Mipha

My first question here is coming a fair bit later than my questions to Urbo and Revali. That's not (as I think you might suspect) because I'm not going to vote for you. Interestingly, it's more or less the opposite.

I want to vote for the player who played the best game, regardless of who that is or what their relations with me personally were. I also want to use my questions to really push the finalists to prove that they played the best game, and to give some insight into my thoughts as a juror. The best way to ask questions like that is to press the flaws.

And when I'm looking at your game, I'm asking myself... What flaws?

My biggest problem with your game when I left was that I felt you were being overly, overtly, manipulative. Nobody in the game would trust you, and nobody on the jury would respect you. And... I don't think I've seen that view from anyone else except Sidon. So I don't think it really holds any water as a criticism. And as for turning on myself and Sidon, well, you never had a path to victory if you went there with the two of us. If I had gotten my way, you wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the end regardless. So you made the right move at the right time and rode the wave from that all the way to the end.

My only other big problem with your game is the obvious one. You were voted out. It's a huge downside and it's one that makes it very, very difficult for me to vote for you, not just because in a non-Redemption game you would have lost there and then, but also because getting voted out benefitted you enormously in the items you came back in with and that feels unfair on the players who never got voted out.

I haven't been sure what question to ask wrt that. It's a difficult thing to ask a question about. But I think I've got one - if you had had the Redemption Revelation earlier (say, at F13), what would be your play from then on? If you realised your gameplay was going to get you voted out, what specifically would you have done differently?

My first inclination would be that I'm in trouble and need to find a select few that I could trust to not vote me.  This would probably be Sidon/Patricia/Link/Oaki/Oven (although picking Oven would probably backfire as he was close with Urbosa).  I would especially want to get on the same page with Sidon/Patty about what our F3 plans were and what our targets should be instead of letting Patty just go off on what she felt was right.  I didn't offer much input on the vote for F13 and F12 because I was playing a passive social game and I didn't want to make waves.  

When I feel in danger, my gut reaction is always to approach the person who I think is targeting me and try to make amends.  You can't let feelings fester and if I knew that Revali wanted me out so bad at this point in the game, I probably would have talked to him about it.  Instead, I would focus on Kass/Kohga/Horse as I wasn't sure what combination of alliances were happening there.  This is hard to say if it would work at all because it depends on how receptive you all are vs how persuasive I am.  It worked with Kohga in my game but it also happened at the appropriate time and after several rounds of awkward standoff.

I did sort of open myself up to Horse F13 and we agreed to tell each other if we were being targeted but I would likely have taken that even further explaining that I'm not in a good position with only Patty truely being on my side and I'm looking for new avenues.  Basically I needed to not be complacent assuming I was in a good UTR spot and if my revelation shows me that there are strong alliances with horse/Revali/Epona or Kohga/Kass or whatever else, then I would fight harder to be included in those and not focus so much on Link/Oven/Hunnie who I thought were on the bottom.

Things really would have turned around if I gave Sidon more attention and tried harder with Kass like he wanted me too.  If I did somehow manage to convince Kass that I wanted to play a part in their alliance, then maybe Sidon wouldn't have been so nervous about Patty or maybe I wouldn't have been the secondary vote or at the very least, I would find out that Revali didn't like me and Urbosa was just telling me fluff (although I caught onto that with no need of a revelation)

The rest of the game would be hard to predict as I didn't get to see anything on what happened with the popular vs unpopular tribe.  I imagine I would be on the bottom half and that Patty still goes sometime soon unless I'm on the unpopular with her/sidon instead of someone like Revali.  Oaki probably goes there instead of Patty although I think the next round really puts pressure on Patty/myself and I have to let her go if I don't want to be the target.  Everyone seemed to know about that relationship.  The rest of the game is probably me being tight with Sidon/Kass but still coming to the same conclusion that Kass/Sidon can't get too far with me and Urbosa needed to go first chance we got.  That chance will never come so it's possible I don't actually turn on my team this time in order to hurt the unstoppable Urbosa's game and trying to force players like Epona/Urbosa/Oven that if they want to take out a good player, they need to idol to do it.

I think I still lose in this situation because of items and not a great challenge performance.  I can still win passwords so thats at least as safe round but I won't get anymore immunities and I don't have people considering me so much of a goat anymore.  I don't know who comes back either... Horse or Patty probably?  I sort of knocked out several strong challenge players though on Redemption so it could even just be Magda idk.

I would latch onto whoever did come back as I'm not above making friends with people on the bottom to take out people up top. 


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Overall, I played with a confidence in merge that I didn't have pre-merge and I have to say that it's because I had jury information.  It's easy to just play to survive and make moves that benefit you when everyone just considers you a redemption player.  I fully embraced that title and pushed people to consider me weak and that type of confidence is hard to have in a game with so many idols and items and nothing yourself which is why Revali played the way he did.  He couldn't step out of line or a slight target on him could mean death no matter how many allies he had supporting.

Basically Kass, I'm honored you think I played a decent game and I'm super proud of myself for navigating the way I did but without redemption, no I wouldn't have gotten here and I wouldn't have won or at the very least, it would be a super slim chance.  If you don't want to consider redemption a valid part of the game, then that sucks for me haha, but I have nothing else to prove I'm a good winner with "what if" scenarios.