Too lazy to reply the normal way so:
Jalmont: "I don't want to make it sound like I'm accusing anyone or criticizing the alliances and relationships people already had/made in the game. But I think that what makes my run to the end remarkable and different from either DLE and Hannah is that I lacked a tight partnership and alliance with anyone in the game (other than RODAN ofc). There were no easy paths for me to get to the end, and the fact that I managed to do so without needing to go on an immunity run suggests my ability in avoiding votes and persuading others to keep me in the game. While I may have wanted to, I didn't need the surefire alliances that others had or timely immunities to avoid what would have been certain elimination. I got to the end by my own merits, not by luck or by needing other people to make subpar decisions."
Uh, I didn’t have any surefire allies besides wolv, and once he got voted out every other ally I thought I trusted had betrayed me and I could no longer trust anyone, hence voting out Rad. Same with Dle. I don’t see how you making it to the end is different from how we made it here?
Jal: "I think I had some really good reads on the game - DLE might try and convince you that he persuaded me to do x, but I can you tell that isn't the truth. I had full autonomy in all my decisions, and they were almost all universally the correct ones. I didn't want to vote Trace because I thought he and I were allies, but voting him turned out to be the correct choice. My intuition that he was drifting away from my side was right. I made the right choice in voting Viper to protect myself at F6. Voting Wolv was probably the most difficult decision I made all game, but I made it because I felt that it would give me the best chance to get far in this game and I think (although I don't know for sure ofc) that it was the right choice, as hard as it was to do. Every vote, I had a general sense of what people wanted to do and what was going to happen. I don't think Hannah and DLE can say the same."
Um, every time I did anything I immediately thought of every outcome and decided which was best for me, which is the same that you’re saying. I knew what was happening at almost every vote, (save for wolv :(((( ) and I played based off whatever was best for my allies and for our game.
Jal: "If I had to sum this up briefly: I deserve to win because of the challenges I faced that largely were out of my control to reach the end. I overcame and defeated the obstacles in front of me without needing certain clutch immunities or having a super tight knit alliance, using instead only my own social skills. I gave it my all in every aspect of the game, socially, strategically, and challenge-wise, and I think the unique characteristics of my game which I hope I have been able to somewhat elucidate here mean that you should vote for me as the sole survivor."
You did need clutch immunities though. If you hadn’t won f4, we would have voted you off and it was 100% the plan to vote you off. I didn’t have a super tight knit alliance after being betrayed, I won no challenges solo, and I still didn’t get voted off, while gaining your trust throughout the final few rounds, Jal. I literally had to get this far socially and convincingly, since I never won a challenge after merge, and you did rely on some wins since multiple times we had “FUCK can’t vote him this round” moments.
DLE: "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."
1. I beat you in every puzzle, every time. Only person who beat me at all was Wolv.
2. Kept spirits up? Lets be honest, we all sat there swearing, talking about how atrocious it was. All 4 of us. You weren't the one to keep the spirits up since they 100% weren't up.
3. Had any of us known what a doodle was, we could have done it. It doesn't show anything about your game that you thought to use some website to decide when to play?
DLE: "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"
BOYYYY I GOT NEWS FOR YOU. VIPER BEGGGGGGGGED US TO THROW THIS CHALLENGE!!! FOR DAYS. So, he tried multiple times but couldn’t lose his battle (which we all memed about in PMs on PS, because he just couldn't lose.), and he wanted flyhn or Umbreon (I forget which) to not be voted out on the other team, and yeah ifml did throw, because Me/Viper/IFML/Alore/Wolv were allied from D1. We thought that with Alex/IFML/Wolv/Viper all winning we didn’t need to let the rest of the tribe know we wanted to throw (which why would we tell you anyway?). Alex was too proud, which is why he didn’t throw it in the end and begged to not have to since the outcome was a given anyway. But he did try to get us to throw.
DLE: "At f5, Hannah had added me to an f3 chat with Alore. At that point, I was more than confident that neither Hannah nor Alore would vote me out from that point forward, so taking jalmont over rad into f4 didn't make any difference in terms of risk of being voted out at 4, so there wasn't ever really any pressure there."
We added you to an alliance chat b/c I was sick of going back and forth between you and alex lol. However, I was down to vote you off, I just knew Alex wouldn’t (b/c morals) and I didn’t really trust anyone at that point so I went with who would be easiest to vote.
DLE: "[10:27 PM] DuckDuckPwn: yea i think you sorta have to vote wolv here
[10:27 PM] DuckDuckPwn: and i think you and hannah are close enough that she'll get it if you tell her about it, either before or after
[10:27 PM] DuckDuckPwn: i had to tell her before because im not as close to her as you are
[10:27 PM] DuckDuckPwn: i think you could do it after and be fine
[10:30 PM] Alore: lol dude, she will be so pissed
[10:32 PM] DuckDuckPwn: you know hannah better than i do
[10:32 PM] Alore: sorta
[10:32 PM] Alore: i lowkey accidentally ignore her most of the time
[10:32 PM] DuckDuckPwn: lolrip
[10:32 PM] Alore: but i do that to everyone so
[10:32 PM] Alore: lol"
Yes DLE, you convinced a floating vote to vote for someone b/c he goes strongly by morals.
Also, “lol dude, she will be so pissed.” Tfw you knew I'd be mad and did it anyway SMH.
“I lowkey accidentally ignore her most of the time” You suck ;-;
We had to vote out Alore at final 4 because he wouldn't vote DLE, and the other vote was me, and Jal knew he couldn't lead a vote on me, despite telling me I wasn't in an ideal f3.
