Granny Pie's CAP Survivor Season 2 Final Tribal Council
(everything inside quotation marks is written by some other specified person, everything outside of quotation marks is written by me)
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HeaLnDeaL said:
"Granny Pie's transcript which is missing a tiny bit from his recording but largely contains it all minus a few lines:"
Hey, guys. I just want to start with a thank you. I’m not going to dispute that I’ve worked hard to get here, and that I deserve to be in this Final 3. That being said, I want to thank you, yes, YOU, for helping me get here. Our lives, our trials, and our elations are built upon our own work, and the help of others. Thank you for helping me. You’ve inspired me to do better, try harder, and to make new friends. You’ve helped me to improve my own play and teambuilding. Without your help, I wouldn’t be here. And I’m going to win for you. To recognize your achievements and your abilities. To make clear just how much every single person matters in this game. You matter. Let’s prove to the world this truth.
My game began obscurely. In Tomohawk tribe, I had friends, and had a wonderful time reacquainting with those I hadn’t talked to in months. While petting Lucky, one of HeaL’s mail shibes, he revealed to me a clue to find an idol. In the coming days, I teamed up with Take Azelfie and apricity to find this idol. We made significant progress, aided along by some others, rssp1 especially, but we all found the idol missing when we solved the final puzzle. Through rssp1’s methods of questioning, and the questions he asked, I guessed that he had found the idol before us, and kept that knowledge in the back of my mind, knowledge that turned out to be correct in the coming weeks. Challenges past. rssp1 and I worked together on the word scramble, us both staying up late in voice chat, bouncing ideas off of each other to solve this puzzle. I was complaining at the time, but that puzzle was one of my favorite parts of this season, and it’s all thanks to rssp1’s humor and personality. He was a lot of fun to work with, and I determined to keep our synergy going in the later challenges. I built teams for him, trained and tested with him, and formed strategies with him. Eventually, the tribe swap happened. I was still paired with Azelfie, and apricity, where we adopted the strategy “Keep Tomo Tribe pure”, resolving to vote out the members of the original Hawlucha tribe. We stayed together and stayed strong, eliminating Escoffier and mxmts before the merge.
And wow, what a merge it was. We learned of the dynamics in Hawlucha tribe, described to us by rssp1, the man who we were originally in an alliance with, and hoped he would get to merge safely. It became clear that EpicUmbreon was running the show, and that his new target was Marjane. Integrating her into our alliance for the numbers and for the fence-support, rssp1, apricity, Whydon, and I devised plots to keep us as the majority party. Sadly, Whydon was lost, but we used rssp1’s intimate knowledge of Umbreon’s targets and strategies to overcome the next several votes through sheer numbers, eliminating Azelfie, a core member of Umbreon’s alliance. The next vote was a doozy. Our alliance planned to eliminate Airwind, the clearest threat to us with his superior play across all boards. Amazingly, he and Umbreon had predicted this, and played an Immunity Idol upon Airwind. rssp1, fearing for his life, made the clutchest play I’ve seen here on Survivor, and played an Immunity Idol on himself, nullifying all votes that round, and forcing a revote, where our numbers overwhelmed Umbreon’s, Airwind’s, and Ria’s, and Ria was voted out. The majority was definitively ours. Finally, Umbreon was voted out after an altercation between himself and rssp1, strangely making me feel bad about voting out the antagonist to my protagony. Umbreon was a strong player, a strong battler, and a strong man. He made post-merge very interesting, almost singlehandedly.
But my favorite challenge was next: Create a Pokemon for the LC Metagame to counter the prevalent flying-types of the tier. I won that challenge resoundedly, having the most fun I’ve had here on this season. Airwind was then eliminated as the final member of the opposing alliance, and the most likely receiver of many votes were he to make it to the Final 3. There were then 4, the 4 of my alliance consisting of myself, Marjane, apricity, and rssp1. After much deliberation and soul searching, apricity and I decided to vote on rssp, with the idea that he was the most likely of the 4 of us to receive the most votes, as he had his fingers in almost every pie this game. rssp1 had friends… has friends, and if either of us wanted a shot, apricity and I agreed that rssp1 couldn’t be in our way. After winning the final challenge, and winning immunity for the third time post-merge, I voted out rssp1.
