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Vote One: Jared Cedar.
Vote Two: Christina Pepper. “Because you write too good.”
Vote Three: Christina Pepper. “I’ll vote Pepper…again. Hey, one of these times it might even work.”
Vote Four: Jared Cedar.
Vote Five: Jared Cedar. “If I knew how to fix a Ski-Doo maybe I would know what was going on here.”
3-2 Cedar with one to go…
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Lesson learned (though I’ll make the same mistake again): long word limits and short deadlines are a dangerous combination. Or maybe it was just poor timing. That’s not to say these stories were “bad,” by any means, but there was a lot more room for at least three of them to blossom.
One did blossom, though, to the tune of a triple-gold.
I thought I had this great new challenge idea, but as I thought more about it, I realized it’s essentially slightly-changed wording to an old favorite of mine. But let’s toss someone into the jury room first…
Vote One: Matt Novak. “You’re carrying a big gun in this game. You can’t fault me for respecting your shot.”
Vote Two: Christina Pepper. “Not because I want to, and not because she’s the biggest threat. No, I’m voting for her because the biggest threats in this game are the hidden strategists, not the writers. That’s always really the way of it. I wanted Vogons to vogon, but that’s not how it’s going to be. Maybe this works. Maybe it doesn’t. But it’s the game the strategists brought. And whether this works or not, everyone left is a real player. Everyone. And everyone else should know that about each other. As of right now, if I were on the jury, there isn’t a single person I wouldn’t vote for. History means squat, and that’s the way it should be. Because this game right here? No matter how this vote goes, no matter how little I actually know, no matter how honest anyone has been with each other… this game just became a real game of survivor.”
Vote Three: Matt Novak. “With no smart ass comments, Novak.”
Vote Four: Christina Pepper. “Sorry, lady. Mad respect.”
Vote Five: Matt Novak.
3 for Novak and 2 for Pepper heading under the jump…
Three different gold-getting stories this time, gang; we spread the love around to make sure a bunch of you felt special. It was a tight four-way race to immunity, but indeed, one person outscored the others with no tiebreaker necessary.
Side note: this was about as easy a time as I’ve ever had noticing who wrote what. I never do this intentionally, but it happens. DK and Annette were the two that I didn’t get right away, but through process of elimination I guessed correctly where they were sitting.
Had a podcast to record tonight, so this is the entire opening bit.
Vote One: Annette Barron. “Unsuccessfully again, I’m sure”
Vote Two: Bret Highum. “My vote is for Bret, but I’d like him to keep submitting stories anyway. That’s not unreasonable, is it?”
War! Superpowers! Rainbow Calculators! Menial jobs! It’s all here, gang!
I’m glad I ran this one; it’s always a nice break from the norm to work in a much different style. We got everything from the traditional sonnet about beauty to the highly unorthodox sonnet about a killer prostitute.
First post-merge elimination…always a fun time. But a close vote? Let’s find out.
Vote One: erik sundberg.
Vote Two: Zack Sauvageau.
Vote Three: erik sundberg.
Vote Four: Zack Sauvageau. “Ain’t no sunshine when he’s . . . oh, wait.”
Vote Five: erik sundberg. “Just a numbers game.”
Vote Six: Zack Sauvageau. “Zack Morris. The Bayside preps have been on top for too long.”
Vote Seven: Jonathon Pope. “I assum3 I’m a d3ad man walking but I gu3ss I’ll just vot3 for Jonathon Pop3.”
Going into the jump, it’s 3-3-1, with erik and Zack suffering three votes apiece…
You know, you can write tiebreaker rules, and still end up with ties. There are three immune parties, rather than two. For the next challenge, we’ll expand tiebreakers, just in case.
Some of you felt a little pressed for time here, but many of you used your words to the fullest.
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