Pete's Platform ⚔

[Pete]

Well, hi there guys!

I guess I can start off by saying congrats, y’all did what 14 of us couldn’t do and that was make it to Final 2. I’m happy that a winner from this season will be an original Tane and someone I worked with from the early stages of the game. You both were my top allies and I feel like I got to know you all pretty well. We strategized together, we talked shit together and we competed together. I feel like if anyone on this jury knows you two the best it would be me.


Bobby Jon, I’ll start with you. At first, I thought you were a wild card and I didn’t know how to read you. Despite that, as time went on, I found you endearing and after that we became top-notch pals! It wasn’t until after the switch that you and I really bonded. We had Sierra and Misty, but let’s face it, neither was hardly around at this point of the game. The minute I knew I could trust you and I wanted to go far in the game was when you told me about your idol. Of course, I told you about my double vote first, but still! You reciprocated quickly and I knew from that moment on I wanted to go far with you in this game. Regrettably, we never made a Final 2. I think when you checked in on Sierra and I asking if we both were taking each other to the end was the only time I ever lied to you in the game, for good reason. Other than that I knew you were always straight up with me the whole time up until the very end. I absolutely commend your gameplay! You might be getting a bit of flack for not being this uber strategist, but you aced the social gameplay and the challenge part of the game. If anything, I don’t think you were a total “lug head.” You managed, and I have NO idea how you did it, but you convinced Sierra that she couldn’t beat me (THE GOAT) in the end and you were the best option. You managed to break a Final 2 alliance and a very, very close friendship from Day 1 in the game in a matter of hours. If anything, I think that trumps any sort of strategy you didn’t have throughout the game. You made the most important move of your game at the precise time and look how much it paid off. My one question to you is, was convincing Sierra to vote me out your moment in the spotlight? I want to know how you did it, what did you say? Don’t use a filter, tell me how far you pushed me under the bus and after I was dead backed up over my lifeless body. I want all the juicy details of my final hours in Tahiti.


Sierra...





I still can’t believe I’m asking you a jury question when the entire game we were both suppose to be sitting next to each other at the Final Tribal Council. I will give credit where credit is due and you killed it in the competitions, but look who you were up against. Other than that, I really don’t have much to say. We grew extremely close in this game. I guess you and I have a very different set of morals, because I prefer going to the end with friends than going to the end with someone who I think I can beat. People might think I’m overreacting, but they don’t even know how close we were. To me, there is a fine line between backstabbing an ally and completely betraying a friend. It hurt, I was completely hurt and embarrassed after you voted me out. We talked every single day. I stayed up with you until FOUR in the morning to help you stay awake and not lose the Final Immunity Challenge. You repeatedly told me over and over how we were a lock for F2 and you were going to take me. We talked about real life, the game, the powers, told each other secrets. I mean, you are getting FLAMED right now for your HORRIBLE social game and poor jury management. If you brought me to the end you could’ve shown people that you at least had good social skills with someone. If you didn’t betray me and vote me out there was no way I could’ve been the bitter cherry on top of the “I hate Sierra, she fucked me over” sundae.


Were you lying to me that entire time? At 2am when we talking about life and EVERYTHING was “lol I can’t wait to vote him out” going through you head? Do you take comfort in completely betraying everyone you worked with in this game? Do you regret, knowing what you do now, that you made an awful move? The jury has said you would've beat me. Did Bobby Job successfully manipulate you in a matter of hours despite our close, close friendship? You made it to the end, but I would never want to take the path you took to get to where you are. I think taking Bobby Jon to the end, thinking you were making a smart move, will backfire and you will lose this game. I just think everything you did and said prior to my boot was unnecessary and poor jury management. You didn’t have to lead me on. You didn’t have to make yourself feel better by telling me you were voting me out because “ I had a final 2 with Bobby Jon.” I would’ve respected ANY other type of reason. I bet you tried to convince yourself that that was true to make you feel better. You knew, deep down inside, I was your best friend in this game and I was always 100% honest with you. You came first to me always. What can be said about that? Did you intend on playing such a vile, slimey game? Or did you hit Final 7 and get super thirsty for win? I’m just trying to clarify how someone can be completely fake to someone every single day with intent on eventually backstabbing them.

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Alright, now that that’s off my chest I can get down to my questions.

1. I want you to rank the jurors and explain why they got their respective placement.

2. I want you both to choose two people that deserve to be sitting in the Final 2 in this game.

3. In conjunction with question 1, I want you to give us all a handy dandy tip to help “fix our gameplay” for future games. You two got to the end, we didn’t. Tell us how we can do it in the future.

