Monday 14 May 2007

The End

Wow....wow. This will be my last post :(
This game has been great, I must say...the challenges were great along with the host and the players and....well...yeah. I am so glad I survived as long as I did, I truely thought I was gone quite a lot of the time, but, hey, I had a strategy and damn proud of it :P

8.1 was, well...predictable. The mole, well, he didnt need to do anything, I mean mine and Padraigs performance says it all, dont you think? I mean me and fred did bad as well, (and Fred and Pad did worst :P) but....anyways....it wasnt too shocking to see no money go in the pot.
8.2 was, well....funny. The first part, well....I honestly didnt think Pad was being social, and that he wasnt participating, how niave of me, because he is the first to get it...I must admit thinking all passwords were 5 letters long was a dumb assumption we made, but, alas, the good old fashioned; guess guess guess technique works best (:P Fred and Pad know what I mean)Everytime I thought I had it I didnt, I mean, I know pigpen tables, I consider myself quite good at logic things and, well, I completly missed out the orange letters...it wasnt like one or two, it was like complete ignoral. We each sent each other on wild goose chases that last game.

To my fellow 'final three-ers' it was great playing with you, Im so glad we stuck with it, and we can have a good final quiz to finish this off....goodluck all :D

Wednesday 11 April 2007

Evin....

The second that I saw the results, I came here to write this post. Its the least Evin deserves for the effort he put into this game. This kills me to say it, but I didnt beat him because I scored higher (well, obviously I did) I honestly believe he was out by miles.

This quiz was especially difficult because I believe he was on the wrong track and it killed me to know that I didnt beat him by doing better on the quiz and it being a true battle of minds and so on (thats the only way I believed Evin deserved to go, is if we really played to see who should go through). Evin just went onto the wrong track, and so yeah, I wasnt pleased that he was on the wrong track, but, it meant a pass to the final three, so in the grand scheme of things....it is ok.

Evin, your spirit will be missed, your team-contributions will be missed, I mean we used to talk quite a bit some times, and I didnt tire of them, sometimes in ORGs its a strain to talk, but I didnt find that at all. I dont have facebook or whatever, but Im seriously considering getting one or signing up or whatever you have to do lol.

Goodluck in all you do, you will seriously be missed by everyone of the final three.

Sunday 8 April 2007

Official Confessionals # 7

Here we are guys, the final four. Most consider this round the upmost importance, the last round where information you gather is reliable lol. Let me say this first, no matter which one of us goes, I am truely grateful and proud to have played with all of you and the three of us that make it, deserve it too.

So, the first challenge, the stock exchange. Now, finally a challenge that I can do, I put money on the stock markets, weve had to do it before in school, so I knew what I was doing, and I made a 1% profit in 5 days, which doesnt sound good, but it really is. (In real terms anyways) but I know a few other people lost us some money, and to be honest, I think we balanced each other out, either gaining or losing a few cents, so a morale victory I guess...

Ah, minesweeper. Well done Fred and Pad, Fred, I can see youve playe quite a lot, and had I been on later that day, I guess I could have helped, but we both would have done the same thing, so all in all, a job well done :D. Pad, I know you helped even though you're not saying much about it, so thank you too. :)

Then...the one with him in it. You know who I mean, that silly Ryan....and the guard too (:P). Not much I can say about that other then to come clean, I did plan on assessing the situation and doing one of two things, if I could, get all the keys for myself (would explain the early stalling) but if not, I would want to be the first line of defense to try and help those with keys get to the end....(I dont honestly think I would have helped though, my luck is appaling :P) so yeah, two very opposing strategies, in the end, though, I just charged at the guard...for no given reason other then I just found him irritating :P We lost due to luck, no matter what anyone else says.

So that about rounds it up, we made $3.50, which in therory we could have made an endless amount of money on (how?? :P) was still good, better then a lot of the previous rounds! So, woot team if anything :)

Wednesday 21 March 2007

Ryan Is Gone

Ryan, now, that was unexepected. Honestly, this is the first time I am shocked at an execution, more so that you were gone and not me...Anyways, I have been delaying this post for as long as I could, because, I guess we never really saw eye to eye lol.

