Survivor: Doctor Who - GAME ON!

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Empress of the Racnoss
xofelf
9th Place

Just kidding!

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Sarah Jane Smith
Cheery Dog
8th Place

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Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
TheMothaFuckinBadOne <3
7th Place

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Rassilon
chesskid3
6th Place

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Rassilon
Cephrir
6th Place

that was a typo

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Jack Harness
xRECKONERx
5th-20th Place

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Dorium Maldovar
Papa Zito
4th Place

Dorium <3

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Stormageddon
ForWhomTheJellyRolls
3rd Place

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AND NOW THE VOTES I GUESS

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Spoiler: First vote

While I think River had the better FTC, with managing to say something nice to all the jury members, The vote comes down to how I think the entire game was played out, and I think Donna had a game plan closer to my own, even though I failed in some of it. While voting me out had a sour taste, they were both helpful in not letting me go at my third eligible TC, which would have hurt my belief I can play this game.
I understand my boot was a necessary evil, and was probably partly my fault for only actually having an official alliance with two players, and I can't hold that back on the winner (or 2nd place ig others aren't voting with me), the fact she was wiling to self avarice to get to the end makes a worthy survivor winner in my opinion.

Vote: Donna Noble

Have a good new year guys (gals), onward to doing this all again some time.

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Spoiler: Second vote

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Spoiler: Second vote

I think there was a part of me that wanted to vote for Donna this whole time. Maybe because I felt River's betrayal of me in the round I was voted out was too painfully obvious. I mean you're supposedly my ally and you're the only one not telling me that I'm a target, plus you're not telling me that you're going along with the person I'm targeting. It was really clear and not a good way to send someone to jury.

Then again Donna managed to shaft me in Empress's thread about saying one nice thing about each juror and one thing to improve their game. I imagine it was an oversight but, you know it would have been nice to hear both the positive thing and from a game improvement standpoint from her.

Both of you seem to take credit for convincing me not to switch my Sarah Jane vote. IIRC the only person who was talking to me about it either way was Editor, who wanted me to change it. I had my reasons for believing it would be better not to, but that's because I didn't know about your guys' alliance and how much that might benefit me to shake things up. It's possible that you guys both tried convincing me not to change my vote but I don't recall talking to either of you about it (it doesn't mean that it didn't happen, just I don't remember and while I did try to dig through the PMs of one of you already without finding anything I don't really feel like digging through them right now to look for this). It's really a moot point since both of you essentially suggest that you had a hand in it.

River, you botched task 1, it was a neat poem but a limerick and a haiku it was not. Donna gets a point.

In task 2 you both responded with really a bare minimum which is more or less what I expected. It's a tough question. The point was to see if you could say something nice about the other person and how they played the game. You both earn a point.

In task 3 Donna didn't attempt a joke while River did. I wasn't a big fan that it was at Beast's expense, the whole point of task 3 was to help lighten the mood a bit, and avoid any sort of negativity. But I didn't express any sort of extraneous requirement so River would get a point there.

It's all tied up. My intention going into it was to base my vote solely on the three task I had given, whoever completed more of them would win my vote, and if it were tied I would base it off of who did them better. But I don't think I want to do that. There's someone I think has shown that they are more deserving of the win given answers elsewhere and through the speeches and that person is...











































River Song.

I vote for River Song to win.

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Spoiler: Third vote

After much deliberatsssssion and intensssse consssssideratssssssion, I have decsssssided to vote for

River

. Sssshe had much more of a hand in her own sssssurvival thissss game and I think ssssshe ssssshould win for that.

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For the fourth vote, you must all complete the cooking challenge from the final five. GO

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Spoiler: Fourth vote

Donna, during the game I felt like you and I shared a rather special bond. We had a similar mindset about the game and shared a lot of the same insecurities. You were definitely the person I hit it off with the best during the fake merge, and after the real one I felt like we grew even closer. After reading all this endgame stuff, I'm struck and impressed by how you managed to be so incredibly loyal to your core alliance, working precisely to weed everyone not in that group out of the game despite some even within that alliance's best efforts to the contrary. It's no coincindence that your final four was the one you'd wanted for weeks on end, and after that things of course were unavoidably messy but you ended up on top anyway.

River, what can I say. With Jack missing for so much of the game you were far and away the person I was closest to. I shared everything I knew and everything I thought about the game with you, even though you had no intention of ever taking me to the end. That just shows how skillfully you had me wrapped around your finger to use as you would. You skillfully kept your true alliances a secret to the very end, you used and manipulated whatever you had to to get to where you needed to be, and as the trail of dead comrades grew longer behind you you still managed to keep up the warm, caring facade you'd worn all game. Your ability to socially engineer this game was simply incredible, so much so that in the vast majority of scenarios you were destined to end up here.

So who do I vote for then? Do I vote for the girl who never betrayed me, but also never gave me a chance? The girl who stuck loyally to her core alliance, but watched anyone outside that alliance, friend and foe alike, fall without blinking an eye? The girl who played a masterful under-the-radar game, completely ignored as a target until the very end, but likewise made no real moves of her own?

