lets goooooooo
firstly, a question for all 3: i was allied with all of you and defended you hard. gundham. you were probably under more fire than you realized on Future Foundation and early merge from a few people that i deflected. nagito, i put a lot of work into protecting you at f12. if it hadnt been or that and sayaka going crazy you could very easily have gone there. shuichi i dont have so much to say on, but iirc i was one of the first people to publicly start saying that you shoudlnt be the next boot after TT automatically. the point is that i was loyal to all 3 of you and never tried to push you (i was planning on going after shuichi at 6, nagito at 4 and taking gundham to FTC, i only went after shuichi after you guys stopped talking to me and akane said it was the only place she would be voting other than me), and when you voted me out, no one talked to me or admitted to wanting me gone. is there any reason i should value any of our connections when it comes to my vote after a fairly disrespectful backstab?
to clarify, the backstab was solid play but to at least hear something 1 min before deadline or w/e would be nice rather than just ignoring me for several hours

Hey babe I'm trying to go in the order they were asked, but since you're here I'll answer this one next.

Yeah, Kyoko that round was bad. The reason why I didn't admit to wanting you gone was because  well, I didn't. At that point what I wanted was the final 5 being you, me, Celestia, Nagito and Shuichi and being in the middle of 2 final 3 deals. Then I'd probably decide which was the best FTC for me (since no one there really wants me gone) and be open about it. That's why I spent a majority of the round talking to celeste about voting akane, which I thought Mikan was the best swing vote for, as this would have kept both you AND shuichi alive. Unfortunately she didn't take the bait and we had to scramble to try and save you, but I didn't want to spend 24 hours talking to shuichi and then just be like "oh btw I'm voting you". My reasoning for voting akane in the end was genuine, if the vote was going to be between my two allies, I sure as hell wanted another 24 hours to decide and talk to each of them about it, and, not knowing about the celeste vote, thought the only way that happens was if Akane voted shuichi. And then I found out that akane flipped and told celeste 3 minutes before the deadline instead...anytime before then when you could explain that was not true and get her to vote shuichi. So yeah, I never backstabbed you and if I had, I would have talked to you about it beforehand. If you don't think I played that phase right, that's fine, but I did not want you to go there.

Good answer. I wasnt sure about your actions that round and figured that an accusatory tone would get a more genuine answer. Gonna wait for the other two to answer, then my next couple questions would be more specific

Hey Kyoko!
Yes, I believed you were loyal to me for a good chunk of the game, and other people told me you were defending me on that tribe.
I did try to repay the favor later. At a time the 3 of you/Celestia/Gundham were on the hotseat for a bit, and your name was coming up quite a bit. (Chihiro was after you and she had sway.) I didn't want you to be the one of the wagons, and argued that Gundham was the safest choice to pull a big move on. (In the end they decided on Celestia and I was like "welp")

Either way though, it changed by final 7. We had drifted apart, and I had no idea what your endgame plans were. I couldn't even get a read on them. I even tried bringing it up with you but it was mainly vague responses. You say you were planning on going after me at 6 and I had no idea because you were a complete mystery at that time, so it looks like I played it right.

When I targeted you, I wanted it to be Akane vs. you and I didn't want you to think I was against you. I knew you had an item from Makoto (you told me about it) and although I didn't know the specifics, I knew it wasn't a tragedy reward item (because Makoto already had one) so whatever it was, it could be scary and some form of immunity. It obviously came to light I was targeting you that round anyway.
Although straight up the reason I didn't message you at all before the end was I was at D&D for the couple hours before it and totally forgot to check in before 10 minutes after deadline. I didn't talk to anyone else either.

Yeah thats fair enough
Honestly though you were probably about the 3rd or 4th person i wanted to take to the end, i should have been more clear on that

this was compounded by akane playing it really well to make it seem like you two were planning on blindsiding me from the start. akane outshone everyone that TC tbh

So just gonna break this down round by round, and then go into detail on the round I choose

F12: I was safe because I had immunity
F11: Eh, the celeste blindside was pushed off of me by chihiro apparently, but I didn't actually do anything to overcome that.
F10: Start of the round I was in a bad spot, but then you won HoH. I think I'll probably go with this one though, lemme see.
F9: Hiyoko vs Sayaka part 2. Hiyoko went after a lot of work went unpaid, but still not bad.
F8: Sayaka went, considered talking to you and Celeste about seriously targeting Nagito and keeping around Sayaka, but wasn't actually in that bad a position. But maybe the aftermath I can talk about.
F7: You went, I was never in a terrible position this phase, because I had friends on both sides of this conflict,  but it wasn't inspiring to see you go. This solidified my F3 plan with Shuichi and Nagito tho. 
F6: Was not in danger here at all. And chose who died.
F5: Was not in danger here at all. 
F4: Won Immunity.

