LUCAHey Luca, I'm SO happy to see you here. You're definitely one hell of a competitor and I was cheering for you from the jury booth during the last few rounds.
I do think you played a fantastic game, and I did talk about it, a little bit, in the jury house, but I want YOU to tell everyone what a great player you were. So here are some questions I'd like you to answers (some of them are to give you the opportunity to show how good you are, some are questions I do ask myself):
- How was eliminating Dallas a good move for your game?
- Why exactly did Ian flip at Belbaja?
- Why was eliminating Hannah a good strategic move on your part?
- How the hell did you survive the F7/F6 votes after the elimination of some of your closest allies?
If you have anything else you'd like to touch on, please go ahead.
Also, I'd like to know: When we hit the merge, if everything had gone your way, how would this game have unfolded? I do wanna know if you would have been loyal to Gloria and myself too.
Overall, I also want to thank you. I enjoyed this game the most when I was playing with you and I'd vote for you with pride. Just make sure you give me the reasons to vote for you.
TO ALL OF YOUSorry, you'll have to work for my vote too. Or at least, to answer my questions. I LOVE having long answers to read, and to know they're coming from me
So here we go!
- Please describe ONE moment we shared together, whether it's social or strategic or whatever. I wanna know how well you consider we bonded. I know it'll be hard for some of you but do your best.
- List the Top 10 moments of this season. Hopefully you are able to sell yourself in those.
- What are your Edgic-related projections (Overall Rating for the Jurors and the F3)?
You don't have to answer everything if you don't want to, I wouldn't want to bury you all under some of these more-or-less useful questions. But I honestly feel like these listing questions are a huge part of the fun that is the FTC. So yeah, do as you want.
Good luck guys, and may the best man win.
Quincy! <3 Thanks for your questions bud. I definitely missed you after you left. We were two peas in a pod and it's great to see you again even if you aren't on this side of things.
- How was eliminating Dallas a good move for your game?Eliminating Dallas was a good move for a few reasons. The first reason was that I stated in my first confessional I felt Dallas was very sneaky and had an outwardly nice exterior but a deceptive interior, which is a recipe for a huge player in a game. While she was strong in challenges, the fact she had so many deals on the table proved to me that I really had no idea where I stood in her overall gameplan. It made me feel like I was simply a puppet in her game and that wasn't what I wanted to be. The other reason I felt it was a good move for me was because I trusted Wyatt a lot more than I did Dallas at that point. Voting Dallas out allowed me to get a lot closer to Wyatt and it made Gloria out to be a huge target. Even though it alienated Hannah/Rose they were 2 people out of 9, so I felt at that point I had a lot of options open when it came to who I wanted to work with long term, while had I voted Wyatt out, it might have alienated a lot of the guys which would have been worse for me.
- Why exactly did Ian flip at Belbaja?Ian flipped on Belbaja because it was him or Freddie at the first vote, and he was brought on board to ensure Freddie would leave. The second vote he was kept completely out of the loop and had a boot list vote. The third vote he left.
- Why was eliminating Hannah a good strategic move on your part?Eliminating Hannah was a good strategic move because Hannah was very close to Tess. Going into the merge I felt Tess was one of my biggest threats to my game. As far as Hannah goes, she was no push over either. She had a charm about her that made her a social threat but she also had a deceptive side she kept to herself unless she was really close to someone. I think had she not left that first round of merge, it could have sealed my fate in this game. Her and Tess were a tight pair and eliminating Jessica or Beau (People expendable to Tess at that moment in time) would have been a waste of a round. Eliminating Hannah ensured someone from Tess's corner left, and it also ensured someone who could have easily set herself up to win the game left as well.
- How the hell did you survive the F7/F6 votes after the elimination of some of your closest allies?The F7/F6 were honestly when I felt I positioned myself to win the game. Right as Gloria/Beau were leaving, I slipped under the radar to ensure I wouldn't be as big of a target as I could have been. I used the fact I was on spring break as not only an excuse to party, but as a way to not sit in the chat and make myself out to be someone desperate trying to survive. I took it in stride and following the challenge Gamma won, I made an end game deal with Yvette. When Vincent tried to push for Tess to leave over Beau, I also made an end game deal with him since I felt we had a similar mindsets on what we wanted to do. This along with my connection to Jessica gave me 4/7 people I needed to ensure I survived the F7 round. Following the immunity challenge Perry expressed interest in wanting to work long term with me as well, since we were "under the radar" meaning my strategy to appear under the radar had worked. With Tess immune, all the former Cascade members agreed to eliminate Wyatt so Tess wouldn't have so much power going into the final rounds. It worked for me, because Wyatt was the least beneficial to me in the game. With Wyatt out of the picture the F6 was where things started to tense up. Perry wanted Jessica gone, but Vincent and I both wanted Tess gone. With Perry deadset on voting out Jessica, I had to come up with a solution to make sure I controlled the round. By taking control into my hands it was ensuring I'd have a good shot to win the game. After Perry had expressed interest in wanting Jessica out, I told Jessica and Yvette about it, and also clued them in to the fact that he wouldn't have minded going to the end with Tess. This combination of things gave me the perfect recipe to get Tess out of my hair that round, and it got Jessica/Yvette to mistrust Perry. In short, I used the bonds and connections I had formed with the other Cascade members, as well as being UTR for a few rounds to get myself to the place I'm sitting at right now.