And now there are 3. Myself, apricity, and Marjane. And I want to win. I want to win for you. I want to prove the skills that you have given me, and to recognize you for your help. I like you all, and I’ve gotten along with you all very strongly. I’ve proven myself in battle, I’ve proven myself in the creation of a Pokemon (the basis of this entire Survivor), and I’ve proven myself as diplomatically strong. Can you say that apricity supported you as much as I have? As much as I will? What about Marjane? These two are my friends, and it hurts to put them below me, but the truth is there. I am worthier than them. But I’m only worthy because you helped me get here. Through your antagony and through your support, you’ve helped me improve my skills, improve them enough to be here, among the Final 3. Thank you for helping me improve. Thank you for making me worthy enough to win, and to win for all us."
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Here lies my response to Hal's argument of why he should win:
Rebuttal:
And so the debate begins, as herein lies my rebuttal to Hal’s argument of why he should be voted to win over myself.
I start with Hal himself, and how he exaggerates his own role in this game. There is no arguing that Hal is instrumental in this Final 3, but of course, as are myself and Marjane. In fact, we are all instrumental, and him dismissing you and as key players in this game is both wrong and unjust. He makes it out as though he was the sole mastermind of this post-merge game, but that assumption is made without my counter account, and my discussions with all of himself, rssp, Airwind, Marjane, and Azelfie. Rssp revealed more to me than Hal realizes, whether he meant to or not. I know that rssp and Hal had the post-merge planned, with several contingencies. I myself had worked through these contingencies on my own, and thus worked to make these two stick with their original plan, knowing that as long as I was off the menu, my threats could be eliminated. I know about their failed idol hunts. I never knew the name of the Shibe Fur itself, but I knew about the ability it held, and who held it. And most of all, I knew that these two were working together, and knew that one of them had to be eliminated. So when Hal approached me about hitting rssp, I saw the knot between the two of them unravel, and took my shot. Speaking further on game control, according to Hal himself, I myself was clearly never voted out, and was never even a real target, as Umbreon never planned on voting me out in the first place. I achieved this by being both a friend to everyone I met, and by giving each other our trust. That’s a big difference between Hal and I. I trust you. Always have. It doesn’t matter if you acted contrarily to my wishes, I know you’ll do what you need to. Hal expects little from others, describing them as “pawns” in his own game. But none of you were his pawns, and neither was I.
And I strongly disagree with the idea that Hal has “two floaters sitting next to him.” Marjane is a cunning strategist and a good player, and I make my mark through my personality and my play. Everyone likes me and trusts me. And in return, I always delivered on the trust you gave to me. Our destinies converge, as it is said, and I will do what I must to make sure that my friends and I are the ones that survive. I play hard, I work hard, and I love hard. I love you, and who you are as a person, and you can’t deny that. Because you know who I am. Do you know who Hal is? All he’s shown is a mask of deception, a web of lies meant to further his own goals. But you know that I worked to get my friends to the next step, always putting the needs of the group above my own. Because Survivor isn’t a game of being alone. It’s a game about making friends, and making sure that the one who wins is the best of all of us.
And there’s my argument. I am the Champion of the People, the anonymous face of CAP, growing, learning, trusting, and creating things with friends and those I trust. I’m your friend, your teammate, and your safety net for the future. Who is Hal to you? Is he your friend? Your teammate? Or is he simply using you to further his own goals of winning by himself, standing atop the others? I am that friend, that person who has risen with all of your help, trust, and teachings, that person who will raise you up alongside me, so that the world can appreciate what you do for it! Where Hal sees pawns, I see my friends.
Azelfie, I want to thank you for the help and trust on the Idol Puzzles, and in votes. Airwind, I want to thank you for having faith in my skills and helping me grow as a player. You are one the biggest people making me want to improve my gameplay, as you inspire me to greater things. Whydon, I want to thank you for coming to us out of the blue and trusting us, trusting me with your legacy. Umbreon, thank you for trusting me with your emotions and your heart. I want you to know that you made the right choices, and that you are an amazing player. Ria, I want to thank you for, like Airwind, inspiring me to improve. You are a giant in the world of CAP, and I want to learn more from you.
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Take Azelfie said:
"At 13:50 of Aprcity's video who says that neither Marjane nor Granny Pie knew about the Rssp + Apricity connections.
I would like to ask Marjane and Granny Pie if they actually did know and at what point in the game did they get this information and how."
Azelfie, I knew about the connection, pieced the clues together early on, after Whydon was eliminated. I got the information from what rssp told me, and what I could piece together from what he said and how he said it, much like how I figured out his holding of an idol.

