Confessional Thread

[Chase Rice]

~EPISODE 13~
Last night we went to Tribal Council and I was forced to vote out my wonderful and amazing friend Christa. This is seriously the first vote in the game where I genuinely feel awful about how it went down. Christa is an incredible person and she doesn't need this to win because she's already a superstar. I'm just glad we somehow got to the Final Five together despite being on opposite tribes a bunch of times. WE WILL ALWAYS HAVING OUR MEMORIES!!! I want to have a eulogy for my dear friend Christa but she is too incredible for words so I'll just let the editors add a black and white montage of her awesomeness right here. 

However, having let out my deeply felt emotions about Christa's boot, it's time for the game to be on. This is the final four and I'm here to play. I am going to get my ass to the end of this game and try to win the game. I have not been manipulating people and dealing with assholes for weeks without getting the prize out of this. I would truly be upset if I went out of this game before making the end, so I'm going to play even fucking harder to get to the end. Honestly I really think I can do this. I have a strategy, and really it's just time to put my chess pieces into play.

[Chase Rice]

NOTE TO THE HOSTS: I will not be around until like 3-4 PM tomorrow because it's move-out day and all that crazy stuff so don't start the challenges without me pleaseee

[Chase Rice]

Before we get to the FINAL FOUR CHALLENGE, we first had to stop and marvel at the Rites of Passage. This is terribly concerning for me because usually this event is done before the Final Challenge of the season. So the placement of the Rites of Passage kind of implies that this is the last challenge. That would be horrible for my game because that means there would be three fucking people in the final tribal council. I feel like both John and Eddie could beat him in a jury vote, so I would literally have no chance to win if it were a final 3. While I was trying to analyze what Whitney said about it I came to the conclusion that it's going to be a final 2 (because she literally said the final 3 IC will be right after Final 4 Tribal). THANK GOD! I can't be thankful enough that I've got 2 rounds to boot my biggest threats to win this game.

So anyways, the Rites of Passage was kind of terrible. I think there was like 2 or 3 people I had gotten to know very well and only 1 or 2 that I actually liked. Thank god the challenge wasn't naming facts about these people because I had nothing to say about most of them. By the time I was done I was exhausted because it was so hard to come up with something nice or interesting to say about these people that I hardly know. Oh well, I guess that means it's time for the challenge.

The Final Four challenge was, as expected, freaking hard. I mean I knew that the challenges weren't going to be easy but my god this was like running a marathon with your legs and taking the MCATs all at the same time. The goal was to run from checkpoint to checkpoint for HOURS, finding questions about the game along the way, answering them, and keeping going. I got a late start because I'm a lazy fuck, but once I saw the challenge I just went to town and worked my ass off going from checkpoint to checkpoint to checkpoint. Honestly, I worked my ass off in this game. I do have confidence in my alliance, but it's the final four and I didn't want to take any chances with my position in this game. I ran 807 checkpoints and it took me like 4-5 hours or something around that time. Since we were all separate, I really had no clue how anyone else had done but I was completely confident in my performance. I put all of my heart into it.

[Chase Rice]

We get to the results reveal for the challenge, and Tracy got last. Obviously. She's nice but she's terrible at these challenges. I think she could do well if she tried, but she has clearly given up and that's just painful for me to see. Sometimes I get the feeling that she doesn't even want to be here, which is totally beyond shitty. Like you're in the Final Fucking Four and you don't even give a shit. I don't see why you'd want to play this game if you're just going to half-ass your way through it. Not impressed by her performance one bit.

And then even weirder is that John fucking phoned in the challenge. This entire game, John has been a useless hanger-on who hasn't made a single move of his own. At the Shawna Tribal he voted as he was instructed, at the Jefra Tribal he voted in the minority, and last tribal he voted with the herd and refused to make a big move to get himself to the end. It's like he's been actively trying to be a useless sack of shit in the game. The sad thing is, John would pretty much beat any of us in the final tribal council solely based on the fact that he hasn't had to piss anybody off. The rest of us have bloodier our hands and made tough choices, while John has just floated his ass into the Final Three. And his laid-back "Don't give a shit" vibe was never more clear than at the challenge. He has known he's in danger since the Jefra boot, and he can't even bother to put some effort in to win that immunity and save himself. John has completely floated through this game, and I don't want to see him rewarded for it. Not one bit.

