by Nate » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:50:59 pm
i had a proto jury speech I made when I was looking for the idol which I will copy and paste here
Hey guys,
I’d like to start my speech by going through a recap of my game and hopefully justify everything I’ve done in this game. For those who don’t know, the original Nate was replaced by me about 5 days after the start of the game – hours before the planned Svinoy Tribal Council with nine pre-votes already lined up to eliminate me. From that point, my game off the ground wasn’t about trying to win the game, it was about trying to Survive. From that point, every alliance that I joined I would be on the bottom of. Every deal I made I would have to accept the short stick of it. It was a shitty situation to start with.
Granted, immediately after I managed to get lucky to be shuffled into Mykines twice, where I only ended up going to one tribal council, where Papa Smurf was voted out, pretty much due to tribal lines and him being “less useful” in challenges than Stacy and Jessica. It was also on Mykines where I developed alliances with Jessica and Cecilia, where I figured that I could use their deals and their alliances from the earlier game to sort of weasel or rat myself into the majority. That sort of saved me at the second swap because Cecilia and Candice had a deal from very early on which led to the four man alliance of Cecilia, Candice, Penner and myself and the four man alliance of Jessica, Stacey, Cecilia and Myself.
Going into the merge, these alliances (and Cass – who I don’t know for sure but almost certainly had deals with both of those sides as well), later formed the majority alliance where we took out threats one-by-one. I feel like at the first Stephannie tribal council she said something that produced the zeitgeist of the season “If you cut down all the tall trees, you’ll be the obvious target when you are the only one left”. That became kind of my strategy of the season, let Cecilia get rid of all the tall trees so when only the small trees remain I could emerge as the tallest bonsai tree in the Japanese restaurant. This was where Flicka and Stephannie was eliminated.
After that, Cecilia was voted off. I was told about one hour before tribal council and kind of pushed me into a shitty position. It was at this point I realized that I was the bottom of every alliance I was in – I was the third if not fourth person of the Mykines group, I was the third if not fourth person out of Candice/Penner group. It’s at this point I go to Rocky and tell him that we should get out Cassandra. Granted, I think Jessica and Candice probably teamed up around here and came up with the idea of voting out Cass which is why she was voted out, but I proposed the vote split with the idea of flipping on Cassandra and making a big move – but I didn’t have a chance to make that happen. It was also in the Cass tribal council where I noticed that the hosts never say anything without a meaning and imply things with the subtlety of a 747 and I started to read more into those tribal council question.
Upon Cassandra’s boot, I realized I kind of stumbled ass backwards into an amazing position, caught in the middle of Rocky, Jessica and Candice. It was at this point where I planned to sort of pit them against each other so I could complete the “tallest bonsai” plan – but then I noticed in Tribal Council, Jeff asked me if I thought the threats would team up. This is where I got really suspicious so I tried to talk Jessica and Candice into voting out the other, when Jessica repeated to me verbatim the plan to vote off Candice, I realized that they were aligned, and my “tallest bonsai” was never going to work. It was at this point where I straight up flipped on the alliance – I noticed that Penner really wanted to differentiate his own game from Candice’s – so I told him about the plan. Penner talked to Rebecca who I didn’t have a close relationship to at the time, I spoke to Rocky who I wanted to work with the entire time and then the GOATs was formed. My biggest regret about the Jessica boot is the way I handled the tribal council, which may or may not have costed a couple jury votes but that may be part of the reason why I’m here tonight.
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So guys, in the end, I do hope that I get your jury votes, I’m not going to beg on my knees and tell you what you want to hear. I don’t feel sorry about the people who I’ve “betrayed” throughout this game, the fact that I did that is part of the reason why I’m here and you’re there.
I do have a couple regrets about how I handled some things socially, specifically the non-comment at the second tribal council and fighting with Stacey at the Jessica boot, in addition to not really getting to know the first couple of boots outside of a “hey, you like xy, I like xy” style basis, but there were probably other moments that I just can’t remember.
I think I could have made a bigger presence on the season, but I guess I’m here so I at least made some sort of presence. I made it to every tribal council and every immunity challenge with the exception of the one that took place before I was even cast on the season. I tried to be funny and silly at the beginning because if you had to choose between two people it’s a lot harder to go with the guy who made you laugh that one time versus the person who didn’t make you laugh at all.
I think I played a pretty strong low key game, I’m not saying that prior to the Jessica boot I was a big threat, but I feel like I played to the best of my ability in the way I know how - and regardless of whether or not I win, I’m proud of the game I played and I hope you guys can look back and we could be internet friends or whatever.