Whydon said:
"Granny Pie What was your best move in this game and why?

apricity Why did you completely disregard the strategy of jury management from your game, just so that you could make the game more "entertaining" or "complex" for yourself? What, if anything, did you do in this game to prevent the jury from being pissed at you? (disclaimer: we are pissed at you)"
Airwind said:
"I wanna be popular and ask something... Marjane why did you didn't want be with an alliance with me?
Granny Pie what was your best play and why? (btw I love your voice)"
My best move in this game is in fact a series of moves. My subtle understanding of rssp1's play, and the subtext of what he says led me to play around him a little bit, deferring when needed to stay out of the crosshairs of rssp1 and Hal. I read rssp1 well, because were both fairly open with each other. Singularly, though, I believe my best play is in F4, as my immunity at that point guaranteed my movement onto the F3. F4 was where I was the most afraid, where it was most likely for rssp1 and Hal to come against me with the idea that I was more of a threat than them.

rssp1 said:
"Granny:
Please stop building teams with Chansey
I never actually had the tomo idol (I had the lucha idol) but you were correct in that I knew where the idol was. That's still pretty impressive for you to figure out.
You narrated what went on in the game fairly accurately, but you didn't really talk about what you did. Can you elaborate both on your mindset for the game and what your plan was to get to the end? How did you change your plan as you heard new information, and what did you do to get yourself to the final 3?

I'll probably have more questions to ask as this tribal goes on. Till then, good luck to you all!"
My mindset for the game was simple: Make friends and keep them. When I have friends, I have more opportunities to learn and grow with them, because they won't want to vote me out. At first, I worked to raise everyone up with me as far as I can. But when the numbers whittle down, I have to become a Champion of the People, a voice for those who've brought me here and helped me improve. When I'm a friend for those who are left, and a representative for those who aren't, I become a hero, one who's worthy to win for all of us. And as the numbers whittle even further, the ambitions of those who are left can outweigh my own likability. And thus, I had to win challenges, win immunities, the key one being in the Final 4. But now, as the competitions end, the bonds I've built and friendships I've maintained are my strongest point, even over my own battling skills, improved by those around me. The combination of my strong play and strong bonds will carry us all.

apricity said:
"I'm going out to see Noel Gallagher and I'll answer these questions later tonight.

But I want you to know that you are my wonderwall."
Well, I want you all to know that you are my WNDRWLL. <3
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Airwind said:
"Granny Pie why you think marjane shouldn't win?"
Marjane has all but dropped out of this contest, a situation that I feel very sad about, much like Umbreon losing his want to play. It hurts to watch someone I like and someone I respect lose interest, but that's how things are. I wish she wasn't so burnt out... She would have made wonderful competition in this Final 3.
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EpicUmbreon29 said:
"In stark contrast, Granny Pie I think that your opening statement was lovely. I don’t say that just because you said that you appreciated me (although it really does mean a lot to me that you think that, and I feel the same way about you in this game!) but because of your tone towards the game as a whole. To you, we weren’t just pawns and sheep, we were people. You treated us with respect and played the game your way, and that’s something I can get behind. And this is all reflected in your opening statement. I know that this could be interpreted as “pandering to the audience” by some, but when it’s coming from you I can sense that there’s a lot of genuine sincerity, and I commend you for putting your best foot and best moves forward coming into this ftc in an optimal manner.
More on Granny Pie I really like how you focused on your growth over the course of this game, because in the end that really matters a lot. I watched you grow from round 1, when you couldn’t get the votes to eliminate me even though I clearly deserved it (lol) to mid game, when you shook Apricity’s vote off yourself by looping the information that Whydon leaked to you back into my alliance, all the way to late game, by which point you were an absolute juggernaut, winning critical immunities and showing to us all that your heart and mind were in this game, and that you would not be defeated. You really did grow as a person and as a player, and I like that a lot."
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apricity said:
"Right. Back now and reading up on the thread.

