DLE, can you explain to me how you contributed the most to the challenges pre swap and post swap?
The post swap challenges consisted of a soccer challenge that the other team pretty much threw, a puzzle challenge that you contributed to some but others also put in a lot of effort for, and a winnie the pooh challenge that no one took the lead in (3 of you guys got to christopher robin).
In the pre swap challenges aura stands out as the largest contributor, because he took on the math challenges and made sure our coordinates were 100% accurate for the geoguesser challenge. As for the puzzle challenge, almost all of us contributed the same amount. The pokemon challenge is hard to assess because viper asked people to throw it for him.
Also, Jalmont and Hannah actually talked to me while you iced me out. I'm unsure how good your social game actually is because I didn't get to see a lot of it for myself. You talked a lot about how you went around trying to vote me out in your initial posts and I'm wondering if you consider that to be your greatest move this game? Is there other social plays you made that you are proud of that I should be aware of that also contribute to you having the best social game out of everyone?
Sure. I'll start with pre-merge and then get some breakfast.
Aura put in the most on the first challenge, this is indisputable. I was the one that recognized the second movie as being Rogue One. I could claim I directed for people to reverse image search here, but that's disingenuous; multiple people recognized that as a potential solution. I took a leading role in double/triple checking and narrowing down the Wikipedia race, as well. I helped set you on the right direction in looking for search terms/operators that could help you identify the quote, though claiming too much credit there once again is disingenuous. If you want a ranking on contributions here, it would probably go in the order of: Aura Guardian, Wolv, me, viper, rest in some order. Everyone worked well together on this.
So for the geoguessr challenge, if I remember correctly, the person who actually found out how to get exact coordinates was actually Knights (drop the point, click on "what's here"). While Aura Guardian took on much of the actual number grabbing and plugging of numbers into the google doc, I'm fairly sure in terms of the process of doing so, that was a KoC realization -- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. On a more general level, I was the one looked to typically for questions of "which map should I help with," as well as the one who organized submissions and got hal to make a separate channel so that we could keep organized. In terms of total location work, I identified Q1 as Mexico due to the Spanish language and the topography, narrowed Q2 down to a single city in Laos or somewhere in Cambodia due to the dates of Google maps visiting the location, identified Q3 as Cambodia due to its street signs, found the exact location for Q5 after I believe Wolv discovered it was in San Antonio, identified Q6 as in a Spanish/French/creole speaking country and most likely Spanish/creole (although this was ignored), found exact location for Q7 and found the spot of town of the now-closed restaurant to begin finding exact location for it, identified Q8 as Scandinavia with the sign that read something like "sandbjerg" something (it's been a while, forgive me for not double checking), identified and found exact location for Q9 from a strong hunch of south Africa based on the climate and from googling portions of the appearing street sign regarding the botanical garden, and directed for zorbees at Q10 to look into the phone number posted and look for them in conjunction with being a clinic/hospital and found exact location. I was the one looked to for double checking each and every location prior to submission. I put in tons of effort into click-a-thon-ing throughout Cambodia, Laos, and Mexico as well, though how much credit anyone wants to give to ultimately fruitless effort is up to them. I don't think it's unreasonable to say I did the most here by a very significant margin; there were exactly 2 out of 11 puzzles that I had no hand in physically solving, and was the primary contributor to around 7, including the only two we exclusively had over Rufflets.
For the epuzzle, I both was present for multiple practice runs and in both puzzles I contributed to was either the top scorer for tiles placed or second highest (only Hannah I believe scored higher on one puzzle; once again, correct me if I'm wrong). I helped keep spirits up in the call with Hannah/Alore/KoC when the puzzle was a visual nightmare to look at and KoC had little practice with the game and took on most of the directing in terms of who/what should go where on the medium puzzle. I put together the doodle for schedules while people were spending 20 minutes talking about scheduling without actually making any progress that solved that problem, as well, and let us actually focus on the puzzle and on practicing.
For the pokemon challenge, and for losing challenges, it's worth looking into effort as a metric, since ultimately, we lost, so you just judge whether someone actively made that more or less likely. Viper asking for people to throw the pokemon challenge is news to me, but I don't give that much credit, since:
a. viper won
b. your game was lost on team preview (you had nothing to beat trace's fat stuff)
c. I'm fairly sure if you were told to throw/given a bad team, it was because viper wanted trace to look good in the pokemon challenge such that he could ally with trace later, not off of some macro-level play on trying to push for an overall tribe loss
d. the only other player who might have "thrown" was ifml not switching out on a wood hammer, and I don't think viper and ifml were particularly close at that point, considering ifml ended up being the off-vote that tribal
e. viper (and alore, who viper was closest to) both were trying to organize practice games for me in ubers and did not direct me to throw said challenge, as well as provided an ubers team that was legitimately good. I don't think this was a general case of being on the outs there
f. alore would be too proud to throw lc
My game loss was off a crit + an 85% miss, which was about a 1% chance of occurring. I took on a tier and practiced both on the ladder and against more skilled competition despite having little recent competitive pokemon history in a tier no one else felt comfortable in and largely outplayed my opponent. I put myself in a position to win there 99/100 times against someone that actually plays pokemon. I felt that for specific practice for the tier and for the challenge, I think it's fair to say I put in the most on the tribe, even if it ended up in an unlucky loss, with viper being the only other one who directly contributed more to attempting to win there.
