Post by AJ on Sept 12, 2009 23:58:44 GMT -4
"Should be a fun challenge tomorrow. If it's anything endurance-based, I'm gonna win. Period."
Just sayin'.
That was a great, competitive challenge. I was kind of surprised that all three of us showed up for it, and after I saw that everyone was there I expected the challenge to go really, really long. I was prepared to keep going for many hours, but it turns out that Lex and Lady Gaga both made errors and the challenge was over after only about an hour. Right before Gaga messed up she actually sent me a PM saying that if I quit the challenge she would take me to the Final 2. I never got a chance to respond because the challenge ended a couple of minutes later, but there was NO chance I would have taken her up on her offer. I was gonna win this challenge no matter how long it took, and Gaga's lied to me enough times already for me to know that her word means squat.
So my victory put me in the place of having to choose between Lex and Lady Gaga: who did I want to face in the Final Two? Going into the challenge, I was leaning towards voting out Lex. After the challenge, I thought about it for a bit but returned to the same conclusion. So Lex is gone. Here's why:
First off, I think that there's a real possibility that I wouldn't be able to beat either Lex or Lady Gaga in the Final Two. Both of them played excellent strategic games, and if the jury's inclined to vote along those lines then I'd probably be screwed either way. Plus once Ozzy was gone, it's a near-100% lock that whoever I voted out (either Lex or Gaga) would turn around and vote for their former ally at the Final TC, thus depriving me on one vote for sure. There are two bits of info that caused me to want to eliminate Lex, though. Number one is his response to Ozzy's elimination in the TC thread. Lex said that he wanted to win the final immunity challenge for Ozzy, which makes me think that Ozzy and Lex are closer than I knew. Up against Lady Gaga, I'm hoping that Ozzy's vote will be up for grabs and that he just might vote for me.
Second and most damning for Lex's chances in the Final 3 was Britney's rant after she was voted out. I'll let her explain it, because she painted the picture pretty darn well:
"I know who the liars are. for a note if anyone takes Gaga to the finals then they will automatically get my vote in the end where in a 5 person jury every vote counts. so Gaga if you make the finals good luck pulling off 3 of the 4 remaining votes from the jury "
As much as I respect Lady Gaga and her gameplay (even though she's lied to me innumerable times by now... LOL), my thought process always came back to this one fact: by taking Lady Gaga, I (hopefully!) lock up Britney's vote. I hope that I'll also have Hillary, which means that I'd need either Terry or Ozzy's vote to put me over the top.
Like any jury situation, it's tough to know where everybody stands. It's entirely possible that the jurors mostly hate Lex and would vote for me over him. I could be shooting myself in the foot. It's also possible that I'll get rolled by Lady Gaga. But given the information at my disposal, I think that voting out Lex and taking Lady Gaga to the Final Two is the best possible decision for me.
Just sayin'.
That was a great, competitive challenge. I was kind of surprised that all three of us showed up for it, and after I saw that everyone was there I expected the challenge to go really, really long. I was prepared to keep going for many hours, but it turns out that Lex and Lady Gaga both made errors and the challenge was over after only about an hour. Right before Gaga messed up she actually sent me a PM saying that if I quit the challenge she would take me to the Final 2. I never got a chance to respond because the challenge ended a couple of minutes later, but there was NO chance I would have taken her up on her offer. I was gonna win this challenge no matter how long it took, and Gaga's lied to me enough times already for me to know that her word means squat.
So my victory put me in the place of having to choose between Lex and Lady Gaga: who did I want to face in the Final Two? Going into the challenge, I was leaning towards voting out Lex. After the challenge, I thought about it for a bit but returned to the same conclusion. So Lex is gone. Here's why:
First off, I think that there's a real possibility that I wouldn't be able to beat either Lex or Lady Gaga in the Final Two. Both of them played excellent strategic games, and if the jury's inclined to vote along those lines then I'd probably be screwed either way. Plus once Ozzy was gone, it's a near-100% lock that whoever I voted out (either Lex or Gaga) would turn around and vote for their former ally at the Final TC, thus depriving me on one vote for sure. There are two bits of info that caused me to want to eliminate Lex, though. Number one is his response to Ozzy's elimination in the TC thread. Lex said that he wanted to win the final immunity challenge for Ozzy, which makes me think that Ozzy and Lex are closer than I knew. Up against Lady Gaga, I'm hoping that Ozzy's vote will be up for grabs and that he just might vote for me.
Second and most damning for Lex's chances in the Final 3 was Britney's rant after she was voted out. I'll let her explain it, because she painted the picture pretty darn well:
"I know who the liars are. for a note if anyone takes Gaga to the finals then they will automatically get my vote in the end where in a 5 person jury every vote counts. so Gaga if you make the finals good luck pulling off 3 of the 4 remaining votes from the jury "
As much as I respect Lady Gaga and her gameplay (even though she's lied to me innumerable times by now... LOL), my thought process always came back to this one fact: by taking Lady Gaga, I (hopefully!) lock up Britney's vote. I hope that I'll also have Hillary, which means that I'd need either Terry or Ozzy's vote to put me over the top.
Like any jury situation, it's tough to know where everybody stands. It's entirely possible that the jurors mostly hate Lex and would vote for me over him. I could be shooting myself in the foot. It's also possible that I'll get rolled by Lady Gaga. But given the information at my disposal, I think that voting out Lex and taking Lady Gaga to the Final Two is the best possible decision for me.