Dix Pix

[Dixie Crawford]

CONGRATS ON F2 U 2.♥ I AM GLAD IT'S U 2 HERE AT THE END OF THE DAY.

Okay no more screaming Dixie has retired. ;[ RIP

2 winners fighting to be the ultimate winner is very epic! I hope nobody's vote is locked without waiting for you both to give your case because you're both really close in my eyes. I have bi polar thoughts about your games and I keep thinking one is better than the other.

What I'm gonna do is praise and diss each of ur games. To win my vote feel free to respond however you like....coming up with a counter reason to my diss or elaborating on a praise. Make sense? I HOPE!!!

I'll diss you first then praise you cuz nobody likes to be dissed ukno? Don't be offended pls my disses are just reasons why I'm not completely sold on either of you. My praises are reasons why I want to vote you each.

Dominic-
DISS: Not once in this entire game did we ever speak on AIM. Dixie from season 3 would love this but she at least spoke to some people from time to time. I never saw you at all!! Did you ever use AIM or did you rely mostly on PM? At least for me, during the early part of the game, I had to hear what you were doing from other people. We'd go rounds without a pm exchange too. I told you at the start of the game I never wanted to do anything against you. Which was true when I said it....(and eventually that came full circle) but there came a point where I literally would have had to nominate you because of your poor social skills with me. I nominated you at final 12 and would have nominated you at final 11 simply based on others working on their relationships with me. This is perhaps the biggest problem with you being the winner to me. The person winning ALLSTARS is the one that was never online? Kind of iffy~ I know that you had a lot of people targeting you, but it seems you didn't cover your bases well during the Pre-Jury portion. Estelle was much more safe when she was a winner too, and friendships aside, that does account for something.

PRAISE: You are probably the single person I would have picked to definitely not make the final 2. (Actually that would be Ryan...) but seriously I am in awe that you are here thinking back to day one. I wanted to align to you at the start but so much people wanted you out. It came to the point where I had to pretend I wanted you out to appease people. I truthfully did not care to see you go. I only ever did when I was unsure of your motives at f12/11, but a lot of my conversations with other people regarding you were me just agreeing and saying it because I knew how bad the other person wanted you gone. I think your name came up literally every round up until Jury. For that reason I think it would be EPIC if you won Allstars. You were in my opinion the best winner of Rise and Fall [no shade to other winners] and that alone makes you deserving just for being here again. Your game at the merge was well played and you didn't let stupid remarks divert your course. You got insulted for your decision at final 8 but you proved it the right one. You trusted your gut and it worked. That HOH was also a clutch factor in the survival of our alliance. You were very well positioned and the target was constantly shrinking when the focus was on me/Rhian/Estelle. You and Talla making it so far together (when you knowingly had a relationship) is also impressive. If you can get past the issue of not speaking with people I think this game would be yours for sure.

Estelle-
DISS: You were virtually non existent for the Pre-Jury stage of this game, which I don't think was UTR strategy. You were not happy to be playing with Talla and you said it made you not wanna talk to anyone --- and you also said that nobody talked to you or cared what you thought. You had no impact until the Jury phase on any evictions. The entire game from start to finish should be analyzed, not just the last portion. And if I compare you and Dominic, I noticed his presence a lot more in the first half. (If this game was a TV show for example, he would be a lot more talked about) Finally, this is Allstars and you said you really had the drive to do whatever you could to win - but that didn't pan out when you evicted me. This game was literally guaranteed to be yours if you made a big move and evicted Dominic. I was a huge goat and I made myself one. The finale would have been much more boring but you'd have set yourself up to be a two time winner. I didn't want to "campaign" because it would go against my word with Dominic, but I did state to you before you officially won about your odds because I told you I wanted to see you win. Because even though you can beat Dominic it's probably a big toss up.

PRAISE: You had your fair share of enemies coming in and you are sitting here, a winner, as well. I am not shocked at all that you are here though. Ironically in contrast to Dominic, you are probably the one person I WOULD have picked to make final 2 at the start. You are just that good. I've barely seen you Pre-Jury in games. While you have a lot of friends in ORGs, it's not the reason you make it so far. You are just really really good socially. You're a likeable person during conversations and you know how to establish rapport --- which is essential in these games. Aside from round one, were you ever freaking nominated? I just realized that as I'm typing this. That is an impressive feat and you were much safer than almost anyone in this game. What you have going for you here right now in this final stretch is your social game. You won a lot of important competitions that triggered key moves. Quality over Quantity. From what I can see right now you also seemed to have more of the decisions in the final stretch of the game (competition wins attributing) and I also think you had a strong grasp about where people's heads were at. If you can get past the squabbles you had with people, I see you winning this because I think the Jury might see your game more easier.



