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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 29, 2022 12:41:15 GMT 10
Accio Wizengamot Judge Number Nine:
![](https://i.imgur.com/DcFAEk8.png) I now invite Lily Potter to address the finalists.
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Post by Lily Potter on May 29, 2022 22:41:11 GMT 10
Congratulations on making it to the F2 Corban Yaxley and Regulus Black! You've both taken very different but equally effective routes to get to the end. Yaxley, you were always in a controlling alliance from the Swap onwards. Regulus, you were the lovable scrappy underdog who kept surviving. Your games have been very admirable and you would both make deserving Ministers of Magic. The most defining feature of this Org has been the Pure Blood vs. Order mechanic which has been a very novel way to approach an otherwise individual game. So my questions to you will enquire about how you navigated around this twist. 1) Yaxley, I want you to talk about how you best took advantage of this mechanic to advance your game. 2) Regulus, through no fault of your own you lost your partner in the first round of the game. I want you to talk about how you overcame this deficit and got to the end in spite of not having a partner.
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Post by Regulus Black on May 30, 2022 1:26:55 GMT 10
Thanks Lily- this was a fun experience and one which I'll remember for a long time.
This is the best I've ever done at one one these games, which I didn't expect at all when I signed up.
So yes, as I said in my opening statement, losing Figg straight away singled me out instantly. I was suddenly the odd one out. In a game where exactly that can bring about your demise. Because of this, I had to start playing an individual game from that point. I had to be able to set myself up into positions whereby I'd be able to overcome the dominant partnership mentality- which even during the first round or two was being discussed.
To do this, I decided to try and get in good with the most central player within the Death Eaters, Malfoy himself. This involved me investing in my relationship with him, but then also laying the seeds to erode his relationships and confidence with others, while elevating his paranoia. This was done by secretly voting for Malfoy at the first vote.
The idea that there was someone who was out to get him, despite doing all he was doing to build early bonds and try to cover his bases would hopefully result in drawing him in- feeling like he was closer to me. I'd done the groundwork first though. In doing so, did all I could to give him no reason to doubt me. Earlier, I'd played up how much I prioritised my relationship with him after losing both Carrow and Figg. I feel like I laid the foundations for Malfoy to rule me out as having been the one who placed that vote. Therefore, by extension, he would distrust others more. Not only that, but I was a sounding board for him to reveal his suspicions about who he felt had voted for him. Which I would invariably agree with and low-key fuel those doubts and build some paranoia. So I was able to get into his head in that way. To such an extent that he specifically asked Yaxley and I about his mystery vote at round 1 tonight, so I'd call that a success. The thinking behind this was to have different partnerships doubting each other to create division and cracks. Later in the game I'd be raising the profile of both Diggle and Malfoy to each other and play them against each other in my 1:1s with each of them. The way it turned out, these guys ended up targeting each other. This formed a crack in the partnership alliance, which ended up being just big enough to allow me to continue sneaking through round after round.
The lack of a partner though was a huge disadvantage. I had nobody to look out for me on the other side, I wasn't able to be included in these partnership groups all because I simply had no partner to play with. It meant that I had to play a more active, individual game. I was able to developing my relationships throughout the game and would be happy to work with anyone - even if they'd previously voted for me. Which isn't something everyone here was able to pull off. I'm just hoping that by not having a partner to advocate for my game on the jury, (which Yaxley has in Diggle) that it doesn't end up hurting my chances of earning votes.
Thanks again, Lily
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Post by Lily Potter on May 30, 2022 2:00:10 GMT 10
Thanks for answer Reggie Could you please elaborate on the following with specifics Later in the game I'd be raising the profile of both Diggle and Malfoy to each other and play them against each other in my 1:1s with each of them. The way it turned out, these guys ended up targeting each other. This formed a crack in the partnership alliance, which ended up being just big enough to allow me to continue sneaking through round after round.
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Post by Corban Yaxley on May 30, 2022 7:16:40 GMT 10
Hullo lass, good to see you 'gain. Still under a rapidly gettin' worse time pressure so I'm gunna have to blaze through this lightning-fast.
I think the biggest advantage I took of this was two-fold; actually usin' one friend to make another, n' also havin' more of an accurate idea o' who knew what.
