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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 29, 2022 12:41:24 GMT 10
Accio Wizengamot Judge Number Seven:
![](https://i.imgur.com/yrHpnSg.png) I now invite Dedalus Diggle to address the finalists.
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 29, 2022 19:36:35 GMT 10
First and foremost, let me tell you how DISAPPOINTED I AM that a filthy death eater will decide the future of the Wizarding World. I couldn't have imagined a worse outcome... then again, it could be Wingdings' dad making the decision, so that's only half bad. That said: congratulations to the both of you! In a game like this with such difficult challenges, ridiculous amounts of twists, billion opportunites to make cross-side connections early on, and SO MANY high level threat players, making Finale is an achievement on it's own. You can and should both be extremely proud of your performance and endurance over what feels like 4 continous weeks... wait I've got a comment to both of you along with some questions: @black You're probably hearing a lot about how you were mostly lucky to even get here and you are full aware of that. However I'm hearing two things mentioned by you or by other jury members in your favor. 1. You made Finale without a partner. 2. You survived despite being the target like forever. Both of these are very good achievements and VERY STRONG reasons that could secure you the vote of the winner. But since you and I never were known for our strategy talks, but mostly for fun, I also want to end this focussing on that aspect of our relationship. I personally - just like you - enjoyed all of our banter. I don't know about you, but I never felt like the right time to team up with you, but I also liked you and didn't want to ignore you (like I ignored Wood for a week *cough*) That being said, here's my 3 questions for you. I expect you to answer them honestly and not try to please me with the answers you think I want to hear. 1. Was our banter an element that made you enjoy the game? 2. Did you ever consider teaming up with me? Imagine a situation mid-game where you would try to convince me to vote out Yaxley. How would you have done it? 3. If you had to describe our relationship with a song from any band, what song would it be? Just one more thing: You mentioned that you don't have a partner rooting for you, but I guess what you don't realize is that by losing your partner early on, and Fleur losing her partner ever so early, you found yourselves as substitute partner and I think you both couldn't have wished for a better outcome. You found yourselves and probabyl only bonded because of that unfortunate event. Fleur is a great person and you should value that ![:)](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) (weird of me making this about Fleur xD) Corban YaxleyMA MAAAAAAANNNN It's no secret that I adore you and every aspect about you and your performance in this game. You're not only my partner by default, but you've proven to be a reliable and trustworthy partner to soothe me, whenever paranoia took over or I just needed someone to take me back to rational ground. I couldn't have wished for a better partner in all the true senses of the word. Despite that I think you've played in impressive game with all aspects necessary. You crushed it in challenges, banked on the right people, and have made the right decisions most of the times. However, I actually do have some questions for you. There's one thing that's bothering me. You know how much Moody meant to me. And you how much it hurt me to see him go, therefore you should've realized that I was willing to even let go the most dear person to me, to secure our Final 4 alliance - especially your position and mine. My 2 questions are simple, but powerful. Your answers can influence my vote, because I value your opinion the highest. I want you to answer them honestly and not think about what I want to hear. Be honest. 1. Would you have voted for BCJ with me to make sure that I survive, if I approached you with that idea? 2. Do you even care about Wingdings, or did you just roll with it, because I was so hyped about it? Just one more thing: Why I didn't give you my wand: I wasn't allowed to, duh. But most important: I was never mad at you. When leaving I believed that you didn't know about my blindside or knew too late or couldn't do anything about it at that point. I was convinced that it was all Barty's doing. And that made me realize, that Barts was an insanely great player who doesn't shy away from difficult decisions (I MEAN HIS F5 MOVE!? LIKE BLOODY DIGGLE HOW AWESOME WAS THAT!?!?!?!). I decided if not for you, he was the one deserving to win, so I gave them all the wands. But giving the wands to BCJ and you still prevailing, is just the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life (except a watermelon inside a watermelon). tl;dr I still love you, mate! ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif) Again, congratulations to both of you! Good luck on the vote! ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif)