Ever since you had a go at me, I think way back in episode 3, I never well, really got along with you and choose to spoke to you on very few occasions. I purposely didnt give you the virus just so hopefully you could have it much later in the game (in theorey :P) and so should I make it there to, I'd have a much better shot...I think I have to apologise for holding a grudge, but mole games make things more personal then other games I guess.

It seems that a few other people suspect what I did, I wasnt there at the funhouse but from I gather and obviously they did to, you did things unnecessarily, alls well and good if you are pretending to be the mole, but why pretend to be the mole secretly? Its just a conincidence that we found out I guess.

Saying all that though. You were a brilliant player, no matter what I or anyone else say, you did play this game well, and I was glad that I got to play with you, albeit the nonexistant chats we had :P So, goodluck in other games and see you soon :D

Sunday 18 March 2007

Round #6 Confessional

This round was interesting, yes you could look at it from a money pot scenario, yes we did lose money and thats certainly not good, however...it was interesting in the intergroup...(how do I put it)...politics. You could clearly see that people couldnt care less about coalitions they had before, how quickly they were to stab the person next to them, and although that should be saddening, it clearly shouts out for everyone to hear...game on.

So the idol challenge, certainly inventive. I am not quite sure what happened there, it seems that people did things out of order and files types couldnt match (which I dont know why, there are loads of programmes that could sort that out) anyways, a comedy of errors you could put it as. Even the final decision to just send it in as it were lost us money, you can blame everyone (yes including me, means everyone). Even the post explaining what happened was confusing, but at least we didnt lose money....(but we didnt really earn much either)

So the funhouse challenge...I would have loved to of been there, if for no other reason then to tell everyone not to open those damn boxes! That happened last time to me and I failed lol. You cant however say to someone dont be greedy. Weve already established game on...but...meh it doesnt matter people will still go for things anyways, Im wasting my time :P

Mike Is Gone

Mike. Some say this was shocking, some claim that it was inevitable, I say neither and both lmao. I didnt know Mike in the beginning, so we really started talking towards the end...and, I am sorry for that, I liked Mike, I liked his mentality of the game and how he acts in the challenges. Mike I found you civil and smart and very approachable, I do wish you could have stayed around a lot longer, good luck in future games. :D

Sunday 11 March 2007

Official Confessionals #5

Soo...an exemtpion was offered, plus a mystery reward. Guess what? Fred won! Am I annoyed?No. Am I disheartened? No. If I couldnt have it, Im perfectly ok with Fred having it.

Please excuse my jibberish...:P...lets get on with this round shall we? :D

The dice game, no money could be won....so, it was a win win situation, we could all go for an exemption without having to worry about the pot suffereing. I am glad we got it finished in the end. However, this challenge was worth so much more then an exemption....it showed everyone...just who is in a coalition...and who is playing their alliance like a fiddle :P More on that later.

So the photographing game....I know Padraig really wanted to give us the most time possible, so I dont blame him for not letting us post what we could and couldnt do, because most of those items anyone could have...I am annoyed I couldnt really do more for the group, but, a baseball glove was not likely :P. I however think, for the time we were given, the planning that happened....I am thankful for Padraigs work, he did get us a lot of money this round because of it.

The chip game. To me, one of two things were going to happen, we would all puncture the hearts of each other with knives to the back...or we were going to win $3. The first happened. Now, Im not saying I wanted money out the pot, but that last challenge, along with the first one with the dice, it gave a lot of information away to those that were paying attention...especially a little transaction that appeared later on, so it was quite interesting to watch. I admit to putting Fred in the position he was given, I could have taken him out, but its something I will learn from.

People that read this who have no idea what Im talking about in terms of transactions....someone made a transaction in this game with someone else....a third person knew of this deal before it was announced.