to varying degrees depending on how the game went.  Right from the get go I made bonds with Lily, Claire, Beth, Sweeney, Tate, and I didn't see you on AIM often so we didn't have much there, and Meowth was a bit annoying at times.  Anyway, I formed bonds there and those strengthened or weakened depending on what happened during the course of the game, like when the swap came, my bond with Lily, Medusa and you weakened in comparison to the Wrath members on Lust with me.  I got close with Jill and somewhat Ash on Lust, but Jill turned out to be a psycho and thankfully quit and Ash while cool, couldn't trump multiple relationships that had been formed in the beginning days of the game.

Around merge I'd say I was still tentatively aligned the the surviving Wrath members, and I think almost everyone was in a similar position really.  I mean as lame as it sounds we kind of were like the Wrath family. 


- Did you try to get Medusa/Sweeney/Tate/whoever to vote me out? What reasons did you use, and were some of them made up?

Originally I didn't try to get any of them to vote against you.  I knew Medusa was out of town and her vote would be a bootlist vote, I suspected that you and Tate were pretty close allies in the game and wouldn't ask that of him, and I hadn't talked to Sweeney about it until the vote tied due to Medusa's bootlist vote and I approached him to change his vote.  What I had told Sweeney was that you had been coming after him this round and had suggested/tried to vote him out.   I told him this because Beth told me, who was told by Glen, that you and Tate had approached Glen during voting deliberations to try and blindside Sweeney.  It could have been made up if Glen was cunning and was playing Beth, but it was real enough to me at the time, and the only thing I had to try and get Sweeney to switch. I couldn't not try and risk you staying and I didn't know who else to try and get to flip with Medusa gone.  I'm sure you know a plan to blindside someone is no good if you throw a kick and a punch and then pull off at that last minute.  However, all of that was irrelevant though as Sweeney still sided with you and you only left because we were able to get a hold of Medusa and get her to change her bootlist vote.



- What would you say are your three key moves that put you in a better position throughout the game?

Since I was immune for a good portion of the tribal stages most of my strategy didn't have to be implemented until the merge stage, so with that in mind, I think three key moves were

1.  Taking out Rei as early as I did. 
- With the MVP twist coming to a close very soon around that time, the only way to ensure my safety 100% was to either win the immunity challenges or be picked by the person who won.  I think out of everyone who I wasn't aligned with, Rei was the most likeable and social at the time, as well as the biggest threat challenge wise.  With that in mind I told myself that if someone is going to have a strong chance at beating me in challenges (because Rei showed she was more than capable) and I didn't have a strong enough bond with them to where they'd be saving me for sure, then they had to go.  I liked Rei a lot and liked the rapport I had with her at times, but if someone big is standing in your way, you have to take them down sooner than later.


2.  Saving Glen and voting you out.
-  Despite stating above that I felt aligned with the surviving Wrath members I knew that obviously seven people would not be fitting into three finalist chairs.  Ever since the beginning and especially at merge I had been watching how people were playing and trying to pick up on who was primarily with who.  With you I definitely felt like there was a sort of boys alliance going on there between you, Tate and Sweeney, that I thought was shown through MVP picks and who an immunity winner would save.  Out of the six other Wrath members I felt like I had the weakest bond with you and definitely saw you as a huge lurking threat in the grass, so I decided that if Glen went that it'd be game on after and I could potentially be on the losing side of that battle.  So knowing you had a ton of lurking challenge strength, and a potentially strong rooted alliance backing you, I struck before it had the chance to take me out.  I confided and planned with Beth about it and before I even told Claire about it she said how if Glen went over say you or Sweeney how the round/vote would almost be a waste, so with Beth and Glen (unknowingly) on my side in addition to Claire's support, I went for it.


3.  Voting out Sweeney over Beth or Glen.
- I think the explanation ties into the answer above for who I was "aligned with" and my answer of "fluid" I gave in Medusa's thread.  I think the ultimate decision to vote out Sweeney came about when I decided which bonds in Wrath were my strongest and deducing that Sweeney had a similar fluidity to his style of play like me.   Throughout the game I played with what I'd call fluidity in that I easily flowed with the Wrath tribe and was a pinnacle person and point to a lot of their games and therefore was never viewed as a target, and I think Sweeney played the same.  The round you went out you mentioned in your PM (which I apologize for ignoring) that you thought you, me, Tate and Sweeney had an alliance that he mentioned to you, but Beth had also divulged information to me that Sweeney was saying the two of them were tight and working towards the finals or end together.  Despite Sweeney targeting Beth the round he went out, which I believe he only did because it was Tate's offered up plan and he had nothing else to go on at the time, those four other people he showed strong connections to aside from myself showed he was a big time fluid and savvy player who could be a threat at the end to me.


I guess really that key moves #2 and #3 are connected in that my fluidity in the game had put me in good standing up until that point to potentially go far, but when sitting on it and thinking about it, I set myself more concrete paths with the people I trusted most, through moves that would hopefully ensure me a clear path to the finals, and I think it achieved that.   So yeah, smooth operating that made me a safe, trustworthy person with a lot of people, before I made the key moves to weave through the vote offs and get here.  Sorry for rambling and having long sentences but I just explain it better to even myself when I talk it out.  And I'm sure you're now sick of the word fluid/fluidity lol.




- Since you say you played a strong social game, please tell me 3 non-game-related things you learned about each juror in this game... (Honestly I feel like there really was no personal connection between the two of us whereas Claire initiated more personal conversations whenever we were both on, even when I was hard to talk to/barely on.)

I won't bullshit you here, I think I'll have a hard time doing this to be honest.  When I mentioned and said I played a strong social game I meant like how I just described it above, in that I was a strong social player by having good standing and being of at least some importance to nearly everyone I came in contact with in regards to the game.  I will try to answer as much as I can recall, but I'm not going to lie and say I'll be able to succeed with everyone.  So, sorry to anyone I get things wrong for, or can't provide three things for.



Tate
1. Lives in Florida  2.  Likes sweet things   3.  Loves visiting Key West and recently had a blast there on vacation going to a wedding and partying.

Glen
1. Is actually a woman  2. A very nice and determined one at that.

Medusa
1.  Went on a trip with her lovely husband to Las Vegas during the game.  2. Recently celebrated an anniversary with him I believe?  3.  Is older in age, but super young and fun at heart.

Sweeney
1. Lives in Canada 2.  Is interested in accounting  3. Recently went on a trip to visit his sister and see Freddy as well.

Ash
1. Is Sweeney's brother  2. Lives in Canada 3.  Recently went on the same trip as Sweeney (I suck I know)

Rob
1.  I think you live in the South East Asia area, I want to say the Philippines but I could be way off and apologize if I am.  2.  Your life had been hectic and crazy around the initial rounds of the game

Mama
Never talked to Mama or saw her on AIM so I can honestly say I can't answer this one. Sorry Mama

Rei
1.  Works late nights 2. I believe Rei is an EMT or some other medical type of profession, I'm not sure at all, I'm sorry Rei.  3.  Is a bad bitch.

[Rob Hawkins]

Thanks Lydia! I'm impressed, even with the final question. Part of why I asked it was to see if you would list anything you knew from before this game/another game (since a lot of games have the same groups of players) and I'm convinced that's not the case. I'm European btw, but yeah in a different time zone. I don't have any follow ups right now.

[Lydia Martin]

Sept 6, 2013 9:59:43 GMT -5 Rob Hawkins said:

 I'm European btw, but yeah in a different time zone. I don't have any follow ups right now.

Well...I feel stupid

But thank you Rob.

[Beth Greene]

Good luck to Lydia and Claire

[Claire Chang]

Claire
Hi Claire! Well, I'm basically really curious about your game because I don't know a whole lot about it. You constantly initiated conversations which I appreciate, but it was a little tough to talk game since I never really knew what you were up to XD So yeah I'm just gonna ask you a couple of questions, please be completely honest.
- Who were you aligned with throughout the game? What's your relationship with Lily?

My first alliance was with my friend Lily, soon after I made a female alliance between medusa, beth, lily, Lydia and myself, but I had deals with almost everyone on our first tribe and I always keep in touch with players from the other tribes too because we never know when things change in the game. Since day one myself and glen always had a deal to help each other but was on merge that we firming a solid alliance.Tate was the other that I talked all game but we just really worked together almost merge time and I love him and wish he was here now we almost did it friend .


So I was aligned with everyone is a way or another in some point of the game and the best thing is no one catch me playing every sides thats because everyone trusted me and thats a big thing to maneged.


and about Lilly, she is my friend and I love her, we are Brazilians and if she had survived the merge things could be very different.


- Suppose you would have had a vote in the tribal council where I left. Would you have voted me or Glen? Why?


I'd vote for you because Glen and I were together and like you said we never had any solid deal so I actually was one of the people who convinced the votes to move against you because Glen could not leave since we were together and I knew he was and would be always a target and it is always good to keep the targets in the game because it keeps them away from me.

In fact our plan was to vote sweeney out since he finally had lost immunity but when you refuse to do that you kinda of seal your fate in the game.

 Like did you initiate the vote against someone or form an alliance yourself?

like I said I forn a individual alliance with almost everyone from the merge and that was great because I maneged to make everyone trust me, for exemple lets say player A wanted to blindslided player B he would told me about it and I could decide if that was good for me or not.

I tryed to form a alliance between you, me, Tate, Mama and Glen but I don´t know why it did not worked

I form a short lived alliance between glen, tate and myself

- Do you feel you made any key moves?


I was targeting Sweeney since like round 2 of merge but he maneged to save himself always, put I started to put on everyone ears that he needed to go ASAP because I knew it he would be my biggest problem, so the week that he finally lose immunity it was easy convince people to go against him.

another thing that I did was medusa eviction, Tate wanted to go with the girls and vote Glen out it was needed a lot and lot and lot of conversation and time to finally convince him to vote with me against her, he was sure that medusa was not with the girls and I knew medusa was not telling tate all the truth but thank god I convince him and we voted medusa out, now tate knows that he would be the next to go.

and when I saw that you did not wanted to go against Sweeney I had to talk with Tate and the girls and make sure you would be the one going and not Glen, thank god beth and Lydia wants that too and thank God Tate and I had a good relacionship and once again he trusted me. 

- Since you say you knew everything that was going on in the game, please tell me all the alliances and suballiances and tight relationships that you know of. I don't care about a lot of the pre-jurors but if you know some relationships they had you can mention them.


the girls alliance
I hear something about Medusa, Lilly and meowth
Medusa and Tate was close
Rei and Glen
Sweeney and Ash are bothers
Beth and Glen are close
You and sweeney

thats the one that I know

[Rob Hawkins]

Thanks Claire! You did play all sides really well, at least from my perspective - I never had a clue, and most people I was close to always seemed to count on you to be on their side.

Thanks both for all the information. Guess I could have anticipated that this was only gonna make it harder to decide LOL. Good luckkkkkkk.

[Claire Chang]

Thank you Rob