For the first, I'd point to our friendship as havin' been kickstarted by your partnership with Barty. He n' I were close, so I sent you off that OWL post, hopefully showin' that I'd be a stable n' useful fella. I don't think it's the only thing that got us workin' together, as I think we're pretty similar in temperament? But it was an excellent way to open our conversations, to be sure. As the game went on, it was also useful in knowin' who'd be feelin' a bit lonely? Moody cuttin' Pyrites meant I knew he'd not have any extra ties outside o' Diggle, which made it easier to trust him.
The second point was trackin' information, figurin' out who would know what. This was most obvious in the real early merge; when Fleur n' Tonks both say they want to keep Black, then I can guess that even if HK didn't already have a soft spot for him, he'll probably develop one quick-ish now that his partner is sayin' that. S'part o' why I was shocked that Lucius threw Black's name out there so suddenly when by my count, half o' the game definitely wanted to keep him for at least a round. I reckon partners also play somewhat similar games, too; if Lucius is prone to a more emotional playstyle, then Wood's more likely to have that potential too as I don't reckon it's typical for coldly logical folks to want to pair up with more warm folks like them. So I was a bit cautious 'bout Wood, 'specially 'fore I got to know him. I reckon given how things unfolded, that caution was not unfounded. Nuthin' 'gainst wearin' your heart on your sleeve, neither! I think it's a great way to play, it'll generally keep the game more int'restin'. But knowin' it in advance is still a useful bit o' information. Not sure 'nough to act on, but 'nough to keep in mind if I'm 'bout to do sumthin' that might go wrong if I'm righ'.
These two things combined to really help make navigatin' the social network o' the game a bit simpler for me than it normally is, I normally put my foot in my mouth to the wrong person a couple o' times at merge n' wound up dead for it.
One more thing, I reckon? Respondin' to sumthin' nice Black said here;
Cheers lad, me too on all accounts. This is the best I've managed in one o' these by quite a bit, it's a bit surreal to think 'bout it. Congrats 'gain to both o' us!
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Post by Regulus Black on May 30, 2022 7:30:27 GMT 10
Happy to- so this involves parts of what I have written in Tonks' thread, but to elaborate...
I fuelled the feud between Diggle and Malfoy at the merge, but did so kind of in a way that both felt I was with them. Before the HK vote, I'd told Malfoy that someone told me that he had been pushing my name out there. When he asked who it was, I said I didn't want to say. Then after the wild split council, it was clear that this question was still spinning around in Malfoy's mind. I truthfully was grateful to have not been voted out that night, but I was playing it up a little bit. Telling Malfoy that I'd be happy to help him with getting to the bottom of what had just gone down. Anything he'd ask, I'd help him with. And what do you know, he asked again about who had told me that he was gunning for me. But this time, he said something like 'oh, I bet it was Dickie Diggle who told you I was gunning for you, wasn't it?'. To that, I just agreed and pumped it up. The reality is that Diggle actually mentioned nothing like that to me. So effectively these tactics allowed me to get inside his head again, in a similar way to when I cast the mystery vote against him at the first council, which he asked me about last night.
With Diggle, I'd really just build up Malfoy's threat level. Empathise with Diggle after Malfoy kept surviving round after round and really just try to make this crack bigger. Sympathize with Diggle after Malfoy took out some frustration on him in the council before the merge when he was voted out and it was just Diggle, Malfoy and I live in attendance. Commiserate with how he kept surviving round after round, despite me unbeknownst to Diggle being directly responsible for keeping Malfoy safe on at least one of these occasions (when Pyrites left). Before that, I was very open about how dangerous Malfoy was to Diggle, mentioning all of the different combinations of group messages he had been involved in pre-swap, how he'd already found the idol, burned Lestrange etc. This I felt was making it easier for me to integrate. Turns out it worked well enough to allow me to slide into these cracks I'd cultivated well enough for me to outlast them both.
Does that make sense?
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Post by Lily Potter on May 30, 2022 8:01:29 GMT 10
Thanks guys
Congrats again and best of luck to you both!
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Post by Regulus Black on May 30, 2022 19:31:11 GMT 10
Thanks Lily- you played a great game. I don't know how you managed to have literally all of the game's heavy hitters on your side at once, but it was mighty impressive. I honestly do not think I would have been able to get you out until the final 3 or 4, which speaks volumes for the work which you put in. You should be so proud of what you were able to do in this game
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