Yvess
Hello Yvess. It's been a long journey, but here you stand with Superiore & DOMINO only one vote away from winning this game. But before you can get crowned the fourth winner of Survivor: ATRL Edition, there are a series of questions for you to answer giving you one last shot to prove why you deserve this title.
Hi Dylan! Hi judges, jury and viewers, I am more than ready to answer everyone's questions! Let's do it!
Did you have a strategy coming in here or no? What were your initial thoughts?
Honestly, I don't have a strategy when I signed up here. I would like to describe my involvement in this game as a very "beautiful accident". I was only lurking some threads on ATRL until I tried checking the Games Section and the first thing I saw was the signups for this game. I joined because I'm a fan of Survivor tv show and I am quite curious on how it works. My initial thoughts was I will just join this game to check if the game is fun and to also know if ATRL is really for me because I don't really log on to ATRL that much. My initial goal is that I should be able enjoy the game by just being myself even if I dont get to stay longer in the game.
After you got the whole gist of the game, where did you see yourself placing?
I really don't expected myself to place this far to be honest.
Actually when I saw the first challenge, I really thought I'll be the first one eliminated but luckily, we won the first challenge and I gained friends from my tribe and since then, we helped each other on the game by giving critiques to our own entries and of course, give each other moral support. But later on, our tribe got into consecutive tribal councils so I felt that reaching the Top 12 will be hard. I only told myself that I can reach the merge when I got into the semi-merge. Reaching the merge is a huge achievement for an irrelevant one like me tbh.
Who did you expect to see in The Top 3 in your honest opinion? Why?
I firmly believe that the majority of the castaways in this season are really strong and deserving to be part of the top 3. I'll be giving four names since two of them have a really identical gameplay. I honestly thought
Remmy, Gotintoririfever1, and Truth Teller/Amaloner as the frontrunners for the much-coveted Top 3. They have an exquisite gameplay, popularity and everyone seemed to like them.
How have you enjoyed being part of this Tournament? Anything special?
There's no doubt that I really enjoyed this game because I am a fan of the Survivor TV show and I absolutely love music so being able to see how those two different elements blended well and complimented each other through different rounds made it a very wonderful and joyful treat for me.
To be honest, This tournament is VERY special to me and it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Survivor ATRL Edition Season 4 paved the way for me to appreciate the beauty of ATRL. Before, I only find ATRL as a site who only capitalizes on drama and fights about pop girls but through this tournament, I have found a safe haven where stan wars are on cease fire mode. I'm not trying to be cheesy but if I did not joined this tournament, then I'll forever remain as an invisible ATRL member who only lurks on threads of my faves. This tournament opened the doors for me to join Album Survivors, Musical Chairs, Other tournaments and even write blogs. The impact of this tournament on me is so huge, I met new friends and cool people here and I'll be forever grateful to everyone who took their time to give someone like me a chance to come out from my shell, Now, I can say that I am confident to join any games, post on other threads and get to meet different people on ATRL.
Thank you SURVIVOR!
Based on your actions alone, why should you win this game?
Such a tough question. I firmly believe that I am deserving to win this game because I was able to follow and go with the flow to the main core of this game (social skills + excelling on challenges). I always make it a point to exert extra effort on my entries and submit them on time in which benefited me a lot for I was able to snatch
5 immunity wins (2 from Preliminary Rounds, 1 from the Semi-Merge Rounds and 2 from the Individual Challenges on the Merge). Aside from the immunity wins, I also remained loyal to my alliance. I made sure that I get to protect the members of my alliance and treated them like my little siblings. I did not hide anything from them by being transparent to them and motivate them to do our best on every rounds.
I reached the Top 3 without blindsiding everyone.
I reached the Top 3 by giving my all on every given challenge.
I reached the Top 3 by not giving up on my alliance no matter how many issues are being thrown at us.
I reached the finale by staying true to myself and most especially, I enjoyed my time in the island which was my goal from the moment I signed up on this game.
Why shouldn't your two opponents win this game?
I do believe that me, domino and superiore truly deserved our respective places in the Top 3 so this is a hard question to answer. But I will do my best to explain why they should not win this tournament by simply comparing myself to them using the two main proponents of this game which are
Game Scores and
Social Skills.
Game Scores, According to our overall standings from the very first rounds to the semi-merge to the merge and up to the finale, Its evident that my score is higher than them. I get to be a consistent name on the upper half of the charts and even ranked number one on some rounds. Modesty aside, I think I have more immunity wins compared to them as well.
Social Skills, I know that DOMINO and Superiore are more known on the Games Section compared to me when I signed up here but what made me believe that I have an edge over them on Social Skills was due to the fact that I was able to also gain friends and leave a nice relationship to majority of the players of this season and other past seasons. I will be delusional if I say that I'm more popular than them because that's not the truth, I may be a newbie and irrelevant here but I did my best to form alliances and build friendships in and out of this game.
Lastly, I am proud to say that I played the game fair and square to the best of my ability.
Who do you think you will have the hardest time competing with in the vote?
I think it's going to be Superiore. Superiore brought in some good humor on this game.
If you do not win this competition, who should & why?
