Survivor UPick: Winner!

[Starbuck]

Have you played in a game of mine in the past? If so, which?
None yet.

Are you willing to remain active?
Absolutely.

How often do you check MafiaScum?
Daily, and multiple times every day.

[Starbuck]

The whole alt thing is just seems like a huge pain in the ass. So that's why (unless I'm hydra-ing with someone or someones), I'll never make one.

[Starbuck]

There's no better color than that gold one? It's so harmful on the eyes.

[Starbuck]

It's 7 pm where I'm at. Gimme some beer!

[Starbuck]

I really don't personally know any of the people on my team, other than tubby really.

My vote is gonna be a random roll.

[Starbuck]

I can do Thursday early. I get home from work around 10:30 am or so EST.

[Starbuck]

5 PM?

[Starbuck]

Is trivia still happening?

[Starbuck]

I'm gonna need to head to bed soon.

[Starbuck]

6 pm is midnight for me.

If you could do it earlier in the day, like 10:30 am or so, it should work. My partner and I are in the same time zone. I'm sure we could both make anything after about 4:30 or 5 pm our time (10:30 or 11 am EST).

[Starbuck]

Double post.

MS has not liked me at all.

[Starbuck]

I was open last night, but no one was around apparently?

I was on AIM all night.

[Starbuck]

It's ok. I can try my best to stay up.

[Starbuck]

Actually, I'll give you guys 36 hours to pick your Immunity Challenge line up since it won't start until 7AM. And obviously, if Crazy picks to skip the Immunity Challenge, that'll be unnecessary.

Can you please tell the date when announcing starting times? I still have the timezone issue.

As do I.

[Starbuck]

I like Flava Flave's idea.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at C10.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at C9.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at C11.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at A8.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at A7.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at A6.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at A5.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck places a ship at A4.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, how much speculation has there been about crywolf20084's choices for the Final Tribal Council?

There hasn't been any as far as I know.

[Starbuck]

[Starbuck ] climbs the ladder, bringing the entire tribe up to the [ 57th ] level.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck climbs up the ladder, bringing the entire tribe up to the 60th level.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, you were the only Sunkist here. Why do you think chauchaudotcom basically kicked you out of Team Sunkist? Does it make you feel vulnerable tonight?

I have no idea why cc.com would kick me out of my team.

It makes me feel very vulnerable.

[Starbuck]

I didn't know people could talk after they were voted out...

[Starbuck]

484848

[Starbuck]

I really wish I was given music instead of scavenger hunt.

[Starbuck]

I really wish I was given music instead of scavenger hunt.

I'd be happy to trade with you.

Can we do this? As long as we don't give each other answers?

[Starbuck]

I put music as my first choice and not scavenger hunt.

/sigh

[Starbuck]

If I fail at this, which is gonna happen, it's not my fault.

[Starbuck]

How many people here watch the show out of curiousity? While we're waiting for all the votes to get in get tallied?


I thought it was interesting how a while back on that "who knows survivor" challenge, Crazy picked only himself, and cybele sent only myself and Starbuck. I figured there'd be more survivor fans for some reason.

I'm a huge survivor fan. As soon as that challenge came up, I volunteered for it.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, congrats on having Immunity tonight. Do you think you needed it?

I'm not sure. Time will tell.

[Starbuck]

crywolf20084, what happened at that last challenge? Was there communication about the challenge? The other tribe was clearly unified.

There was no communication on our end. I have set up a way for us to talk and no one utilized it.

I've been using our QT, but when I didn't get any answers I only check it sporadically.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, you are the only person on this game to be on two different tribes. Do you feel like you might be a swing vote tonight because of that?

I'm not thinking so.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, do you agree with assessment that you've done the least to get to the Final 8? Why or why not?

I completely disagree because I've done a lot of the behind the scenes challenges back on my other tribe.

Unfortunately, my time zone has gotten in the way of a few challenges, but I haven't been carried along this entire way. I've earned my place.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck bids $40 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $60 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $80 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $100 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $140 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $180 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $240 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $280 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $300 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $340 on Item #1

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Starbuck bids $380 on Item #1

[Starbuck]

Starbuck bids $80 on Item #3

[Starbuck]

Starbuck transfers $500 to Flava Flave

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, is the reason that you did not submit for the last Immunity Challenge because you feel secure in your position tonight?

Absolutely not. I don't feel that the time given was long enough. I had quite a busy day due to work (military stuff) and I was working on my submission when I hit my Watched Topics to discover that the immunity challenge was over.

[Starbuck]

My god, can I not have a busy weekend so I don't miss deadlines?

This is such crap.


Normally, if Shadow PMs me because I haven't submitted anything, it'll pop up on my phone due to my PMs being notified to me through email.

This is just goddamn annoying now.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck body slams Flava for 25 damage decreasing his/her HP to 125.