Or do I vote the one I'd hoped to see win this game from nearly the beginning, the one I was quietly still rooting for even as she stabbed me in the back? The one who I would have happily taken the fall for if only we'd planned it out, but who didn't feel me worthy of sharing anything so important with? The one whose PMs I always looked forward to the most because they were so wise and understanding, yet now I know were laced with lies?

I'd like to say I played this game with integrity. When I allied with someone that was a statement that I was willing to go any length possible to see that person to the end. It wasn't just some non-aggression treaty, just something that said I'd leave you alone if you left me alone, or something that came with an understanding that I'd be betraying you as soon as it became convenient. I'd like to think my moves, my votes, and where I put my energy in this game bear that out. So, even though I was ruthlessly betrayed, I will still honor my alliance with my final act in this game.

vote: River

[Save The Dragons]

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Spoiler: Fifth vote

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pot is illegal ya doofus

[Flameaxe]

Speak for yourself

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Spoiler: Fifth vote

This was actually a very tough vote for me. I came into the FTC convinced my vote would go to Donna, but the FTC made me hesitant. I have reasons to vote for both of them. In the end...













































































































































































I want to remain loyal to the person I've been working with the whole game, so my vote goes to

Donna.

[BipolarChemist]

pot is illegal ya doofus

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Spoiler: Sixth vote

I have considered this vote a lot more carefully than I think a lot of the other jurors have, and that's because it's my nature. One thing I want to note before I start talking is that I don't know how to quantify good use of the time travel twist in terms of defining what good play is. Certainly, for reasons related to it, we can easily demonstrate that Donna was always, as every point in the game, far and away the most likely player to make it to Final Tribal Council. Good on her. However, there are other things at play here, and I don't feel that's the entirety of what merits a winning performance. One point Donna used in her closing statement is that River is only here because Donna did not swap her with Jack. And that is absolutely true. What it ignores is that swapping River with Jack would have been an absolutely atrocious move, and she should not have even considered it in the first place; Jack is a challenge beast, and would obviously have taken Storm because that would be his only thing resembling a chance. At any rate, I feel this Final Tribal was always extremely likely, if only in large part because Donna could be counted on to make a poor decision if she won Final immunity. Speaking of Final Immunity, I wish I had asked River whether she would have taken Storm given the chance. I believe that she would have, and therein lies the difference between these lovely ladies. River put it well.
[quote=River]I played this game to win. Donna played this game for others to win.[/quote]
Quite frankly, that is absolutely true, and a perfect summary. Donna's tossing me into the past still frustrates me, and is an excellent example of this, but there are many others. The fact is, Donna's Plan A featured Brigadier beating the snot out of her at Final Tribal. That's a bad plan. She was given another chance for admittedly stupid reasons when the game relieved her of Brigadier (I still wish none of us had done any of that, it could have and actually should have ruined the game), and took River rather than Storm when given the chance. I'm sorry, but that was just incorrect, and I think she realized that even when she was doing it! When River plays to win, that shows me that she actually

wants

to win. I love Donna and all, but she doesn't have a cutthroat bone in her body, and you need that to earn my vote when I feel both of you played comparable social games, because those are essentially the two things that drive my decision.

I don't think River's decision to vote for Donna at F4 was nearly as out of the blue as Donna claims, either. Because River was playing to win. I don't believe that it was one little statement Donna made that shot all that to hell. But it doesn't even matter if I'm wrong; if I'm wrong, then she did an amazing job of stringing me along. And that's just a microcosm for her entire strategy. River is able to sincerely enjoy people, but still recognize that we're here to play a game, and she's shown clearly that her first priority was to win. I feel that she did a lot more to make that happen, and did not at any point coast. In a game of lies and deceit, I feel lying and deceiving should be rewarded when done right. And all the same, River only did those things when it benefited her, not to be cruel.

And that is why I feel that I simply have no choice but to vote for her to win. Donna, you asked me a long time ago how I would kill you, if I had to. Know that the answer I gave is essentially how I feel about this, and I choose not to write your name down with the utmost affection. I'll always treasure what we had! But River always had paths to win, and you could have had them too, but you didn't want them.

Jury Vote: River Song

Spoiler: Seventh vote

Both options sucked, but I can at least appreciate that my reservations about River are more in the, "She backstabbed me," category of things. And that just comes along with the game.

Donna did *bleep*ing NOTHING as far as I can tell and AFKed her way into the finals.

Vote: River

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Donna Noble
DeasVail
Runner-Up

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And the winner of Survivor: Doctor Who...

River Song
BETCH
WINNER

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Spectator reveal!

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DeathNote: Sutekh
BipolarChemist: The Master
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Princess Toady: Goldfish
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Brian Skies: Wilfred Mott
Framm 18: Rose Tyler
Cybele: Idris
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