They are both adorable and deserving so I will just go with the one who I can see that possesses a greater gameplay compared to the other. And that's DOMINO, for the reason that Domino's gameplay is a bit better to Superiore's.
Is there anyone in the Top 3 who you feel should not be here? If so, who should be in their place?
I believe that the three of us deserved to be in the Top 3. It is simply because we were able to outlast, outwit and outplay other stronger players in this game. We were able to adapt to the game's core and followed every simple thing that the game asks for us to do.
There are strong players in this game for sure but excelling on challenges is not an assurance of being safe all the time, you also need to step up your social skills on the alliance that you got and I believe that the three of us have been able to do those gracefully.
This Tournament is called Survivor for a reason. What is your definition of a true Survivor?
My definition of a true survivor would be a person who remained true to himself and to the people around him all throughout the game. Someone who showed his versatility and determination to survive every challenge that they face. Someone who defied odds against all odds and can proudly say that he have survived and won the game without stepping on anyone since he made sure his dignity and principles are still properly intact.
Take us through your alliances this season. From day one to now who have you been aligned with and how has it changed throughout the course of this game?
My alliance started with my first tribe
Brilando with
Ivory, Prezli, Bloomers and DOMINO. They are the people who I was able to share my thoughts with our entries through our tribal blog. We all get along and we also knew that we might get shuffled to other teams so we kept a promise that if ever we get to see each other again on the final merge (TOP 12), we will still be allies.
When I got transferred to
Bonbondi in the Semi-Merge phase, It was only me,
prezli and Ivory, We have found a new ally on
Gotintoririfever1. I have an understanding with
Gabegabe but it did not materialize as he found a different alliance. We did not get to recruit
Speezy and Amaloner to join our alliance, We tried getting them but we fully understand that they already have an alliance. So when Ivory got the boot, we knew that we will be the next targets and we already accepted our fate. Fortunately, We still managed not to give it up and it paid off since we got into the Top 12 by winning 3 consecutive rounds (the power of teamwork) and it won't be possible without Holyground, Speezy, Amaloner and Gabegabe's awesome entries. We might not be on the same alliances but we all deserve the credit for the semi-merged Bonbondi's slayage.
When we reached the Top 12, I got to talk to
DOMINO once again and we shared who were our alliances during the semi-merge. Fortunately,
Remmy and Superiore joined us making it a 6-man alliance
(me, DOMINO, Superiore, Gotinto, Prezli and Remmy). I pledged my loyalty to our alliance. We did not have any bad blood with the other alliance so it's kinda hard to vote them off at first but we all know that they will also come after us if they have the upper hand. So technically, Me and my alliance did our best to win the immunity but Holyground, Amaloner and Truth teller are very strong and me and some of my allies always came 2nd or 3rd behind them. Eventually, we were able to eliminate them one by one but Truth Teller kinda made it hard for us to get the immunity as he blocked us from the wins with his flawless entries. Our prayers were answered when I finally got to defeat Truth Teller on the Emoji round. My immunity win is also a win for our alliance. Sadly, Gotinto got eliminated that round too since he had the lowest score that round. Prezli got eliminated next. I swear it did break my heart to see them go.
We don't have anything against the eliminated castaways, it just happens that we remained loyal to our alliance which led us now to our place in the Top 3.
Did you betray any allies you had during the season? If so who & why?
Honestly speaking, I didn't betrayed any of my allies. I know that Survivor is known for blindsides and deception but believe it or not, I am somehow surprised and proud at the same time that I was able to reach the finale without backstabbing anyone, creating a story or luring any people to vote for someone else to keep my ass safe. Im not saying that those I mentioned was bad because I know that those were normal practices in the world of Survivor. I just did not get to use those tactics surprisingly.
There are some instances that I cannot control which led to some of my allies elimination such as:
Bloomers got the boot as he voted for his self too since he somehow felt guilty for our tribe going to tribal council, I can still remember trying to convince him to change his vote but it was too late.
FunkyDinevo got the boot coz I remained loyal to Prezli, Ivory and DOMINO(my first allies), It was a hard decision to make since we are only 5 left on the original brilando tribe. There's no formal agreement between me and funky being in an alliance tbh so I honestly think that I did not betrayed her.
Remmy quitted the game so I did not betray him too. (him quitting made me sad too coz I know he's a very good player)
I never voted out Gotintoririfever1 as he only got the boot by placing last on the Emoji Round. God knows how devastated I am when he got the boot.
I only wrote Superiore's name last tribal council and I let him know that through a private message. We all know that he is going to be safe even if there'll be a tie. So I did not betray him technically.
I did not vote off Prezli last night, because I just can't vote out my little sis and she also stepped up her game as evidenced by the last round's score she got. I even got the most emotional pm exchanges from Prezli since we all know what is in store for her in the Tribal Council.
So that's it, I am proud to say that I did not betrayed or blindsided my allies.
It is a good feeling that you got into the finale knowing that you have played a clean and fair game.
Do you have any regrets in the competition that you feel could hurt you in the vote?