So having made my complaints about Tracy and John, the challenge obviously came down to Eddie and I. Obviously I worked my ass off and desperately wanted to win, but Eddie annihilated my checkpoint count by going to 2000 different checkpoints. What the actual fuck? Like I'm not mad at him because he's clearly a beast and he OWNED. Kudos to him for being so dedicated and so on point in that challenge. However, my incredibly large loss definitely gives me cause for pause because I put so much effort in and couldn't even get half the amount he could. It's not a good feeling to find out that your best just isn't good enough. Obviously all I can do in this game is my best, but when it's not enough I don't even know what to do. It's discouraging to say the least.

[Chase Rice]

I guess the side-effect of my emasculation in the immunity challenge is that I started strategizing harder to compensate. I can't rest on my laurels now because that will get me kicked out of the fucking game. So basically I told Tracy that we were voting for John because the Mukwa Three has to stick together, and I told John that we were voting for Tracy because of the Boy's Alliance we randomly cooked up last round to trick John. So for this Tribal, it seems to me that Eddie and I have all the power. We could vote out John, someone who we're aligned with, is seriously useless, and would win a jury vote. Our other option is to vote out Tracy, someone who we're aligned with, is mildly useless, and wouldn't win a jury vote. So yeah, even though we're swing votes the choice is clear for Eddie and me. John is just more of a jury threat than Tracy, and we've been aligned with Tracy much longer than John. By voting with Tracy I will show my serious loyalty.

However, choosing who to vote out wasn't the most interesting thing to happen in the strategy talk I had with Eddie. Much earlier in the game, around the swap time, we made a Final Two deal with each other. I'm not sure how serious it was for him, but obviously I didn't put that much weight in it because there were still like 12 people in the game. But now that we're at the Final Four and soon to be the Final Three, promises like that actually hold a lot of weight. Basically, I subtly made fun of Tracy's challenge performance and Eddie agreed with me that Tracy seems checked out of this game recently. So basically we reaffirmed our Final Two pact and even lamented how much it sucks that one of us is going to have to vote Tracy out in 3rd. Basically, this new game plan sets me up in the perfect position come the Final Three.

At the Final Three Challenge there are three possibilities:
---If Eddie wins, he will vote out Tracy and take me to the end. I know that I would have a massively hard time beating Eddie, but I'd rather be taken to the finals and lose than be fucked over in 3rd place. So this is a good deal for me to put into place. Plus Eddie is a fucking challenge beast so there's like an 80% chance he will win it, and if he does he'll take me.
---On the off chance that I win, I will backstab Eddie and vote him out in 3rd place. I love him, but so will the jury. He's been a major power player since the beginning of the game and an amazing ally to work with. However, he's a serious jury threat and if I have the option of going against him or going against Tracy, I'm cutting him loose.
---If Tracy wins, LOL JUST KIDDING there's no way she'll win. To be serious for a minute, I believe Tracy would take me over Eddie just based on the fact that Eddie's a bigger jury threat. But I can't really be sure with her. I'm not particularly worried about this outcome though because she sucks at challenges lately. There's realistically no chance that Tracy's going to win this challenge.

So essentially with my strategizing tonight, I've decided who is getting booted in 4th place and set up my perfect final three where I'll make it to the final tribal regardless of who wins. I would love to win the challenge, but I'm sure as hell not going to bet my safety in this game on a challenge win. Not with Eddie the beastmaster around. For tonight's tribal council, I'm obviously worried because I don't have immunity and I'm a paranoid person. If everyone sticks to their word, then this tribal will be cut and dry and unexciting. However, there's always the off chance that shit goes sideways. But the thing is that I'm just not a big enough threat for people to worry about, so if they did try to blindside me tonight it would be a stupid move anyways lol.

