Party Rockin' in da Jury!

[Snakelena]

Welcome, Henry. You played a really good game and truthfully you were kinda robbed considering you would have definitely won.

Gotta give Knox at least some props for using a decent GIF to explain the situation.

[Snakelena]

Jul 26, 2013 6:22:41 GMT -5 mark said:

*waits for a .gif from Selena*

[ben]

Henry

[ben]

Though

[mark]

I am at a point where I love everyone left in the game. So I am equally sad to see any of them land here as I am happy to see them advance. But I have a feeling I know why they voted Henry. He would have won and I think that was telegraphed through some judgments. At least that was very evident to me, much less to them.

Henry, you played a phenomenal, neutral game. One I could never dream of playing, and it was a sincere pleasure getting to knowyou after all this time.

[henry]

Jul 27, 2013 15:35:54 GMT -5 Dominic said:

The fact Knox didn't vote for Henry (the obvious favorite) shows that he's not really playing to win. What a shame.

EDIT: Apparently he couldn't vote for Henry because they're meeting again in a few weeks and he didn't want it to be awkward.

That's news to me, lol. Tho I have met Knox before when I ran into him at this bar.

I feel that Knox realized if I left at 5 and Thiago won immunity again at 4, that Cassie/AJ would vote for him and at best he'd have to do a tiebreaker. I doubt even he wanted to sit next to me at the end, but he saw logic whereas Thiago just "wanted to make moves"

[henry]

Jul 13, 2013 12:23:06 GMT -5 Snakelena said:

I would have added Mark, but he is too busy being in Jury.

TL;DR most of this, and when I saw how bitter it was, I wasn't really that interested, anyway.

I'm just glad that I'm the first out of the Final 5 to come and read this. I don't have the relationships with you guys that some of the others do. They really did have a hard time voting for some of you, and I typically ended up as the role of therapist this season talking various people (AJ, Thiago, and Knox, not to mention some of you) off the ledge of pessimism.

I would never say shit like is in here about people that liked me, and I don't say that trying to frame myself as some kind of Saint. Haha, you can look at the Season 2 threads to prove that isn't true.

My point of this post is simply to say that, while we should be critical of everyone's games this season (theres lots to talk about in that regard), let's not get nasty. This was not a fun thread to review.

[henry]

Jul 27, 2013 14:25:51 GMT -5 ellen said:

I take it that was a blindside! Knox could definitely be joining us next and I will happily cast my vote for AJ if he does.

Everyone told me I was going home through various messages starting at about 8am this morning. While I expected votes from AJ/Cassie after Thiago's immunity win, Thiago voting for me at this spot went against he playbook. My last ditch effort was trying to get AJ to vote for Cassie with me so she'd have something to show to the jury, but she turned the offer down.

[Snakelena]

Jul 27, 2013 22:33:07 GMT -5 henry said:

Jul 13, 2013 12:23:06 GMT -5 Snakelena said:

I would have added Mark, but he is too busy being in Jury.

TL;DR most of this, and when I saw how bitter it was, I wasn't really that interested, anyway.

I'm just glad that I'm the first out of the Final 5 to come and read this. I don't have the relationships with you guys that some of the others do. They really did have a hard time voting for some of you, and I typically ended up as the role of therapist this season talking various people (AJ, Thiago, and Knox, not to mention some of you) off the ledge of pessimism.

I would never say shit like is in here about people that liked me, and I don't say that trying to frame myself as some kind of Saint. Haha, you can look at the Season 2 threads to prove that isn't true.

My point of this post is simply to say that, while we should be critical of everyone's games this season (theres lots to talk about in that regard), let's not get nasty. This was not a fun thread to review.

I went into the Jury bitter and I think I had every right to be. Since then I have cooled off, but I think people don't understand why I was frustrated. For me this all built up from being told that I used a racially derogatory term towards Knox (by saying adios chico). To be told that I think was absolutely uncalled for and was a personal attack. That made this game not fun at all for me and it especially didn't make it fun when barely anyone supported me (except for Ellen, Colleen, Dominic, Ben, Luca). That's a HUGE claim to say about someone especially in an online game. Also, others have misconstrued my comments to falsely slander me as a person. So while my comments are harsh there is a reasoning behind everything I said. Then again nobody asked or even bothered to talk to me about it which is typical.

[ellen]

Henry I have mad respect for you but if you'd read what I posted you'd have seen that I'm not bitter at all. Neither are a lot of us so please don't generalize. I'm sorry but that strikes a nerve, just assuming from one photo chop that we're all six reeling over being on the jury. Many of us have been nothing but gracious losers.

[Dominic]

Oh, how self-righteous of you.

Maybe you should cut the "TL;DR" and actually read every post before casting judgement on us. Seeing a long paragraph and just assuming it's negative bashing isn't fair to us at all. Yes, my first post was ranting about an argument Thiago and I had in the public forums but I have all right to do so given my relationship with him during the game as well as the content of the message he posted. This is a jury discussion and him talking about perception was relevant to gameplay. I shouldn't have to even defend the things I post in here because I'm entitled to my opinions, just like EVERYONE else. So yeah, I had one little venting post. Everything after that was nothing but respectful note-comparing with Mark and others.

You know what happens when you assume right?
You make an ass out of you and... well, just you.

[henry]

Don't worry, I did read everything or almost everything I was just being tongue in cheek, don't be so confrontational.

[Dominic]

Wasn't aware there was a mentors twist this season.

Moving on.

[colleen]

Thiago or Cassie have my vote

[henry]

It'll be interesting to see how this Final Four goes. I would have to imagine that if Thiago loses the IC he'll be leaving in a 3-1 vote. However, when I confronted him before I left the game it seems like he felt like he was going to make it to the end. I dunno, maybe he felt like all the times he got "confrontational" during the game will be a great pitch that he should go to the Final 3, but Knox has played a much cleaner game AND is still less of a threat than Thiago. I don't suspect Thiago is fooling anyone, but I DO suspect that if he makes the F3 he'll tell us all that he was. Maybe there's something I don't know and I'll be surprised.

If Thiago does win immunity, I have to imagine Cassie and AJ will still vote together against Knox. Thiago would then be left to decide if he wanted to tie things 3-1 or give Knox a shot at a tiebreaker. I would suspect Knox would prefer facing off against AJ, but because the tiebreaker comp in my season was posting-based I'm not sure who would win between the two of them.

To me Cassie seems to be the only person assured of a Final 3 seat. Am I mistaken in thinking this? This leads me to another question, do you guys think Cassie is playing a good game? He has an amazing rep in this series, but has been pretty MOR this game. Cassie is tied with AJ for 3rd for challenge win % and has the lowest % of votes for boot (remember his time on Proelia?). My ideal Final 3 was going to be to go with Knox and Cassie. Was that a horrible idea?