Jury Member #6

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Dave joins the Jury in a 3-1 vote.

Sam won the live Immunity and we held Tribal Council over Skype.

[Dave]

I imagine myself running up and hugging you all if this was real. So lets go with that ok? haha.

Sucks to be here, but I'm excited to be a jury member and to be with you all again!! Sam threw a wrench in my plan with immunity and then Jose decided to turn on me.

I feel Jose just threw away a 100% chance to make the F2 by this, but I'll wait to hold judgement till we see who our finalists will be. Either way excited to see how it all turns up!

Gonna catch up on with what you all have been talking about now ;D

[Chris]

welcome to the dark side, Dave! <3

[Adrian]

Welcome to the jury, Dave.

[Renee]

Welcome to the jury Dave! Sorry to see you here. Not a lot happening at Ponderosa. We're all still pouting.

[Dave]

Aw thanks for the welcome guys!

We all should be having a party or something. Make the people still in the game jealous that they aren't here

[Chris]

did somebody say party?!

[Quanz]

If this is a party, I'm late! Welcome to Ponderosa Dave.

[Adrian]

GIFSoup

[Adrian]

Oh, BTW Dave, what was the challenge that Sam won? What did you guys have to do?

[Dave]

We listened to a story online and then had to search the boards from past seasons to find locked forums. Each locked one had a question from the story with the password being the answer.

I had no clue we needed to sign up with a user account to see some of the boards so I was searching aimlessly for so long haha. /whiney

[Jose Luis "Joe"]

Dec 9, 2012 19:39:26 GMT -5 Dave said:

I feel Jose just threw away a 100% chance to make the F2 by this

Secret Message from Dave to Jose:

[Adrian]

I have waited for the two of you to inevitably end up here on the jury so that I could say this:

Both of you threw away any chance you had by turning on me a round too early and leaving Tomas feeling alone in the game and blessed with the option to approach the last 2 Kweles in the game. You just had to wait one more round and you would have been home free, but I was expecting Joe to come for me then.

Dave, by taking me out you lost your shield in the game. Everyone knew you were a huge Final T/C threat. I told you that once I was gone, they were going to come for you. You should have listened to me - But boy, did you play a great game out there. I respected your game-play a hell of a lot until you got to eager to turn on your own. The minute you voted me out, I knew you wouldn't reach the final 2 and I feel really bad for you, because of how well you played up until then.



Joe, I can't blame you. You were extremely lucky to reach the merge. Like, seriously... You were living on a prayer - but with that said, when you finally decided to wake up and play the game, you played a fucking tremendous end-game. After Chris left, you were the one Mbochi member who constantly improved his position in the game through conscious efforts (Tomas as well once he knew where his place was after I left). We foolishly placed you at the bottom of the alliance and we all paid the price for it. You were such a non-entity for most of this game who only really came onto Skype to do as he was told once we had already did the hard work of devising a strategy for each round, so it was awesome to see you use that brain of yours.

To both of you guys I tip my hat and say well played. You beat me fair and square. Maybe next time you guys will have a little more luck in the end. No hard feelings on my part at all.

[Dave]

In hindsight you’re potentially right Adrian, but this game was such a juggling act for going after the right people at the right time. You’ll read when the game is over that I very much understood taking you out was either make it or break it for me.

For me personally in turns out not one person in this game actually wanted to take me to the F2, so no matter what I did I don’t think this game was going to end well for me. (I’m assuming here at least that you would have taken Tomas over me if we went to the F3 like we discussed).

My logic was that I figured Sagar was so disliked that there was no chance Tomas/Jose would work with Sagar/Sam at the F5. Then at the F4 I hoped at least one of Jose/Tomas wouldn’t turn on me because they’d be throwing away a 100% chance of making it to the end. Didn’t work out. I got played and my hats off to the people who beat me. Like you said, no hard feelings, it’s a game.

Thanks for the kind words though! I told you I thought you were going to win this game from the very start, and really if you had made it to the end you had my vote locked up regardless who you faced.

[Sam]

Dec 13, 2012 5:13:48 GMT -5 Adrian said:

I have waited for the two of you to inevitably end up here on the jury so that I could say this:

Both of you threw away any chance you had by turning on me a round too early and leaving Tomas feeling alone in the game and blessed with the option to approach the last 2 Kweles in the game. You just had to wait one more round and you would have been home free, but I was expecting Joe to come for me then.

Dave, by taking me out you lost your shield in the game. Everyone knew you were a huge Final T/C threat. I told you that once I was gone, they were going to come for you. You should have listened to me - But boy, did you play a great game out there. I respected your game-play a hell of a lot until you got to eager to turn on your own. The minute you voted me out, I knew you wouldn't reach the final 2 and I feel really bad for you, because of how well you played up until then.



Joe, I can't blame you. You were extremely lucky to reach the merge. Like, seriously... You were living on a prayer - but with that said, when you finally decided to wake up and play the game, you played a fucking tremendous end-game. After Chris left, you were the one Mbochi member who constantly improved his position in the game through conscious efforts (Tomas as well once he knew where his place was after I left). We foolishly placed you at the bottom of the alliance and we all paid the price for it. You were such a non-entity for most of this game who only really came onto Skype to do as he was told once we had already did the hard work of devising a strategy for each round, so it was awesome to see you use that brain of yours.

To both of you guys I tip my hat and say well played. You beat me fair and square. Maybe next time you guys will have a little more luck in the end. No hard feelings on my part at all.

I didn't see Joe play pre-merge, but his post-merge play was outstanding... I thought he was the one truly in control of the merge game, which is where it counts. It almost totally worked out for him. I probably should have taken Joe to F2, so maybe that was my bad.


Adrian you played an OUTSTANDING game and I think you will succeed greatly on the show if you make it there. =) You did unbelievably well for your first game. I was very impressed. I have a few small recommendations, which we could talk about on skype or facebook if you wanted to!


I think Dave had an excellent chance of making finals with voting out Adrian, so I don't necessarily agree with this analysis. Dave also played a near-perfect game. Minor criticisms would be that he ignored me strategically the whole game which I don't think was the right play. I would encourage Dave to play more adventurously and make more fake alliances to secure himself.