To me, choosing a winner of survivor is choosing what you want survivor to be. If you guys think that either of a). coasting til the end and playing a shameless sycophant in FTC, or b). caring so little about the game that you ask to get voted out at f4, is what you want survivor to be then I guess feel free, I misread the jury. I didn't actually think this would happen."
And so it begins.
Shameless sycophant, huh? I suppose it could be seen as sycophantic when you don't see the jury as people worthy of your attention. Ass-kissing implies my only goal here is to lie to my friends who've helped me so much, when the opposite is true. You know me. I'm a genuine person, with strong feelings towards the people around me, and I need to express them now because everyone can listen now. Everyone can know just how much I feel with them. It's not ass-kissing when you care about them.
rssp1 said:
"also granny: its a little hard to decipher what exactly you are saying your game was, so I just want to make sure that I have it right.
Your goal was to lay low and make friends, so that when the time comes you will be their first choice to make a move with to change the game. Due to this, you're going to end up in the eventual majority (assuming the minority does not simply accept their fate, which HAS happened before but typically does not); then, you continue to reach out to everyone, not just your allies, and maintain strong relationships with people, even as you send them to the jury. Near the endgame, aware of your potential social threat status, you put in work in immunities, doing your best to win them so that you are guaranteed a spot at the end. You then hope that at the end, your strategy of laying low and building relationships, then going beastmode at the right time nets you the win.
Does that seem right?"
Sure does. :) Sorry for forcing you to elaborate, but what you describe is very clearly what I was doing. Thank you.
apricity said:
"One person wins in survivor. It's not a team game. Every week, someone goes home. You sent them home as well. Man up and own the fact that you voted for 5/6 people on this jury on the week they got eliminated."
And yet, the team I've built, this network of bonds and connections has gotten us here. We're still a team, working together to make sure that one of us wins, because if one of us wins, the whole team gets that feeling. "Yeah! We got him to Finals and supported him there!" It just so happens that I'm that last remaining member. And if I wasn't here in the F3, I'd be supporting the man in my spot, whether it be rssp1, Airwind, Umbreon, Azelfie, or another. Just because they're gone doesn't mean we're not friends.
apricity said:
"Oh please. You thought I was going to sit here and be quiet while Marjane claims to have played the game? No she didn't. You know that and I know that. She literally wanted to leave the game at f4 and asked us all to vote for her. How can anyone vote for someone who cares about the game so little to win?
Because they like her. Because they're human beings who make choices benefiting those they like a care about. Can you say the same?
apricity said:
I've known this since page 2, you've known this since before FTC started. But it's good for you to say this outright because I was wondering what more you wanted from me, so it's good to know the answer to that question is nothing. In this FTC I've treated you as a player that I can talk frankly about strategy with, marjane has lied to your face about the shit that went on over your meltdown, granny thinks all of the jury can be bought by claiming that he's fucking king arthur of camelot despite the fact that he was right there beside me voting all of you out. Yet somehow you think I'm duplicitous, or that I'm the one who has mistreated you the most?

I won't take any more questions from you."
Is this how a man treats the people in control of his fate? Dismissing them, their opinions, and their feelings? And yet, he claims that you aren't pawns to him, despite describing you all as pawns several times, and now treating his Jurors and Final Tribal Council members like shit. Do you appreciate his playstyle when all it does it drag people through the dirt? Examine both mine and Marjane's responses to you. Marjane is making her regrets and emotions clear, wishing to clear the future between her and her friends, Umbreon especially, while Hal seems to be willing to cut ties completely. I want you personally to know just how much you mean to me and my improvement, and just how much you've done for this game, while Hal wishes for you all to know where you went wrong and how he played you. Also notice how he treats both of us. Insulting our playstyles, our abilities, and our own emotions themselves. Imagine what it would be like if you were in the Final 3 with Hal, being treated like this. I respect Marjane immensely, and am making it clear now just how much I do. It takes a strong person to want to address her regrets, air her feelings, and move on to a brighter future, instead of just ignoring those she thinks she's hurt, and disdaining them. I even still respect Hal's playstyle throughout this game, even if his FTC plot involves setting himself over everybody who's ever come before him.
I wouldn't vote for a person who's so willing to just dismiss everything about everybody here, a person who's sole goal is to win, but to win by dragging everyone who's ever helped him down through the dirt.
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apricity said:
"Between granny and I, one of us lied to you in the game, one of us lied to you outside of it. One of us lied to you because we wanted to advance in the season, and Granny lied because he thought he could spout total feelsgood nonsense and that you'd lap it up."
Let me stop you. Right there. I typically do not get angry, but I will not stand for you smearing who I am with such nonsense. I will not tolerate such slander, as anyone who knows who I am knows that what I express is genuine. I don't lie in-game if I can help it, and I don't lie out-game at all. I say these things because they are the truth, the merits of every single person here are the truths that I am expressing. Clearly you aren't as good at reading people as you think, if you would claim that I of all people would lie just to help myself along, and that this Jury, my friends, would believe such a claim.
2 years I've been here on CAP. 2 Seasons of Survivor.
And I
Don't
Lie.
When it comes to my appreciation and expression of other people and their skills, emotions, and my feelings towards them, my words are as solid as the ground beneath my feet.
So let me counter you with this:
One person is lying to this entire jury. He has lied to advance in the Season, and he's lying to you right now about how he feels, and about his fellow FTC members. He lies and bends truth to put Marjane in a bad light, and he lies about me and my priorities and feelings.