I have pretty much rambled but I wanted to think of any diss or praise I could think of to let you work off of. You don't need to respond to every. You can respond to one for all I care. Just make whatever answer count! w0000t

[Estelle Landy]

Thanks for your comments, Dixie Chix <3 Oops, I started my video too early, just missed "Hey Dixie! It's Estelle here…" lol ANYWHO:



Here's my video, but also a shortened important details:

It really was a strategy to law low after week one and it was extremely convenient that I was busy during the beginning stages of the game. I wanted people (everyone) to genuinely believe I wasn't interested or that I was a loner, because being perceived as a loner with friends made it so that people could approach me to work with me, yet also be afraid to target me because of my ties. I did have enemy relationships with people like Talla, but I did reconcile with her pretty early on and wound up aligning with her to tell her I would look out for her, which is why I was so hesitant to nominate her the round I wound up aligning with Kristen & Sam (who I also wasn't afraid to reconcile with). I think my game was extremely polarizing so the fact that I made it to the end is crazy but I have to thank you a lot, and I hope you understand that I think you're amazing. I know I didn't necessarily have a huge hand in the evictions Pre-Jury, I don't think Dominic's hand in the evictions is that much more significant than mine. I did talk extensively to people like Drew, James, David, Roddy, and Joe. I aligned with almost all of them at some point, or at least kept an open communication in order to keep things good between us. I genuinely don't want you to think I sat back and did nothing for the Pre-Jury phase of the game, because I legitimately didn't. I kept a lot of things hidden including my reconciliation with Talla, or my alliances with many people, so that I could bring them up now and present them, because I didn't want to be viewed as a strong threat and taken out before I had the opportunity to.

I didn't take you to the end because I had promised Dominic I would go with him, and why I have said I would do what it takes to win, I don't think I would have had a guaranteed win against you. At the time of the eviction, I thought you would have a couple of guaranteed votes that could potentially be very important, and I wanted to open them up to the possibility of voting for me. I felt like I could potentially gain respect in the eyes of some for evicting you, because some people viewed us as a pair in many games, and I didn't want to necessarily take the "easy route" either, even though I don't really think it was an extremely easy route. If you wanted to win, I think you definitely could have taken it home!

If you have any follow-up questions, comments, or feedback - let me know! Good luck <3

[Dominic Briones]

Will try to have a video up tonight, but in case not, I wanna get this up for you!!!


DIXIE! HOW R U! CAN I SAY I RLY LIKED PLAYING WITH YOU THIS SEASON!!!!!!!!!!

No, for real. Your presence in this game was definitely an interesting one. I went from being neutral about you, to kind of targetting you, to working with you, to trusting my whole game to you. It was a whirlwind. And THANK YOU so much for the compliments you gave. Having watched you win my own All-Starz game a few years back, I've definitely come to appreciate your talent in ORGs. So to have you compliment my game is definitely something that I am proud of. As well, you truly were a great ally once we started working closely together, so thank you for that.

I am going to choose to elaborate on the DIS that you gave, as I feel you make some great points that I'd like to touch on and hopefully elaborate to help you understand my game and choices better.

Did you ever use AIM or did you rely mostly on PM?

I did use AIM a bit. I did rely mostly on PM, however. In the beginning, I was definitely on AIM. I can't say I caught everyone, as a cast of 20 is pretty big. But I did start conversations with some old friends, while also reaching out to a few new people that I hadn't talked to before. Some that stand out to me are: Helen, Rhian, and Ryan. These were three that I didn't know previously, and I started my friendship with them through AIM in the beginning. To be honest, it was just easier for me to use PM and text, which is what I did after I established the AIM relationship. At a certain point in the game, I was keeping up socially with the following people in one way or another: Estelle, Talla, Rhian, Ryan, Shane, Helen. They were the people I talked to most. I also did PM you, Frank, and GM on occasion, and you more so toward the end. There were some pre-jury people that I kept up with until they were eliminated. So, I guess my point is that yes, I may not have been as social on AIM, but I definitely kept my social lines open. Toward the end, I know I was on AIM to do challenges a lot more, and I would only ever see like Talla or Estelle on, both of which I kept in contact through text, so there wasn't really any need for me to talk to people through AIM then. Do I think I could have done better socially? Of course. Oh, I even used facebook chat for a few people as well (Joe, and Estelle off the top of my head).

There were only 3 rounds in pre-jury were I was really targetted... round 1, which, I feel like was to be expected. The pairs round, which, I will admit was probably due to a lack of social presence, and then the round were it was between me and Talla to go against Helen, and luckily the few relationships I did focus on paid off for me.

It was a balancing act, really. I didn't want to be too social, as I knew my target was already big. And perhaps I stuck into the shadows a bit much at times. But in the end, I'm happy with how it worked out. Paired with a bit of good fortune, I think my social game was just the right amount to get me to where I am now!

At the same time, I definitely understand that an outside perspective might think that I wasn't social enough or social at all. I hope my explanation of how I used various social medias helps to see that I wasn't completely inivisible, riding coat-tails, or just twiddling my thumbs.

Edited to add: Rhian graciously vouched for me in her thread where she commented on how I was still effective at communicating through PM. I hope that people see that AIM doesn't need to be the end-all be-all of ORG communication. Gotta find what works best for you, and unfortunately, given my schedule, it's much easier for me to communicate through PMs using my phone. Having AIM running constantly on my phone isn't as effective for me because I can only respond at certain times, and usually can't stick around long for continuous, uninterrupted convo.

Thanks again, Dix. <3