Marth

[Masahiro Sakurai]

Marth will address the finalists here!

[Marth]

Congrats to all three of you for making it to the end! I obviously haven't been around to witness it, and unfortunately don't have the time nor patience to read those long ass opening statements (aside from ctrl+F Marth).

ORGs are a great way to distract yourself from the real world until the real world becomes too real. I can't even remember a lot of what happened in this game since it feels like a lifetime ago, but I did have fun for the most part.

My vote is up in the air between Cap and Wario (sorry Yoshi we just never really clicked, but kudos for making it here). Convince me how genuine our relationship was.

[Yoshi]

Yeah it was a little hard to with the little time we had together. Yoshi hopes you find an easy decision!

[Captain Falcon]

Marthy! First of all, I hope you’re doing well. ORGs can great fun, but at the end of the day, it ain’t life. So I’m glad you had some fun when you did, but you did the right thing dropping out, and thanks for even showin’ up here and participating with this vote. Glad I'm in contention for it, THE CAPTAIN would love to bring it home!

As for our connection-

Of course it was genuine! You just had a late start on BLUE, but when you did turn up, I liked ya right away, and I thought we just clicked. I was glad you got to win the duel, and get another go of it, simply cos I felt ya deserved a real shot. When you got sent in again, same story. Was always happy to see ya kick some ass in THE RING, cos I knew if we did eventually land together, we’d make it happen somehow. Was just always good vibes with Marthy boy and ol’ Cap.

So when we did land together on GOLD, I was excited for us to get to finally put pen to paper and seal the deal, and I’m thankful we did. Felt like the potential we had in the first week was getting to be realised.

Eventually though, I was getting the impression that you were struggling to keep up with the game, and maybe your heart wasn’t in it as much. I didn’t like the idea of just askin’ you to vote a certain way when you did have the time to be here- cos I did not want you to feel like I was just treating you as a number, and pushing you into things. I know it freakin’ sucks to be in a position where you can’t commit to a game properly, and so you feel stuck and people can start to resent it when you beat them, or you can feel like you're getting dragged, and it just ain’t pleasant. So that’s why, when you hadn’t signed in for about a day, I did push for you to get the boot for that last vote. Of course I was hoping you’d turn up and just say, sorry fellas, long trip to the hairdresser getting my beautiful BLUE roots dyed, I’m here now and in it to win it. But I wasn’t feeling like that was gonna happen.

So yeah, I know that seems counter-intuitive to your question, but if I didn't like ya, it wouldn't have mattered to me whichever way. If I saw you as a number, I'd have been all about keeping you in as a number. Of course I had no idea what was actually going on with you, but we had spoken here and there about things getting busy. I just felt like I'd almost be doing you a favour- and I hope you appreciate that and don't see it as a backstab. If we didn't have a genuine connection, it wouldn't have mattered to me one way or the other, but it just felt like the right thing to do at the time for your interests and the game as a whole. Was not any kinda personal strike against ya whatsoever, the opposite really.

Other than that, it was a lot of fun playing with ya when we got the chance, and wishing you all the best with your circumstances right now. Nothing but love however it shakes out.

[Wario]

Hey Marth, I'm glad things are going well enough to where you could make it back here for the end! I hated that you had to go out like that, but still kudos to you for making it to the merge.

So on green you were the immediate benefactor of my volunteer plan. I didn't want to just send you straight in, as that wouldn't demonstrate that the plan works and it wouldn't foster any trust that the players on green would gain for me by putting myself in. So there's no sugar coating it, you got pretty lucky there. Obviously you weren't too lucky, because your name was brought up for the next one to volunteer. I wasn't super sold on the idea, because it still didn't foster any trust for anybody else. Like you were essentially getting pushed in, but it was being framed in a way that you were volunteering.

However once you did go in, I genuinely did make it a priority to be close with you. I wanted to use the connection of us both volunteering to bond us together closer than any other duo. Because while I knew that you didn't really 'volunteer', I knew that by me stressing how it made it so we could trust each other over anyone else then we could stick together and both make it deep. And you know how I felt when you voted with Squirtle and Captain Falcon to get me out on yellow. You could've been playing me masterfully, but I did genuinely believe you when you said you regretted the decision and wanted to work with me moving forward. And that's why I came back, because I trusted you to be with me. And due to Link getting taken out when he volunteered, we were the only two that volunteered and were still in. So working with you and staying close to you were at the top of my list of priorities going into the merge.

As for just our relationship, it was very genuine. Apart from you being volunteered to go in, I was straight up with you and I filled you in on what I was thinking and how I was feeling. It was a little stunted because you weren't around to respond a whole heap, but I felt like we had a really good friendship going within the game. I understood where you were coming from and how you were feeling. I felt like we were on similar wave lengths.

I really wish you were able to play through in the merge, but real life is always more important than this. I do hope you vote my way, honestly you were the only vote I really felt like I had coming into the finale. But no hard feelings if you vote the Captain, I understand it's all a game and if you deem him more worthy then that's just how it goes!