Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-27638357-20160519221405/@comment-6987998-20160526123405

Zypker124 wrote:

LincolnAloisio wrote: Nick: "The reason I would vote for Michele is because she did great in Immunity challenges, especially at the end, and reward challenges as well, and she had a moment in the game where it looked like she was goinf to be voted out at some point early on and somehow she found a way to get through all of that and get to the end and sit down with the Final Three. And she's a nice pearson, she's likeable, and she's social, she's friendly, I don't think she's said a mean thing about anyone or did something mean to anyone other than vote them out, maybe blindside them, myself included. So, to vote for Michele, those would be great reasons, because she hasn't made anybody too angry, too upset, and yet she was kind of going with th majoriry of the votes. She was always kind of in the right positions. Even if she was a follower, she was following correctly."

Debbie: "Michele is a lovely, beautiful young lady who loves to travel and have a good time, and if there is a crime in that, then you need to had you examined, because that's what she should be doing at 22. She's been polite, gracious, she's got class. She's just a young lovely lady exploring, and I find her adventureness, her intrepidness, her manners... the girl's got it all. I have no reason NOT to give Michele a million dollars. I just like her, genuinely like her."

Scot: "I had no respect for her game early. I thought she was just a bump on a log, she was a coattail rider and she just happens to be there because, like Joe, she was an extra vote for Cydney and Aubry and I thought, man, she doesn't want to jump with Julia to our side because Jason and I were bullies or mean or whatever, but she stayed with the power couple on that side, and formed a power couple of her own with Cydney, or so she thought, and it didn't make sense to me why she would choose one power couple over another, and the same thing happened with Tai. But Michele has done things lately and grown in this game from what I have seen, I haven't lived with her every day since I was voted out, obviously, but she's won individual immunity challenges, twice, nobody else in this game did that. She won two reward challenges by herself. That is growth, that is competing, that is getting better. That's impressive. Even for a 22-years-old that I had no respect as far as strategy, as far as 'what's your plan? you're just existing, you're not providing at camp, you're just existing, you're a vote, you're Joe, I have no respect for you'. But then she started to winning. What she has done is really picked up and starting playing the game and she's grown a lot, and she's matured a lot and she's impressed me a lot as of late and sometimes this is all that it takes to change somebody's mind in this game, what've you done for yourself lately..." And then he says he have to respect that she was loyal to her alliances even when they said she was on the outs.

I'm too tired now (f*** Scot -.-), but just go watch the jury speaks videos to see why they voted for Michele :) I agree wholeheartedly that there are reasons why they voted for Michele to win. Every juror has a reason on why they're voting for someone. I just don't think that some of the reasons are consistent or logical. Nick appears to be the only one that says Michele was social, but that more likely pertains to the fact that he was closely aligned with her for 39 days, and their lack of Tribal Councils meant that they rarely had to test their relationship before Nick got eliminated. And even if she did play a good social game, as we saw, it wasn't enough for Nick. Nick voted for Aubry. Debbie is completely hypocritical in her reasoning. She says that Michele is nice and is just there to be kind and sweet, and that she should give her the vote for doing so. This suggests that Debbie is voting Michele for her passiveness. As we all know, Debbie played fiercely aggressive and had no qualms about doing so, believing the offensive strategy to be the correct one. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe she thinks she played a great game, so to vote for someone playing a reactive / defensive game is just backwards logic and inconsistent with her actions. I don't know what Scot saw from Michele. He says she growed a lot in the last few days of playing but then admits he didn't see it with his own eyes, attributing it to the challenge wins. Even if he is valuing challenges, how is that an example of growth in any way? Unless you're talking about a growth in muscles or some physical aspect, that's not a growth in gameplay, and certainly does not increase maturity or any of the things Scot has said. And if he is valuing challenges, he's once again a hypocrite. He sat out of the IC in the episode where Nick would get eliminated to eat hamburgers. So did Michele. THis shows to me a level of inconsistency. If he values challenges so much, why doesn't he make a concerted effort to win them? Nick voted for the one he thought did better at the FTC.

Debbie wasn't hypocritical. She felt Aubry broke her world of not writing her name down and liked Michele more. That's not hard to understand.

And you don't have to win challenges to value challenge wins. And Scot wasn't there to see Michele's growth, but it isn't that why the jury watch the Tribal Councils? He saw that Michele won challenges, he saw that she fought for her life. He clearly saw her going from someone who was just there to someone who deserved his vote.