Round 13: Finale! Oh My Fucking God.

[Nick]

Wow, just wow. Just to take a moment right now before the final days of insanity, I feel so humbled to be at the F5 right now, I know how I did it but I just can't believe I actually managed to do it considering the journey I've had this season and the fact that I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, and with this season and these players, damn. I'm shook. 


Tribal tonight was like:

Teddy went home tonight and it kills me from a personal level because I really liked Teddy and bonded with him, but I couldn't be emotional and keep him when I don't believe that would have been best for my game. I know that people think that Jenn and I have played similar games, and getting her on board to vote Teddy tonight could be something that I could claim as something I wanted to do and pushed for. Strategically, it's going to be difficult to separate us. Frankly I think it will be hard to separate our game play across all aspects, and I know she's perceived as the bigger threat 


Teddy also called me out as he was leaving saying I was riding a thin line, like he thinks I'm stupid enough to think Austin has my back over his own damn self. Teddy PLEASE.

At this point I just want to get to the end and I feel like I can make solid argument against anyone I'm up against. I am in now way saying I think that if I get to the end that I am an obvious winner, in fact, I feel like if I get to the F3 I'll face an uphill battle regardless based on who's on the jury and "friends" who are on there, but I think so many of us are even in terms of gameplay that getting there and arguing with confidence and owning my game is my best bet. My ideal boot list the rest of the way is:

    - 5th: Austin

    - 4th: Jeff

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    -  3rd/second runner-up: Steffen

    - 2nd/runner-up:  Jenn

    - 1st/winner: Nick

Voting out Teddy puts Jenn and myself in the middle and puts me at less risk (in theory) because Austin and Steffen working with Jeff is unlikely, while Jeff will want to work with Jenn and myself over them. The risk factor of them teaming up is much lower in this scenario, although it is still present. Taking Jeff to the F4, while risky (maybe?), kinda pits him vs. Jenn and steffen would vote with us over jeff at that point if jeff doesnt win.

If Jeff did win immunity in that scenario it gets dicey, but if Jenn and I get to the F4 we can at least cause a tiebreaker.

Steffen's idol could fuck everything up though, so stay tuned on that front. 

While this could very well be overconfidence, or ego, or cockiness, or just false hope, a F3 with me, Jenn, and Steffen in my eyes is really a final 2 with me and Jenn and hopefully in that case I am able to argue my case better than hers.

It's obviously going to be a crazy ending because Cartagena has been a crazy season, I just hope I am able to deliver it the ending it has earned to be the best season of Conquest yet. (which, like, I'm obviously bias but that doesn't make me wrong, although it may make me self-important? idk)

[Nick]

How I thought I was gonna be in that challenge:


Me during the challenge:


Me after I finished the challenge and had a score of 9:


Me now that the challenge is over and I'm PRAYING that 9 is low enough:

[Nick]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I WON THE FINAL 5 CHALLENGE AND SECURED A PLACE IN THE FINAL 4. WITH JENN. WHAT A JOURNEY.

Things I did: THAT.

[Nick]

This decision is so difficult, and I shouldn't have expected anything less at the final 5. 

[Nick]

I do NOT like when people try to guilt me into doing anything. I've tried very hard to be clear with people in this game that I haven't tried to guilt them even what I was telling them something they didn't want to hear. I respect the hell out of Austin as a player and a friend in this game, but do not try to guilt in into keeping you.

Austin: i feel like i got used and tossed aside
. im sorry for caring when you were upset about lizzie

Austin: i don’t know if i could vote for you after this honestly
. i don’t even want to go to tribal i am so embarrassed

I DO NOT like that Sam I Am, I do not like guilt trips with green eggs and ham. I told John in my interview that was the one thing I hated in real life and in this game it was gonna piss me off equally. I respect the hustle, major props for trying as hard as possible, but don't try to guilt trip me and expect positive results.

[Nick]

Steffen high-key should've played his idol on Austin but somehow he was convinced not to adlskadhkds but in a season with messy gameplay, it's to be expected.

My face when John drops that it's gonna be a final 2.



If Jeff loses the next Immunity Challenge I think that Jenn-Steffen-Myself will vote him out and be the F3.