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[Starbuck]

Starbuck Body Slams Rally for 25 damage decreasing his/her HP to 100

[Starbuck]

Starbuck Body Slams Rally for 25 damage decreasing his/her HP to 75

[Starbuck]

Durr.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck Pulls Rally's Hair for 15 damage decreasing his/her HP to 60

[Starbuck]

Starbuck Pulls Rally's Hair for 15 damage decreasing his/her HP to 45

[Starbuck]

Starbuck Body Slams Rally for 25 damage decreasing his/her HP to 20

[Starbuck]

Go Go Flava.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, who should be feeling nervous tonight?

Everyone without immunity or a burrito.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, are there any moves in the game that you regret?

Nope, it's just a game.

[Starbuck]

Like Devotress, I'm new to the Mish Mash crew, so I really don't know a lot of you. My apologies for not having much to say about those that I don't know.


OhGodMyLife - Other tribe's first vote. Played mafia once or twice with you, so it would have been nice to see you kept around.

jmj3000 - You just weren't around. I really wasn't sorry to see you go.

animorpherv1 - Was the other tribe's second vote. I know animo from mafia games, but he is a persistant lurker. So his being voted out wasn't a surprise.

skitzer - Was the other tribe's third vote. I really didn't see much action from her. I could see why they booted her.

pickemgenius - Was the other tribe's fouth vote. I didn't have any contact with pickem.

dahill1 - Was the other tribe's fifth vote. I didn't have any contact with him.

TheLonging - Now I know (due to my time difference) that there was a few challenges that I wasn't able to be around for, but TheLonging didn't participate at all. It was good riddance honestly. It's just too bad that you are taking up a valuable jury spot.

Crazy - We had an early alliance, but you up and abandoned it, and I'm still not sure why. Once we switched back from one tribe into two, you seemed to change your stance of the game. These things were my reasons for voting you.

tubby216 - I know you pretty well from mafia games and you were the first vote of the other tribe after cc.com switched us back to two separate tribes. The vote was definitely split when you were voted. It's too bad that your tribe couldn't have come to a more concise vote. I was sad to see you go.

crywolf20084 - I had nothing against you. You sent me the code for the reward challenge, which showed to me that you trusted me, which was my reasoning for not telling anyone the code. I was very sad to see you go.

mask man - It was just time for you to go.

Sudo_Nym - You shouldn't have gone.

chauchaudotcom - You kicked me out of my own team, forcing me to be the odd man out. We never really talked at all, so I'm not quite sure why this occurred. But it seems that you sealed your own fate.

Rally Vincent - I'm sorry you couldn't be up here with Flava and I. You and I let someone get into our heads and thus, neither of us got immunity. But I stayed true to you till the end.

Charnel - We never really talked at all, but it was either you or me. Nothing personal.

[Starbuck]

The weekend would be best for me. I'm +6 hrs ahead of EST.

5 PM EST = 11 PM for me.

And AIM version. Definitely.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, we're one or two Tribal Councils from the end of the game. This late in the game, is there someone you can trust completely yet, or do you still believe you could be backstabbed at any point? Second, do you believe everyone here has a shot at winning this game? Or are some people clearly not going to win if they face the jury, no matter what the circumstances?

I do have people that I trust, but I don't believe that I couldn't be backstabbed.

From some of the responses to our torch walk, I got the feeling that there is some vengeance waiting to be had.

[Starbuck]

Flava, you shouldn't have been flip/flopping on the alliance that we had all game. I trusted you and when I found out that you wanted to be rid of me, I had to cover my own ass.

Cybele's answer to his tribal question about "my and Devotress's little alliance" couldn't have been more wrong. Devotress is the one that got both you and I to the final 4.

[Starbuck]

Starbuck

, why should Devotress take you to the Final 2? Do you expect him to?

I think Devotress should take me because we have been honest with each other from the get go. She was understanding about a lot of things with me during the game, such as when I didn't want to place a vote on people in my alliance. We've trusted each other for a good portion of the game, and I hope that it continues.

I expect Devotress to take who she feels she should take. Although, I may have just opened up myself for a blindside. Either way, it's been an awesome game and I've had a blast.

[Starbuck]

Also, my weekend was uber busy. I had no time to sit down and complete this challenge.

[Starbuck]

<3 Devotress <3

[Starbuck]

Good evening everyone.

This game is my first big time Mish Mash game. I didn't expect to make it to the final 2. So many thanks to Devotress and to all of you for that. I'm excited to have come this far.

I will say that I know that my time difference was a big difficulty to overcome. For those that felt that I was carried at points due to it, you are probably right, but I tried to make it up for that in other challenges that I could participate in. The Survivor Trivia challenge comes to mind here, as well as a few others.

I have no animosity towards anyone on the jury. I tried my best to remain true and loyal to those that I pledged my allegiance. But once I started being told that I was on the chopping block, then I went on the defensive, as I am sure anyone else would have done if they were in my shoes. I think the worst thing a person can ever have in their mind in a Survivor game is that they are safe. The minute that you start thinking that is the minute that you are probably going to be blindsided.

[Starbuck]

No, that's not what I'm saying at all.

[Starbuck]

Crazy

On the 2-1-1, that was definitely all orchestrated by Devotress. I just tried to give her the encouragement to do it.