So yeah, I'd say my worst position was definitely start of round 10. Ibuki was out of the game by this point, but pretty much the person who could likely introduce me to people on the other side (like Hiro and Mikan) kicked the bucket and I was not about to use Chihiro medevaccing as a reason to work together, kind of feels disrespectful to use a fallen ally as a talking point to advance strategy. So at this point, my ties with those two were severed, the amount of people who might come for us 3 is a lot., and yeah, not good. Sayaka had tried to get Akane and Celeste fighting final 12 (at least my PM logs with Celeste say so), but was still actually talking to me, even if we weren't on the best terms, she wasn't huge trouble for me specifically. Akane 100% was not on my side at all at this point, and I think at one point I literally made a joke about asking her for the time of day. Yeah...going in. 

But then, opportunity struck, the big brother round occurred and you won HoH. I knew this was my opportunity to change stuff for me, if I couldn't easily work with Hiro or Mikan, then I would eliminate one of them. So (and this is off memory so double check your PMs in case this is wrong) I went to you and was like "we need Hiro and Mikan up" and you were like "but Celeste and Shuichi want Sayaka" and then I think I was like "Sayaka can go anytime, these two will be tough to get out if we don't get them now." And after a while you agreed that was the strategic move and immediately nominated Mikan and Hiro. Now I didn't have the ability to influence this other than talking to you so I think I made a strong move there. If noms were kept the same someone I was not close to was out of the game. 

I also used this round to talk to Hiro and Mikan about how you had nominated them so quickly, because I did not expect that, and try and comfort them a little bit. With Mikan I assured her that she was not going home from this based upon what I had heard and with Hiro it was...weirder. My entire relationship with him was weird. I'm not sure if it was here or later that I agreed with Mikan that we would tell each other if we were voting each other, but the groundwork was laid, especially once Hiyoko was up.

I've already talked about how I flipped Akane this vote, but the part I want to talk about is not that, (if you want elaboration again I can give it). The short is that I convinced her Yasuhiro would outlast her if he lived. But I also put into her mind this idea "power rankings" basically, as she put it, if FTC happens now, who wins. I convinced her that she was likely near the top of this, and that she needed people on the bottom to go, and "easy boots" to cover her. People like Sayaka, people like Hiyoko, and that if she kept around Hiyoko she'd have one more round of safety, she'd been at the very least one more round closer to victory (this was also intended to make it so that she would want the 3 of us around as it was obvious people found us threatening). Lo and behold, the next few rounds, the targets are hiyoko and sayaka, in order. Both people who I figured akane would target using this mindset. Then at final 7, when you were up, and final 6, she reiterated the power rankings theory to me as to why she needed Celeste and Me around. I'm sure this isn't the only reason she was doing this, but I'm certain it was a profound affect on her given that she views me "as a mentor and nemesis". My move here was able to turn my entire game around and had waves in previous rounds, so yeah. That was my biggest obstacle, akane, and I changed it by approaching the situation from her point of view and making it allign with mine.

gundham, which character on australian survivor: champions vs contenders best describes you?

shuichi, imagine you arent at ftc right now. as someone who plays survivor, how much do you think challenge prowess should be rated at FTC?

The way I view challenge prowess in a FTC setting, is it shouldn't play a huge role. Both positively and negatively.

The reward someone gets for winning immunity, is immunity, and it becomes a bit overpowered if they get a lot of jury cred on top of it.

However, I also think any argument saying that being immune all the time should be held against the person is silly. If someone makes it to the end only relying on immunity, and not making strategic or social moves, then I would vote against them, because I value strategy and social stuff. But if they win immunity until the end, and still put a lot of effort in the other parts of the game, and seem to be having success with it, then I would have no problem voting them to win. Because they won that advantage fair and square.

I can't lie to you anymore Kyoko.