Right, bear with me, had hardly any sleep after 2 days of travelling.
But on them long boring bus trips, I thought about my first ever casting a lot (when I wasnt wanting to throw up from the corners!)
I relised that I gave my own account of my elimination, but not about how others played the game. And since I saw the others did that once I left, here is what I think.
1st place - Imi. First of all congrats, you got us all, and perhaps thats why you deserve to be the winner. However, I dont agree with how you play the game. Ok sure, the game is there to be played like that. Clearly you have an advantage if you are online 24/7, and you were online the most. But this is why I think there is a small flaw in the game. Yes being active is important, but not to the extent of who is most online should win. (Might as well call it a competition to find out who has no life the most, no offence imi, not saying you have no life, just making a point.
Related to this, imi, your tactic is to tick everyone and get everyone to tick you. Not saying this is bad, its just not my style and seems a bit silly to me. In that case, does that mean the person who can post the most messages should win? What bothers me with you though is that you frowned upon my tactic of ticking comments I like only, as if its a wrong way to play, and thats why I got voted out....purely because I didnt play the way you wanted me to. Shouldn't that be admired that I was not prepared to ride your coat tails to the end.
Lastly,you often challenged people for lying, when in fact I am 99% sure you did plenty of lying of your own. Some of the things (which I wont go into for the most part) were not believable, and you didn't get that disputed key? I would like you to just admit you did. The game is over. How else would you have won? You claimed the day before you had no keys, so unless you managed to find at least 3 or 4 in that day, that was a lie. Cause Conza had 3, and was higher on you with ticks and doing better in the challenges.
Actually one more thing, you complained about my alliance with dodger and helen, and the parting shot claimed dodger voted me out too. Then you said to her after that you said for me to work it out. YES, you gave me that opportunity, but you were adament she voted for me, and you were wrong. Have you apoligised to her and/or me? I doubt it. You either lied about that to me (when you didnt need to since I was gone anyway) or calculated it wrong. As for Helen, yes Helen and I alligned early in the game, but we barely got going (as you will see in my response to her). I am disappointed that you think I was a "pawn for the girls" when I did next to none strategising with helen and dodge and I worked together. Neither used me at all.
I believe you lied, you backstabbed, you cheated just as much as the rest of us, if not more. In saying all of this, I am not going to say you don't deserve the win. Because in this format, I guess you did, well done, and best of luck for future games.
2nd - Conza. Wow, I really thought you had it in the bag. Though if anyone was gonna beat you it would be Helen if she returned in time. I am sorry you didn;'t win, imi got you too. But I enjoyed playing with you, you are a good guy. My only issue is that when you went on about me not wanting to share my stats. I really was busy, and if people dont want to, is that such a crime? Besides that, nicely played, a fully deserved 2nd!
3rd - Dodger. Dodger Dodger Dodger. You were awesome to me. It was weird, day one and I immediatly knew that I needed to stick with you. Only others talked to me before I got a chance. But I am grateful you stuck with me right through to the end. You are awesome, and a fantastic player, and I REALLY wanted you to win. I cant wait to be in a casting with you again. Thank you so much *Big hugs*
4th - Rebecca. Ahhhh the sweetheart of the casting. It was so horrible when I got nominated with you. Either way I was gonna lose. Either go out of the game, or lose a great player and friend. I am glad you made it to the end. And stoked we have ended up in a new casting together. Everyone, we both got nominated last night, and it was a 3 way tie, and the 3rd person got taken out, how cool is that??
5th - Helen. I am sorry we didn't get to talk more, and hopefully we do again. You are a VERY good player, and thought you or conza had it in the bag. Maybe you having to go offline was your undoing, who knows? But I do want to say something. I am disappointed that you kept accusing me of having the disputed key, when my nomination ended up proving I didn't (remember you missed that challenge so had I had a key, we would have been equal, and presumably you would have been nominated for the challenge). So I was probably that one key away from the final 5. But it never came for me. I hate having people accuse me and not believe me when I am telling the truth. I even swore on my life and tried to get conza to see my screen on skype as proof. You cant photoshop an active screen. I just hope you relise who really got it. But just please, until you have the proper proof to your allegations, be careful of who you accuse. Not that it did you any harm, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. But anyway, thanks for a great game, and well done for 5th :). Nicely played!
8th - Oliver. Sad to see you go man, the first of the more active people to go. I tried to sway votes in your favour with 2 people but apparently it didn't quite work out. I tried :). Wish you were there at the end. Lets hope we get another casting together.
11th (I think) - Penguin. We decided to work together, then you got immediatly voted out! I should tell you though, I was gonna convince dodger imi and Helen to let you join our group, but it all happend so quick! Best of luck :)
So yeah, thanks all to each and every one of the people who made my first casting a pleasure.