[Chase Rice]

Omg I just scrolled up the page and I'm SO SORRY for such long confessionals, but I guess there's just more to talk about now that we've reached the endgame. *crossing my fingers* that I'll be around for one last set of ridiculously long confessionals for y'all to enjoy

[Whitney Duncan]

May 12, 2014 4:25:53 GMT Chase Rice said:

---If Tracy wins, LOL JUST KIDDING there's no way she'll win. 

I lol'd pretty hard with that part. XD

[Chase Rice]

~FINAL ROUND~
(idk if it's still episode 13 or not so I'll just call it the last one)

Last night at Tribal Council, John got voted out in the most obvious vote we've had since like week 2 of this game. And the sad part is, he STILL didn't see that one coming. Literally Christa and I flat out TOLD him that he would be 4th place if he decided to vote out Christa, and look what happened. Despite being fairly sexy, that guy has very little going on upstairs. Clearly his wife is the brains of the operation, and she wasn't around for this one. But anyways enough about people who just don't get it. I'd rather not waste mental energy trying to understand why John was so surprised by this vote.

Anyways, now it's time for the game to come down to one final challenge. This is where taking into account jury votes is going to be majorly important so I hope everybody has that in mind. Having said that, I'm set up for the finals very nicely. If Eddie wins he will take me, and if I win I will have ultimate control and the potential to win the game. Obviously I'm going to try my very hardest at this immunity challenge, but it almost feels like a formality at this point because I'm a lock for the Final Two either way.

[Chase Rice]

So..... Clearly I spoke too soon about being a lock for the Final Two. At the challenge, the goal was to stack a bunch of plates while keeping them balanced and make the tallest stack possible. It's a typical endurance challenge and I figured I would be great at this, but in reality I was just a total clusterfuck. I drop 3 different stacks of plates before building my final stack, and by the time I had gotten around to building my final stack the challenge was nearly over and I ran out of time. I'm actually a little bit embarrassed by my performance in the immunity challenge. I know that I haven't been the top dog in challenges for most of the game, but I've held pride in the fact that I'm definitely not the weakest. And yet out of this Final Three I was the weakest by a clear mile. Go figure. 

And as for the winner, I don't think I've ever been more shocked in this game than looking at Tracy's stack. I genuinely believed that she didn't have it in her to win an endurance immunity at such a crucial moment in the game, but she totally aced it. However, this makes me look like a giant asshole because I only planned my strategy around Eddie or myself winning immunity. Now I have to worry about whether or not she's going to take me to the final two or not. Ultimately, the power is actually out of my hands. Tracy decides whether Eddie is going to win in a landslide or she's going to go against me in a close match. Honestly, all I can do right now is appeal to her the importance of taking Eddie out because I'm 100% positive he would sweep a jury vote against Tracy with a 7-0 vote. At least if she votes me out, I can laugh in her face when it actually does happen and tell her "I TOLD YOU SO". But I really don't want that to happen. For both my sake and hers, I hope she takes me to the end. So yeah at this point I'm just wishing on a hope and a prayer because right now Tracy is essentially choosing who wins and who gets the award for Close but no Cigar (third place). 

[Chase Rice]

~CHASE'S CLOSING WORDS~
I mean damn how much does it suck to be the last person eliminated from the game. It definitely stings a lot more than if I had left earlier in the game. Tracy totally made a silly move here, but we'll wait til FTC to see how my vote goes. I have no regrets though because I played what I consider to be a pretty great game and even though I didn't win, I did so much better than I ever thought I could and I'm proud to be the FINAL JUROR. Now I can be bitchy at Final Tribal and not have to pretend I like any of those cows on the jury ^_^

Note from Gabe: Whitney and Pete <3 Thanks for this game. You guys are both incredible hosts and made this game such a blast that I was having fun the whole way through all of the craziness (which frankly is an accomplishment given my minimal attention span). You guys kick some major ass and I'm so glad that I stumbled upon your game as my first proboard one because it was epic as hell. Also, I really can't wait to read the episodes I want to find out what I didn't know during the game lol.