His one mistake?

We all know each other.
Epic and Marjane know just how the other is, and are working together despite their disagreements. She genuinely cares for him and the others, and why the hell would she lie about that now, when she doesn't even want to win the game? What purpose is there for her to lie?
And the Jury members know what kind of a person I am, and just how pure and unironic I am with my expressions. I don't lie about your talents and my feelings about you, because I am genuine, through and through. And you all know that.

Hal continues to insult you all by underestimating your intelligence and your abilities to figure out other people. Even now, he thinks he can manipulate you through lies and deception, even when he's beginning to show holes. Don't let his tangled web wrap you up! You know us, you know each other, and you know him. You know his scheming way throughout this entire game, and you now get to wonder why he would suddenly change his tactics and become crystal clear about his knowledge on every single person. His sudden change in tactics then implies that I've changed my own game plan, from supporting my friends as much as I can to lying to their faces in a cheap facsimile of kinship.
OR
I'm telling you the truth, as I always have and always will. I genuinely understand your feelings, and appreciate yourself and your talents. And Hal is lying to you ever further, desperately reaching for his final trophy, despite the holes he is showing.

Now, which possibility sounds more like us?
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apricity said:
"You literally cannot play the hero card right now. It doesn't work, it doesn't make a lick of sense."
rssp1 said:
"Like, one of the things I struggled with in this game was people not acting logically; but I realized that just because something makes sense from my point of view, it isn't necessarily the same to others. You need to connect to the jury on a human level - gameplay most certainly is important, but people are ultimately voting for who they feel deserves the win, and they aren't going to name someone who they're upset at as deserving."
So what if it doesn't make sense to you? We play this game like the people we are, all of us. And I won't sit by and let you lie about who I am to these people. That's not who I am, or what I do.

Now, in response to your refutation, I do notice that you don't seem to refute my claim of you lying about myself and Marjane, a pretty serious claim, I might add, and instead fall back onto a question and attack of my own personality.
I note this, and answer your questions anyway.
apricity said:
"What team are you talking about here? Name everyone in it.
Who did you work with in this game? Who did you vote with, who did you vote against? Why did you vote against those people?"
My team consists of those whom I've built bonds with over this game, and while I do not know their own return feelings, my Team, the ones I've had the strongest bonds with, consists of rssp1 for training with me, confiding with me, and working together with me for that Word Scramble, Airwind for teaching me, and supporting my play, Umbreon for trusting me with his thoughts and feelings, and considering my feelings and advice for him and his predicament, Marjane for working and standing with me throughout these challenges, Whydon for trusting myself and my group with his future in this game, and for working with me through the merge idol, and TakeAzelfie for trusting me, searching with me, advising me and helping me grow.
I have worked with all of these people in one way or another, both in-game and out. They have helped me learn and grow both with their support and their opposition. The runner appreciates both his coaches and his opponents, and, by extension, the very track he runs on. They all inspire him to improvement.
For the most important set of this game, the post-merge, I consistently voted with rssp1, Marjane, and you. However, on the first TC of the post-merge, I voted with Whydon, believing you to be voting with him. Clearly, you did not.
For the same set of time, I voted against Umbreon's alliance, beginning with TakeAzelfie, and then Ria, and then Epic, and then finally Airwind. The first vote we had, against Azelfie, was the hardest of the game for me. But I was led to believe that Umbreon's alliance was working to vote against me, and even though I weakly protested against an Azelfie vote, and constantly expressed second thoughts on the matter, I voted for the safety of my alliance, gaining us the advantage in numbers. I voted against Ria next, arguing that we should vote Ria for two reasons: Airwind was tilting, and I was closer to Airwind and believed that he would side with us, and thus I could help him get along further. The Epic vote was a sad one, but I eventually came to the conclusion of "he doesn't want to play anyways," and, in conjunction, I wanted to give him some help in fulfilling his irl priorities without this game he doesn't even want to be in distracting him. Finally, Airwind was the next vote, a swift one, but a sad one. I saw his skills swiftly returning, his tilting was over, and his abilities to win this game increased. I could see him easily winning immunity into the F3 on the next challenge, which was most likely a Battling Challenge, and then winning a majority of votes through his likability and amazing play. At this point, I had come too far to put such an obstacle in my way, and came to the conclusion that while I had immunity, Airwind should be eliminated, a conclusion that was made easier by Airwind's gracious acceptance of him being eliminated. Clearly put, I wanted to win, and Airwind being such a great guy both hurt my chances in the F3, and made the choice easier. There was not a single TC postmerge that I went into without a sense of dread and worry over "who could possibly be next?", even when our majority was guaranteed. It was this dread that resolved me into winning for the people who we had lost along the way, making clear their importance to both myself and the game as a whole. This FTC to me wasn't a contest of "Who's going to win?" To me, this FTC is a final expression, a way for me to say "Thank you for helping me, and for letting me help you. Let's finish this together."

