Round 13: Finale! Frustrations, Woes, and Playing to Win

[nickdrinkwater]

Here's the deal, if you've checked out my venting thread you'll know that I have have played a role regarding Rocky's belief that he can't win the game which is leading to he feeling that he wants to quit. Which like, by voting me out you weren't gonna win anyway but you were fine with that so?    Which is fucking annoying. If he does, it better be a final fucking two.

Regardless, that isn't the only reason. At least to me, he's playing up that he wanted to win his way to the end and he cannot beat Tyler in this challenge, which is probably true. He also feels on the outs because he was left out of the vote, but that's really irrelevant so I'm finding it tough to believe that's the case. Additionally, he doesn't want to be dragged to the end, but like, that's exactly what I want if I'm gonna have a shot at winning. So, tough shit. Any way, now I have to babysit the situation. 

Tyler has told me he is voting with me against Kyle should he win the challenge and he has no reason to lie, so at least that is two people voting for Kyle. I'd assume at that point Kyle would try and get Rocky to vote for me, which just isn't okay because Rocky isn't giving me faith that he won't vote me out, despite the fact that he said this post last tribal council:



Like, what can I do if somebody just isn't playing to win and wants to see their "ally" or "friend" win.

So, backup plan is to tell Rocky that if he truly wants to be voted out and have a jury vote, I'll tell him that I will vote him out but that he has to swear that he'll self-vote as well, which is what Adrian did. In this scenario, if he bites, Tyler and I vote Kyle, and at worst case Kyle votes for Rocky ans it's 2-2 and then Tyler and I get the only votes on the revote and Kyle goes. Fuck it Rocky will be pissed, I'm playing to win and I don't know if I can do that against both Tyler and Kyle. I hope I can convince him to vote for Kyle since he betrayed Rocky, but I just don't know. I don't want to face Kyle in a "fire building" challenge. That shouldn't even be the case, but Rocky is messing up all my plans. Again, if he quits and makes it a final 2, I think they'll both bring me, but I can't count on it being a Final 2 in that case and what the fuck can I do if it's Tyler and Kyle vs me, like that doesn't give me the best chance to win.

Tyler has also expressed the "not exactly playing to win sentiment" with this quote:



and you best believe that I will read these receipts as an argument against him that he wasn't playing to win. Along with the past info he's told me. I don't give a fuck, if I make FTC, that shit is the Colosseum, fuck feelings.

Should be an interesting final 36 hours of XTC, it's been a long road but I refuse to just accept a loss because of this final hurdle.

[nickdrinkwater]

Update since my last CF:

I have since talked to Rocky, both in messages and on call. It was tense for a while but then he messaged later and was like "want to call?"

And I'm like, "yeah!" as if this conversation didn't have my game hanging in the balance. No biggie.

But we talked and he told me that it was tough but he decided he was going to vote out Kyle. He said that his game was about loyalty, but he knew the move he had to make was voting out Kyle because otherwise he didn't think he'd have a chance to win because people love kyle. I don't know if that's true, but obviously I'm gonna push that. He's counting votes he'll get with kyle vs votes he'll get without Kyle, and yeah, he seems legit. There's no reason whatsoever to lie here, with that being said, he told me he wasn't gonna tell kyle and do to him what Kyle did to Sid. And, yeah, by all means, do whatever, just don't write down "Nick". I think he was terrified that I was gonna vote him out because he voted me out last tribal, but like, it's the final 4, no time for petty revenge.

So anyway:


(i think?)

So F3 of me, Rocky, and Tyler is looking like the route at the moment.

Also, because you never know, Rocky and I discussed how we only wanted each other to win if we made final 3, so just incase the vote fucking ties at the final tribal and Rocky gets to cast that vote to win, he'll vote for me. I gotta prepare for every scenario.

I cannot fucking believe that there is less than 24 hours left in this crazy game. Insane.

[amanxtc]

Whose pretty face will I see after tonight

[nickdrinkwater]

Well, I guess this is it.

I've done absolutely everything I could up to this point to make sure Kyle is the one going over me once Tyler inevitably wins this comp. All I can do from this point is make sure Rocky does what he says he's going to do and then fight like hell to win this season and the damn $200 that come with it. I did not dedicate this much time to happily accept second or third if I made it this far.

I really hope you all enjoyed following whatever the fuck I was doing this season and that I was your oasis among these fucking people. I don't think I played the best game this season, but I do think I played winning one.

So, it's go time: