The Sole Imagineer Season 2: Redemption Island

DSquared

DSquared

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My jury questions:



And here's them in text form, but I explain my reasoning in the video, so watch that too.


@TheOriginalTiki - I'm gonna play bad cop for fun, so let's get something straight old pal. I formed the AntiSpace Rebel Alliance, went undercover as a member of the Merging Quartet to recruit you, Flounder, and Matt, and also took those two and went to spy on Space to get him to split his alliance's votes to get him out. So, how big was your role in getting him out actually? And what did you do to do that?

@Flippin'Flounder - See! I told you underdog isn't a bad thing. But you've basically just bee acting large in the clutch. So, how much of your success do you owe to pure luck, since many of us left you in just to get out bigger threats? And why should your approach of basically using people in your alliance to get targets on them not make you look stratigcally weak?

@IDInstitute - Ah! The second timer! Let's face it, you got to the finals last season just by backstabbing, and did the same this time by aiding in the break up of the merging quartet and sometimes targeting Tiki, who some of your own allies were teamed with. Since you tend to sometimes play dirty, why should a dirty player deserve to win not only once, but twice?
 
RMichael21

RMichael21

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Original Poster
Episode 12 - The Final Imagineer's Council
RMichael21's Juror Speech

Hello finalists, and thank you for being some of the best competitors on this season of The Sole Imagineer. Now, I know my questions will be kind of pointless in the aspect of me gaining knowledge, because I pretty much know everything :p), but I'll ask questions that should enlighten the rest of the jury into a making a decision.

@Flippin'Flounder, I'll start with you.
Throughout the season, you could be seen being a part of alliances with other heavy hitters in the game. From my understanding, it seems you followed the leader to lay low under the radar. Were there any big strategic moves in the game that you believe you deserve credit for and would help you improve your jury plea? In addition, you consistently ranked low in Immunity challenges, but pulled a big win during the final immunity challenge. Do you believe that you could have placed higher in other challenges had you put in the same amount of effort that you did in the final immunity challenge? If so, what changes would you make to improve your performances in the challenges? Finally, would you change anything that you have done to get to this point, or do you stand by all of your creative and strategic decisions?

@IDInstitute, your next!

As last season's winner, I'm going to be frankly honest with you. The elephant in the room is that it's not the best situation to have the same person win the only seasons of a competition twice. I'd say that this is really the only thing going against you at this point. So, my questions... What do you consider to be your best moves, both creatively and strategically? In addition, how did you shed your past stigmas from the original season of The Sole Imagineer to once again make it to the finale? How did you manipulate/control others to keep you around long enough, and even put you in a position of power. I ask because I honestly thought that you would be one of the first to go, due to you winning last year.

@TheOriginalTiki , it's your turn.

Now, I'd say you're the person the jury is the most bitter to, and I can see why. Your cut-throat approach has led you deep into the game but sometimes it's that same approach that gets you blindsided or prevents you from receiving jury votes. Why do you feel that your cut-throat approach deserves recognition and why do you believe that this is the most effective strategy to win The Sole Imagineer. In addition, you were one of the key players behind @spacemt354 's blindside. Do you believe that had you not blindsided space, you would have been able to defeat him in the finale? What was your reasoning behind taking him out?

And that's it! Thanks to everyone for a fantastic season!​
 
spacemt354

spacemt354

Chili's
spacemt354's Jury Comments and Questions

First off, congrats to the three of you! It's been a long journey since January 3rd...and to get to this point not only takes a lot of creativity, strategy, etc...but it also takes a lot of endurance.

I have two sets of questions - one is a group question, and then one is an individual question!

Group Question
Since post-merge, all three of you have done a variety of individual projects. If you had the opportunity, which one of your projects would you go back and "plus" so to speak? Not for any sort of immunity...but just...what project would you as an imagineer like to have done better?

And now that that softball question is out of the way...let's get to the point of this jury and "rip" you apart:hilarious:

The Individual Questions:

Up first @TheOriginalTiki
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My individual question is this:
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What is the name of the Survivor contestant who found this tree? :hilarious:


Flippin'Flounder said:
So, this season has been quite the journey. I'm honored to be here one of last seasons best competitors, as well as the winner @TheOriginalTiki and @IDInstitute!

At the start of the game, I had zero allies. Luckily, the Lassetokis were so good, I didn't have to worry about that. After the swap, I promptly made a final 6 deal with the old Lassetokis, which didn't last, but created bonds with Space and Red that helped greatly later on.

After Sam was booted off, I knew the final 6 deal was dead, so I contacted Space. At this point we were pretty sure the merge was coming, and that it would be a double elimination. DSquared and IDI contacted me, to join a mojority alliance with them, but after the first episode I didn't quite trust DS, so I contacted IDI. After discussing with IDI, we ended up creating a three person alliance between myself, Space, and IDI, which controlled the first vote.

Unfortunately, the next week Space was blindsided, but as far as I know, I pretty much caused that too. My my alliance with Space and IDI caused him to go off the rails when IDI suggested I get voted off. Again, when DSquared (2) got voted off it was me and my alliance pulling the strings. Matt, Red, and I brilliantly kept all Idols off of DSquared by convincing everyone that Tiki was going. Unfortunately, this backfired when there were no Idols anyway, and the 3 Musketeers twist saved Tiki the following week.

In the next vote, I saved my number 1 target and got rid of Matt. The funny thing is, everyone was scared Matt was going to fly under the radar to the end, which is exactly what I did. In the Final Immunity Challenge, everyone was targeting me, but I pulled through and won the challenge.

Now I'm here asking for your vote, because although I might not be the greatest Imagineer, I was the one that was able to have such strong gameplay that Space flipped out and was blindsided to make sure I was safe, and Red played her Idol on me, sending her self home, to keep me in.

See Ya Real Soon
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You're the underdog...and I always root for the underdog. Especially if the underdog is someone who I see creative potential in. (as stated in The Choice quote which you found yesterday;))

However, I am hesitant to vote for you because imagineering should have a major factor in who wins. Even you admitted the other day, aside from winning the last round, you were near the bottom nearly every individual challenge. However, you won when it mattered most, and I give you credit for that.

Nevertheless...you need to convince me it wasn't a fluke to get my vote:cautious:

My individual question is this:
You just won your first individual challenge, going forward in imagineering competition, what changes will you or have you already made to ensure that you are on an upward trend and we can expect more high finishes from you going forward?

Lastly, @IDInstitute ​
IDInstitute said:
The end!

We've finally made it to the end of the comp! It's been a long journey, but a really fun one at that! And, I guess there's some sort of silly ritual where we have to name a winner at the end :p ;) Well, I'd like for you to make it me! :D :p

There are several reasons why I think I deserve the title of The Sole Imagineer. And at the end of the day, it all comes down to two things- imagineering and strategizing.

From a purely imagineering and challenge perspective, I think I have earned votes here.
Firstly, I have the most individual immunity wins out of any contestant left.
While I had some challenges that weren't my strongest due to personal conflicts or lack of time, I always have my 100% effort, and never turned in incomplete projects. In the premerge team portion of the game, I was a very active team member, taking the lead when no one else would step up, constantly contributing ideas even when I was busy, or helping to grow and supporting some of the newer members.
During all of the challenges in both phases of the comp, I really pushed myself to try new things with challenges. I worked hard on improving my art skills, I made some of my personal favorite sites yet, and did lots of new things with presentation from interactive maps to telling stories in a new way.
Even when strategically I didn't need to win, giving less than my all was never an option.
Overall, one of the biggest things I wanted out of this competition was to make it one of the best times in WDWMagic Imagineering history up there with SA2, and with the effort I put into all of the challenges, I feel I have accomplished this.

Strategically, well, I think we all know that's another whole separate ball game :p ;)

From the start of a game I was in a major alliance with tcool. We were each other's number one allies, similar to the know it alls last season, with our goal to get to the final two the second time. While it didn't quite work out because of unfortunate timing with tcool being away and all, it was an integral part of my strategy. Having been the first winner of this comp, I know how crucial it is to have one person who you know you can trust no matter what. When everybody is talking to everybody, sometimes you never quite know who's really on your side. Last season this person of mine was Tiki, and this time it was tcool, and together we did a great job strategizing and controlling the premerge situation setting ourselves up well for later on with great side alliances and plans.

Overall I think this season my strategy shifted more from ruthless blindside after blindside and more with a relaxed style of gameplay. As the original Survivor winner Richard Hatch says, the best strategy one can have is simply to be flexible in your strategy. Don't be afraid to drop a few allies and change plans to go with others if that's what's going to benefit you the most. And with my focus on trying to have s good social game this season, I think I was able to accomplish this as I had connections with many people that were willing to work with me. And because I had lots of connections, a better social game, and was able to make lots of moves without being ousted as such a huge player similar to what happened to Tiki, I actually think my strategic gameplay was more seamless and strong than ever.

Well, that's the gist of IDI this season! I hope I've given you enough information to give you insight into my gameplay and why I think I should win, and if you have any further questions I'll be more than happy to answer them! :)​
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Second time in the finals...either you're a mastermind...or we are all just idiots. :p

I think it's a combination of both. You're approachable and kind, but have a feverish Survivor knowledge that a lot of us don't (a dangerous combination)

One thing in your Opening Statement that I kinda don't agree with though was that you always gave 100% effort in the challenges. Several times (either in private PMs or publically in the discussion thread) you'd make it known that it was close to the deadline and you'd be starting your project.

i give you a pass for when you were in Disney (however even the host RM had commented in one of the reviews on the lack of challenge effort...so if the host noticed a trend...something's gotta give;)

Though you knew when to turn on your creative skills...which are abound:)...and won challenges when you needed to.

My individual question is this:
Was there any strategy to the projects where you were publically saying you were starting close to the deadline? Were you trying to make yourself look like less of a challenge threat? I'm just curious because last year despite vacations and I'm assuming work, you were always tenacious about the projects, so I'm honestly just asking if there was any sort of change in strategy to go along with what you said to be a more relaxed approach this season.

Congrats again to the finalists and thank you for your time - and no I'm not going to ask anyone to take out their teeth:p;)
 
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MonorailRed

MonorailRed

Applebees
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TheOriginalTiki said:
If we loose we should definitely boot him, and I'm pretty sure IDI would go along with that. I honestly think all the main targets should form an alliance, and for my money that would be the two of us plus Space and IDI. If we don't then the four of us could all very well be out before the final three!
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What the crap Tiki? :cyclops:

All I literally did was come up with the name after you said something :p:hilarious:

MonorailRed said:
Can we please call ourselves the "Attractions Alliance"? Cause like... I think it's absolutely hilarious we all have attractions in our names :p
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Matt7187

Matt7187

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@TheOriginalTiki:

For the second straight year, you have become the villain of the competition; stabbing multiple people in the back to get to finals. I have to ask the obvious question; how on Earth can you justify that being a good strategy? Considering that you have screwed over at least half of the jury at some point, how can you expect them to vote for you?

Additionally, in your own opinion, why do you think people are always so willing to join an "alliance" with you, when it is basically a foregone conclusion that they will eventually be eliminated before the finale? What makes you so attractive to desperate competitors, when it would be more beneficial to go to literally anyone else in the competition for an alliance.

@Flippin'Flounder:

Near the end of the competition, you caught Tiki-itis and went behind my back and orchestrated my blindside elimination. I want to know, in full honesty and excruciating detail, how all of this went down, who started it, everything. And I want to know why you would consider me a bigger challenge to you than tiki, when I have continuously this season had subpar projects and had less free time to get things done.

@IDInstitute:

I really don't have any pressing issues with you, so I don't have any significant questions haha. So I guess you can answer this; what do you think was your worst project this year, and why? How would you improve it? Also, what would you do differently from now on to avoid having last minute projects like you did a few times this season?​
 
tcool123

tcool123

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tcool123 said:
Well since @IAmNotAHufflepuff I guess it's my turn now!

So it's time for me to ask some very brief questions, and I really thought I could go deep into this, but I guess I can't since I never really talked to any of you except for IDI in this competition.

Tiki - Now I am a rather nice guy. And I don't have that many questions for you I guess. However there are some things I am quite curious about.
- Were you ever truly threatened by me? On any level, answer truly.
- Now I remember two things from the Fallen Comrades podcast of yours. Other than the fact you were drunk, and space had very interesting detailed notes. Had I turned in a project that round, would you still have gone with space to vote me of that round?
- And I'm out of questions...

Flippin' Flounder - You remind me of me last year. I big in backstabbing like a certain other finalist. Nor was I the best. So my question to you is :
- How are you doing? Do you see yourself next year as a finalist?

IDI - Damn it I had a bunch of question for you, and your first paragraph was about me being your trusted ally.
- However I still have doubt even though you say you were allied with me. I'm not 100% sure since all this IDI talk in other's prior posts. Where you truly my ally all the way? Or just like tiki last season your trusted player, were you going to backstab me?
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May I edit this I have a few more questions I would like to ask based on things I remember from earlier in the competition.
 

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