As you can see, I have nothing to hide, nothing to lie about, and I haven't since my opening statements, heck, haven't even since the Post-Merge. This is me. My genuine, unabashed thoughts, feelings, and desires, made clear during the game, and distributed now for all to see. And you know them to be genuine. Because that's who I am, and that's what I do. So what if it doesn't make sense to you? Human beings are contradictory people, and even when our actions and feelings don't line up all the time, everything always works out in the end, as we come to terms with who we are. The truth always comes to light. This is mine.

Do you have anything else for me to clear up, Hal? Or are you done attempting to break down or hide the reality that is who I am and what I feel?
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apricity said:
"Right yeah this is all I wanted. This is what you said before.
You named 6 people in your paragraph, 5 of the jury members and marjane. Only marjane and whydon have never voted against you or tried to get you out. So you have never worked together with these people to make sure one of you guys win. There was never a team, so the statement that you're still a team is just mind boggling. So why would you say such a thing? You didn't work together to make sure Zelfie got far, Zelfie didn't work with you to make sure you got far. When have you ever wanted Umbreon to win? Or Airwind? I don't get it.
The only conclusion I can draw is that you're saying this, hoping that somehow everyone on the jury has suddenly bumped their head and forgotten what happened the last 6 tribal councils, so that somehow people will buy this ludicrous idea that you've been allied with them this entire time. You haven't. Your allegiance has been to Marjane, Rssp, and to me. The four of us have tried to get Zelfie, Umbreon, Airwind and Ria out this entire game. Congratulations, you picked the winning side. Own it."
Man. Look at that. You continue to refuse to realize the difference between "alliance" and "team".
Let me remark the differences.
My "team" consists of my friends, people who I've connected with and improved alongside.
My "alliance" consisted of those in the F4.
My "team" supports me, and I support them back continually, before and after elimination.
My "alliance" betrayed two of their own to reach the finish, with one member prevalently doing the betrayal.
My "team" helps me grow and inspires me even now.
My "alliance" is finished.
My Team is still here.
And I still appreciate them and all they've done, and care about their feelings and their desires.
That's right, guys. I appreciate you, and have attempted to make that clear through 23 hours of discussion. Even now, I work to redeem myself in your eyes, to present a winner of Survivor that you can be proud of, someone who you genuinely appreciate, and someone who appreciates you back, someone who lifts you up, and you lift up in return. Instead of someone who insults and degrades the intelligence, skills, and feelings of every person here, I want to give you a Sole Survivor that you continue to learn and grow alongside, and that you can continually match your improvement with.
Hal makes lines, divisions between us and himself. I want us all to stand together into the future and grow as a whole, together and in our own individual ways.
My Team is still here.
My Team will always be here.
Because my Team is made of my friends.
And I'm going to win with them, and I'm going to win for them.
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