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 29, 2022 19:55:20 GMT 10
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Post by Corban Yaxley on May 30, 2022 6:15:28 GMT 10
Hullo Digg', it's real good to get to talk to you 'gain. Good lord, I feel like I need to give you a digital equivalent of a hug mate, I fuckin' missed havin' you around the last couple o' days. Losin' you like that sucked, no doubt 'bout it. I wish I'd been quick 'nough on the messagin' that mornin' to at least give you some kind o' heads up, it was all you asked for n' I felt like a righ' tool for failin' to even do that. I'm glad we were a duo here, I'm more grateful to the hosts than I can really say for thinkin' to put us together. I felt a lot o' my game was just bein' a bit o' a calm presence when my mates were bein' crazy paranoid 'bout stuff, so seein' someone think o' that trait as a positive n' not just me bein' a buzz-kill really warms my heart. I knew you lettin' Moody go was fuckin' awful for you, to be sure, n' I really didn't treat that lightly at all. So, as I've always done, I reckon as you like I'll be as honest as possible. This really, really, really depends on the context. My point o' view was at F5, if one o' you betrayed the other, I'd side with the betrayed if doin' so tipped the scales at all. If it was a tie between the two o' you n' I'm forced to make the decision without bein' able to cleanly point to one o' you as forcin' my hand? I'm imaginin' this is a hypothetical F3 situation, and while I hate sayin' this, the truth is simple; I prob'ly sit down n' list out the pros n' cons of which o' the two o' you I can beat in a jury. I think I'd lose to both, but I'd at least play my absolute hardest n' go 'gainst whichever of you I thought I had a better chance 'gainst. I think, in that case, unless sumthin' dramatic happened between F5 n' F3, that I prob'ly have to take you out? I would have thought you'd get Fleur/Tonks/Moody too cleanly, whereas in a Barty vs. Yaxley, those are a bit more o' a toss-up? But I'm sorry to say I don't have the hours left in the day to really sit down n' work out how I'd have seen that. 100% fuckin' love Wingdings, no question, no hesitation. Easy highlight o' the early game for me. Just had no clue how to properly mesh havin' an adorable fairy dog with the rest o' my vibe o' bein' a big dumb shovel-wieldin' idiot who doesn't get nuthin', n' is blunderin' through pretty much ev'rything. But good god I felt bad not knowin' how to build off combinin' those two things. 'Specially in the shit-postin' challenge, I needed all o' my posts to start with "S" and I could not for the life o' me figure out how to start a post with "S" 'bout how excited I was to see Wingdings 'gain. Fair 'nough 'bout the Wand stuff. Once I realized you couldn't have given it to me, I realized you prob'ly weren't all that mad 'bout how things went. To be truthful, from my point o' view the blindside was quick but initially not so quick I couldn't have said sumthin'? Barty told me if I didn't vote for you I'd die, so I said 'okay' and then didn't vote for you anyways, thinkin' if it was just Barty n' Black, Lily'd stay loyal on the revote. And then if it was Barty, Black, AND Lily, they didn't need my vote anyways. I checked with Black to see if that's what he'd heard, but by the time he got back to me I couldn't get a message to you in time lettin' you know. But yeah, Barty settin' you up to die outta nowhere like that was real clever, it's what tipped me off if Black n' I couldn't get on the same page 'bout gettin' him out ASAP we were screwed. At F4 I figured it was a draw no matter what, so I wanted to go with whatever Black wanted in order to keep him happy, but I was incredibly relieved when he said he'd prefer hittin' Barty over Lily because I knew I'd have no chance 'gainst the lad. Cheers mate, n' I'm grateful this relationship wound up bein' so strong for us. ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif)
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 30, 2022 6:24:51 GMT 10
Thanks, buddy. I'm content with the answer. I will take care of Wingdings (and cuddle him for hours) until winner reveal, and if you win, I expect you to resurrect me and make me your right-hand man ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif) Good luck for the vote! (also if your time allows it, answering Tonks' second question, saying nice things about all of us, would be deeply appreciated ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif) )
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Post by Corban Yaxley on May 30, 2022 7:01:58 GMT 10
Oh, darn it, that's what I get for speed-readin'. I'll definitely do that once I round off my answer to Lily, thanks for the lookout mate!
