Patty

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:58
Location:Loveland, Ohio
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 2nd
Placement: 2nd
Edgic: CPP4
SurvAv: 7.52
 Patty had possibly the longest interview of anyone ever cast. From the time she started talking to the end of her interview I was absolutely enthralled. I could talk to Patty for hours on end without stop and then realize just how long I'd been going on for - and not care. In fact, I had to be pulled from her interview because we had a long night of interviews ahead and she was putting us behind schedule. But I didn't want to stop talking to her. Which I mean, all the power to her now, and sorry to anyone interviewed after her cause I probably just was not interested in you that night at all. Everyone knows I love any women older than me, and that's just a matter of fact, but Patty Dowd is one of the smartest and most passionate women you will ever talk to in your lifetime, and I love her every bit for it.
On Adamus, Patty had a pretty coloured past with both Georgina and Bryce from playing SF8 together, as well as a great friendship with Jillian. These connections painted quite a huge shadow onto the rest of the game, but perhaps not as much as one of her not-so-direct connections with Ricky. Ricky had played SF and Unmasked with Patty's sister Pam and this served as a great opening to a friendship (and rivalry) that would last the whole game. Right from the get-go Patty took on a leadership position, there wasn't a moment of the game where she wasn't in the spotlight as a leader, and she made it all the way to the end - this is a testament to her fantastic gameplay.
I should begin with Patty's challenge prowess. Now, I don't know if it was the fact that Patty was just naturally good at challenges, or whether it was Ricky knowing my distinct hosting style. But from treemail alone, the two would figure out exactly what kind of challenge it was and practice like god damn hell from beginning to end. Patty is the only Endure Martyr who forced her tribe day in and out to practice every challenge before it occurred. This started right from the first relay race, in which she got really upset at Lulu for not coming on call and practicing the Relay Race with the rest of the group and continued on further to hours and hours of her practising calling to her tribemates while they practised doing things blindfolded. ("Just a hair" haunts many castaways to this day.)
Patty became actual captain in round three after the Captain's Challenge occurred. She took this role on with pride as she lead her tribe to nearly every damn victory on Mayagba. She ruled with an iron fist and open heart. Allowing what she felt democratically was right for her at any point, while listening to her tribe mates. This included excellent decisions such as banishing Eric over Trent, and kidnapping Tom. She ended up being the immediate target of the revolution (5AM) on Mayagba, which was immediately debunked and tossed aside. On this tribe, Patty worked her ass off with all of her alliance to ensure both safety and an easy pathway onto the final twenty-four.
Mayagba is a great time for Patty as she not only gets to ride a unicycle and try on a pirate costume, but she also finds two idols by getting clues from Tom. A nine page document of idol guesses was recorded and ultimately both the kidnapped and exiled idols were found by Patty who was never kidnapped, nor exiled. This became an extremely important part of the game.
At final twenty-four, Patty shifted on to Kenema which is where I would call Phase Two of the game for Patty kicked in - otherwise known as Phase Drew. I will start this by saying on Kenema, Drew and Patty quite literally made an actual blood pact on camera, like pricked their fingers and "touched" them to the webcams. This is both disgusting and an ultimate representation of the latter half of the game. Patty's fate became intertwined in Drew's, and there was a large chunk of the merge where she lost her way and kept teetering between what was right for her, and what was right for Drew. The two were often on the same tracks - but not always. The idols were shifted around pretty frequently between Patty, Drew, and Ricky, as to no one knowing where they might end up - as well as the possibility that they might end up on different tribes when the Dead Man Walking tribes were revealed.
The thing about post-three tribe swap Patty is that she became a little fixated. Fixated on making a "big move". : the fact that she solely ran a large part of pre-merge and found two idols, there was a large want to blindside Ricky. Ricky was labelled as a shield to her, and her alliance from day one, and taking out Ricky would mean playing the game a lot more dangerously, without a shield, but also taking out a strong competitor to win. Every tribal council Patty attended from final twenty-four, to final seven, she would end her voting session by telling me "I'm going to make a big move." and I'd respond with, "I know Patty, you tell me every week." Which was - fair, could have been read into as everyone from iSF read into everything I said as a script of some sort. (Assholes.) But this fixation really, I feel like, narrowed her game down.
I'm going to switch back to positive for a bit before I talk about Patty's downfall, which I feel like is really important to talk about. Because arguably, Patty played an excellent game deserving of numerous votes at Final Tribal.
Patty moved into merge in possibly one of the best positions in the game. No longer did she only have Ricky as a shield, she had Drew and Jeffrey as well. All served as huge targets above and beyond her. Patty played an effortless game alongside Drew and Ricky as they willingly went to Tribal Council nearly every round. This is where Georgina and Bryce's games fell a little bit to the wayward, as avoiding Tribal Council at this point of the game meant that there was no way to control who would be in the game going forward. This lead to excellent, clearly delegated vote outs that were effortlessly constructed to take out people who would play the game in their favour. Including the notorious idols coming into play as Kevin gets blindsided unaware that he was being played by his own alliance at the hands of Ricky, and then Patty's idols.
The "big move" opportunity came at the final ten - unfortunately it wasn't taken. As discussed, the final ten vote was between Ricky, and Jillian. Patty pushed hard for Ricky, which ultimately would have swung the game in her favour as opposed to Drew - this, however, didn't happen. Patty compromised to Drew, and thus the game pointed towards her. Patty's downfall came at the hands of the need to make an enemy. The anti-iSF alliance saw Drew as the leader of an alliance with Patty as a villain - she didn't ever make close connections with Sam, and Matt, any of Babies - and ultimately as they were eliminated one by one, they saw Patty as nothing but a villain.
This was ultimately perpetuated by the final six tribal council. Patty finally had her grand opportunity for her big move, the ability to take out Ricky. And she did. There was the plan in place and it was meant to be a blindside as to not set off Ricky (lol). Obviously this didn't happen and ended up being one of my favourite tribal councils of all time, where Patty, against being told not to, told Ricky he was going.
Ricky, who was pretty close to Patty, then made it his mission for Patty not to win - and even more, Drew. As Jeffrey followed onto jury, the two played the jury in order to ensure Drew and Patty wouldn't get any jury votes and Georgina would win the game.
At the end of the day, Patty's downfall came at the hands of a bitter jury and the jury playing the game harder than anyone I've ever seen. Patty was slammed at Final Tribal Council and had one of the saddest endings to a story I've ever seen. I loved Patty as a character beginning to end, she was a joy to host (though as all of Adamus was, frustrating at times), and didn't deserve the hate but that's life. - Samm
===Voting History===
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