Final Words

[Jeff Probst]

Well, it had to happen soon or later I guess :'(

You went out fighting though and stood up for yourself even when people constantly underestimated you.

What all did you learn about yourself, the game, what you would do differently, if you would return if asked, regrets, personal achievements, enemies, friends, highs, lows, EVERYTHING!

Thanks for playing! Now the real fun begins on the jury.

[Flicka]

Oh man! What fun this was!

It seems like the game is full of people who never log on (Penner, Stacy & Rebecca), power players (Jessica, Cecilia & Cassandra) and people who are letting others make decisions for them (Candice, Nate, Rocky & Liliana, although the last two don't have much of a choice ATM).

I'm so glad I made it to the jury because that means I'm still in the game to a certain extent. Stephannie was my #1 ally and I was so sad to see her go, so right now I'm rooting for Rocky or Liliana. Whether or not I'll vote for them if they get to the end, I'm not sure, it depends on what they do to get there. In everyday life, it's VERY hard for me to keep my thoughts to myself when I get angry because I'll just say it without thinking, but since this game was all about PMs, it was much easier to control that. I can't even tell you how many long PMs I wrote but never sent because I knew it would backfire.

Jessica was my first enemy, but we eventually made up to a certain extent. Little did I know Jessica wouldn't even compare to the likes of Cecilia. I don't even want to talk about her right now because I don't understand how you can be so rude to someone in a game like this where, although the title of "WINNER OF STRANDED IN THE FAROE ISLANDS" is awesome, there isn't a real prize. If this was a game for a million dollars, I could understand it, but the way she talked to me and Liliana was just mean and uncool.

I learned SO MUCH about the Faroe Islands trying to figure out that first clue to the HII. I actually really want to go there someday now. I'm also very proud that I was able to find the first HII, however, I do wish that I held on to it for a bit (would've come in handy tonight).

I keep going back and forth thinking, "Man, this was the best I could do? 11th place?" to "Man, how the hell did I make it all the way to the final 11?" Hahaha. My highest moment was definitely when I found the HII. I was so ecstatic at that moment that I found safety when I felt I needed it the most. My lowest was probably tonight when everyone was PMing me essentially telling me that I was going to be voted out tonight.

In a strange way, I feel like my advantage of not going to tribal council until the second tribe swap was actually a disadvantage. Because of this, I never really got to play the REAL strategic game that takes place at tribal council and also the fact that from Svinoy 2.0 to 3.0, we almost all stuck together and so we didn't get much of a chance to make new friendships and allies because it was us against the other 3 (JP, Anthony and Jessica). Maybe if we were split up a little more, we would've been in the majority alliance coming into the merge. But, we stuck together too hard and people saw that and wanted to split us up, which is what they are currently doing.

If I was asked to return, I would 100% play again. I had so much fun playing Stranded. I am actually pretty amazed that a simple game like this was able to make me feel such a wide range of emotions, good and bad. If I ever do come back, hopefully I can at least get a little further than 11th place. That's all I have to say for now, but trust me, there will be MUCH more for me to say.

[Flicka]

Parte Dos!

I'm gonna talk about some things I feel that led to the downfall of my game. Keep in mind, though, I am not in anyway blaming anything or anyone other than myself for me being voted out. I fully understand that anything I did or did not do is the result of my own game and led to me being voted out. I just wanna make that clear!

One of the major things that I feel cost me my game was the timing aspect of challenges and tribal councils. With my work schedule, I typically end up working until 10:00pm which is when most of the challenges or tribal councils were. Or they were at 9:00pm and I would still be at work, so I would not be able to compete and it seemed like most of the PMing that occurred was right before tribals or challenges and most of the time around those hours I would have to be on the forum on my phone, which makes it very difficult to type as much as I would or be as detailed as I would be if I had been on my computer instead. You may have noticed in things such as the confessionals, I type a shit ton compared to most of my PMs. I would also often look at PMs on my phone when I would have a few minutes or seconds at work and I would think, "Okay, now that I've opened the message, they may be online and see that I've read the message, so I have to respond soon otherwise they'll think I'm talking with someone else or I don't want to talk to them or whatever." I would get this anxiety that it would be better to respond immediately and be brief rather than respond much later and be detailed and leave a long message. In addition, when I would receive a long PM from someone as opposed to a very brief one, that person, for the most part seemed much more trustworthy to me. You know? They took the time to write that message down and send it to me whereas I didn't do that that much. That, I believe was a big downfall for me. As with everyone in the game, I'm sure that if the hours were a little bit different with the way everything was scheduled, I would have lasted at least a little bit longer.

Another big thing was that it seemed like I only attempted to make legit friendships with the people I was aligned with in the game and not so much with people who I wasn't aligned with. Had I done that, I probably would have maybe fit in a little better with more people in the game and that is sort of similar to my everyday life. I tend to be very close with very few rather than somewhat friendly with many. Perhaps that would've helped me in the game.

I was also very afraid of being someone who tried to be to a big player too soon and also afraid of being someone who did nothing and just got carried along, so I was in a bit of a dilemma trying to figure out which of these I was at the time being and which one I should be trying to be. I feel like most of my game was played pre-merge; really when I was in control for the most part. Maybe I sort of started to die when I didn't have the control that I once did pre-merge and I didn't know how to play the game without that after I had had it.

I'm sure there's more I can think of, but that's all for now.