Also, I'd like to know: When we hit the merge, if everything had gone your way, how would this game have unfolded? I do wanna know if you would have been loyal to Gloria and myself too.If everything had gone my way, I think this would have been my ideal boot order:
12. Hannah
11. Stephenie
10. Tess
9. Jessica
8. Perry
7. Wyatt
6. Vincent
5. Yvette
4. You or Gloria.
It's very hard for me to make a decision when it comes to who I would have wanted to sit in the end with. I'd like to think I would have been calculating and put myself in a position to win the game in which case Beau had to be in the finals with me because I knew he'd never vote for me after all the rough patches we encountered. At the F4 if I would have played with my heart I would have gotten Gloria/Beau out. I felt a lot closer to you and it really would have been difficult to cast a vote against you in this game. If I play with my head I think I'd vote you out because Gloria would have had an extreme amount of Jury hate along with Beau, which would have been a nice combination to be sitting next to in the end. Even still I'm unsure if that's how I would have allowed it to go, because I was playing to win from Day 1. Our bond was very strong imo, so as much as I want to say I would have been cutthroat, it'd hard for me to say that I would have absolutely voted you out.
- Please describe ONE moment we shared together, whether it's social or strategic or whatever. I wanna know how well you consider we bonded. I know it'll be hard for some of you but do your best.I think the moment I remember us bonding a lot was during the F11 vote. Beau was going off on both of us about the vote and how he was at our mercy. I remember you saying to me that you don't think you could have handled it if I wasn't there, and internally I felt the same way. I remember that was when I really felt connected to you, and that it was us against the world in some capacity.
- List the Top 10 moments of this season. Hopefully you are able to sell yourself in those.
1. Tess's blindside - I list this as the top moment of the season because I think Tess was truly blindsided. Based on her response in the results thread she seemed shocked she was leaving and everyone loves a good blindside. Especially when it involves one of the best players in the game.
2. Dallas's boot - As long ago as it was. It was hilarious. Not only was Dallas blindsided, but she was blindsided with an idol in her pocket. I think the thing that makes this such a high moment in the game isn't only the circumstances around it, but the fact Dallas's exit speech was a recurring theme in the game. As if that wasn't enough. The cherry on top was the fact she vowed to come back from Purgatory, only to be the first boot. Hilarious.
3. Stephenie's boot - Steph's exit makes it this high for me not even for being a blindside (since it certainly wasn't) but for the fact the way that round went was so surprising. It was suppose to be a simple round with Beau leaving but then right before the deadline the votes turned between Steph and I because of Beau being idoled. It was a true testament to how crazy the season was and nobody really knew what to expect until votes were read.
4. Purple Rocks - I put the purple rock round here for being a lot like the Stephenie vote. It was a shocking moment in the game, that everyone was willing to leave their fate in the hands of luck. Even though I wasn't present for this judgement, I imagine it was one of the more tense moments in the game, and that makes for a good moment.
5. Gloria's random outbursts - Some people may not agree with this, but I found it entertaining. Gloria was a true diva in this game. Her talking in Spanish, and bitching at multiple players in the game (Rose, Tess, Jessica) made things interesting to watch, and without her you'd lose some entertainment value in the season.
6. Gloria/Quincy returning from Purgatory - Returning from Purgatory is a feat in itself, but given how both of you went out, it was the most interesting scenario of any and it made both of your story arcs all the more interesting. Throw in the fact that you both came back with idols, and we're really talking about rising from the ashes.
7. Hannah's exit - I put Hannah's exit here because the first round of merge is always crazy and this round was no different. Things fell on tribal rounds that round but it definitely seemed like there was more going on, and that a lot of people were keeping their cards close. It's a round that when confessionals open up, I think you're going to see a lot of scheming which is what viewers love to see.
8. Wyatt's exit. I think Wyatt's exit makes it this high because it wasn't a bright move but an interesting one. I was an underdog in this case but I was able to turn things around for myself and survive over someone who wasn't seen as much of a threat, which helped set me up to get to finals right now.
9. Gloria's first exit - I think Gloria's first exit was interesting in the sense that Stephenie was able to turn things around for herself after the Freddie vote to get a huge threat out in Gloria. It was interesting to see a huge threat go out so early, only to come back a few rounds later.
10. The Final 4 - This has to make it on here because when it gets down to the last few people the edit always seems to surreal. These people survived over everyone else and were able to make it very far. You get to see the rites of passage, and in our case a tense immunity challenge that was very hard fought. Follow it out with a tie at judgement and you have one of the best moments of the season.
- What are your Edgic-related projections (Overall Rating for the Jurors and the F3)?
Hannah - CPM
Stephenie - OTTP/CPP
Quincy - CP
Gloria - CPN
Beau - OTTN
Wyatt - UTRN
Tess - CP
Jessica - CPP
Yvette - MORP
Vincent - UTR
Perry - MOR
Luca - CPM
I think this touches on everything Quincy. If you have any more questions, or any follow ups let me know. I'm trying to crank everything out before I go to bed tonight, because even though everything isn't due until 10 tomorrow I want to get it all over with so people can ask me anything else they feel they need to ask. Thanks for your questions and good luck with your vote!
So here we go!
