440. Derrick (Aeronaut) - Expect the Unexpected
"I'm probably dead wrong about all of these things. That's OK though, I'm Derrick; I'm sure to win.
So here's my first cut from EtU. Aeronaut showed a lot of potential on his application, but unfortunately, I don't think it really came across during the game. I think in a normal format, Derrick would be the fairly easy first boot, but due to the HoH twist, and Zach buddying up to him, he lasted a little longer than expected. The way things were going, I wouldn't have been particularly surprised to see him last far into the game, albeit as a pawn.
Later, during the shipwreck, my fellow mod Monty noticed that Spencer's and Derrick's answers to the challenge questions looked a little fishy, that perhaps they had Googled the answers. When we questioned Spencer and Derrick on this, Spencer lied while Derrick didn't respond. Unfortunately, we made the call to modkill both of them. While I didn't regret the call on Spencer, I was worried about modkilling Derrick, in that we might have scared a genuine newbie away from playing again. I was glad to see that Aeronaut had played again in #2016, but seeing how Vermin Supreme has already been cut from this ranking, he probably wasn't any more effective there than he was in EtU. Who knows, though? Maybe Aeronaut's time will come in the future.
As for why Derrick and not Spencer, I felt that Spencer was a pretty interesting character for his stay in the game, and I can't really say the same for Derrick.
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