Welcome, Yoshi!

[Yoshi]

So that 5 mentioned there broke immediately. DK got voted off because there was scaremongering about the original Red 4 that was going to dominate on the other tribe blah blah blah. Obviously that rumour aged badly but DK is gone now so thats that. A bit sad, but Yoshi has gotten used to losing friends now.

Somehow we managed to get together enough to vote off Wario, only after the number of greens started to be threatening. It was the right move, but the very next round everyone thought that we should get rid of PP while we still could but now WE ARE IN THE SAME PLACE AS LAST TIME BUT THE GREENS ACTUALLY ARE DOMINATING. MORONS!

Anyway Yoshi can't talk since Yoshi missed the vote anyway, so there is that. At least a revote could've gotten Marth to flip or smth. Either way Wario tried to spread the rumour that Squirtle voted Yoshi so that has made a massive rift between them. Hopefully Kazuya goes this round just to stop the amount of support they get. Either way should be 2 votes till merge so we'll see what happens. Yoshi can hopefully survive till then. Only 3 bad duels left so hopefully Yoshi can stay away from those. Shame Duck Hunt died, could have been good ally.

[Yoshi]

So Yoshi has question for Masahiro Sakurai

Is it known when Jury is happening? It was said that Jury would happen after this challenge (i.e. the winner and everyone else makes Jury) but Yoshi wants to know whether that is confirmed or whether or not that is speculation.

[Masahiro Sakurai]

Feb 23, 2022 21:03:36 GMT 10 Yoshi said:

So Yoshi has question for Masahiro Sakurai

Is it known when Jury is happening? It was said that Jury would happen after this challenge (i.e. the winner and everyone else makes Jury) but Yoshi wants to know whether that is confirmed or whether or not that is speculation.

I mentioned in the Welcome that it's a jury of 10 and a Final 3, so this would be correct, and not just speculation.

[Yoshi]

Ah, makes sense. Yoshi forgot about Final 3.

Yoshi just needs to win the challenge then.

[Yoshi]

Well Yellow is Chaos. Currently Yoshi is blackmailing all of Yellow that unless Yoshi is promised safety this round, Yoshi will join pink, giving pink a free vote this round and making them more of a threat in Merge. Currently most of them seem ok with this, likely going to be a Plant vote either way. Yoshi is glad they got Plant to choose Big Blue, Yoshi was hoping that the Plant would exchange information for a good stage and it worked. Yoshi just kind of sad their information was mostly: You are getting voted out this round... Sorry.

Still, Yoshi just has to survive this challenge and make merge. Yoshi wonders how many suspect that Yoshi's Jury vote is also directed by Yoshi's eggs... Yoshi thinks only a few have realised. Either way, got to work now, so will be back tonight hopefully. With hopefully not the final confessional.

[Yoshi]

Since Merge is about to happen, Yoshi will explain their prediction about why the final team will likely be Purple.

Nintendo Switches have coloured Controllers. They come in the following pairs:
Red-Blue
Green-Pink
Yellow-Purple

QED: Final team is Purple. Yoshi has a prioritised list of guesses should the password for the final smash ball be something along these lines. Yoshi thinks it would be funny to steal it randomly, not that Yoshi has much use for a smash ball.

[Yoshi]

[Yoshi]

Mid game prediction that Kazuya is going to win.

[Yoshi]

Yoshi would like Red Yoshi btw Sandbag

[Sandbag]

Hey Yoshi!

Welcome to the merge 🥳 Lookin' hot.

You've mentioned that even your vote for a winner (should you be on the jury) would be determined by the egg carriers. Do you feel this is a fair/respectful way to approach that decision, or is that unimportant compared to your honour of sticking by your ruleset?

Pretend for a moment that all the eggs had been given to players who have since been voted out. What would you do from here, strategically, in an eggless scenario?

[Yoshi]

Feb 24, 2022 18:46:13 GMT 10 Yoshi said:

Since Merge is about to happen, Yoshi will explain their prediction about why the final team will likely be Purple.

Nintendo Switches have coloured Controllers. They come in the following pairs:
Red-Blue
Green-Pink
Yellow-Purple

QED: Final team is Purple. Yoshi has a prioritised list of guesses should the password for the final smash ball be something along these lines. Yoshi thinks it would be funny to steal it randomly, not that Yoshi has much use for a smash ball.

Well this aged badly...

[Yoshi]

Feb 26, 2022 11:06:05 GMT 10 Sandbag said:

Hey Yoshi!

Welcome to the merge 🥳 Lookin' hot.

You've mentioned that even your vote for a winner (should you be on the jury) would be determined by the egg carriers. Do you feel this is a fair/respectful way to approach that decision, or is that unimportant compared to your honour of sticking by your ruleset?

Pretend for a moment that all the eggs had been given to players who have since been voted out. What would you do from here, strategically, in an eggless scenario?

So Yoshi has discussed this in DMs with Falco as they are the only one to have really realised this so far. Yoshi wants to stick to their egg strategy, Yoshi has gone this far, it would be a shame to not....

HOWEVER, Yoshi would be out of the game by then, and there would be 0 consequences to breaking the rules at that point, so while Yoshi would rather not break their rules, Yoshi would in the event that Yoshi believes their vote would be unfair. Say the following was the case:
Option A: A really good player Yoshi thinks most deserves to win.
Option B: A good player Yoshi likes a lot.
Option C: A player Yoshi doesn't think deserves to win.

Should Yoshi's eggs dictate either A or B, Yoshi will follow through with the eggs. Should they determine option C, Yoshi would overrule that. Yoshi doesn't want to give their vote to someone they don't think deserves to win, and then Yoshi would just either determine A or B by runner up votes, or make a decision based on their explanations to why they should win. Even if eggs dictate A or B, Yoshi still might change if they believe it important.

If Yoshi had no eggs left, they would be a normal player at this point. Yoshi would be able to form normal alliances but it would be too little too late at this point and the main punch Yoshi would have to try and convince others to Vote Yoshi to win should Yoshi get final 3 would be gone. Yoshi has put their eggs in this basket and Yoshi has to gamble on being considered not enough of a threat to vote until the final rounds where Yoshi can hopefully secure some well timed bags to ensure Yoshi can survive. Yoshi went into this game knowing that they would need to win the final 4 duel to win and Yoshi is still thinking that was a worthwhile trade.

[Yoshi]

Well, Yoshi is going in again. Surely they aren't affected by the curse of the Plant...

If it is Yoshi's last round at least they can be happy knowing they made Jury. Yoshi forgot to vote on cards but CF did attack so if they win that Yoshi is actually in a better spot than if they didn't. Yoshi is also building lots of connections with Kazuya, which is interesting because we started on the extreme wrong spots, but right now Yoshi feels like they deserve the win and Yoshi is 100% on board with working with Kazuya even if it involves betraying the people Yoshi is on good terms with. Then again, it isn't like Yoshi has an alliance with anyone... Yoshi pretty sure everyone left in the game except Dedede, Pit, Falco and Pyra/Mythra have voted against Yoshi and those 4 are about to join that list... So it isn't really like Yoshi is betraying anyone anyway.

[Yoshi]

Question Sandbag can probably answer:

Does Yoshi still have access to Friendlies if they go to Jury? Yoshi doesn't want to miss out on completing the Friendlies they haven't done yet.

[Sandbag]

I believe you do! So you may challenge to your heart's content.