4. Compare our relationship in the game to an Ariana Grande song. If you don’t know any of her songs, good news! Youtube has them all and it’s not too late to become a fan.


That’s all I got. I know you two both want the win badly and I plan on making you guys work for it. Despite what I said earlier, my vote is /possibly/ up for grabs. Depends on if I’m wow’d or not.

Peace, bitches and good luck.

[Bobby Jon Drinkard]

My one question to you is, was convincing Sierra to vote me out your moment in the spotlight? I want to know how you did it, what did you say? Don’t use a filter, tell me how far you pushed me under the bus and after I was dead backed up over my lifeless body. I want all the juicy details of my final hours in Tahiti.
I think it was my key moment in the game, but it wasn't quite as gruesome as you imagine, haha. I simply talked to Sierra about how I believed you'd be a tougher opponent to beat at the Final Tribal Council. I used the logic that you were the target of the Vahines for the past 3 votes, so I said that was a sign that they considered you the biggest threat. I also pointed out that Sarah said "Pete will win this game if he makes the Final Tribal Council" at the Final 4, so that was pretty helpful.

Oh, and since you also told me you wanted to go to the finals with me, I told her that you probably wouldn't be mad, which uh...I guess was inaccurate. But yeah, there was nothing personal or dirty at all. Around Final 5, I realized my best bet would be to go up against Sierra in the finals. After she won immunity, I realized that either my dream scenario was about to come true, or I was about to be voted off, so I just tried my best to make sure it wasn't me.

1. I want you to rank the jurors and explain why they got their respective placement.
I already ranked the jurors game-wise in Danielle's thread, so you can check that out real quick if you'd like. (spoiler alert: you ranked high)

As for why I think each person got his or her respective placement:

Abi: Although her vote-out was an accident, the fact is that she still got votes that round, and I believe that was due to her being viewed as a powerful player who was a centerpiece of the Vahine tribe.
Alexis: Vahine simply didn't trust her, and because Misty died, we Tanes were too disorganized to keep the majority.
Matty: We idoled out Matty because he was a smart player, and he was kind of the glue holding the Vahine tribe together thanks to all his bonds.
Eddie: You, me, and Sierra voted for Eddie because Alexis said that he was on the bottom of the Vahine tribe, so we figured he'd be the least likely to have an idol played on him.
Danielle: She was viewed as a huge threat to win, and I stuck with the Tanes because I knew she and Sarah could sweep me in the end if I flipped.
Sarah: She was the last Vahine left, plain and simple.
Pete: Explained above.

2. I want you both to choose two people that deserve to be sitting in the Final 2 in this game.
Gah this is not meant to be sucking up, but I'm gonna say you and Danielle. You were both power players, and for that reason, you were both frequently targeted by the other tribe. If the cards fell a little bit differently here or there, you each could have easily been sitting here in the Final 2. Also, you're both hilarious.

3. In conjunction with question 1, I want you to give us all a handy dandy tip to help “fix our gameplay” for future games. You two got to the end, we didn’t. Tell us how we can do it in the future.
Haha well, I ain't no expert--this is my first time ever getting here myself. But if I had to give a tip to all y'all, I would say that the power of social bonds in this game CANNOT be understated. You should always make sure that you're not the biggest threat left in the game. If your connections are good enough, you can convince the others to make the vote go a certain way so that you always have a backup plan or a target to hide behind. And most importantly, people are a lot more hesitant to vote out people they like over people they don't.

4. Compare our relationship in the game to an Ariana Grande song. If you don’t know any of her songs, good news! Youtube has them all and it’s not too late to become a fan.
Just what I was hoping for! I'm gonna have to compare our relationship to Ariana Grande's hit single The Way (feat. Mac Miller). The lyrics consist of two people talking about how amazing the other is, so it's pretty self-explanatory why I selected this song, given that we're both extremely awesome and we see that in each other. Not to mention that the beat is quite catchy.

[Eddie]

TIL Alexis was a power player

[Pete]

The Way <3 going old skool!

love the answers! Thank you, BJ!!

[Eddie]

Jul 23, 2015 1:16:18 GMT Pete said:

The Way <3 going old skool!

love the answers! Thank you, BJ!!

TIL 2013 is considered old skool 


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_(Ariana_Grande_song)

[Bobby Jon Drinkard]

Jul 23, 2015 1:54:21 GMT Eddie said:

Jul 23, 2015 1:16:18 GMT Pete said:

The Way <3 going old skool!

love the answers! Thank you, BJ!!