So, with that being said, when Jeff wins the next immunity challenge, Jenn and I are going to try and get Steffen and Jeff to not vote together and pull a 2-1-1 and vote out Steffen out. Which would be ideal for my game because both Jenn and Jeff would take me to the F2, but Jeff is a much bigger threat, so I'd rather take him out next. Still, I'm looking at it from all angles.

Only 2 more challenges and 2 more tribals I need to make it through, I'm so nervous but so excited. This game man...

[Nick]

T-Minus 15 minutes until the biggest immunity challenge in the game thus far, the F4. Sadly, Jeff will be competing tomorrow, so regardless of how tonight goes, the results won't be in until tomorrow. My plan is to shoot for 3 hours, but like, that's really unlikely, but that's the goal since I won't have Jeff's competing in front of me. 

[Nick]

Narrator: He did not get 3 hours.

[Nick]

I just won the Final 4 Immunity challenge. *ensue freak out*

I was so nervous all day long that Jeff was going to beat my time. I had really convinced myself that my time of 20 minutes wasn't going to be long enough and I was like "Jeff smokes cigarettes, he's gonna be able to balance this Popsicle stick no problem". If you watched me go last night you know that once I dropped I was pretty upset with myself because I was really counting on myself to win this challenge. So once I heard that I was able to win it I instantly felt like this:



It was really such a huge sigh of relief to officially clinch my spot in the Final 3, I'm hoping that I'll be able to use my challenge ability as a way to distance myself from Jenn if we are the Final 2. Other than that, this season has been a hell of ride that I'm not ready to get off of yet, and as the game continues I feel more and more humbled to be outlasting some of these incredible players. 

Right now it looks like it'll be a 3-1 Jeff vote out. I love jeff, in fact:


But Jeff is an amazing social player, and up until he voted my at the F7 he's always been in the majority. Since then he's found himself in the underdog role and if he makes final tribal he'll deserve the big props he'd get. The only thing that could fuck this up is Steffen (AGAIN) but, Steffen feels like his game will be undermined if he's sitting next to Jeff at FTC, so I'm hopeful/confident he will be voting jeff rather than forcing a tie.

But, I'm nervous that if the final 3 is me-jenn-steffen, that if steffen wins F3 immunity, he'll cut me, whereas if me-jenn-jeff are the F3, no matter what I'll be in the F2. But with that being said, at that point if I'm sitting next to Jeff, I'm not all that sure I could win at that point. So my plan is try to get Steffen to take me > jenn should he win, because Jeff needs to go at this next tribal. 

[Nick]

I still can't believe I made the Final 3. FUCKING INSANITY 


P.S. you guys @ me:

 

[Nick]

RIP

[Nick]

Welp. I'm gonna leave this here. It seems like I would've beat Jenn if we made final 2 together, but I can't win them all. So excited to vote for Jenn to win tomorrow night, she fucking killed this season. She has earned this from night one and I'm gonna steal that mug from her. 



P.S. One of my arguments for beating Jenn was going to be that she relied on previous connections (Steffen and Teddy) to help her in this game, while I didn't have those. So it's funny that it came down to Steffen picking her over me. But, I can't fault her for using Steffen to her full advantage, Steffen wasn't playing to win, and he wanted her to win over me (or giving himself a chance to win). So that hurts a little bit but I'm in no way surprised by it, I just wish I could've won that challenge to give Cartagena the ending it deserved with a battle at the final 2, but Jenn winning 9-0 is equally iconic.  

[Nick]

Well, last night didn't go my way. Below is a picture of me:



But I had such an incredible time playing and I am so glad that Jenn is going to be able to pull off this win because if not me it had to be her. I'm moreso bummed that I wasn't able to give the season a Nick/Jenn competitive F2, because I really respected the story of this season and wish I could've given it a competitive F2, even if that meant I'd lose 5-4 (although I'm not sure I would've). But Jenn has play an INCREDIBLE game, and I hope she doesn't feel like this win is diluted because it's versus Steffen. Tonight the only goal is that she gets her very well deserved 9-0 win.

With that, thank you viewers for reading my shit all season long. I know at times I may have been a little mopey or even mean, but like all of us, I'm not perfect and I'm not always proud of the things I do, but I am so proud of the way I played and to take home 3rd on my first game isn't too shabby.

I'll end with what my general feeling was all season long (but now that I've got 3rd... we will see).