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adam gentry wrote:

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Back to the site for a minute and decided to respond to a few of these in the rankings. Even though I realize that many of these statements refer to "raro" in general, I am going to give my personal opionion on the moves so hopefully I will open ya'lls eyes to the current thought processes at the time.


AnomyBC wrote:

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Yes, the time has finally come for the epic return of my Stupidest Things Ever Done On Survivor thread! The original got an A+ from threadgrader, and spawned hundreds of pages of great debates, before eventually being locked (I think due to it's size.) I've since gotten many requests to bring it back, so here it is.....

The 86 Stupidest Things Ever Done On Survivor

69. New Raro votes out JP over Stephannie at their first tribal council.
(Granted, he was an asshole, and for the girls it gave them the majority, but still, they needed him in the challenges.)

I am assuming that you are referring to others in Raro with number 69 because, obviously, I lasted further then them all in the tribe at the time so your claim of voting JP over Steph being a mistake makes no sense, even in hind sight. Keeping JP around would only make myself more expendable considering the tribe realized they needed one large, strong male but if there are two, one of them is expendable. As long as he was around, I was vulnerable.

57. The Raros insist on voting for Yul after the merge, even though they know he may have the hidden immunity idol.
(Hence risking the loss of their numbers advantage when they could have just voted off Becky or Sundra, risk free.)

I knew he could of had the idol. My honest thoughts were that there was a 50-60% that he did. What may have not been presented during the episodes is the rift between Nate and Penner. I don't blame either for this happening but it was evident. Nate was set on voting out Yul and Penner was set on Ozzy before the immunity challenge. Before that challenge, the five of us agreed that if yul won then we would vote ozzy and vice versa. They (Nate and Penner)had never clicked together in our alliance and I knew that no matter what decision we made, it had to be uniform. Ozzy ended up winning so the only page I could get us all on was to vote Yul. Since Nate won the pre immunity challenge agreement of Yul being voted out if Ozzy won the challenge, we had to all get on board with that. I knew it was a risky decision to vote Yul but I also knew the worst possible situation would be to have a split vote. Essentially, I knew at that point that the only person the five of us would agree on was Yul and that was the main issue. If Yul did not have the idol, we would of been looking pretty. But what people do not realize is that even if he had the idol, which I thought 50-60% true, that would still be better off of us voting him as opposed to splitting our votes. I figured the worst that would happen is it would bounce off of Yul, which would get rid of the idol in his hands, and then bounce back to one of us. I knew that if that scenario happened then I would not be the one to go since I had a fairly good relationship with Yul. I believed it would bounce back to Nate which makes sense considering he was the one gone at the flip. So the bottom line is.... I knew Yul could have it but, more importantly, I wanted us all to vote the same. Let's say that happened and us five voted yul but he used the idol and then it was bounced back to Nate. That leaves 4 vs. 4 which could very well potentially produce a tie breaker. That would mean, cause tie breakers are generally with girls, my team of parvati and candace vs. becky and sundra. No offense to the latter girls but come on now, I am willing to bet parv and c-dice would end up winning that tie breaker to put us back in front with numbers. My whole point is, I realized that if Yul had the idol, the worst possible situation that could come up is the idol out and his girls vs. mine which I was fairly confident in (Becky or Sundra vs. Candice or Parvati). Of course, the whole thing got screwed up when Penner flipped on us. .
48. The Raros vote off Jenny instead of Jonathan.
(They should have realized that Jenny was less likely to flip after the merge.)

This decision was mine. Jonathan and Candice were new to the tribe and fed off of me. For one, Candice and I were close. Two, Jonathan was close to Candice and even a bit to me considering I protected him for a while. In a nut shell, this is what happened. Candice and I were very loyal. Jonathan and Candice were fairly loyal, especially after the mutiny. Jonathan was becoming loyal because he knew I was responsible for him sticking around when other raro people were sent off at tribals.

I had much love for Jenny at this point but she always preached that we would get rid of Aitu as well as Candice/Jonathan as soon as possible. So to finish this preface, she was very much against Candice. She has even stated since the show that if I hesitated with eliminating Candice when the time was right, my head would be on the chopping block. So this is what was up in a nut shell...

Jenny -
1-wants to get rid of my number one ally, candice, as soon as possible. Jonathan wanted Candice around so of course I am threatened by Jenny if she wants her gone asap
2-two assians, her original tribe, are still in the game and with Aitu. How was I supposed to know for sure that she was not getting along with them.... it does not really add up considering that they started off in the same tribe.
3-Jenny was not forced to be away from yul and Becky and she certainly did not do anything, from what I saw, to disrespect her.

Jonathan-
1-He wanted Candice around, which in turn, wants me around
2-He had just flipped on Aitu....obvious assumption is that they did not trust him...................................why would I think, knowing these facts, jonathan would be more likely to flip then Jenny... it does not make sense but voting out Jenny over Jonathan at the time made complete sense.


these are just examples of the reality to my "stupid moves" that you all love to harp on.


hope everyone is well
ACG