TIL 2013 is considered old skool 


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_(Ariana_Grande_song)

I think our sense of time might be thrown off because the world ended in 2012.

[sierra]

God…if I didn’t feel like an absolute piece of shit human being before then…yikes. I still do love you, and hope that you read through my answers, even though I know you probably would like more than nothing to just skip over them and move on with your life.

1. I want you to rank the jurors and explain why they got their respective placement. 

Rank as in? Gameplay wise? Or the Placement they actually got? Ill take the gameplay ranking I did on Danielles questions and go from there.

Pete: You got third basically because of me. Well not ‘basically’, that’s the only reason you got third. Ive never gotten this far in a game before, and I could taste the finals, and a win, and after what Danielle and Sarah had said about you being unbeatable in the end, it made me choose greed over friends. That’s my bad, and something I have to live with, not you.

Danielle: You made yourself a challenge threat by dominating early on and making people scared that once you made it to the end you could go on a run. I still think, despite your few loses, that had you made it to f4, and definitely f3, you would have been the challenge beast most people pegged you as.

Alexis: The only reason you are out is because me and you didn’t coordinate my power/your vote the round before you left. It put you in a sticky situation that you weren’t able to get out of. I wish that we had talked a bit about it, because you were an ally that I trusted immensely in the game.

Matty: Simple. An idol play got you out. Not so simple..I got you out, because I pushed for you to be the boot over Sarah that round. Had you stayed, you would have done some serious damage to my game.

Sarah: You would have had me convinced to go to rocks had I not already thought I had a 2/3 shot at the finals and had I not thought that you were going to easily wipe the floor with any Tane member that you had sitting next to you in the finals.

Abi-Maria: We didn’t talk much, and because of our lack of a connection, I decided to use my vote reversal on you. Im glad I did because from what I learned, you could have slid by and got far in this game.

Eddie: You were too loyal. Not a personality flaw, but sometimes a game flaw. Had the girls rather BJ go instead of Pete, you could have easily been safe for another round.

2. I want you both to choose two people that deserve to be sitting in the Final 2 in this game.

For the first time im going to have to copy BJ and say you and Danielle; You were a person who knew how they wanted to get to the end, and with who they wanted to get to the end with, and made the moves necessary to position yourself in a great spot the entire game. Danielle was a challenge beast, and she also had a way with words that could easily coax people into trust her and working with her. If you two were working together instead of against one another, you two could have made a pretty fearsome final 2.

3. In conjunction with question 1, I want you to give us all a handy dandy tip to help “fix our gameplay” for future games. You two got to the end, we didn’t. Tell us how we can do it in the future.

Pete: Feel people out. If they seem flaky, then try to go for a better choice for a final 2 partner. Keep control of your game in your hands.

Sarah: Try to appeal to people better. Not personally, but gamewise. The entire time you talked to me it was always get Pete out, and you never explored other options (at least not with me).

Danielle: Similar to Sarah. Also, look ahead. Don’t use a power when you don’t need to (although I agree, always rather safe than sorry).

Eddie: Be loyal, but not to a fault. If the person you are loyal to is voting you out, return the favor.

Matty: Talk to everyone. I mean Im totally the pot calling the kettle black, but the only reason I pushed for you to go this game over others was because you were a scary person who I never spoke to.

Alexis: Always have a go to person. You went it alone when you were planning your flip stuff and when you voted Abi. If you had a go to person you could have consulted them, and had a backup plan if stuff went south.

Abi-Maria: Kind of similar to Mattys. Definitely when powers are in play.

4. Compare our relationship in the game to an Ariana Grande song. If you don’t know any of her songs, good news! Youtube has them all and it’s not too late to become a fan. 

Now I wont lie, I don’t listen to Miss Grande all that often, mostly because I despise her brother with a fiery passion, but I think ive found the perfect one to describe our relationship in the game…up until the f3 tc…Bang Bang…see im not sure if this counts because it has the other gals in the song, but I think it should count. It describes the pretty amazing time we had all game long and I mean we can pretend that the other two in the song were the other people we had fun playing this game with. If we want to talk about after f3 TC…its obviously Problem…because you definitely got one less problem without me ;(

[Bobby Jon Drinkard]

Sierra, whatever happens with the vote, I want you to know that you're funny, kind, and an absolute joy to talk to. I didn't mean to make you genuinely upset IRL as a result of what happened at the Final 3. You've got a friend in me, and I'm hoping we stay in touch long after the season's over.