(Sorry Jon, forgot to answer <3)
*****ASHER***** - I completely respect your game. However we did not speak enough independently for me to see your gameplay standing on its own without being attached to Marissa who was a dominant personality, and a strategic and physical force in this game. Whenever I would talk game with people from our side it would either be Marissa speaking for you, or myself and Jay talking outside of our final 4 chat. I don't doubt that you and Marissa had a partnership rather than her controlling you but the fact that it was Marissa who was the one putting the work in strategically and socially will definitely have an impact on my vote.
If there are any specific examples you can give me and the rest of the jury IN DETAIL I think this would definitely help your case. I know you mentioned convincing Marissa not to use veto and evicting Jay but these were both EXTREMELY late game. I'd like to here about the influence you had on Marissa in the game and some specific examples of this to prove to the jury that you and Marissa were equals and that marissa wasn't carrying more weight.
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I think i spoke to many people outside of our alliance, in fact people APPROACHED me. Jeff was always approaching me to backdoor Marissa. Week 9 I knew about the plan to BD Jon, since Daniel came to me and told me, he said he wanted to keep me safe and wanted me to stay in this game, and if veto was to be used he was planning on back dooring Jon. I knew this information prior to Marissa and informed her about this. I think its a testament to my social game, people would come up to me wanting to keep me safe. Like I already said, me getting Marissa not to use veto. People see Marissa as this person with all these side alliances and deals, but I also did that. I had side alliances and deals to keep myself safe because when the time came, if i wanted any chance of winning, Marissa would have to go. I also had to campaign against Marissa and even threw the F4 POV so she would be evicted. Also Week 4 I really pushed for Andrew to go (and got my way) since Andrew didnt throw the previous BOTB for me.