I believe that we should not regret the decisions we made from the past because we all know it led us to that decision because it is necessary and would benefit us. Looking back at my Survivor Journey, I can honestly say that I have no regrets. How can I regret making friends with most of the people in this game. I did not regret my submitted entries (excellent or not) since I know that I gave it my all and it taught me a lot as I grow in this game. I won't regret my votesp on the Tribal Council (most especially on the Top 12 merge) since we all know that the strongest alliance in numbers get to have the control of the game, so my alliance voting off Gabegabe, Amaloner, Holyground, Speezy, Truth Teller is all part of the game and it's a normal thing since they have an alliance of their own. BeyRihStan got banned as well so that weakened their alliance too.
I'm shocked when she got banned tbh.
If there's only one regret that I have, then that would be not being able to be close to other tribe members that got eliminated at the preliminary rounds from Brilando, Adranaha and Bonbondi.
There's two general types of players in this game; those who play a social game & those who get here by their scores throughout the game. If you had to choose which one you are, which would it be & why?
I know it's kinda cliche-ish to say that I'm a mixture between someone who played a social game & someone who got far by their good scores throughout the game. I can humbly say that I'm a mix of those traits since I played a social game as evidenced by me being able to make friends in the game which made it easier for me to have a stable alliance, I was also able to stay longer due to my immunity wins from the past. And I am here in the final 3 due to my 2 consecutive individual immunity wins which sealed my spot for the finale. I technically tasted the best of both worlds.
But if I really have to choose only one, I would choose to be that someone who got really far by his good scores all throughout the game. It is because I was able to prove to everyone that I have what it takes to send in entries that can actually stand out. I know that if I did not win and get the immunity for the last two rounds then there's a possibility that I'll be the one to go home since I may be considered as the next big threat out of the remaining castaways.
So I rightfully won immunities just in time when I needed it the most.
There are three types of Top 3 players. There's the threat. There's the underdog. And there's the third wheel. Using all 3 types, assign yourself and your opponents to each title and explain why.
This is so hard to be honest.
Yvess (Me) - Underdog
I know I won mostly of the challenges compared to them but I can still say that I am the underdog between the three of us.
Why?
Because I'm relatively a newbie to the games section compared to DOMINO and Superiore when I joined this tournament. I don't know how an ATRL GAME works and I don't also know the musical taste of the judges since I don't know them at all when I joined. I also needed to learn how to use atrl slang and emoticons and formatting for me to understand everyone involved in this game. It's also a struggle for me to find an alliance at first since I don't really know who are friends with who, who's connected with who. So technically, I started from scratch.
Domino - The Threat
DOMINO is the threat because I knew that he won iconic atrl tournaments like (Atrl's NEXT TOP MEMBER) so I felt that he is extremely popular on ATRL. Plus, his entries are also good and beneficial to our tribe as well.
Superiore - Third Wheel
SUPERIORE is the third wheel. I am sorry bae. The reason why I labeled him the third wheel was due to the reason that I did not get to work with Superiore as a tribe member during the preliminaries up to the semi-merge phase. We only got to work with each other when we reached the Top 12 and be in the same alliance. I chose him as the third wheel also because I find DOMINO's gameplay stronger compared to Superiore's.
Anything else you would like to say before we move on to my personal questions for you?
I guess I already aired my point of views on why should I win this game so I would like to use this this opportunity to thank everyone that's involved in this game. As you all know, This game is very special to me since it is my first game ever.
I wanna thank this people:
Dillon, Thank you for letting me join your game. I love how you hosted this game and you got me hooked to the games section because of your game. Such a king!
Ethan, Anna and Nicole, I honestly get scared to see all of your comments on my work because I dunno if you can appreciate my efforts. Fortunately, you guys have been so good to me and I love how you make your critiques sound constructive.
GabeGabe , You are such a funny man. I don't mind receiving pms from you again. I know you are not that messy.
BeyRihStan, Im sorry that we were not given a chance to get to know each other. I hope we can still get to know each other soon.
Amaloner, You are a strong player! I love your taste tbh.
Speezy, Being able to share the island with you is an honor. Jordin deserves success on her comeback.
Holyground, Im sad we did not get to be allies but im happy now that we are friends.
TruthTeller - Your slayage in this game is undeniable. Me being able to defeat you once is a big honor for me.
Remmy - I wished you did not quit but I understand where your coming from.
Gotintoririfever, You are the winner that got away. thanks for giving me a chance to be friends with you.
Prezli,My lil sister! Promise me you will join all stars and try to win it ok? I love our convos about our entries.
Superiore,Thank you for always appreciating my entries. I really like your humor and your taste in horror genres. Being in the top 3 with you is fun! Goodluck to us
Domino,My another sister. i am happy to share the top 3 with you too since I know how you love this game too. Good luck to us!
Bloomers/Ivory, I love you guys! Thanks for being a good friend to me. Thanks for the support.
To everyone who was part of this game, Thank you too because you made my Survivor Journey even more colorful. Special thanks to
Element and Celebrate as they added spice and humor to this season too.
Being able to be part of this wonderful game is very a wonderful ATRL memory I will forever cherish. Win or Lose, This game will never be forgotten by my heart. Thank you once again
