Episode 12: We're the Burger King of alliances
Dec 16, 2020 17:18:14 GMT
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Post by Marissa on Dec 16, 2020 17:18:14 GMT
My final 3 that I had planned a couple rounds ago is still intact. One of me/Carson/Juju needs to beat Roy and Louise in this F5 endurance comp and send one of them home (preferably Roy), and then try to beat Louise at F4 and send her home then. It's a tall order, but it's still technically possible for my F3 to come to fruition.
I like to think of me/Carson/Juju as the Burger King of alliances. Compared to every other fast food restaurant, we're bottom tier, least desirable, but if all the McDonald's and Wendy's and Chick-fil-A's in this game get wiped out, the jury will have no choice but to pick one of us. I don't mean that in a defeated/woe-is-me way, I'm just being very matter-of-fact. Might as well keep it lighthearted while we're barreling down the path to getting blasted by a bitter jury at FTC. If nothing else, at least I am self-aware.
Several rounds ago (during swap), I gave a confessional comparing Ealing 2.0 to the Onion Alliance of Survivor: Gabon. I realized that the Gabon comparison still holds. Gabon was season 17, and this is season 17 of Conquest. (I hadn't even thought of that before making the comparison!) Furthermore, if my F3 really makes it to the end, we're going to be the Bob/Susie/Sugar of Final 3's (lmao).
Making endgame for two ORGs in a row has been surprising and also really challenging. This is a much different experience from my last game where I placed fourth, where prod confirmed I would've won against basically anyone from F8 onwards. LOL. John gave me an interesting question at the last TC about striking a balance between managing your threat level, and getting to the end and losing. In my last game (although I didn't realize it in-game), I was getting cut at F4 in essentially any combination, even if my alliance made up the majority at F4. I had high win equity, but incredibly low odds of making it to FTC (unless I won FIC).
This time around, I found the exact two people I need to get to the end with (although I could very well still lose to either of them), and that plan is still chugging along, so I'm doing what I need to do and cutting the right people, but any aberration from that plan will surely be extremely costly for me. So the answer to John's question was, I honestly don't know how to find that balance, I haven't found it yet haha.
I just keep reminding myself that I'm doing the best I can, and the first half of my game (pre-swap & swap) involved playing from the bottom, and then at merge I found myself being pulled between two factions (Abby/Brenden and Harrow 2.0), where I would have been burning someone either way that round. This has been a hard game for a lot of reasons, but I'm not giving up on my Final 3 plan.
I like to think of me/Carson/Juju as the Burger King of alliances. Compared to every other fast food restaurant, we're bottom tier, least desirable, but if all the McDonald's and Wendy's and Chick-fil-A's in this game get wiped out, the jury will have no choice but to pick one of us. I don't mean that in a defeated/woe-is-me way, I'm just being very matter-of-fact. Might as well keep it lighthearted while we're barreling down the path to getting blasted by a bitter jury at FTC. If nothing else, at least I am self-aware.
Several rounds ago (during swap), I gave a confessional comparing Ealing 2.0 to the Onion Alliance of Survivor: Gabon. I realized that the Gabon comparison still holds. Gabon was season 17, and this is season 17 of Conquest. (I hadn't even thought of that before making the comparison!) Furthermore, if my F3 really makes it to the end, we're going to be the Bob/Susie/Sugar of Final 3's (lmao).
Making endgame for two ORGs in a row has been surprising and also really challenging. This is a much different experience from my last game where I placed fourth, where prod confirmed I would've won against basically anyone from F8 onwards. LOL. John gave me an interesting question at the last TC about striking a balance between managing your threat level, and getting to the end and losing. In my last game (although I didn't realize it in-game), I was getting cut at F4 in essentially any combination, even if my alliance made up the majority at F4. I had high win equity, but incredibly low odds of making it to FTC (unless I won FIC).
This time around, I found the exact two people I need to get to the end with (although I could very well still lose to either of them), and that plan is still chugging along, so I'm doing what I need to do and cutting the right people, but any aberration from that plan will surely be extremely costly for me. So the answer to John's question was, I honestly don't know how to find that balance, I haven't found it yet haha.
I just keep reminding myself that I'm doing the best I can, and the first half of my game (pre-swap & swap) involved playing from the bottom, and then at merge I found myself being pulled between two factions (Abby/Brenden and Harrow 2.0), where I would have been burning someone either way that round. This has been a hard game for a lot of reasons, but I'm not giving up on my Final 3 plan.