~*Michonne's Mystical Masterpiece*~

[Michonne]

~*Michonne's Mystical Masterpiece*~



"Mike. I miss you. I missed you even when I was with you. Back at the camp, it wasn't you who did it. You were wrong, because I'm still here, and you could be too and he could be. I know the answer, I know why."


Tyreese and Tara, congratulations!!!! I had a fun time playing this with both of you and everyone on the jury. =) I have one question for both of you.

1) Please list and explain three things that helped get you to the final three. This can be other people, alliances, vote-outs, idols, prizes, immunity win, etc. Just the three most important things that you deem to be key reasons in getting you to the end. Explain all three as to why they are the most important for you.


Thanks!




xoxo
Michonne

[Tyreese]

Here's my three. I'm cheating a little bit by describing each person in my alliance, but if you don't like it, stop reading after Carl's bio:

The "Team Diversity" Alliance
Glen helped me figure out how to play the huge advantage that he and I had when we found ourselves entrenched in both alliances at the merge. Him and I spent a long time debating what would be the best in the long term: who we trusted, who we didn't, who was going to be a target, who was going to be a threat. I really wish I could accurately summarize how instrumental my friendship with Glen was in shaping my game, our alliances, and the direction of the game in general, because it was in that span of rounds from the swap to the Daryl vote-out that we formed our battle plan and set in motion the events that shaped the back end of the game. I envisioned Glen and I as the final two for a long time, but in the end we were both hardset on winning, so we had to face off at four.

Tara reached out to me early in the game to complain about her sub-par tribe. Once the tribe swap happened, we bonded and solidified the alliance that carried us to the final four. Her and I always ran decisions by each other and kept each other entertained. It also meant a lot to me that I was her first pick at the tribe swap. She was loyal to me, and I appreciated how she was receptive and heard me out at the final four as without her vote, I might not be in this position.

I'm really happy that fate threw Carl and I into an alliance together. He was smart, he was crafty, and he was a great rallying flag for against the remaining people in the game thanks to his arguments with you Michonne. He was the last person in the game that I trusted (We were really concerned that he might flip even at 8), but once he was with us, he was a great Wildcard to have on our side.

Winning "The Invasion" Challenge for the Prison
This was the first challenge after the swap, and when I won it nearly single-handedly, I think it was what firmly convinced Tara that her and I would be a great team. It put us in a position where we would almost certainly have the numbers advantage at the merge, and really bought me a lot of respect from the people in the new Prison tribe. Also, his penchant for shaking things up helped save me at the final four, for which I am grateful.

The Auction
Winning the vote nullification bought me a lot of goodwill within my alliance. After Maggie left, everyone who didn't know I had it was kind of down. People were talking to me about forcing a tie and whether that would be the best play. I KNOW people were thinking of flipping, and it looked like Team Diversity was about to break up one way or another. The vote nullification let me save the alliance from possible doom and (I HOPE) showed everyone one thing: That I was committed to the team and could and would protect us until final 4. If it didn't and I imagined that ... Then just don't vote for me and let me keep my reality where I got to play the big damn hero at least once in this game.

[Tara]

1) Please list and explain three things that helped get you to the final three. This can be other people, alliances, vote-outs, idols, prizes, immunity win, etc. Just the three most important things that you deem to be key reasons in getting you to the end. Explain all three as to why they are the most important for you.

1 The tribe swap - Volunteering to go to the meeting with the other camp leader put me in a position to have some control over whatever happened there. Michonne and I worked out a way to divide up the tribes. We did it draft style, where we'd take turns selecting people to join us. Taking into account everything I'd witnessed and learned from challenges, and my relationships, I finally had the team I wanted in the beginning of the game. And I was able to better my relationships with these people and allowed me to create some new ones. Doing this, also bought me some one on one time with Michonne, which I like to think helped me out at least a little bit in the future.

2 My alliance - I think the fact that I had some say in who was on the new tribe, made people believe that I wouldn't want to see us fail and that I'd want to work with them for a while, and I was able to prove that through my loyalty and dedication. Carl, Glen and Tyreese were my boys. And the relationships that we had with each other were mutually beneficial. It became apparent that we all wanted the same thing: to make final 4. Where some people may have wavered, according to Tyreese's answer above, I never did and we worked extremely well together to achieve our goals of eliminating all remaining players from the "other side".

3 Winning the final 4 immunity challenge - This was the most important challenge for me to win, and I was able to pull out the victory. I'd say that this saved me. It was a crazy round too, we'd gotten down to 4 like we had planned, yet it was like nobody knew what to do from there! lol I think everyone was telling me what I wanted to hear to save themselves, and one person seemed like they were afraid to commit to a decision, when talking to me at first. I was glad to have immunity, seeing as how Tyreese turned the tables on his close ally Glen, to save himself. Carl and Glen wanted Tyreese gone, so if he had won immunity instead, I'd have been the vote for sure.

Thanks Michonne! I enjoyed playing with you as well.

[Michonne]

Good luck to you both. You both were awesome players <3