Starbuck, you say your time zone was a disadvantage in challenges, but was your strategic game good enough to compensate for that? If Sunkist had lost more challenges, how would you have fared? I'm asking because I noticed chau essentially "kicked" you out of the tribe; that can't be a good sign.

I believe my strategic game was good enough to compensate or I wouldn't be here right now. I'm not sure how I would have fared if Sunkist lost more challenges. That's a definite "what if" scenario.

Also, Chau actually answered the kicking out part here with the following...

chauchaudotcom - You kicked me out of my own team, forcing me to be the odd man out. We never really talked at all, so I'm not quite sure why this occurred. But it seems that you sealed your own fate.

Nothing personal, really. I had to kick someone out if I wanted a re-merge and I was debating between you and tubby. And this:

tubby216 - Really sorry to see your go. You were a powerhouse during challenges. Occasionally, you carried the tribe, and could have been dangerous in the endgame.

was the exact reason why I ended up picking tubby. I am sorry for putting you in a rather tough position all game though.

Other than that, I'll just ask both of you what your biggest strategic move was. I don't know most of what went on after I was voted off, so I'm curious.

I think my biggest strategic move was trusting Devotress to pull off the 2-1-1.

Sudo

What do you think was the most important takeaway from this game, that you'll use for future Survivor games?

Networking. I didn't really talk to many people.

Cayke

starbuck: you mentioned that my trust in you was important/special to you, why?

Because I didn't know it was there. I believe that was right when we split back into two tribes. You and I had been on opposite sides for most of the time. It was nice to find out that I had an ally.

mask man

NO. Ewww...

Flava Flave

Both, what was your best and worst moment in the game?

I think my best moment was winning immunity in the Survivor Trivia challenge.

I think my worst moments were the challenges that I lost due to not being able to be online.

Starbuck, why did you think that I would have honestly voted you out over Devotress? (the Devo vote was me and the vote on you was Cyb)

Cybele was the one who incited a lot of the crap during the challenge where we had to beat the hell out of each other. He was sending me and Rally all sorts of PMs. Cybele was also the one that stated that Devotress and I had a little alliance. It almost felt like it was coming from the both of you and not just Cybele.

On our last vote there, Devotress had said she talked to you and you had said you were going to vote with Cybele against me. On top of that, your PMs to me weren't all that reassuring. Since Rally had gotten quite hostile before he left the game towards me (even though I didn't place a vote on him to vote him out), I figured he had probably talked to you and you felt the same way because of your lack of replies.

Both, is there anything you'd change in the way you played the game?

It would be networking. The same thing that I said to Sudo.

chauchaudotcom

What do you think was your greatest attribute that carried you throughout the game and got you to where you are now?

I think my greatest attribute was my ability to figure out when I needed to protect myself.

Star - Given your opening statement, why do you feel you have earned the right to this victory more so then Devotress?

What do you mean by "given my opening statement"?

I feel I have earned the right to this victory because despite some challenges, I worked hard to get to where I am.

[Starbuck]

@Tubby - I didn't know I had it wrapped up until Devotress posted

Vote: Cybele

. It was a nail biter all the way to the end for me.

[Starbuck]

A question for both: Do you think the other one would not have made it to F2 if you would have been voted out earlier? Why (not)?

Cybele was the one who incited a lot of the crap during the challenge where we had to beat the hell out of each other. He was sending me and Rally all sorts of PMs.

Cybele did not PM me. I watched the challenge to see what was going on.

If Flava had made it to the final 3, I think he would have taken me. Cybele, not so much.


Well, then I was wrong there, I PM'd you to let you know that I was getting mass PMs from Cybele during that challenge. It really felt like he was trying to fuck with me.

[Starbuck]

Star, I was referring to these statements:

This game is my first big time Mish Mash game.

I didn't expect to make it to the final 2.

So many thanks to Devotress and to all of you for that. I'm excited to have come this far.

I will say that I know that my time difference was a big difficulty to overcome.

For those that felt that I was carried at points due to it, you are probably right, but I tried to make it up for that in other challenges that I could participate in.

The Survivor Trivia challenge comes to mind here, as well as a few others.

What did you want me to do? Lie?

I know I wasn't the only one who had these issues, but I wasn't going to deny them either.

[Starbuck]

star, devo: who of you deserves to win the most?

I feel that I should because as I said earlier, despite my own schedule challenges, and what have you. I persevered and I didn't let it get me down.

[Starbuck]

What did you want me to do? Lie?

I know I wasn't the only one who had these issues, but I wasn't going to deny them either.

Uh, no. I merely wanted wanted you to explain that why, despite what you said, you feel you should win. Isn't the point of the questioning to have you prove to me that I should vote you above the other person? Standard procedure. Not sure why you got so defensive about it.

I really wasn't getting defensive.

[Starbuck]

I joined the game to have fun and because I am a huge Survivor fan. I've never given up, even when things were looking dimly for me.

I think sometimes that the better strategy is to know who to stick with, who to trust when and at what time. I may not have done well at challenges, and that's okay with me. I can live with that. Just because my strategy wasn't out in the open for everyone to see, doesn't mean it wasn't a viable strategy.