Fallen Comrades

[Kenny Hoang]

Well this is my attempt of putting together a reflection thread of the fallen contestants that hopefully I helped to get kicked out of the game and give me thoughts on them and their gameplay. So this is pretty much me do the "rites of passage" while the game is in progress, and plus if I actually get far enough in the game that I have to complete the "rites of passage" I would have it all done if I keep updating this thread so all that I would have to do is just copy and paste and done in like 2 seconds while everybody else would have to spend a good amount of time thinking of what to say. So I hope you guys enjoy this.

[Kenny Hoang]

Sash Lenahan 18th Place
AIM: [e-mail]

Not much I can say about Sash. I mean according to this profile he only has 5 posts and 1 of those posts was to check-in. Not sure if anybody ever got a chance to talk to him. He seemed to have checked out of the game just as soon as he checked-in. He was a no show for the first challenge and tribal council so that was an unanimous vote for everybody. I think that maybe he succumbed to heat exhaustion from the desert environment, I mean look at his pic he looks frail to begin with and I'm sure that people from the city don't know how to deal with extreme heat. So sadly he left the game before he could even play it.

[Kenny Hoang]

Crystal Cox 17th Place
AIM: shskylarsh

Crystal one of my fellow Gabon cast mates in this game. Sadly she was the first victim to the tribal blindsides we have are currently having. Apparently her personality clashed with a lot of people on the tribe. At first when tribal was posted she was not on most people's radar to vote out because Sash and Angie didn't do the challenge and would receive self-votes so that double tribal seemed to be a no brainer. But then Angie came to life on the board and got Amanda to pardon her self-votes at tribal because of a valid excuse for missing the challenge so that brought up the question of should we get rid of Angie or not. Then apparently Crystal pissed off Courtney with asking about her AIM screen name in an offensive manner in the first words she spoke to her the whole game. And somehow Michael and Richard gathered a lot of people to vote for Crystal in a blindside. I would have been out of the loop if I didn't talk to Anthony shortly before tribal and then Crystal talked to me and went a little crazy with yelling at me for no reason. While others say Crystal was "special" I just say she is plain out crazy so I hopped on the band wagon and blindsided her ass out of the game. Her downfall was her personality which is something you can not fix.

[Kenny Hoang]

Michael Jefferson 16th Place
AIM: odvetar

Well another tribal council another blindside. His downfall in this game was his strategy to play the game hard and not seeing how it can piss off a lot of people in the process. From what I can tell he is trying to save weaker players so that they would him around like a dog and do his bidding at each tribal council, which I don't think is that stupid of a strategy to play in the game but it mostly works where there are tribes and definite lines dividing people. What pissed everybody off in the second round was the person he wanted to vote for and why he wanted to for them. His target was Shawna, and his reason was because he talked to her the least out of everybody that was left in the game. That made everybody stop in their tracks and think second thoughts about Michael. I mean I understand his reasoning for him to vote out Shawna because it is a personal reason to vote her out but you can't use the reason "she hasn't talked to me that much in the game" to get other people to go along with you to vote her out of the game unless everybody is just complete idiots. Luckily a lot of us on the tribe actually have a brain and decided to rally together to vote out Michael. We did realize that us voting off Michael was sparing Alicia or Angie from being voted out this round which is what Michael wanted but he was being too much of a threat playing the game extremely hard publicly, he was not trying to be too discreet about it. And the funny thing is that I was trying to tell him that he is voting personally and not logically and that he should be trying to vote with a majority since he told me that he heard his name being mentioned and he was trying to cover his ass. He then last told me that the majority was going to be Shawna and asked me if I wanted to join in. Well I did try to help him out a little by telling him not to vote personal and since he didn't take it out and thought he had majority when he really didn't. I laughing so hard in my head and was anticipating his reaction to the results when he is voted out. So that teaches me not to play too personally and too hard openly in the very beginning of a game.

[Kenny Hoang]

Colton Combie 15th Place
AIM: [e-mail]

Well with Colton it is entirely his own fault that he got voted out. He is one of the least active players left in the game, I mean even Angie has more posts that Colton and everybody considers her to be the weakest player in the game. Then after this latest challenge Colton just starts spamming everybody to help him out in another game her is currently playing. I'm sorry dude but I do not want the first words you have spoken to me all game be "Hey join this site and vote for Sirius/me in this game" I mean come on this shows everybody that you are super active in one game and do not care at all about another. So that was the final straw with people and we voted hit ass out of the desert so he can be more happy in his potterverse playing Sirius instead of trying to backstab stab in Survivor at Colton, who he seriously butchered the character.