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Post by Regulus Black on May 30, 2022 18:04:59 GMT 10
Hey Diggle!
So I've been giving our song much thought over today and have finally landed on what may be a surprising choice I know we talked about ... edgy/angsty stuff and so initially that's what came to mind, but then this came to mind
Strange choice, you say- indeed. This just fits our vibe. A song which is very easy to move to. A genuine bop. I can just imagine us now, playing this song on a drive together and getting far too into it. Plus, the saxophone fits as it's something I can very easily see you playing. The title fits too, as I think it goes well with your last second good luck messages
If it wasn't obvious, I very much did enjoy our banter and chats. While it was mostly fun, there was some strategy alongside it- which I feel like paid off in the end. As multiple people here have attested to, I was quite easy to chat with and ... pleasant, I suppose. I felt this gave me the best chance of being someone who when it came to decision time- when choosing between Black and any number of the other people who came up in the plans for a vote, that this could make it easy for things to fall on these others. Almost subconsciously so. Because when you like someone, it can be easy to think up reasons why it makes sense for them to stick around- in the same way that when you dislike someone, it is very easy to find reasons to get rid of them. I was under no illusions that I'd be in consideration for the vote probably more often than not- which was evidenced by the amount of councils in which I received votes at. But to me, that highlights that my game was pretty much on point throughout- had I just been coasting, there's no doubt that some of the great players who I outlasted- yourself perhaps chiefly, were wonderfully talented players. But yet time and time again, I was able to evade elimination and none of them were able to present a strong enough case to remove me. That sounds like my strategy was pretty effective to me.
As far as you and I working together. I felt like we were good probably until the Malfoy vote out. You and I chatted about plans to get rid of him and presenting a 'common enemy' made it easy to continue our discourse. My goal was to hopefully build a strong enough rapport with you up until that point that we'd have a reasonable foundation to build upon from there. But.... it didn't work out. This might have been down to me impeding your plans by switching onto Malfoy on the revote- effectively counteracting your switch onto Wood. You probably weren't thrilled with that? Which created some distance. From my perspective- from memory, I think that after Malfoy left that was the catalyst for Wood and I to start getting quite close. The game at that time was 4 unpaired players and 4 people in partnerships. At that point, it felt like our best shot as unpaired players to try and make a move. Alas, it was just Wood and I onboard- with you being able to keep Fleur and Moody close to you. As I've said, it was clear that Lily was extremely well connected and so she was someone I didn't want to target until I felt confident that we had the numbers. And with Crouch and Yax immune, you seemed like our best bet to take a shot at that round. At 7, you had a trio with Yaxley and Moody and so I wanted to take a shot at you again (Yaxley was again immune) and I had hoped to keep Moody if possible.
So really, I think we only weren't clicking for those 2 rounds, but I understand how significant those rounds were. I would have been open to working with you if you had come to me with something. As you well know, I wasn't exactly in a powerful alliance and so I don't exactly think it was going to be practical for me to try and convince you to try and take out Yaxley during the mid-game. I tried to push moves which I felt would have a reasonably justifiable chance of success and my read was that I wouldn't have much success in trying to get you to vote out your partner.
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 30, 2022 19:42:02 GMT 10
Thanks Regulus Black. Great song choice! I've got no other questions. Corban Yaxley Regulus BlackAgain, congratulations to the both of you and good luck for the vote. I think it's fair to say that you both have played equally great games and this will definitely be a close decision ![:)](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) ![:<3](http://i.imgur.com/L3NpwEv.gif)
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