Colby's Collection of Quality Questions

[Colby Donaldson]

Hey guys, congrats to both of you on making it to the final two! I have had a great time playing and as usual a thanks to Aras Brian <3 and the all powerful Jeremy for the most exciting game i have ever played and if I am not on all-stars i guarantee you I am applying as some other jamoke next season so I can be ruthlessly blindsided again. On to the business...


Denise
I want you to imagine a kerfuffle between an angry goose mother and a wild wildebeast. In the midst of this clash of the mighty titans of the animal kingdom a feather is released from the goose's wing and floats in to the air. While the goose mother that bore this feather was strong, alone and away from its strong beginnings, the feather is weak. The feather floats in the air wafting along in the breeze before landing in a meadow on top of a mountain. A hiker, previously stranded for three straight days, happens upon this particular feather and is relieved. After three days of poison ivy and rose thorns he has finally found a piece of quality toilet paper, and wipes his three day crusty ass with it. The feather thinks to itself "What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment". Then it realizes it is not a sentient being and discontinues it's thinking. It continues to fall and float and have nothing to do with anybody or anything untill it falls onto an an Indian Chief's headress and sits there. One might wonder how a shit stained  feather landed where it did, outlasting all other goose feathers that became pillow stuffing, on a high pedestal maybe at the top of every goose feather's aspiration. It  looks down upon the others in a position of typical high achievement without actually achieving anything. How the hell did it get there?......Go ahead and take from that what you will

Denise, if you were laying there dying of thirst, I would not give you a drink of water, for it is hard to drink anything with your head shoved up your own ass.

In all actuality and taking this seriously, my question to you is I want to test your understanding of what happened in the game. I want you to explain to me the strategy of each player who was voted out post merge and why you think your strategy was able to get you further than there's. Essentially, why did they fail where you succeeded.

Kelly
I want you to know that at the time of my vote out I was beyond pissed at you. You told me you would take the fall for it if Malcolm flipped, and he did. However you have owned that. At this point that anger towards you has completely vanished. Other than that move I enjoyed talking to you and I think you are an amazing person. You and I could haveve gone far and I hope we get that opportunity in the future in possibly another game. I respect the hell out of your game for making it passed my boot and other than Alina, I have campaigned for you the most in Ponderosa because i think you are honest, have integrity, and are an excellent game player. I liked your opening speech very much as it proved a lot to me about your awareness. My question for you is, you were in a shitty position after my boot. From that point until now how much of your success and life in this game was your own doing? What was it that you can tell me was completely managed by you that kept you around?

For both of you
I want you to know that while I did attack one of you a bit more than the other in this post I did enjoy both of you as people. There is nothing on a personal level that annoyed me about either of you. In all ways that you can spin it, you both played a better game than I did solely based on surviving longer than I did. I encourage you both and all jury members to keep in contact with me because I have loved playing with all of you so freaking much and the group chat at ponderosa has been absolutely flipping amazing. Thank you for making this game one of the highlights of my summer and the entire year.

Love You!
Colbster

[Malcolm Freberg]

I only have one response to this

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[Kelly Goldsmith]

Thanks for your statement, Colby!!

My question for you is, you were in a shitty position after my boot. From that point until now how much of your success and life in this game was your own doing? What was it that you can tell me was completely managed by you that kept you around?

Okay, so like I said earlier, credit where credit is due. The precious gift of Edgardo flipping to our side when I was in a shitty position was pretty much his own doing--it fell into my lap unexpectedly. That being said, I did work closely with him during that round to make sure he was completely comfortable and felt good about his decision to flip because obviously that is a pretty big move to consider. I made a F2 deal with him, and I know he knew this was sincere because I made a big show about being grateful to him for throwing me a lifeline. Not to mention, I genuinely at the time wanted to follow through on it because I thought maybe a good chunk of the jury would be upset at Edgardo for pretty much screwing them over. Eventually, after seeing how much credit he was given in the Majority Rules challenge, I realized that this was probably not the right call and that my UTR gameplay would probably not hold up as well against his visibly strong gameplay in front of a jury.

The F7 to F5 votes were pretty much group decisions. I can't take individual credit for booting Edgardo since it was a decision that we pretty much came to a consensus on because of him being a jury threat. But, again, I would have to take credit for the Natalie boot which is ultimately what kept me around when I was in danger of being booted in the near future. When I initially dropped the idea of possibly booting Natalie at first, Denise was really hesitant and pretty much said she wasn't on board. But eventually after persuading her while simultaneously telling Alina to work on her as well, we were able to make a group chat and get Denise on board with the plan to vote Natalie out. Obviously this is the one move that I've been selling as my biggest move in the game which some people vehemently disagree with and some who don't. But ultimately, I think it was booting Natalie that gave me the ability to really take control of my own game for the final time by winning the final immunity and finishing the game on my terms. 

[Colby Donaldson]

Thank you for your answer I appreciate the honesty.