[Kenny Hoang]

Brianna Varela 14th Place
AIM: ketchupsplats

Brianna apparently I knew her but she was playing under an AIM I have not experienced so far. She told me who she truly was after the fact she got voted out and I wish I knew beforehand so I could have helped her get further in this game. From what Jen told me about the tribal council that I did not attend Richard exposed Brianna by telling everybody that she was targeting Courtney for this vote and saying that Brianna is targeting strong players making Ace nervous. I knew that Brianna was targeting strong players when she was talking about getting rid of Anthony last round when a lot of people were against it, at least for the time being. So basically Brianna was voted out for a lot of the same reasons that Michael was voted out with playing a little too hard early in the game and targeting strong players when extremely weak players are left in the game. So basically this will be a shocking elimination to the Red team and might be considered another blindside.

[Kenny Hoang]

Ace Gordon 13th Place
AIM: beafraid112

Information Behind the Vote:
Well Ace's reason for getting voted out is actually kind of strange when I look back on it. It all goes back to Tribal Council IV when Richard threw Brianna under the bus with revealing that she was trying to save Courtney (a weak player) and was targeting strong players, which her target at that tribal was Alicia. This all happened in a group chat. So as a result Richard pretty much made everybody want him gone because he threw Brianna under the bus so nobody trusts him and plus he is a weak player. But when we were starting to discuss the votes for Tribal Council V, I was talking to Ace about voting out Richard and he seemed to not want to vote him out. I then told him about Richard throwing Brianna under the bus from what I heard from Jen and he seemed to deny that it happened and was surprised to hear this but Jen then told me that Ace was present in the group chat in which Richard did this so this made me a little suspicious. Jen then told me that Ace voted with Richard and is aligned with so I told this to Brenda and she told Ace and he started yelling at us and saying he isn't with Richard. So now we at least figured out that Brenda and Ace are together and that Richard is a major target right now. So then later I was in a group chat with Jen, Yau, and Shawna in which Shawna brought about switching up the vote and taking out somebody else. In which I went with the idea she brought up and suggested we target Ace. Then I actually started to go through the possible votes and found out it was feasible to target Ace and get him out and when I explained how it could be done they all agreed and we recruited Alicia, Anthony, Angie (sadly self-voted), and Penner to vote out Ace and use some prizes to make sure it wouldn't mess up. So basically he had everything planned to vote out Ace and it was executed perfectly.

Reason he was targeted:
Basically he was targeted because he is a strong competitor in challenges, has received several prizes from Deception Valley, won 2 shards (and not sure how many shards are needed to form an idol), he was already trying to form strong alliances that we have been able to bring to light with Courtney, Brenda, and potentially Chelsea all aligned with Ace, and plus I think he is a snake waiting to strike. So all of these reasons made Ace a huge threat in the game that needed to be taken out and this was the perfect time to do it without him seeing it.

[Kenny Hoang]

Alicia Rosa 12th Place
AIM: lucywithdiamondz

My fiery Brazilian. She was someone I finally got to know later in the game sadly right before she left. An inactive that became active and then went inactive again. She seemed to be an interesting character but her overall weakness was her internet and causing her to self-vote twice thus eliminating her from the game.

[Kenny Hoang]

Richard Hatch 10th Place/Removed
AIM: HatchTheWinner

Sadly Hatch self-voted two times and thus Amanda was forced to remove him from the game in a very angry tribal council which will be brought up later in the next fallen comrade. If Hatch just posted a boot list or didn't go on vacation over Easter he would still be in the game. I personally thought he was a very weak player and did the bare minimum like Angie but didn't try to boast about doing it like she did. I also thought he was a decent threat because while he was a weak player he was also very social which is a bit dangerous in people wanting to keep him around since he is not a challenge threat. In the end his weak activity overall did him in and he is out of the game but at least he is not despised like the next fallen comrade.

[Kenny Hoang]

Angie Jakusz 11th place?/Piece of Shit (or at least that is what Amanda says)
AIM: nawlinsangie

Angie is a very special case. Angie is sort of like Richard but to the extreme and was not afraid to be vocal about it (but I feel that that is putting down Richard because he at least was willing to stab people in the back). Right out of the gate she was inactive and if wasn't for an excuse she gave to Amanda after the challenge she would have self-voted and even be voted out in the first tribal council instead of the blindside of Crystal. Angie after that didn't get that much more active and in fact I was using Angie as the benchmark of inactivity in the game for if you were less active than Angie then you needed to go because that means you aren't doing shit. Angie was lucky to make it as far as she did because of people making some moves early on that people didn't like and some blindsides because they were possible, but her name was brought up practically every tribal council I went to. Then at the merge all shit broke loose and Angie was being very vocal about doing bare minimum in a challenge so she doesn't self-vote which angered the hosts, some pw's, and a lot of the players, I mean I would have loved the chance to have tried that immunity challenge and be in the game instead of her worthless ungrateful self. And then she also self-voted in the 5th tribal council showing how she is not in this game. So with all of the shit that Angie pulled and angering pretty much everybody in the game she was the first and hopefully only victim of Amanda's bra gun this season and got what she deserved, I would have killed her myself if it would have let me take her place in the game.